Purpose
In this activity, the core planning team, advisory committee, and the community will work together to define the vision, goals, and objectives.
Why?
Your vision, goals, and guiding principles will serve as a cornerstone for your resilience planning and will help communicate your plan to harness community engagement and implementation efforts. This activity is essential in developing ideas and bringing them to fruition.
When?
This process can take days to weeks depending on the amount of community engagement you choose to do to refine these. This process may happen as a part of the workshops, focus groups, interviews, or focus groups from Activity 3.
Tips
- Think Creatively - Look to work with artists and other creative community members during the community workshopping and vision development process to open up conversations and provide valuable touchstones for discussing otherwise abstract dimensions of community goals.
- Integrate Existing Visions and Plans - Significant work is often done as part of the county and municipal planning efforts. Likewise, community advocacy groups may have already developed community values, goals, and visions specific to their sector that could inform your work. Utilize, integrate, and build upon these where possible. If existing master plans or city planning efforts have recently been undertaken, these can provide a foundation for efforts here. However, as the visions and goals you establish here will provide the moral and ethical underpinning of the work that follows, it should draw from the widest possible array of stakeholders and community members at the earliest possible time after the initial information gathering effort has taken place.
How does my community do this?
- Call the CRO. As a part of our broader support in helping communities develop a Resilience Framework, the Colorado Resiliency Office can assist in developing your community vision, goals, and guiding principles.
- Define your community resilience vision, goals, and guiding principles. Visions, goals, and guiding principles should be rooted in your community’s values. This CRO Resilience Vision, Goals, and Guiding Principles Guide template can help.
- Refine your vision, goals, and guiding principles. Once you have worked with your community to develop draft visions, goals, and guiding principles, formalize these with your core planning team, the advisory committee, and, if possible, municipal, county, or other appropriate offices. The Colorado Resilience Framework, which can be used as a model as you refine your vision, goals, and guiding principles, orients itself around six priorities for advancing resilience across the State, developed from over 500 survey responses, multiple statewide summits with experts and public organizations.
Community Call Out: Salida, CO
Through the process of developing the Salida 2013 Comprehensive Plan, public meetings were held to develop the city’s vision statement. The vision statement was then refined by the core planning team, the planning commission, and the city council. As stated in the 2013 plan, “the vision statement is a broad but concise description of what [the City] wants the community to be in the future.”
The Vision: “Salida recognizes the importance of conserving and enhancing its historic small-town character and embraces a future that preserves the natural environment and offers its residents and visitors a multi-generational community with an eclectic range of housing, jobs, education, business, shopping and recreation opportunities”