CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE Department of Neighborhood Development Services City Hall Post Office Box 911 Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 Telephone 434-970-3182 Fax 434-970-3359 www.charlottesville.org September 17, 2018 TO: Charlottesville Planning Commission, Neighborhood Associations & News Media Please Take Notice A Joint Work Session of the Charlottesville Planning Commission and PLACE Task Force will be held on Tuesday September 25, 2018 at 5:00pm in the NDS Conference Room (610 East Market Street) AGENDA 1. 2018 Comprehensive Plan a. Community Engagement – Discussion with PLACE Task Force Members b. Survey Update c. Plans for Land Use Chapter http://www.charlottesville.org/home/showdocument?id =35041 d. Review of Draft chapters - Housing Draft (last document in packet) 2. Public Comment cc: City Council Mike Murphy Alexander Ikefuna Planners Jeff Werner, Camie Mess Stacy Pethia, Tierra Howard, Lisa Robertson CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES MEMORANDUM To: Charlottesville Planning Commission From: Missy Creasy, Assistant Director Date: September 17, 2018 Re: Comprehensive Plan Chapters – Community Engagement ______________________________________________________________________________________ At the Joint Work Session between City Council and the Planning Commission a timeline was developed to allow the draft Comprehensive Plan materials to reach Council in December 2018. The Commission had committed to include a Community Engagement Chapter in the plan and that section needs to be developed. The PLACE Task Force established a subcommittee to provide guidance on Community Engagement and the Commission scheduled to discuss this with PLACE on September 25, 2018. There are a number of documents included in this package which have been gathered for further review in crafting this chapter. Additionally, PLACE has scheduled a work session to discuss this further on September 21, 2018 and may have additional information to share following that meeting. Following this discussion, detailed guidance on drafting the community engagement chapter needs to be provided. Attachments: Research on Community Engagement Chapters Portland Example August 21, 2018 Community group representatives meeting summary and detailed comments Proposal – Preservation Piedmont Comments – PLACE Task Force 1 Community Engagement in Comprehensive Plans Examples of Comprehensive Plans with entire sections dedicated to community engagement/involvement/participation: ● Portland, OR: ​https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/579165 ● Beaverton, OR: ​http://www.beavertonoregon.gov/DocumentCenter/Home/View/1183 ● Corvallis, OR: https://archives.corvallisoregon.gov/public/0/edoc/871951/Complete%20Comp%20Plan. pdf​ (Article 2, pg 17) ● Northbrook, IL: http://www.northbrook.il.us/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=1839 ● Seattle, WA: http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/cs/groups/pan/@pan/documents/web_informational/p258089 3.pdf​ (pg 162) ● Roanoke, VA: ​http://www.roanokecountyva.gov/DocumentCenter/Home/View/2457 (Chapter 3 Section 1, pg 21) Other helpful documents for outlining goals/policies/implementation strategies for community engagement/involvement/participation: ● City of Portland Public Involvement Principles: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/oni/article/312804 ● Portland Community Involvement Program: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/588571 ● Portland Community Involvement Committee: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/59316 ● Oregon’s Statewide Planning Goals & Guidelines, Goal 1: Citizen Involvement: http://www.oregon.gov/LCD/docs/goals/goal01.pdf ● City of Guelph Community Engagement Framework: http://guelph.ca/wp-content/uploads/CEF_Framework.pdf ● Manchester Statement of Community Involvement: http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/download_info.php?downloadID=948​ (3rd link) ● City of Gresham Community Engagement Handbook: https://greshamoregon.gov/community-engagement/ Common Themes: ● Idea of community involvement as a necessary ​partnership​ between the City and the community ○ Need to understand what the community wants in order to make those desired goals into realities ○ Recognize that the community often has wisdom from their personal perspectives or experiences of the city ○ Need to maintain positive relationship between officials and community ● Understand the diversity of the community and focus on underrepresented/marginalized groups ○ Make involvement available to all community members, especially those who have the potential to be or have historically been adversely affected by decisions ○ Ensure that all community members have the ability to share their views, including those of all ethnic, racial, age, socio-economic status, cultural backgrounds, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities ● Transparency ○ Ensure that planning and decision-making processes are clearly defined and easy to understand ○ Ensure that community members understand how they can be involved, including at what steps in the process and the various available methods ● Involvement throughout the entire planning process ○ The community should have the opportunity to be involved in all steps of the process from initial data gathering to alternatives development to decision making to evaluation, etc. ● Accessibility ○ Need to have various methods of participation to include as many community members as possible ○ Need to ensure that all people have a way of participating by providing information in multiple languages, having public transportation to meetings, etc. ○ Try to make participation convenient and easy in order to maximize community involvement ■ Best to get community involvement by attending already happening events rather than scheduling events just for planning matters ● Effectiveness ○ Need to have a standard, defined process for how community input will be gathered through constructive dialogue and then applied to decisions ○ Use best practices for effectively involving the community ● Variety of avenues through which people can participate ○ To increase involvement from all members of the community, a wide variety of engagement methods should be employed (ex. online tools, phone hotline, tabling, community meetings, etc.) ○ Include opportunities for individual and group participation ● Importance of educating the public on land use, transportation, housing, etc. ○ Allows them to make more informed decisions ○ Allows them to understand why planning is important and how these decisions impact them and their community ● Monitor participation throughout the process and make sure it reflects who is affected ● Adaptability ○ Review the process of community engagement regularly and make necessary changes to improve effectiveness ○ Update methods of communication and interaction with the community as technology changes and new methods become available ● Actively encourage community involvement across all scales ○ Ensure that residents understand the importance of being involved in neighborhood, city-wide, and regional decisions ● Consider having a group dedicated to evaluating the processes and ensuring community involvement in decisions ○ Ex. Portland’s Community Involvement Committee and Public Involvement Advisory Council, Corvallis Committee for Citizen Involvement GOALS AND POLICIES Chapter 2: Community Involvement What is this chapter about? The goals and policies in this chapter convey the City’s intent to:  Provide a wide range of opportunities for involvement in planning and investment decisions, with targeted access and inclusion in decision making for those who potentially will be adversely affected by the results of those decisions.  Foster ongoing positive relationships between communities and the City to support accountability for improving community well‐being and inclusion.  Recognize that the City has a responsibility to plan for the needs of, and engage with, under‐served and under‐represented communities to achieve greater equity.  Expand opportunities for meaningful community engagement in planning and investment processes, from issue identification and project scoping through implementation, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and enforcement.  Promote civic responsibility both within communities and at an individual level.  Require transparent, well‐designed, thoughtful, culturally‐specific, relevant, representative, and responsive public processes for planning and investment decisions, implementation, and monitoring.  Build community capacity to increase the community’s meaningful participation and leadership in planning and investment decisions.  Promote thoughtful consideration of and responses to public comment on planning and investment decisions. DECEMBER 2016 2035 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PAGE GP2‐1 COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Why is this important? The results are better — more durable, equitable, and accountable — when a diversity of Portlanders are involved in the scoping, development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of plans and investment projects. No one person, agency, organization, or business can provide all things Portland’s diverse communities need. Collaborative partnerships and inclusive community participation in planning and investment decision making are essential to creating and sustaining a prosperous, healthy, equitable, and resilient Portland. Portland has a long history of community involvement that gained strength and power in the 1970s, which forms the foundation of today’s neighborhood system. As the city grows, diversifies, and works to advance equity, it is essential that all community members’ needs and concerns are considered. Particular efforts must be made to improve services for, and participation by, people of color, immigrant and refugee communities, people with disabilities, renters, low‐income Portlanders, older adults, youth, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community. It is the City’s responsibility to promote deep and inclusive community involvement in planning and investment decisions. A new paradigm of community involvement and engagement — one that supports intercultural organizing, recognizes that diversity is an advantage, and works to achieve equitable outcomes — must be embraced and paired with Portland’s neighborhood organizations to create a robust and inclusive community involvement system. PAGE GP2‐2 2035 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DECEMBER 2016 GOALS AND POLICIES Table of Contents Goals Goal 2.A Community involvement as a partnership Goal 2.B Social justice and equity Goal 2.C Value community wisdom and participation Goal 2.D Transparency and accountability Goal 2.E Meaningful participation Goal 2.F Accessible and effective participation Goal 2.G Strong civic infrastructure Policies Partners in decision making Policy 