Susan J. Daluddung, Deputy City Manager, Peoria, AZ

Look for ideas outside of your community

Find the best practices

Identify your communities defining attributes

Creativity Using Your Areas Authentic Attributes:Unleashing the Potential of Your City or District

Peoria, AZ Ventura, CA

How Do You Get Started?

Engage & Mobilize

Diverse Team Break down barriers

and focus on the goal

Shared Vision Collaborative, non-

prescriptive planning process

Visualization

Ventura, CA

Peoria, AZ

Ventura, CA

Portland, OR

Portland, OR

Focus : Vision : Visualization

Focus

VisionVisualization

Connecting With the Community

Unique Communities have Unique Needs

A variety of community engagement techniques can be used to achieve successful, community

driven results.

Who is the Community?

Residents

Elected Officials

Community Leaders

Shoppers/Tourists

Business Owners

Products Portland Central City Plan Ventura Downtown Redevelopment & Economic Change Peoria Sports Complex Area Urban Design Plan

Results Document/Plan is a instrument to attract investment Implementation of business plan helps businesses

organize Shared Vision – Everyone had an expectation of result. Emphasize Quality Measurements Change

Results Focused

Focus and predictability from a community provides security in economic investment

How Do You Connect?

Neighborhood Meetings

“Clicker” polling / surveys

Media/Internet Outreach

Charrettes

Stakeholder Interviews