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What's Behind "THE VISION" in Your Town?

By Susanna L. Jennings

Monday, 14 February 2005 17:00

The visioning process includes: “values” research, how to
run "facilitated" workshops and to how to use “consensus building” to
create scenarios for area “change”. When public officials and NGOs
(non-government organizations) use the term "visioning" it really means
Agenda 21 principles are being implemented.

Television makeover programs that transform men and women from sloppy
to slick are popular. Makeup artists, hair dressers and clothing
specialists remake their passive subjects and the new look is shown off to
gasping friends and family. Transformational changes are not limited to
people these days. American neighborhoods, swarming with central planners
and government funds are getting made over too.

America’s new look starts with federal and state funded “visioning
councils” who impose their plan utilizing compliant politicians, compliant
business people and paid representatives from foundation and tax-funded
non-profit organizations. The unsuspecting public becomes the recipient of
a vision that implements “Smart Growth.”

Smart Growth restricts
housing construction to high-density subsidized (cost-shifted) apartments
or condominiums. Cities are “filled in” by building vertically and
cramming people together. Occupants living in these new developments are
often subject to increasing rules and regulations administered by
Associations or Housing Trusts. Cluster developments with purposely
limited parking (near train or bus stops) are designed to take people out
of their cars, thereby frustrating people’s ability to get around as they
might choose.

Some planners in the Western United States learned
their terminology and techniques from a group called “Envision Utah”.
Through “Envision Utah” planners learned about the “visioning process.”
Planners return from the “regional” visioning workshop with a mission in
place. “Our visioning sets up a framework project for zoning,” says Gordon
Garry, Director of Research and Analysis for the Sacramento Area Council
of Governments.

Once the framework for zoning is in place, local
governments, non-elected regional councils and public/private
partnerships, begin to change residential neighborhoods to “mixed uses,”
often utilizing processes that work outside constitutional governmental
procedures. By transforming the “look’ of the town, planners and
politicians are also engineering social changes that will negatively
affect the lives and the lifestyles of existing residents.

If your
town is working toward a “vision,” it’s best to understand the Smart
Growth plan behind the façade.

What's Behind THE VISION in Your Town? by Susanna L.
Jennings

Related Articles:

The Consensus Process by Henry Lamb

Let's Stop Being Manipulated! The Delphi Technique by Albert
V. Burns

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