Organize or participate in a community planning/placemaking/design process for the city/a mixed-use district, including specific community engagement practices that engage cultural and income diverse community members.
Best Practice of this action
Rating Guideline
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Conduct a process that involves community members / stakeholder input; engage artists, fund the integration of arts into city plans; adopt a creative placemaking plan. Report main street revitalization and preservation under BPA 5.2; comp plan civic engagement under BPA 6.1, and community visioning and planning initiatives using a framework under BPA 24.5. |
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Bring in a facilitator to work with the city, community members and other stakeholders; use the Equitable Development Scorecard as an evaluation tool; provide translators and interpreters, childcare, stipends, and/or meals for residents during community engagement meetings (which should be held on nights or weekends). |
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Participate in a Minnesota Design Team charrette; plan to increase the percentage of residents who work within 10 miles of their homes. |
Resources
- The Minnesota Design Team charges a small fee to assemble teams of approximately 20 volunteer professionals who use design and planning approaches to help small Minnesota communities develop a shared vision of a healthy future and create great public spaces. The MDT focuses on designs and processes for making communities more complete, compact and connected.
- The University of MN's Minnesota Design Center helped develop the 2016 Rochester Destination Medical Center District Design Guidelines and District Sustainability Standards for the Ford Site.
- While not restricted to mixed-use districts, the Equitable Development Scorecard (Harrison Neighborhood Association & others: 2015) allows development plans/projects and policies to be developed and evaluated along 5 dimensions (community engagement, and land use, economic development, housing, and transportation practices) to ensure that everyone regardless of race, economic status, ability or the neighborhood in which they live has access to essential ingredients for environmental, economic, social, and cultural well-being including: living wage jobs, entrepreneurial opportunities, viable housing choices, public transportation, good schools, strong social networks, safe and walkable streets, services parks, and access to healthy food.
- Inclusive Healthy Places (2019: Gehl Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) is an evaluation and implementation framework to help planners/policymakers create public spaces that promote individual and community health and well-being. See also Playbook for Inclusive Placemaking (2019: Project for Public Spaces).
- Community benefits agreements (Alliance for Metropolitan Stability: 2008) are a tool to ensure meaningful and enforceable outcomes, especially for low-income people and communities of color, during redevelopment planning.
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Action Type
Finite