The Kick-off meeting will be our first big effort at directly engaging City residents in a conversation about housing and transportation. Together with our consultants, we will be looking for input about issues and concerns regarding how our city should plan for housing and transportation options.

To get feedback from everyone about these issues, the meeting will be divided into three parts. The first 30 minutes will introduce the project and consultants. The last hour of the meeting will be spent meeting with the consultants as smaller groups, looking at maps and images, and discussing current opportunities and issues. 

What concerns do you have regarding housing? What issues and needs do you see in your neighborhood and within the City? These are the types of housing-related questions you can expect to be asked during this meeting. The goal of asking these questions is to create an accurate picture of where we are now, and where we want to go in terms of housing within the City.

The transportation consultant team will be asking a similar, but different set of questions. In this session, participants will be discussing ways to connect people in different areas of the city with jobs. The transportation team wants to know which roads and corridors might be used for a new Bus Rapid Transportation system. A Bus Rapid Transportation system (often abbreviated as BRT) is one way the City can expand its current bus service to include a quick and reliable, high-frequency bus route to efficiently move people to and from work and home. The goal of this meeting session will be to get a better understanding of transportation options, needs, and concerns from both a city-wide and neighborhood point of view.