Hard to believe, but the Choices for Cheney process has been underway since September of last year - and a lot has been accomplished.

Interested in seeing some of the results in-person, and perhaps weighing in on some of the plan concepts? The City’s hoping that many folks are, and has prepared displays and a quick questionnaire to be stationed at several community gathering spots between now and the end of this month. In many cases, City staff will be on-hand to answer questions and offer information about the Choices for Cheney process.

Check out the concept illustrations in advance if you’d like beforehand, but see the schedule chart below for a listing of the various display places and times, and be sure to stop by!

One of the key exercises participants took part in during the November Community Character Workshop gave groups of four or more large maps of Cheney, and asked them to place colored dots where they thought jobs and residential growth ought to occur over the next 20 years.

Here are the results from that exercise, scanned, reduced and transcribed so everyone can check out what each group was thinking. Each file typically contains two pages - the map, showing the colored dot placement and keyed numbers next to all of the written comments, and a second page containing typewritten transcriptions of the comments next to the numbers associated with each.

Be sure to check out the planner’s summaries and comments listed at the top of the transcription pages. Most refer to the various plan concept illustrations shown to the groups that day, and how each of the participant group schemes relates to them.

Interesting stuff - several of the groups worked hard to provide ideas on the type of residential mix and economic initiatives the City ought to encourage over time. These maps, plus community feedback between now and mid-January will help shape the next draft plan strategy, to be presented during the February community workshop!

Map & Comments: Table 1 (580 Kb, Acrobat® file)
Map & Comments: Table 2 (544 Kb, Acrobat® file)
Map & Comments: Table 3 (616 Kb, Acrobat® file)
Map & Comments: Table 4 (592 Kb, Acrobat® file)
Map & Comments: Table 5 (620 Kb, Acrobat® file)
Map & Comments: Table 6 (552 Kb, Acrobat® file)

For the record and for community review, the following links provide Acrobat® copies of the various slideshows presented during the November 20-21 Community Character Workshop.

The five files below are those presented by Bill Grimes of lead consulting firm Studio Cascade, and Troy Russ of transportation consultant Glatting-Jackson. The link titles indicate the presenter and day of presentation.

Many of the slides contained in the Grimes files are Cheney and plan-process specific, introducing local issues and the workshop exercises intended to explore them. The Troy Russ presentations cover traffic and transportation topics in a more generalized fashion, and are valuable in showing how quality transportation decisions lead to quality land use and community design.

Grimes, Friday Pt. 1 (3.2 Mb, Acrobat® file)
Russ, Friday (5 Mb, Acrobat® file)
Grimes, Friday, Pt. 2 (1.5 Mb, Acrobat® file)
Grimes, Saturday (2.3 Mb, Acrobat® file)
Russ, Saturday (3.8 Mb, Acrobat® file)

At the recent Community Character Workshop, one of the activities asked residents to compare four hypothetical approaches to Cheney’s future with overall community objectives.

These approaches - illustrated and characterized as "Suburban Cheney," "Collegiate Cheney," "Hometown Cheney," and "Economic Cheney," were presented on color posters featuring maps, text descriptions, charts and photographs.

Linked below are reduced-size versions of each of the concept scenarios. Click to view each one, and give thought to which of the four - or more likely, which combination of them - suits Cheney best. Note that the pages include our estimation of how each scenario serves the draft vision for the plan. How would you rate each? If the future plan needs to incorporate a combination of these concepts, what’s the proper balance?

Look for a summary of feedback received at the workshop to be posted here, but in the meantime, offer your own ideas and thoughts to City project lead , or post your comments using the comment links below.

Most importantly, be sure to attend the next community workshop, scheduled for the second week of February 2010!

Suburban Cheney (296 Kb, Acrobat® file)
Hometown Cheney (260 Kb, Acrobat® file)
Collegiate Cheney (304 Kb, Acrobat® file)
Economic Cheney (280 Kb, Acrobat® file)