2.1 Partnerships and coordination Policy 2.2 Broaden partnerships Environmental justice Policy 2.3 Extend benefits Policy 2.4 Eliminate burdens Invest in education and training Policy 2.5 Community capacity building Policy 2.6 Land use literacy Policy 2.7 Agency capacity building Community assessment Policy 2.8 Channels of communication Policy 2.9 Community analysis Policy 2.10 Community participation in data collection Policy 2.11 Open data Transparency and accountability Policy 2.12 Roles and responsibilities Policy 2.13 Project scope Policy 2.14 Community influence Policy 2.15 Documentation and feedback DECEMBER 2016 2035 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PAGE GP2‐3 COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Community involvement program Policy 2.16 Community Involvement Program Policy 2.17 Community engagement manual Policy 2.18 Best practices engagement methods Policy 2.19 Community Involvement Committee Policy 2.20 Review bodies Policy 2.21 Program evaluation Policy 2.22 Shared engagement methods Policy 2.23 Adequate funding and human resources Process design and evaluation Policy 2.24 Representation Policy 2.25 Early involvement Policy 2.26 Verifying data Policy 2.27 Demographics Policy 2.28 Historical understanding Policy 2.29 Project‐specific needs Policy 2.30 Culturally‐appropriate processes Policy 2.31 Innovative engagement methods Policy 2.32 Inclusive participation beyond Portland residents Policy 2.33 Inclusive participation in Central City planning Policy 2.34 Accessibility Policy 2.35 Participation monitoring Policy 2.36 Adaptability Policy 2.37 Process evaluation Information design and development Policy 2.38 Accommodation Policy 2.39 Notification Policy 2.40 Tools for effective participation Policy 2.41 Limited English proficiency (LEP) PAGE GP2‐4 2035 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DECEMBER 2016 GOALS AND POLICIES Goals Goal 2.A: Community involvement as a partnership The City of Portland works together as a genuine partner with all Portland communities and interests. The City promotes, builds, and maintains relationships, and communicates with individuals, communities, neighborhoods, businesses, organizations, Neighborhood Associations, Business Associations, institutions, and other governments to ensure meaningful community involvement in planning and investment decisions. Partnerships with historically under‐served and under‐represented communities must be paired with the City’s neighborhood organizations to create a robust and inclusive community involvement system. Goal 2.B: Social justice and equity The City of Portland seeks social justice by expanding choice and opportunity for all community members, recognizing a special responsibility to identify and engage, as genuine partners, under‐served and under‐represented communities in planning, investment, implementation, and enforcement processes, particularly those with potential to be adversely affected by the results of decisions. The City actively works to improve its planning and investment‐related decisions to achieve equitable distribution of burdens and benefits and address past injustices. Goal 2.C: Value community wisdom and participation Portland values and encourages community and civic participation. The City seeks and considers community wisdom and diverse cultural perspectives, and integrates them with technical analysis, to strengthen land use decisions. Goal 2.D: Transparency and accountability City planning and investment decision‐making processes are clear, open, and documented. Through these processes a diverse range of community interests are heard and balanced. The City makes it clear to the community who is responsible for making decisions and how community input is taken into account. Accountability includes monitoring and reporting outcomes. Goal 2.E: Meaningful participation Community members have meaningful opportunities to participate in and influence all stages of planning and decision making. Public processes engage the full diversity of affected community members, including under‐served and under‐represented individuals and communities. The City will seek and facilitate the involvement of those potentially affected by planning and decision making. DECEMBER 2016 2035 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PAGE GP2‐5 COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Goal 2.F: Accessible and effective participation City planning and investment decision‐making processes are designed to be accessible and effective, and responsive to the needs of all communities and cultures. The City draws from acknowledged best practices and uses a wide variety of tools, including those developed and recommended by under‐served and under‐represented communities, to promote inclusive, collaborative, culturally‐responsive, and robust community involvement. Goal 2.G: Strong civic infrastructure Civic institutions, organizations, and processes encourage active and meaningful community involvement and strengthen the capacity of individuals and communities to participate in planning processes and civic life. PAGE GP2‐6 2035 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DECEMBER 2016 GOALS AND POLICIES Policies Ongoing community involvement practices, procedures, and programs are a necessary foundation for project‐specific community involvement efforts. Many of the policies in this chapter are intended to build on community wisdom, expand community knowledge, and improve City staff capacity to work effectively with an increasingly diverse and growing Portland population. Partners in decision making Portland benefits when community members are meaningfully involved in planning and investment decisions. By building and maintaining partnerships with individuals and a wide range of formal and informal organizations that represent a variety of interests, the City of Portland government will have a better understanding of various communities’ diverse needs and concerns. These policies support building and maintaining strong and supportive relationships with an increasingly diverse and growing Portland population. Policy 2.1 Partnerships and coordination. Maintain partnerships and coordinate land use engagement with: 2.1.a. Individual community members. 2.1.b. Communities of color (including those whose families have been in this area for generations such as Native Americans, African Americans, and descendants of immigrants), low‐income populations, Limited English Proficient (LEP) communities, Native American communities, immigrants and refugees, and other under‐served and under‐represented communities. 2.1.c. District coalitions, Neighborhood Associations, watershed councils, and business district associations as local experts and communication channels for place‐based projects. 2.1.d. Businesses, unions, employees, and related organizations that reflect Portland’s diversity as the center of regional economic and cultural activity. 2.1.e. Community‐based, faith‐based, artistic and cultural, and interest‐based non‐profits, organizations, and groups. 2.1.f. People experiencing disabilities. 2.1.g. Institutions, governments, and Sovereign tribes. Policy 2.2 Broaden partnerships. Work with district coalitions, Neighborhood Associations, and business district associations to increase participation and to help them reflect the diversity of the people and institutions they serve. Facilitate greater communication and collaboration among district coalitions, DECEMBER 2016 2035 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PAGE GP2‐7 COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Neighborhood Associations, business district associations, culturally‐specific organizations, and community‐based organizations. Environmental justice Environmental justice is the equitable treatment and meaningful involvement of all people in public decision making, as it applies to the development, implementation, and enforcement of laws, regulations, and policies that govern the uses of air, water, and land; and therefore the effects of those laws, regulations, and policies on the health and quality of life where people live, work, learn, play, and practice spirituality. Environmental justice supports the equitable distribution of the benefits and burdens of decisions, considering historical injustice and context of local decision‐making, and ensures that those most impacted from decisions have an opportunity to meaningfully participate. Environmental justice is borne from the recognition that communities of color, low‐income communities, Limited English Proficient (LEP) communities, and Sovereign tribes have been disproportionately impacted from public and private decision‐making, including planning, development, monitoring and enforcement, while often being excluded from those decisions themselves. Environmental justice serves to build capacity within overburdened communities to support greater political, socioeconomic, and cultural self‐determination. Policies throughout this chapter support environmental justice by providing a framework for meaningful involvement in public decisions. Policy 2.3 Extend benefits. Ensure plans and investments promote environmental justice by extending the community benefits associated with environmental assets, land use, and public investments to communities of color, low‐income populations, and other under‐served or under‐represented groups impacted by the decision. Maximize economic, cultural, political, and environmental benefits through ongoing partnerships. Policy 2.4 Eliminate burdens. Ensure plans and investments eliminate associated disproportionate burdens (e.g. adverse environmental, economic, or community impacts) for communities of color, low‐income populations, and other under‐served or under‐represented groups impacted by the decision. 2.4.a. Minimize or mitigate disproportionate burdens in cases where they cannot be eliminated. 