September 26, 2007 – 10:51 am
Three civic leaders from the Grand Traverse region have released a brief video that invites area residents to become "stakeholders" in The Grand Vision, the area’s citizen-based planning project that gets underway in mid-October.
The 12-minute video also presents clips from a recent presentation by the two principals leading the The Grand Vision project. In it, the two explain how the project works and repeatedly emphasize that it depends on strong citizen involvement to succeed.
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August 30, 2007 – 10:25 am
Last week, when John Fregonese and Robert Grow came to town to meet and the community officials and civic leaders who hired them to conduct a regional transportation and land use study, they presented a slideshow about their work.
But those who know Fregonese Associates’ work say that, while the quick, explanatory slide show was nice, it’s miles away from the sophisticated, intensely localized and calibrated computer graphics that "stakeholders" will use in the upcoming Grand Traverse Area Transportation and Land Use Study—which has just been renamed Grand Visions.
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August 23, 2007 – 10:27 am
Nationally renowned visioning expert Robert Grow visited this northern Michigan town two days ago to help launch a two-year, wide-open, citizen-based planning project that could direct the region’s growth for decades to come.
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