AND WE won some awards for all of those community conversations!
More specifically, Vision Galveston was awarded 2 awards for our planning efforts during Phase 1, list below:
American Planning Association Planning Achievement Award - Gold for Public Outreach
This award honors an individual, project, or program that uses information and education about the value of planning to create greater awareness among citizens or specific segments of the public. The award celebrates how planning improves a community’s quality of life.
Galveston Planning Commission Award in the Participation category
The Galveston Planning Commission’s Planning & Design Awards program is open to all planners, residents, developers, builders, architects, community groups, design professionals, local governments, students, or other interested parties.
the beginning (aka Phase 1):
Phase 1 began as a project to empower the community members of Galveston to define a vision for the future of our city. We started by asking the people of Galveston what matters to them: what kind of city we want to be and what we need to do to get there.
Over 9 months, we held a series of outreach events and spoke to over 8,500 community members, to look at specific issues and solutions. This work allowed us to create an inclusive framework to guide the city into the future.
Vision Galveston will work to put these recommendations into action through both direct implementation strategies and catalyst work with partner agencies in the coming years.
Thank you to all who were involved:
The Galveston Community
Vision Galveston Steering Committee
The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation, The Moody Foundation, Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund , Ippolito Foundation, and The Moody Permanent Endowment Fund
Asakura Robinson, Huitt-Zollars, Stoss Landscape Urbanism, Mass Economics