2.4.b. Use plans and investments to address disproportionate burdens of previous decisions. PAGE GP2‐8 2035 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DECEMBER 2016 GOALS AND POLICIES Invest in education and training Both the community and City representatives must have the capacity to work together as effective partners. Ongoing investment in education and training leads to better informed community members who then have increased capacity to participate effectively. Community involvement‐focused professional development training helps improve City staff’s ability to work with and learn from community members. These policies support both community and agency capacity building. Policy 2.5 Community capacity building. Enhance the ability of community members, particularly those in under‐served and/or under‐represented groups, to develop the relationships, knowledge, and skills to effectively participate in plan and investment processes. Policy 2.6 Land use literacy. Provide training and educational opportunities to build the public’s understanding of land use, transportation, housing, and related topics, and increase capacity for meaningful participation in planning and investment processes. Policy 2.7 Agency capacity building. Increase City staff’s capacity, tools, and skills to design and implement processes that engage a broad diversity of affected and interested communities, including under‐served and under‐represented communities, in meaningful and appropriate ways. Community assessment City staff must build and maintain their understanding of community demographics, trends, and needs. Community members should have opportunities to share how conditions and needs affect them. The following policies support effective two‐way communication between City government and communities and encourage community‐level data gathering and information sharing in planning and investment processes. Policy 2.8 Channels of communication. Maintain two‐way channels of communication among City Council, the Planning and Sustainability Commission (PSC), project advisory committees, City staff, and community members. Policy 2.9 Community analysis. Collect and evaluate data, including community‐ validated population data and information, to understand the needs, priorities, and trends and historical context affecting different communities in Portland. Policy 2.10 Community participation in data collection. Provide meaningful opportunities for individuals and communities to be involved in inventories, mapping, data analysis, and the development of alternatives. DECEMBER 2016 2035 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PAGE GP2‐9 COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Policy 2.11 Open Data. Ensure planning and investment decisions are a collaboration among stakeholders, including those listed in Policy 2.1. Where appropriate, encourage publication, accessibility, and wide‐spread sharing of data collected and generated by the City. Transparency and accountability The City is committed to improving transparency in community involvement processes related to planning and investment decisions. When community members have a better understanding of a process, they are better able to participate effectively. Improved transparency and communication allows the City to better understand community opinions and needs, resulting in improved decisions. The following policies articulate how and when planning and investment decisions are made; the community’s role in decision‐making processes; and what the community can expect from the City of Portland. Policy 2.12 Roles and responsibilities. Establish clear roles, rights, and responsibilities for participants and decision makers in planning and investment processes. Address roles of City bureaus, elected officials, and participants, including community and neighborhood leadership, business, organizations, and individuals. Policy 2.13 Project scope. Establish clear expectations about land use project sponsorship, purpose, design, and how decision makers will use the process results. Policy 2.14 Community influence. At each stage of the process, identify which elements of a planning and investment process can be influenced or changed through community involvement. Clarify the extent to which those elements can be influenced or changed. Policy 2.15 Documentation and feedback. Provide clear documentation for the rationale supporting decisions in planning and investment processes. Communicate to participants about the issues raised in the community involvement process, how public input affected outcomes, and the rationale used to make decisions. Community involvement program Much has changed in Portland in the 35 years since the adoption of the 1980 Comprehensive Plan. Much more will likely change between the adoption of this Plan and the next one. The following policies challenge City staff and elected officials to assess current practices and develop new tools through ongoing process evaluation and PAGE GP2‐10 2035 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DECEMBER 2016 GOALS AND POLICIES improvement, and direct the City to develop, maintain, and update a manual that details current best practices for community involvement. Policy 2.16 Community Involvement Program. Maintain a Community Involvement Program that supports community involvement as an integral and meaningful part of the planning and investment decision‐making process. Policy 2.17 Community engagement manual. Create, maintain, and actively implement a community engagement manual that details how to conduct community involvement for planning and investment projects and decisions. Policy 2.18 Best practices engagement methods. Utilize community engagement methods, tools, and technologies that are recognized as best practices. Policy 2.19 Community Involvement Committee. The Community Involvement Committee (CIC), an independent advisory body, will evaluate and provide feedback to City staff on community involvement processes for individual planning and associated investment projects, before, during, and at the conclusion of these processes. Policy 2.20 Review bodies. Maintain review bodies, such as the Planning and Sustainability Commission (PSC), Design Commission, Historic Landmarks Commission, and Adjustment Committee, to provide an opportunity for community involvement and provide leadership and expertise for specialized topic areas. Policy 2.21 Program evaluation. Periodically evaluate the effectiveness of the Community Involvement Program and recommend and advocate for program and policy improvements. The Community Involvement Committee (CIC) will advise City staff regarding this evaluation. Policy 2.22 Shared engagement methods. Coordinate and share methods, tools, and technologies that lead to successful engagement practices with both government and community partners and solicit engagement methods from the community. Policy 2.23 Adequate funding and human resources. Provide a level of funding and human resources allocated to the Community Involvement Program sufficient to make community involvement an integral part of the planning, policy, investment and development process. DECEMBER 2016 2035 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PAGE GP2‐11 COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Process design and evaluation The policies in this section guide the design of project‐specific community involvement processes. They help ensure that community involvement processes for planning and investment projects fit the scope, character, and impact of the decision. These policies also promote full representation in planning and investment processes and actively involve under‐served and under‐represented communities. Representation can help ensure that City decisions do not further reinforce the disadvantaged position of under‐served and under‐represented groups and do not narrowly benefit privileged groups. Policy 2.24 Representation. Facilitate participation of a cross‐section of the full diversity of affected Portlanders during planning and investment processes. This diversity includes individuals, stakeholders, and communities represented by race, color, national origin, English proficiency, gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and source of income. Policy 2.25 Early involvement. Improve opportunities for interested and affected community members to participate early in planning and investment processes, including identifying and prioritizing issues, needs, and opportunities; participating in process design; and recommending and prioritizing projects and/or other types of implementation. Policy 2.26 Verifying data. Use data, including community‐validated population data, to guide planning and investment processes and priority setting and to shape community involvement and decision‐making efforts. Policy 2.27 Demographics. Identify the demographics of potentially affected communities when initiating a planning or investment project. Policy 2.28 Historical understanding. To better understand concerns and conditions when initiating a project, research the history, culture, past plans, and other needs of the affected community, particularly under‐represented and under‐ served groups, and persons with limited English proficiency (LEP). Review preliminary findings with members of the community who have institutional and historical knowledge. Policy 2.29 Project‐specific needs. Customize community involvement processes to meet the needs of those potentially affected by the planning or investment project. Use community involvement techniques that fit the scope, character, and potential impact of the planning or investment decision under consideration. Policy 2.30 Culturally‐appropriate processes. Consult with communities to design culturally‐appropriate processes to meet the needs of those affected by a planning or investment project. Evaluate, use, and document creative and PAGE GP2‐12 2035 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DECEMBER 2016 GOALS AND POLICIES culturally‐appropriate methods, tools, technologies, and spaces to inform and engage people from under‐served and under‐represented groups about planning or investment projects. Policy 2.31 Innovative engagement methods. Develop and document innovative methods, tools, and technologies for community involvement processes for plan and investment projects. Policy 2.32 Inclusive participation beyond Portland residents. Design public processes for planning and investment projects to engage affected and interested people who may not live in Portland such as property owners, employees, employers, and students, among others, as practicable. Policy 2.33 Inclusive participation in Central City planning. Design public processes for the Central City that recognize its unique role as the region’s center. Engage a wide range of stakeholders from the Central City and throughout the region including employees, employers, social service providers, students, and visitors, as well as regional tourism, institutional, recreation, transportation, and local/regional government representatives, as appropriate. Policy 2.34 Accessibility. Ensure that community involvement processes for planning and investment projects are broadly accessible in terms of location, time, and language, and that they support the engagement of individuals with a variety of abilities and limitations on participation. Policy 2.35 Participation monitoring. Evaluate and document participant demographics throughout planning and investment processes to assess whether participation reflects the demographics of affected communities. Adapt involvement practices and activities accordingly to increase effectiveness at reaching targeted audiences. Policy 2.36 Adaptability. Adapt community involvement processes for planning and investment projects as appropriate to flexibly respond to changes in the scope and priority of the issues, needs, and other factors that may affect the process. Policy 2.37 Process evaluation. Evaluate each community involvement process for planning or investment projects from both the City staff and participants’ perspectives, and consider feedback and lessons learned to enhance future involvement efforts. DECEMBER 2016 2035 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PAGE GP2‐13 COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Information design and notification These policies will help improve notification procedures for administrative and quasi‐judicial reviews, as well as legislative land use decisions and the community’s access to processes and technical information related to planning and investment decisions. The City of Portland’s Civil Rights Title VI Plan requires that information is available to the public, with assistance provided as requested to interpret and effectively use technical information. Additionally, the City of Portland must ensure that limited English proficient (LEP) individuals have meaningful access to City land use‐related activities. Policy 2.38 Accommodation. Ensure accommodations to let individuals with disabilities participate in administrative, quasi‐judicial, and legislative land use decisions, consistent with or exceeding federal regulations. Policy 2.39 Notification. Notify affected and interested community members and recognized organizations about administrative, quasi‐judicial, and legislative land use decisions with enough lead time to enable effective participation. Consider notification to both property owners and renters. Policy 2.40 Tools for effective participation. Provide clear and easy access to information about administrative, quasi‐judicial, and legislative land use decisions in multiple formats and through technological advancements and other ways. Policy 2.41 Limited English Proficiency (LEP). Ensure that limited English proficient (LEP) individuals are provided meaningful access to information about administrative, quasi‐judicial, and legislative land use decisions, consistent with federal regulations. PAGE GP2‐14 2035 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DECEMBER 2016 Phase III Appendix: Detailed List of Summarized Comments • COMMUNIUTY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS IN GENERAL o Multiple concerns for lack of diversity at the meetings • Desire to restrict height but concern for unintended • Ivy Materials Center to accept household hazardous consequences waste monthly rather than twice a year so that o Concern over timing of the meetings o Desire for an inventory and a plan for city owned property emissions of harmful CFL refrigerant gases can be o Desire for more announcements about meetings and access prevented by proper handling. to information before meetings o General concern for lack of base data provided • 2. COMMUNITY FACILITIES o Desire for the Rivanna River and the Rivanna corridor to be o Concerns about city services keeping up with development prioritized higher in the plan o Concern for how the plan will address the city's actual needs o Concern over lack of specific measurable numbers in the • Trash pick up • Concern that current zoning for river front is draft goals • Drinking water outdated o Questions about where the community fits into this process • Storm water - specifically with increasing loss of green space • S. HOUSING • Lighting o Concern about rising rents • 1. LAND USE • Emergency services o Large scale concern for the lack of affordable housing in o Desire for an updated glossary and definitions for intensity o Desire for more attention to parks trails and greenways Charlottesville vs. density o Questions regarding previously made pie charts • Specific concern for people making less than 30%AMI • Who was surveyed? • 3. ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY • Specific concern for seniors who do not easily fit into o Concern for how to balance economic growth and housing an income bracket • Was the sample size big enough? • Why is transportation not a pie piece? o Desire for jobs creation to be seen as equally important as • Specific concern about eliminating Goal 1 • Are all pie pieces equal? (Affordable housing vs. housing • Questions about where 15% came from and whether o Desire for zoning to be flexible to allow for small businesses it is enough hardware store) o Questions regarding what the land use map is really to exist in residential neighborhoods • Questions about what "affordable" actually means representing o Concern that Charlottesville is not friendly towards small • Desire for affordable housing to be subsidized o Concern for transportation between high intensity nodes business • Desire for more incentives for developers and homeowners o Concern for loss of green space o Need for cooperation across borders with UVA and • Desire for housing for multiple and mixed income • 4. URBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY levels Albemarle County o Concern for loss of tree canopy o Desire for a strategy for anti-displacement and eviction o Need to evaluate R-1 zoning • Desire for more green infrastructure to keep the prevention • Seen as a major road block to housing target tree canopy o Desire for housing for teachers near schools • Too much light yellow on the map o Concern for loss of wildlife habitat o Desire to delay comprehensive plan until housing study and o Desire for small area plans and individual neighborhood o Desire for plan to include issues such as "urban agriculture" housing strategy are completed plans "food availability" "food security" "community gardens" • Desire to integrate small area plans into this map • Desire for a housing strategy to take into account o Desire for plans and development to highlight the both 1) data and 2) history o Desire for pocket parks importance of "sense of place" o Discussion about a Homeowners Bill of Rights • Green space should be more evenly distributed o Desire for Charlottesville to take more action on and a o Concern about racial discrimination in the housing process o Desire for more transitions or buffers between high intensity leadership role in combatting Climate Change and how the plan will address historically raciest practices areas and neighborhoods • Multiple emailed comments seeking: o Questions about the using Accessible Dwelling Units (ADUs) o Desire for mixed use and mixed income areas • A much more ambitious reduction goal than 30% by • Seen as a missed opportunity o Confusion about the relationship between intensity and 2050 to meet the Paris climate agreement o Concern that changes are only tweaks of the existing plan height • To lncentivize energy improvement of existing o Concern over lack of data backing up these changes buildings in all sectors by partnering with LEAP A3-1 • WTJU concerts • 6. TRANSPORTATION o Current State of Community Engagement in o Multiple concerns about parking specifically regarding Charlottesville? pricing and how parking fits into other goals • Distrust of City government o Desire for accessible transportation for all ages and all • Information gaps abilities • Difficulty including minorities o Desire for connected transportation networks o Vision for the future of Charlottesville Community o Desire for smaller transportation systems made of smaller Engagement? busses and more stops • Long term relationship building o Desire for more and more improved and more integrated • Clear chain of comma bike and pedestrian infrastructure o Desire for transit to provide access to not only jobs and economic opportunities but also to food, childcare, schools and community as a whole o Questions about the feasibility of park and ride in suburban areas of Charlottesville • 7. HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND URBAN DESIGN o Desire to define and designate endangered neighborhoods o Fear of losing sense of place in Charlottesville o Desire for transition zones and concern over tall buildings intruding into neighborhoods o Concern for how zoning is interpreted especially be developers o Interest in and desire for a form based code o Desire for small area plans o Confusion about historic preservation and urban design fit together and fit into the comp plan as a whole • 8. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT o Memorable community engagement experiences? • Belmont Bridge Mobility Fair: successful because it was pace specific I gave direct access to planners • Neighborhood lemonade stand was a positive experience • Development proposals that are developer facelifted were negative experiences • Belmont Bash • City Market • IX park A3-2 one day during the community input period (in Phase 1?). I through it. My program team could definitely get lots of input that way 8. Community Engagement don't believe they got much input that day. I suggested that we through the people we interact with. Also you would up usership 1. Emailed Draft Chapter Comments discuss the content prior to tabling to help make it accessible significantly if you could pay bills and tickets there! The mayor seems to and meaningful to the community we serve although the get a lot of traffic on her facebook page- could she do a live video • I am VERY disappointed that the Community Engagement Chapter was commission didn't take me up on that. I also recommended showing the updates to the process and how to people can give cut. A few months ago, there seemed to be broad agreement about they provide interpretation at the table so that they could have feedback? adding it. a more rich conversation with the community. I can understand • 4. WAIT TO FINALIZE THE PLAN UNTIL THE HOUSING PLAN is • During the outreach for the Comprehensive Plan, officials told that this could have been an additional $150 expense, but COMPLETE community members that the Planning Commission would add a would likely have resulted in more input. I was also set up Community Engagement section to the Comprehensive Plan. However, across from the commission at the Westhaven Day and visited • 5. CREATE MORE CLEAR GOALS AND PRIORITIES IN THE PLAN FOR THE the table. I think it would help get more content if table staff NEEDS of PEOPLE for LIVING, EATING AND WORKING AFFORDABLY. - in the 2018 Update Draft to the plan on the City's website, this section were more outgoing and there were really tangible and easy There needs to be more language in the land use section and map is not included. ways to give input - like as a game with large imagery or about defining not just the intensity of development for certain areas • It is imperative that the Planning Commission informs and involves posters. I wasn't clearly engaged when I visited the table and I of the city, but also set a priority area for necessities- affordable community members in its decision making process. As a resident of witnessed a lot of people pass by the table without being housing food and transport to work. I heard a lot about the City of Charlottesville, I am in favor of the planning commission's invited to stop. I just think you've got to get in there are really accommodating visitors to Charlottesville in park and ride between decision to have a community engagement chapter and I would warm people up! high density hubs, but not a lot about