Community Engagement

Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities: Strategies for Advancing Smart Growth, Environmental Justice, and Equitable Development

By Alex Dodds / June 20, 2016

This publication highlights strategies and approaches that link smart growth, environmental justice, and equitable development. In Chapter 3, these strategies and approaches are grouped under seven common themes that unite the three concepts. The fundamental overlap between smart growth, environmental justice, and equitable development is how to plan and build neighborhoods to address environmental, health, … Continued

A Guide To Community-Driven Transit Oriented Development Planning

By Alex Dodds / June 20, 2016

In December of 2012, T.R.U.S.T. South LA, in collaboration with Abode Communities, initiated a participatory planning campaign for the design of the redevelopment of Rolland Curtis Gardens, a substandard 48-unit affordable housing development located in a transit-rich South Los Angeles neighborhood. Our collective goal was to implement temporary rehabilitation measures while developing a community-based plan … Continued

Involvement and Communications in Transit Planning: A Pecha Kucha Presentation

By Alex Dodds / June 20, 2016

At what point do we say “screw public involvement” and just make the decisions we want? Answer? We don’t. But we can find better ways to engage and involve the public so we can incorporate their very valuable input. This Pecha Kucha presentation was given at Rail~Volution 2014 in Minneapolis, MN. Theresa McClure, Public Involvement … Continued

No One Coming to Your Public Meeting? This Pecha Kucha has the answers

By Alex Dodds / June 20, 2016

If you can’t bring people to the table bring the table to them. Wonder why no one is coming to your public meetings on a Tuesday evening at 7:00 pm? Public engagement is essential to moving projects forward. Make it easy, make it inclusive, do it different and let Dan Reed, Associate at Nelson/Nygaard Consulting … Continued

Thinking Beyond the Station

By Alex Dodds / June 20, 2016

You are cutting it close, rushing to catch your bus or train. Just as you arrive to the station/stop, you hear the heart-crushing sound of acceleration. You look up, it’s rolling down the line. It’s gone. Now you’ll have thirty long, lonely minutes to dwell on your near miss as cars careen past you. Your … Continued