Demonstrating the intense interest many area residents have in helping to design their community’s future, more than 600 people showed up last month for three more planning workshops produced by The Grand Vision project.

Last October, the federally funded, locally based project, which aims to produce a six-county guide to future land use by the fall of 2009, attracted a standing-room-only crowd to its first workshop. Participants in all four workshops now have their designs for the region’s future stowed in a computer that is now turning them—and others to come in future workshops—into a selection of vividly illustrated "possible growth scenarios" for the region’s next half-century or so.

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