making sure the city meets it's o Ask members of the community how and when getting input residents' basic needs. I would recommend setting some quality levels implore you to include it in the comprehensive plan . At present, it is would work and be prepared to go to them. - When the issue on the live/work/play areas. For example, a market is useless if it only absent. of diversity was raised in the meetings I did hear the serves the highest income residents in the neighborhood. Also commission acknowledge that there may be a lack of trust consider adding greens pace and gardening access to the pie charts as • 1. MAKE ONLINE COMMENT EASIER: I have received conflicting between people of color and the City and an unwillingness to well. information about where and how to make comments forthe Comp participate in the most recent phase of the planning process as Plan process. The commissioners have not been in agreement or well- a result. That may be true. I would suggest that the commission • 6. CONSIDER HOW THE INTERFACE WITH THE COUNTY COMP PLAN educated on where public comment should be made. Some said that increase its transparency about the limitations of the impact WILL HAPPEN- Albemarle is also doing its own planning - are there was a web link online (a URL) and some said it needed to made that comprehensive plan can have (because of the Dylan Rule, representatives from the city attending those meetings and vice versa? through this email. Lisa Green indicated that the URL was made clear for example) but also the power of the comprehensive plan - Has the city invited the county to be present at the comp plan meetings on the comp plan website but I am having trouble locating it and it has for example that the City uses the plan to help guide allocation or vice versa? This would be useful considering Charlottesville's urban not been made available at the meetings. When I google search to find of resources and decision making. I also heard one ring an traffic pressure now located in the county as well as many low the comp plan 2018 materials this is location I am directed to: commissioner express that she'd invited many people of color income residents that work in the city. http:Uwww.charlottesville.org/departments-and- to come to these meetings and participate. Based on my services/departments-h-z/neighborhood-development- personal experience, these types of meetings can be very Again, thanks for all of your effort towards this project. services/comprehensive-plan . Neither the "CompPlan2018" email and intimidating even when they are not meant to be, especially for comment link are not displayed there as far as I can see. None of the people of color stepping into "white spaces*". You might find • *Since the end of the Civil Rights Movement, large numbers of black commissioners I spoke to actually knew what the email address or the that working through community centers and grassroots orgs people have made their way into settings previously occupied only by URL were at the meetings- it's been very difficult to effectively engage that you might have greater luck in getting meaningful input whites, though their reception has been mixed. Overwhelmingly white our broader communities in the input effort as a result. from people. Also consider ensuring that your commissioners neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, restaurants, and other public of color are involved in those meetings and that you leverage the community leaders in that neighborhood to help you make spaces remain. Blacks perceive such settings as "the white space," • 2. SEEK MORE DIVERSE INPUT AT THIS PHASE FOR TAKING THE PLAN TO CITY COUNCIL- Several people made comments last night about the the invitations. I can't speak for these organizations' willingness which they often consider to be informally "off limits" for people like lack of representation at these meetings from people of color. I to participate but some that come to mind are the West Haven them. Meanwhile, despite the growth of an enormous black middle understand from the presentation and commissioners that the Community Center, Greenstones on 5th community center and class, many whites assume that the natural black space is that destitute commission has made various attempts to engage and get feedback organizations such as Sin Barreras. Be prepared to provide and fearsome locality so commonly featured in the public media, from a representational cross-section of the community. And as a resources for grassroots organizations and agencies to help including popular books, music and videos, and the TV news-the program manager working with refugee families, I can relate to how you get meaningful input. iconic ghetto. White people typically avoid black space, but black difficult it can be. But I do have a few ideas and suggestions. Please • 3. IMPROVE/USE THE MY CVILLE APP TO GET COMMENTS and GET people are required to navigate the white space as a condition of their excuse if have tried any of these methods already. THE MAYOR'S FACEBOOK PAGE INVOLVED- I was really excited to existence.- Anderson, Elijah; "The White Space"; Sociology of Race and o Advice from my observations of the tabling the commission learn that Cville has an app! I downloaded it, but so far it is very slow Ethnicity; American Sociological Association; c 2015; did at Michie Market and Westhaven - I manage the New and won't load (so far 2 hours spinning in limbo). It would be great if https://sociology.vale.edu/sites/default/files/pages from sre- Roots program and commissioners attended Michie Market people could vote, take a survey, or give input to the comp plan 11 revs printer files .pdf. A3-35 o Seniors (?) • People who are not heard and are not a part of the process and a o Low wealth immigrants product is provided 2. March 7th Boards and Commissions Work Session Comments o Those with disabilities • Design of the conversation - format that is healthy - creating listening Individual Responses o Who's not at the table (meetings) spaces o People who don't use digital/electronic media • There have been a number of comp plan meetings - not everyone can • Social media make all of the meetings • Bring in people that don't feel like they're part of the decision making Group Discussion Notes process • Not every body in government listen to the community- a decision is • Why are you interested in community engagement? made • Lack of community engagement with the African American community o Decisions are made by people who do not reside in the City • Underlying issues • Have people that don't use electronic media 0 Low-income residents are outside of the decision-making • Meetings that feel like formality • Backbone of effective government process • How do we find the tools within the system to provide accountability? • Value process, not rushes to a product 0 Concerns with lack of community engagements - specifically • There is no sense of the overall reason why community engagement • Use of posters and radio to market the African American community o How do we create a big common vision so we have a sense of • More transparent about process so less of a learning curve, start from a 0 Learn from mistakes of the past higher common ground community engagement so everyone is plugged in and updated 0 Have a hard time getting people engaged • Issue of trust and mutual respect, how do we build resilience and • How to balance community needs/desires with the process mandated • People who do not have electronic media by state mutual trust? 0 Community engagement is the backbone of effective • How do we get people invested? • Community events government • Should know who is the decision-making body and what the roles are • Everyone is complaining but not working together 0 Underrepresentation limited to seniors, those with low (explanation of level of power) • Have an action plan education o IAAP - International Association for Public Participation • Language barriers 0 Racial justice issues -African American community • Community designs the public participation process • Dialogue on how people are affected by white supremacy and class 0 Characteristics of white supremacy in organizations - lack of • So we aren't guessing how to engage people, when to (social, money, education) community engagement - value process, rushing to have meetings, etc. • Decision is already made when community engagement starts product/outcome • Listening spaces • Should there be more of a private process? 0 The need for outreach outside of electronic media - need for • Don't paint with a broad brush (not every department in city hears the • Important to know who can talk grassroots outreach (posters, radio), 101.3 reaches the public feedback from community) in a different way than the government does - input from • ID avenues of communication • Network of community connection other sources • Posters - could be a system of artists developing posters • Community design center • How to create a common vision and stay plugged in if can't make a o Find ways of being transparent about how development • Defunding of neighborhood association has led to collapse in meeting processes happen, to support the learning curve of the communication • Build resilience and trust community (higher common ground), terminology and lack of • Suggest that community engagement be the first chapter and not the • Note where people's input had an impact information last chapter • Should know who decision maker is, know what rule are, know what o People are not understanding one another power citizens have • How do we balance the need and desire with the process that the City 3. May 1st Buford Community Engagement Comments • IAPP (International Association for Public Participation) is currently under? How do we balance the clock? Deadlines and Individual Responses • Private process of engagement to convey a combined or community time lines? position • Community events with working around community and collaboration 1. Describe a memorable community engagement experience (preferably in the • Identify avenues of communication o Everyone is complaining but not working together City of Charlottesville). • Community design center no longer against o Having an actual plan with action steps and strategies • Belmont Bridge Mobility Fair was successful because it was place- • Funding source for neighborhood associations o Collaborative meetings working together towards a solution specific, provides direct access to planners, and multiple ways to give • Community engagement is most important chapter o Creating organizations and systems that lead to empowerment input for different styles of thinking - BUT - in general the project - through media, website, and community events • Special constituencies managers really only listened meaningfully to their own engineers o Under-represented • Having a dialogue on how we are affected by white supremacy and • Neighborhood lemonade stand - neighbors facilitated - positive o Youth class experience A3-36 • Development proposal - developer