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Framework For Our Future Input Expo
Goes "Virtual"
If you weren't able to attend one of the Framework For Our Future Input Expos held in six different counties during the last two weeks of April you still have an opportunity to get involved by visiting the Virtual Input Expo.
The materials and activities from the Input Expos are now available online to help you:
- Learn about transportation, housing, energy, and land use issues, needs, and impacts.
- Share ideas through activities such as surveys, worksheets, and online polls.
- Discuss questions, comments, ideas, and concerns on letsdecidedhow.org
"We reached a lot of people with the Input Expos, but we'd like to make the information and input opportunities available to all residents of the region so we can continue the conversation about the Framework and important community issues," said Sarah Lucas, Regional Planner at the Northwest Michigan Council of Governments.
The Virtual Input Expo is part of a large-scale project called Framework for Our Future, which will develop a regional resource - or a toolkit of sorts - of strategies to support The Grand Vision. The goal of the project, which will continue through 2014, is to provide communities with the specific tools and action steps they need to move The Grand Vision forward.
The primary focus of the Virtual Input Expo is to share information and get feedback on four issue areas identified by The Grand Vision: Housing, Transportation, Commercial Corridors (Growth & Investment), and Energy. Input and ideas from the Virtual Input Expo will be reviewed by project partners, shared with local leaders, and used in development of the Framework.
Learn more and offer your input by visiting the Framework For Our Future Virtual Input Expo.
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Take the Framework For Our Future
Housing Survey!
The Framework For Our Future Housing Survey includes questions about housing preferences, community needs, and housing discrimination. Responses from the Housing Survey will be reviewed by project partners, shared with local leaders, and used in the development of the Framework. The survey is available online at: nwm.org/framework
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Grand Vision CORE Thanks
Capacity Assessment Survey Participants
The Grand Vision CORE group would like to extend its appreciation to everyone who completed The Grand Vision Network Capacity Survey. Results are currently being compiled and will be shared at upcoming network meetings. Congratulations to Brad Kik, ISLAND, on winning the survey sweepstakes of a $50 gift certificate to the State Theatre. |
| Information & Events
Energy Network:
May 10
Energy Network Meeting
9:00 a.m., NMC Aero Park Labs Building
2525 Aero Park Drive
Traverse City
Growth & Investment Network:
May 13
Growth & Investment Network Meeting
10:00 a.m., Second floor conference room
NWMCOG Offices
600 East Front Street, Traverse City
May 13
Placemaking Subcommittee
Discuss Transit Oriented Development (TODs)
1:30 p.m., Second floor conference room
NWMCOG Offices
600 East Front Street, Traverse City
Natural Resources Network:
May 15
Natural Resources Network Meeting
9:00 a.m., Steelcase room
Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce
202 East Grandview Parkway
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Grand Vision Guiding Principles
Based on intensive research and input from thousands of citizens from Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau, and Wexford counties, a vision that will lead to prosperity for people throughout northwest lower Michigan was created founded on these guiding principles:
 A coordinated regional transportation network
Unique and vibrant communities
Housing choices
 Sustainable-energy uses in construction, transportation and economic development
 Protected and preserved water, forests, natural and scenic areas
 Viable regional farms and local food systems
thegrandvision.org
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