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<br />ATTACHMENT D <br /> <br />Neighborhood Empowerment Goal <br />Progress to Date <br />4-30-07 <br /> <br /> <br />Enhance Effective Public Engagement Activities: <br />1. Recruit for participation via demographics profiles to ensure additional "silent" stakeholders. <br />? <br /> <br />Planning Division has increased their use of the Internet to distribute information and receive <br />written testimony. <br />? <br /> <br />Rasor Park Mixed Use Center’s public involvement plan includes bilingual notices and Spanish <br />translator at public meetings. <br />? <br /> <br />Planning and Development staff are guest lecturers at UO to outreach to students. <br /> <br />2. Evaluate current and pilot new public involvement tools that target accessibility and outreach to <br />un/under-represented communities and those less apt to engage. <br />? <br /> <br />The Transportation Planning Team developed the InMotion e-newsletter to reach people who are <br />interested in alternatives to driving alone. One goal of InMotion is to let people who are <br />interested in bicycle and pedestrian accessibility know about public meetings in neighborhoods <br />outside of their own but that might be on their transportation route. InMotion currently reaches <br />about 1,000 people per month. <br />? <br /> <br />The Pedestrian and Bicycle Strategic Plan held targeted workshops for the Youth, Senior and <br />Accessibility Communities, conducted stakeholder interviews with people who represent interests <br />that are often underrepresented in public processes such as Latinos, youth, people who live in <br />affordable housing developments, and people with disabilities; and recruited youth involved in <br />LEAD participating on the Departmental Advisory Committee for the planning process held <br />Youth are another group that can be difficult to engage through public processes. <br /> <br />3. Institute "best practices" for citizen involvement, including methods for establishing clear expectations <br />and closing the feedback loop. <br />? <br /> <br />Neighborhood Association Initiative Action Plan (NAIAP) adopted by City Council was discussed <br />with seventeen neighborhood association/community organization boards to determine if it was <br />clear and complete. A team of City staff and Neighborhood Leaders synthesized the feedback and <br />planned the Neighborhood Summit. The Summit’s purpose was to prioritize NAIAP items and <br />discuss next steps for top priorities as input to the staff team developing the Neighborhood <br />Empowerment Initiative work plan. <br />? <br /> <br />Rasor Park Mixed Use Center project invited members of the River Road Community <br />Organization and Whiteaker Community Council to set on the Technical Advisory Committee to <br />promote transparency. The public involvement process is being adaptive and responsive to <br />community needs and has provided a forum for a community-driven process. <br />? <br /> <br />Planning Division has used IAP2 terminology to identify public involvement expectations. <br />Empowerment, though desired by some, is not always available because some planning decisions <br />rest with the Planning Commission or other body by law. <br />? <br /> <br />The Civic Center planning project used Neighborhood Association meetings to recruit participants <br />for the workshop series. <br />NEAP Progress Page 1 4-30-07 <br /> <br />