An Integrated Land Use Vision
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Phase II- Future Landscape Exploration: future Land use Scenario Development and Assessment
The purpose of the second phase of the Going Places initiative is to explore options for the future physical development of the Miami Valley Region. Identifying and building Future Land Use Scenarios, which incorporate the important issues of “How and Where the Region should develop by 2040?” and assessing each scenario's social, economic, and environmental implications are the two major goals of this phase.
The Phase II Stakeholder Engagement Strategy provides a roadmap of how Phase II will be carried out and a general overview of the strategic approach that the Going Places initiative intends to employ during Phase II.
Scenario Building Workshops
Between October 2009 and June 2010, MVRPC held 32 workshops (17 community and 15 focus group workshops) to gather information from people who live and work in the Miami Valley Region on how they would like to see the Region develop in the future. A total of 645 people attended the workshops, with 609 participating in the interactive exercises designed to engage regional stakeholders in the land use scenario building process.
The 90-minute workshop was consisted of two parts (View workshop agenda). First, presentation was given to provide an overview of the Going Places initiative and to share the findings from the Phase I - Existing Condition Assessment. The second part of the workshop was to engage the participants in the scenario building process using two interactive exercises centered on several land use themes:
- Business as Usual Development
- Infill/Conservation Development
- Asset-Based Development
- Radial Corridor Development
- Unrestricted Development
Participants were first asked to either select one of the above five pre-determined land use themes or to create a theme of their own. Participants were then asked to join a Scenario Station of their selected theme and participate in two exercises, a dot mapping and a mind mapping exercises, and address the question of:
Given the projected need for future population and job growth, in what parts and in what ways should we develop in the future?
The inputs from both of these exercises will be used in refining each of the land use themes and their associated land use scenarios. MVRPC plans to report back and share the final sets of land use themes and scenarios to the region this fall.
Workshop Materials
- Agenda
- Workshop Presentation Slides
- School-Aged Children Workshop Presentation Slides
- Land Use Theme Definition Sheet
The summary of all the workshops is available here.
The information, including the summary document, for each of the Community Workshops completed is available below.
The information, including the summary document, for each of the Focus Group Workshops completed is available below.
| Date | Time | Location (link to summary) |
Address |
| November 2, 2009 | Wright State University Planning Class | Wright State University | |
| November 17, 2009 | University of Dayton Planning Class | University of Dayton | |
| December 4, 2009 | Miami Valley OPC Planning and Zoning Workshop | Sinclair Community College | |
| January 26, 2010 | 10:30 PM | Social and Cultural Focus Group | Center for Regional Cooperation |
| February 17, 2010 | 2:30 PM | Business & Econ Dev Groups | Center for Regional Cooperation |
| March 2, 2010 | 2:30 PM | Transportation & Infrastructure Groups | Center for Regional Cooperation |
| March 9, 2010 | 6:00 PM | Environmental Groups | Center for Regional Cooperation |
| March 17, 2010 | 6:00 PM | Planning Groups | Center for Regional Cooperation |
| April 13, 2010 | 3:00 PM | Wright State University | WSU Student Union |
| May 6, 2010 | 1:45 PM | Thurgood Marshall High School | Thurgood Marshall High School |
| May 10, 2010 | 3:15 PM | Fairmont High School | Fairmont High School |
| May 18, 2010 | 1:50 PM | Yellow Springs Middle/High School | Yellow Springs High School |
| May 21, 2010 | 8:30 AM | Miami Valley Career Technology Center | Miami Valley Career Technology Center |
| May 25, 2010 | 8:50 AM | Troy High School | Troy High School |
| June 16, 2010 | 7:00 PM | Young Professionals Group | Sidebar in the Oregon District 410 E. Fifth St., Dayton |
Promotional Materials
MVRPC produced promotional materials to improve stakeholder outreach and publicize community workshops including a series of TV ads, posters, news release templates, and one page flyer publicizing the current Phase II efforts.
For additional information about the Going Places initiative, contact Martin Kim, MVRPC's Director of Regional Planning at (937) 223-6323 or mkim@mvrpc.org.