Sound familiar? Every community is different, but in many ways, the challenges they face and the solutions they turn to are similar. In this mini-mag, you’ll find problems that you may have come up against in your community, and what others have done to fix them.
When asked to attribute different policy positions to the candidates who held them, only 10 percent of registered voters correctly attributed more than half. (Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government)
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Challenge: My community is uninformed.
From neighborhood planning to transit expansion, a lot is happening in the Phoenix area. Rather than make decisions on these civic improvements in a vacuum, the city created a one-stop info sharing and input gathering platform to both educate and learn from residents at MyPlanPHX.
24,000 citizens visited site
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Solution: The City of Phoenix opened up the door to a more informed dialogue.
Regional population growth in the South and West was at least 10 percent faster than the Northeast and Midwest between 2000 and 2010.
(U.S. Census, 2011)
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Challenge: My community is growing and changing.
Rancho Cucamonga and consultants at Greenplay LLC set out to conduct the city’s first recreational needs assessment in 12 years, with the help of in-person meetings, online surveys and meaningful, story-driven input from people at RC Community Ideas.
“When we reach out and say, ‘We want to hear your feedback,’ we open that door that maybe those people who don’t usually to engage with us felt more comfortable in sharing their thoughts and ideas.” – FRANCIE PALMER, CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA DISTRICT
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Solution: The fast-growing Orange County community of Rancho Cucamonga gave every resident a convenient way to get involved.
According to Pew, 38 percent of people post comments about political issues on social media. (2012)
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Challenge: Conversation about controversial topics is often negative in my community.
Before considering a ban on smoking, Denton city council wanted to know peoples’ thoughts – good or bad – on the idea. They conducted a survey at Engage Denton then, armed with the preferences of residents, enacted an ordinance banning smoking in most businesses mere months later.
72%
of citizens who voted online said they favored a smoking ban
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Solution: Denton, Texas, took the divisive issue of a citywide smoking ban to residents from the beginning.
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