facilitated - negative experience 1. Describe a memorable community engagement experience (preferably in the o "Third place" where you find community (bookstore, coffee o Need to engage early City Charlottesville) house, city market, Belmont bask, neighborhood st, o Applicant run meetings - doesn't work, design is too far • CE as social experience • City market progressed o Wide swath of population • Belmont Bash o Belmont Bridge - defer to engineers, not to attendees o Creative and different: lemonade stand (not pizza+ speak to • W Main I 3rd PLACE concept - where you find community • Positive examples council/ PC) • Created DIV/ Lemonade stand, neighborhood design day activates o Neighborhood lemonade stand - informal, prompts o Like neighborhood design day- activities in every • IX - porchella - ted talks - Belmont bash - every Saturday at City o Belmond Bridge Mobility Fair- on site, multiple exs neighborhood Market o Redevelopment Committee - grant was written before o Expectations about where feedback would go o Meade market engagement started, would prefer engage at start o Format accessible and approachable 2. What are your thoughts and feelings about the current state of community • NEGETIVE EXPEREINCES 2. What are your thoughts and feelings about the current state of community engagement in Charlottesville? o Developer talking to neighborhood about a project engagement in Charlottesville? • Timing of meeting is not good (difficult to change plans • Civic- deliberation • Distrust in City government at that stage • Democracy community building • Desire to do the right thing o Power struggle with developer as the facilitator • Visual art o Developer came with no plans asking for input+ didn't respond • Need for education on processes • Music to community feedback • Info gaps - how a city works - needs funding • Film o Better to have some form of plan for neighborhood to respond • Distrust of government • I see efforts to reach community members, in person+ on line o Other community meetings they asked community what they • Desire to do the right thing (both sides) • Continue to wonder how to include people other than white people wanted • Education on process needed (maybe church groups?) • Clear expectation 3. What is your vision for the future of Charlottesville's community • Jefferson school. o Better for developer to come with schematic engagement? What would you like to see happen? • Current state of Community Engagement in Charlottesville 3. What is your vision for the future of Charlottesville's community o Systemic forces where there is not equitable ability to • Educated citizens - city university engagement? What would you like to see happen? participate • Long-term relationship building - takes time • Guiding principles going forward o Difficult for lower-economic+ people of color • Building relationships and informing citizens • Meeting people where they are o Many events are free+ located close to where people live but • Clear chain of command • Time location implication they might not feel comfortable to attend • What does authentic community participation look like? • Childcare o Some locations have "baggage" (Ex. Some people won't attend • Feel public is engaged AFTER grants, etc. have been acquired for • Accountability, responsibility, reporting back, transparency getting a meeting at a local school because of a past experience) projects instead of during the process back, thinking small, relationship building • Venabal school segregation • Education on policy - citizens and policy makers • Social engagement o Difficult to find a neutral space (Jefferson school might be only • Clear, understandable process and expectations • Opportunity to find people school that's neutral • Build relationships - takes a long time o Blue ribbon committee at Tonsler I Buford were diverse • Fairs/ block parties • What does authentic participation look like? o Need to get away from CE and think about relationship/ e Maybe meetings at work site? Target input from different groups • Clear chain of command community building • Resources. Group Discussion Notes o Festivals that are free, nearby to low income neighborhoods • Need a historic resources/urban planning architect. Mary Joy and now • Doesn't allow all types • Where are the notes from previous sessions? Jeff can't do it all. • Art is a way to connect people • Planning Commission felt necessary that this chapter existed • Consider guiding principles moving forward - meeting people where Group Discussion Notes • If we make the same comments at 3 meetings does the feedback count they are more? 4. May 10th City Space Community Engagement Comments • Who's missing from the table, who should be at the table • POSITIVE EXPERIENCES Individual Responses o Consider effect of time/ location (is there childcare? o Liked w- neighborhood emphasis, local business, brought • Have criteria /questions to ask food, good vibe A3-37 • Need accountability for the feedback process (citizens should know o A lot of consolidation of knowledge and power in the city their opinions count (public comment) o (e.g. 5% of the project was CE, 95% was budget o Structural issue within the City of Charlottesville • Setting expectations, evaluating+ access transparency and visibility • Shouting • Comm office needs to explain how choices effect every day • Planning Commission -Passionate neighborhood, organized (rose hill) • People have a basic relationship o Neighborhoods working well together o Need to start small • People most often impacted by the change are the least represented o Build an individual relationship o Frustration, hostility • Need opportunities to interact with different types of people o Neighborhood Meetings are poorly attended, not represented • Neighborhood leaders don't support building community opportunities o Tom Tom is NEGETIVE ~ doesn't pertain to lives of most people to hear other complaints/ take in feedback o African festival - positive time • Schools are microcosm of neighborhood • Distinction between festive engagement and civic engagement • Public hearings feel bad-space contributes to the feeling • Be able to answer the question: What's in it for me? o Could they be somewhere else? • IX park I WTJU concerts • Need to have media I technology to facilitate broad [... ?] • Discouraged w/meetings - comp plan doesn't get used to change • "build relationships before you work the issues" zoning • TRUST is key+ missing currently/ my voice matters 2. What are your thoughts and feelings about the current state of community • Where are people? Office of social and economic engagement engagement in Charlottesville? o Nexus to create opportunities for connecting people o Social connections 3. What is your vision for the future of Charlottesville's community engagement? What would you like to see happen? 5. May 12th Central Library Community Engagement Comments • Follow the comprehensive plan Individual Res ponses • Make sure zoning ordinances are in line with the comp plan 1. Describe a memorable community engagement experience (preferably in the • Form based planning City Charlottesville) • Public housing - responsibility to engage w/ residents • Re-do council chambers! 2. What are your thoughts and feelings about the current state of community • Train leaders in running meetings engagement in Charlottesville? • Re-consider how democracy works I participative democracy and 3. What is your vision for the future of Charlottesville's community deliberative democracy I childcare/ food/ timing/ building capacity engagement? What would you like to see happen? o In neighborhoods to make decisions Group Discussion Notes • Other models Group Discussion Notes 6. May 29th Belmont Arts Community Engagement Comments Individual Responses 1. Describe a memorable community engagement experience (preferably in the City Charlottesville) • IX park WTJU concerts • Can't think of one~ no people of color participating o Re-organize how we reach the public A3-38 I General Themes from Community Leaders Meeting 1 At the conclusion of the work session, a representative from each table was chosen to "report out" the key themes from their table s discussion based on the three question survey. For a complete list of individual survey responses see the appendix on pages A3-50 - A3-54 1. What strategies are successful for 2. What are some challenges you 3. Based on what you have heard getting community members to face in getting community members tonight, what feedback would you attend and participate in your to attend your organization's like to provide to the Planning organization's meetings? meetings? Commission? • Providing food People have preconceived ideas Define "affordable" and "intensity" • Having consistent dates Apathy • Use a peer to peer approach • Going door to door People are unable to attend due to • Simplify questions around what the • Tabling at existing events work schedules community really needs • Sending personal invitations and Need for childcare • Realize the concept of emails • Need for transportation "comprehensive planning" is foreign • Having multiple meetings • Meetings may not be a "thing" to many • Using word of mouth people go to • Convey to people why their opinion • Using trusted members of the • General distrust of government in is important community and trusted spaces Charlottesville • Reach people who have short term • Going directly to where people live needs such as food and housing . . or receive services • Hire a community engagement specialist 34 Phase III Appendix: Leaders Meeting Survey Responses 1. What strategies are successful for getting o Town hall I food o Community dinners/ food sessions o Trusted spaces o Meeting people in their communities community members to attend and participate in o Questions regarding affordable housing, • PACEM your organization's meetings? transportation and employment o Email and follow up reminders • Little High Neighborhood Association o Word of mouth • Abundant Life o Parties/ potlucks social events • Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors o Don't hold regular scheduled community meetings • The woman's Initiative o Come to them but have found that creating "multi-purpose" events o TV interviews, radio, word of mouth o Survey when the best date/time to get together typically with food and socializing helps with drawing o Outreach events at community events o Provide food and drink participation to informal meetings. • Thomas Jefferson Health District o Provide remote participation method • Charlottesville Food Justice Network o Adequate notification o Offer multiple times o Provide childcare! o Food (dinners!) o Easy to get to I parking o Having leaders who have real relationships with o Held in locations that are convenkrnt to members o Email and text reminders community members (churches) • Venable Neighborhood Association o Meetings locations that are within communities • Charlottesville Free Clinic o Direct invitations - putting invitations on every door o Flyers, word of mouth, feet on the ground