Visioning 2026 Blog
NorthFork Visioning Sessions
NorthFork Riverwalk Development Project hosted the Visioning Sessions on April 16th and facilitated by HDR Engineering Inc.
HDR's Visioning Session slide presentation is available without the SWOT Analysis results.
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threat Analysis is a good method to collect community input in small groups and then build consensus between the different participants. Each group had 4 sheets of butcher paper that they included ideas on the 4 different areas relative to the project. Each group shared with the facilitator those ideas which were consolidated. Then the individuals where given 4 sets of color dots (3 each) to correspond to the 4 areas and then asked to vote on the idea they felt was the most important. An individual could put on three dots on one ideas if they felt strongly about it.
I think the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) Analysis that we went through with HDR as the facilitator for the riverwalk master plan was very beneficial. The only thing I would like to add to the participatory process is one more parallel process, I would call it Future Trends Impact (FTI). This additional process gives the facilitator an opportunity to share with the community the future trends that could have an impact on the effort and then allow the participants to add their own trends and then have the group vote on for consensus. For example, how will our aging demographics impact our park and rec master plan, fuel and transportation costs, growing obesity in our youth, life-long learning opportunities, our continued multi-generational extended family culture, further collaboration with other public entities (e.g., schools), etc.
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