Outreach & Engagement

Effective planning for livability, mobility, sustainability and prosperity in any community requires a thoughtful strategy for engaging key stakeholders and the public.Compass Blueprint can assist with a custom-designed outreach and engagement campaign, to suit the needs of your city and your planning process. We can provide the basics such as creating and mailing newsletters, brochures and project fact sheets, as well as sophisticated outreach tools, including:

Workshops & charrettes

Host and facilitate public and stakeholder workshops to consider planning issues such as where growth should and should not occur within an area and the general form that new growth should take. Workshops might be simple “open houses” to present concepts to the public or might challenge participants grapple with the land use, financial or policy trade-offs inevitably involved in community planning.

Focus groups

Convene a select group of stakeholders such as policy makers, developers, and community opinion leaders, etc. to “test” project goals, ideas, and concrete proposals. Focus groups can help you better understand the expectations and views of the overall community.

Web & Email

Quickly set up a website to provide details, documents, and a public face and forum for a planning project in your community. Compass Blueprint can also distribute and track results from a professionally-designed email newsletter.

Visual preference surveys

Set up a web-based image preference survey with up to 50 different building and streetscape designs that citizens can review and comment on. Visual preference surveys provide a simple format, readily understood, that provides direct feedback invaluable to local governments.