outreach o Talking with them when they arrive for services (there o Communicating with other neighborhood leaders {its hard) is something of value for them) such as pastors, UVA leaders etc. • Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry o Bus survey • Region 10 Community Services Board o Does not have organizational meetings • Sin Barreras - Church of the incarnation o Also have difficulty getting minorities and young o Free food from the food pantry is the incentive that o Knowledge that whatever is being presented is people to participate in meetings brings people in connected to their lives o Have had success have minority staff go out into o Identify a community leader - CHRA, City of Promise, o Personal connections and word of mouth invitations minority communities to build trust pt St. and West Haven o Going to the community members for opinion • Piedmont Environmental Council • IMPACT o Networking via church congregation (personal o Bringing the information to a personal impact level o Compelling topic - get to the root of what you are invitations) o Using several key input strategies trying to ask o Scheduling consistency o Using staff who already have relationships with the o Go where they are - might be impossible to get o Plan meetings and events a year out or more community community to your meeting o Press coverage o Specific populations I communities to elicit o Going to meetings is not what everyone does information o Make it about being a learning process for everyone o Phone call reminders • Fry's Springs Neighborhood Association • PHAR o Establish relationships with leaders who can echo o Pressing/ Interesting subject matter o One on one reminders your call to gather o Tend to have poor attendance unless there is an issue o Constant flow of information • JABA of concern in the neighborhood (immediate impact) o Progress of items from meetings o Schedule during the day o Food and transportation o Provide transportation • The Haven o Multiple meetings • Jefferson Area CHIP o Provide food A3-50 o Go door to door o Other commitments o How is community planning addressing enhancing • Martha Jefferson Neighborhood Association • Charlottesville Free Clinic individual quality life o We have meetings in a conference room provided by o Patient focus groups are always sparsely attended • PHAR a local law firm o Not sure the idea of 'groups' or meetings in a o Relevance, understanding of priorities o Announce the meetings to the neighborhood by conference room resonates with many whom we • Jefferson Area CHIP email and facebook and a brief agenda serve o Time I childcare I engaging with community o Also have a little business meeting at the annual • Sin Barreras- Church of the incarnation o Remind community clients to attend spring picnic. o Time ... willingness to come and give up free time • PACEM • Lisa Green Group o Being aware of timing (Spanish speakers are usually o Communicating the value of the meetings to them, o Food, consistent meetings and dates, advertise in not available before 6:30 why they should take time out of their busy schedules paper, foot work, and calls, person to person, trusted • IMPACT • Abundant Life members of community correspond. o Too many other meetings o Helping individuals see the value in their input o Pay community members for their time o Don't see the value in meeting and why it matters for o Trusting the communicators o Door to door, parties, social issues them • Charlottesville Food Justice Network o Smaller groups that reach out to certain communities • Fry's Springs Neighborhood Association o Diversity of work schedules among community o Levels of trust reaching to community leaders o Time of day and week are often conflicts members o Make as easy as possible o Older members want early meeting time - younger o Communicating the value of the meeting o Location, food, child care members what later time due to work and kids • Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry o Need to trust the process "will they listen to what we • The Haven o Transportation to our site besides Albemarle high say?" o Meetings aren't necessarily a "thing" people go to school. The closest public bus is 5 miles away at o Don't ask people to participate if you cannot act on it o Needs to matter 7 have concrete significance Georgetown Rd and Hydraulic Rd o A great facilitator for meetings - give guidelines and o Transportation o Loaves and Fishes is on Lambs rad which does not specifics • Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors have a sidewalk from Hydraulic Rd. o Time/ need to drop - off and pick up kids o Disability: at least 14% of Loaves and Fishes clients 2. What are some challenges you face in getting o Location are disabled and unable to drive or work community members to attend your o Parking o Contacting them: phone or face to face is best organization's meetings? o Not interested in topic • Piedmont Environmental Council • Venable Neighborhood Association o Not everyone does meetings - culturally specific • Little High Neighborhood Association o People don't get involve unless they are angry about o People have busy lives, many obligations o Meetings are not "things" for some people o Not everyone cares about topic and that's ok an issue o Has to matter o Meeting places are important - places that may see o People think they won't change outcome • The Woman's Initiative socially neutral are not always neutral • JABA o Readiness to receive mental health care • Region 10 Community Services Board o Transportation o Transportation o People say "I don't need help" (pride) o Has trouble getting community members to o Healthcare participate consistently in meetings rather than just o Technology phobic • Thomas Jefferson Health District when they have a burning issue o Need to overcome bias of a sigma against city officials o Time of meetings o People need to understand personal impact and that • Martha Jefferson Neighborhood Association o Transportation to meeting location it is meeting a timely need A3-51 o Most board meetings have no more then 1-2 non • Sin Barreras - Church of the incarnation o Explain how neighborhood feedback will be board members o You could have asked us has to reach our incorporated into the decision making process. o It would be nice to have more engagement constituencies? Not simply for meetings but also for o Make city decision makers accountable to the • Lisa Green's Group other input engagement process results o People have preconceived ideas of how groups work o Biggest feedback to planning commission is that we • Region 10 Community Services Board o Church announcements, PH newsletter newspapers need more affordable housing and it's probably more o It helps to send people into the community o People need to feel that they do count ethical to deal with NIMBY from the upper class then o It is important to include behavioral health I dentistry o Is a newsletter more effective then facebook? breaking up the neighborhoods of underserved I wellness services into account when looking at o Point of getting people to the table populations health services in mixed use areas. o Back to school nights, high school students, students • IMPACT o It is too high level for community feedback can help babysit o If phase 1 was not good enough (too white and too o Uncommon language does not translate easily o There is no good time owner occupied) then why are we using that data to • PHAR o People are not committed inform the comp plan? o Door to door o There are so many things out there - people figure o Take the process to the people - their congregations, • Jefferson Area CHIP someone else will do the work neighborhoods, etc. o Utilize community gate keepers o Child care, transportation, mental health is less of a o Find trusted voices in those communities and BUILD o Using proper language priority RELATIONSHIPS o Continual engagement o Please be consistent - these questions were different • PACEM 3. Based on what you heard tonight, what from what our planning commissioner actually asked o There seems to be only a slight representation of low feedback would you like to provide to the us at our table. (I think she was trying to blip and say income population planning commission? Include feedback on how to "how can we (PC) engage with your community which o Not sure how to increase this other than traveling to is different from "how do you engage with your where they are. best engage with community members. community • Abundant Life • Little High Neighborhood Association o Just be upfront and clear about what you are asking o Ongoing communication throughout stages of o Good to hear that zoning will be follow the comp plan and your intentions process o Concern about getting City Council to support the • Fry's Springs Neighborhood Association o Identify lay leaders to engage with their plan in action - since council frequently overrides PC o Easy to answer a survey neighborhoods etc o Give the city owned land to Habitat for Humanity o Go to communities I leaders you feel are under • Charlottesville Food Justice Network • The Woman's Initiative represented o ** see attachment o Tabling at events as often as possible • The Haven • Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry • Thomas Jefferson Health District o Need simpler questions and simpler terms o Walkability / Bikeablity is terrific in that it promotes o Hold community dinners with local schools especially o Need peer to peer self-transport, But Charlottesville's disabled and at back to school nights o Need an outreach - approach elderly residents must be addressed in the o Go door to door with volunteers • Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors comprehensive plan. • Charlottesville Free Clinic o Partner with CAT to get survey questions/ answers o Even the term "comprehensive plan(ing)" is too o By neighborhood o Format the survey (content and images) daunting for many Charlottesville residents o Trusted representatives o Peer to peer engagement o Breaking the process down into simpler language may o Every 5 years? • Venable Neighborhood Association better engage the full community A3-52 o "What would an ideal C'ville look like for you?" o Form based code is important • Reactions to the land use map o "What does C'ville need that it doesn't have?" • Table with Taneia o It is based on a "phase" of data collection that you • Piedmont Environmental Council o Need for relatable language for planning issues emphasized was not good enough, so why bother? o More important than meeting show ups is how well (intensity, density) o PC did not get the right voices to inform what they you know the community o Growth often means growth in units AND price heard and therefore the map is a poor understanding o That takes time, means talking to people, even door o What about people without food and housing - they o Go door to door to door campaign style organized approach have a short term need that needs to be met • Letter from Cliff Fox o Yields info you are looking for and