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Community Engagement PlanDRAFT A-1 <br />Appendix B. COMMUniTY <br />enGAGeMenT ReSULTS <br />PURPOSE <br />As outlined in Appendix A “Community Engagement Plan”, community engagement is <br />a means for all people to bring their voices into the process and to share their ideas, <br />backgrounds, and experiences to plan for a future that benefits everyone. Appendix <br />B shows the specific comments of community members as they participated in the <br />variety of community engagement opportunities throughout the Comprehensive <br />Planning Process. <br />PHASE 1: INFORM AND LISTEN <br />The first engagement task acted as a general information announcement that <br />established and communicated the study’s purpose and goals, the planning process <br />and methodologies, and the project schedule. It also provided an opening for <br />interested parties to raise questions, express levels of interest, express issues or <br />concerns, and identify values and priorities, as well as critical evaluation of the vision <br />and guiding principles to determine if changes are warranted. <br />Social Pinpoint <br />People’s lives are always changing, so the ways that we can meaningfully engage <br />with them also has to change. One way New Brighton 2040 decided to engage <br />the community through this round of comprehensive planning was to try a new <br />online engagement tool called Social Pinpoint. Social Pinpoint is a map-based online <br />engagement tool that allows community members to leave comments on specific <br />areas of the city via a map. Commenters are then able to interact with each other, by <br />upvoting/downvoting other comments, or replying directly into a comment thread. <br />We utilized Social Pinpoint for Phase 1: Inform and Listen engagement to identify <br />areas in the city people like (“Like it!”), areas people don’t like (“Needs work!”), <br />neighborhood-specific comments (“My Neighborhood”), ideas for businesses <br />(“Businesses/Gathering Places”), and needed trail and street improvements (“Missing <br />Link”). <br />Embedded throughout the Social Pinpoint website were also a variety of surveys, <br />asking for input on the current Vision and Guiding Principles, the City’s Parks, <br />Opportunity Areas, and Gateways to the community. <br />In total, Social Pinpoint was open for comment for one month in Spring of 2017 and <br />there were 148 comments and 46 survey responses during that time. <br />New Brighton <br />2040