Does your project manager receive calls/emails from community members who did not know your agency had a project coming to their neighborhood or on the arterial they commute on as soon as construction starts? Do you have requests to modify designs after they are constructed instead of your community giving the right input during design at the right phase? Come hear about our successful community outreach for a City of Tacoma Streetscape project including bike facilities, pedestrian amenities, and coordination with our transit partners. See how an oversized piñata, a palm reader, DBE contractor, and others brought the outreach to the community and how it impacted the engineering design in a positive way. Also, share your other creative and unique successes.
Learning Objectives:
1. Develop creative, equity-based community engagement by demonstrating how culturally relevant art can activate public spaces/stimulate conversations, and acknowledging and proactively addressing broader social and political issues.
2. Adapt designs based on collaboration between planners/engineers and grass-roots community specialists based on creative engagement.
3. Represent the community in engineering designs through successful, unique, and personalized outreach, by talent and professionals hired from within the community, and achieved by going to where the people while advocating for the community’s priorities.
Contributor/Source
Andy Micklow AICP;Carol Wolfe ;Diane Sheesley ;Monica Ghosh
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