Community Area Planning Book 2000
Part 1, Section I: All About CAP
The Community Area Planning (CAP)
is an initiative intended to establish and maintain
an
ongoing endeavor to help the City Commission and
City Administration manage and direct change.
Just as many governments are reinventing
themselves, the City needs to reinvent our planning,
programming and implementing practices to advance the
unique potential of all areas of the City. Thus, evolved
the idea for the CAP initiative.
The CAP initiative is intended
to be different from past efforts in the following
important respects:
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Current Approach (Reactive)
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New Approach (Proactive)
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Planning by planners.
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Planners will listen to the community, help
forge plans from consensus, and lead from the "sidelines".
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Encourages division.
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Invites a sense of community.
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Employ primarily a technical or scientific approach
to addressing community needs.
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Ask citizens what they think their needs are.
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Linear - finished individual projects. Not Comprehensive.
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Circular - continual process.
Comprehensive
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Public participation does not adequately address
each aspect of the community needs...does not
engage our citizens in real discussions about
the future of their place of residence, their
business, their neighborhood, their city.
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Meaningful public involvement, education, facilitation,
and consensus building to create a "people friendly" community
area plan, implementing strategies, capital improvement
program and funding resources.
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Thus, the Goals of the CAP initiative
are:
- To understand what the community wants to be,
its vision;
- To develop a consensus on how to achieve and implement
the vision;
- To express that vision in a policy document; and,
- To implement that vision by allocating funds for
capital and other improvement
 
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