 We're evolving...
Following the successful completion of this project earlier this year, a group of citizens and city officials told HRCCE that they'd like to see Envision Transportation become an ongoing effort to bring citizens and their local government together to continue to learn about and analyze possibilities for the future of transportation in Virginia Beach.
Click HERE to read a report on the August 1 meeting of the group written by project fellow Carolyn Caywood, or you can...
The following visioning document was presented to the group on June 6:
Name: Citizen Voices on Transportation
Primary Purposes: To provide civic engagement and education connected to multi-modal transportation in Virginia Beach
Other Purposes:
- • To inform governance with input from citizens
- • To affect, influence and enhance the process
- • To increase the citizen-to-citizen work on transportation decisions
- • To be a trusted, honest and transparent broker
- • To identify communication and information needs
- • To do fact-based work and become knowledgeable about transportation Issues and possible solutions
- • To work with the City or other organizations to plan and convene variousforums and mediums for routine information exchange
- • To seek and encourage citizen input
- • To collaborate with government while remaining separate from government
- • To work with City and other organizations to eliminate barriers to public
participation
Membership:
- • To seek legitimacy and access to "partners," - appointments by Mayor
- • Opt-in means by attending multiple times and being recommended to Mayor
- • Members required to support the civic engagement and education purposes
Composition of Group:
- • Diverse views and needs and broad representation
- • Be representative of transportation types, needs and ages
- • Balance of interests
- • Designed for discourse, exchange of views
Relation to Others:
- • A connection to officials
- • To "report" to someone
- • To work with administration both as a conduit to officials and because group will need some assistance (rooms, city personnel with information)
Other connections
- • TPO Citizens Transportation Advisory Committee
- • HRT Transit Riders Advisory Committee
- • Connection with multi-modal planning and public consideration
- • Media, VA Pilot
- • City Personnel
- • Public Works
- • Strategic Growth Area Office and Transportation Planner
- • Economic Development
- • Management Services
- • Parks and Recreation
- • Planning
- • Police and Fire
Early Activities:
- • To educate ourselves and be the "proxy" for education of the larger community
- • Involve VB48 in sharing information
- • Citizens need to understand sources and uses of funding and the related
- decision making
Other group suggestions:
- • Identification and community conversations about incomplete networks
- • Flickr (social media) site for citizens to send pics of "what needs fixing"
- • Community conversations about priorities
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