ULI Inland Empire Visioning Workshop

The Inland Emire is the fastest area in the Southern California region. The West Riverside County Organization of Governments, the Urban Land Institute and Compass Blueprint teamed up to hold a visioning workshop where residents of the Inland Empire area could come together to express a shared vision of future growth. The Workshop was focused on land-use and different development types. Participants were able to lay desired new development, agriculture or open space on a map of the region. Compass Blueprint compiled the information using mapping software in way that could be easily analyzed.

Goals:

• Understand resident's vision for future land-use in the region using the Compass Blueprint 2% strategy
• Inolve ULI participent in the process
• Use current housing trends to forecast future choices
• Form a region-wide growth management framework

Local and Regional Solutions:

• A composite of Workshop participants choices showed people using 10% less land for new development than growth projections
  
• Participents opted for an interconnected regional transit system, connecting the Inland Empire with other regional destinations such as Los Angeles
• More high density new employment and new development was chosen by participents over the current projections