makes trust o Trust building takes years Hosea, Thank you for the opportunity to discuss the city last o Has to be ongoing - not start and end point. o People feel like they are a "statistic" - like community evening. On the "Primary I Secondary economy" item one might • JABA engagement is not authentic consider what the job base composition would be here had o The definition of affordable housing as defined by o Location is important Motorola purchased the "North Fork" property from Dr. Hurt HUD does not take into consideration extremely low o Need for childcare instead of UVA? UVA bought the industrial base and, for the wealth individuals who are currently being served by o Timing could coordinate with multipurpose meetings most part, the labor base with the acquisition. If one compares CRHA (with food) the the economic and development strategies between UVA • Martha Jefferson Neighborhood Association o Need an information feedback loop Research Park to the Princeton Foresta! Park, North Carolina's o I have shared the bare bones of the draft map with • Table with Jody Triangle and Palo Alto's Stanford Research Park one will see the neighborhood and mostly people feel pleased o Transportation is a barrier to success significant differences in their epochs, early development and especially with the river road (north of high St.) area. o Need to go to THEIR meetings their continued growth. o I am pleased with the park and ride ideas in the o Reach out to different leaders and ask them IF you One of the challenges we have in this region is manufacturing a transportation chapter can show up to a meeting diverse job base that is sustainable and environmentally o We did get some turnout at events for the east high o Like community outreach nursery - build a sound. Millennials have a great opportunity to reinvent much of streetscape info events - it helps to have a concrete relationship and ask to be invited in what the past couple generations did not get quite right. We can local issue o Reach into the community (city of promise) assist in providing a better toolbox, zoning included. o Go to their meetings The UVA Research Park, North Fork has had a 14.86% absorption Additional Comments o Be at spaces these people go to rate over 24 years; 550,000 sf of an approved 3.7 million square o One on one conversations feet. (This is a gross under-utilization of the 525 initial acres with • Be sure to convey what you want to know in simple, o Don't ask about "the comp plan" - ask about what do an by-right zoning capacity of. 7 FAR.) Of the 550,000 built accessible language you want your neighborhood to look like square feet approximately 80,000 to 110,000 square feet were o Give feedback to those who have participated in the o Virginia Organizing- works with volunteers vacant as of a couple months ago. UVA is scheduled to put up planning process o Language must be simple and everyday words another building over the next 18 months to 2 years. The o Compel City Council to be present where their o Words need to be in lots of languages Triangle is now at 22.5 million square feet; Palo Alto in the past constituents are - where they live work worship and o It will be hard but need to work on building trust several years has added 2 million sf to its built out capacity of 9 go for services o Keep checking back with the community to see that million sf. It was able to achieve this through parking and • Temporary solutions? transportation planning/design innovation. "their" plan is taking shape o Transitional housing o Find a way to measure "by in" The city, county and UVA have a great opportunity and potential o Housing for single parents o Go to them!!! to manufacture a productive and diverse community into the • Give city owned land to habitat who are the only ones who o There needs to be an immediate impact (not long future; from my vantage point, I do not see the urgency, gritting can provide low income housing range - now) of teeth, or the struggle to make our town a great place. Greater o Transitional zones are important A3-53 Charlottesville has "good bones" but if we don't keep them in good shape we slow. The locality struggles geographically and there are some potential infrastructure limitations, in particular - water. Secondary and tertiary economies, serve to provide goods and services necessary for primary economic function. Here the major primary economy is UVA, importing some dollars and exporting knowledge. We can improve on this in many dimensions, serious urban and sustainable regional agriculture is one very small component of this. See Gotham Greens: http://gothamgreens.com/; this relies on a belief that regional economies can be successful, efficient and productive in circulating dollars within the community. How global and regional economies interact produce a challenging set of issues. From an environmental perspective teaming UVA and VA Tech to assess and rebuild depleted and mismanaged soils and identifying how to sustainably manage natural resources could be fruitful in regards to environmental restoration of rural lands. Obviously, technology, financials and even the likes of music all have potential and currently do contribute to primary economic function within the area and we have not gotten to manufacturing. Regionalism is a viable component of any larger economic system, it can be ignored or nurtured - with good long term planning and understanding that changes are organic processes, perhaps less profitable, offering improvement, economics of quality. And this is what I think we are looking to achieve. Filling an area with housing because we can't think of anything better to do is lazy; we have the intellectual and other capacities necessary to do better. This assumes one thinks we need change; some may think we are doing just fine? Our urban environments need to be planned to be spectacular SO - 100 years from now as do our rural areas. I know this is a little "out there"; but one has to start with goals. Thank you. Best regards, Cliff A3-54 Preservation Piedmont proposal for: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT chapter of the Comprehensive Plan Goal 1: Regional and Organizational Collaboration Coordinate and collaborate with Albemarle County, the University of Virginia, and other organizations to meet the goals laid out in the comprehensive plan. ● 1.1 | ​Explore ways that the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County might increase collaboration in the provision of public facilities and services and in other public endeavors. Encourage joint meetings of City and County legislative and appointed ● bodies to discuss issues of shared importance. ● 1.2 | ​Establish a formal process under which the City and County can discuss and implement coordinated or shared programs in such areas as affordable housing, land use planning, growth and development, transportation, emergency communications system, parks & recreation, greenways, tourism promotion, stormwater management, environmental protection. ● 1.3 | ​Revitalize the Planning And Coordination Council (PACC) so that it can truly address land use and preservation issues, including growth and development in city and county and university expansion. Consider having mutual web page on all three websites of the three jurisdictions related to these issues. ● 1.4 | ​Coordinate and collaborate with the University of Virginia Hospital and the Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital in responding to community health needs and concerns such as wellness programs, health issue awareness, as well as land use needs and transportation issues related to health and wellness. Goal 2: Citizen Collaboration Create clear, timely, and broadly inclusive processes by which citizens can engage with the city on topics important to residents. ● 2.1 | ​Develop and implement a planning approach and process that assures involvement of residents and landowners in preparing the plans for their neighborhoods. ● 2.2 |​ Create Neighborhood Task Forces (comprised of Neighborhood Association appointed leaders, professionals, and architects) and invite them to initial meetings with developers at NDS to provide feedback and recommendations on proposals, which can then inform the staff report to Council. ● 2.3 | ​Set up early community notification process for projects involving by-right, rezonings, site plans, and special use permits. List project description, any relevant dates and map. Consider a dedicated, easy to use online location for public view of such information. ● 2.4 |​ Continue to include citizens and the business community in commercial area revitalization planning efforts. ● 2.5 | ​Commence all Area- and Master Planning efforts with a community-driven asset inventory that identifies resources and opportunities from residents’ perspectives. Actively seek local insights and facilitate processes that bring to light stories that inform neighborhood character and illuminate community priorities. ● 2.6 | ​Reach out to all segments of the population to ensure their participation in planning, developing, and promoting the City as a great place. Identify new and innovative ways to engage populations who have been unable to participate or who have chosen not to participate in the past. Consider the Jefferson School AAHC and other neighborhood-specific locations such as schools and recreation centers as locations to encourage more minority participation. ● 2.7 | ​Provide opportunities for residents to better understand how the city is planned, built, and maintained. Empower local leaders and activists with knowledge to become true partners in solving the City’s varied challenges. ● 2.8 | ​Provide diversity training for City employees so that they are better equipped to serve all segments of the community. The Community Engagement Subcommittee of the PLACE Design Task Force has met twice since forming in early March. Our near term goal is to facilitate the creation of the Community Engagement Chapter of the Comprehensive Plan. Due to the holistic nature of Community Participation, we propose that this Chapter be the Introductory Chapter of the Comprehensive Plan to serve as a framework to guide the following chapters. Community Participation should also be fully integrated into the Introduction and Community Value sections of the Comprehensive Plan. The May Comprehensive Plan Meetings Our recommendations: There should be applicable prompts that fit with the fact that there is no existing draft chapter to reference. We suggest a copy of this graphic or something similar: With the following prompts: ● Describe a memorable community engagement experience (preferably in the City of Charlottesville). Where does it fit in this spectrum? ● What are your thoughts and feelings about the current state of community engagement in Charlottesville? ● What is your vision for the future of Charlottesville’s community engagement? What would you like to see happen? We think the May Comp Plan meetings should be followed by a large public meeting devoted entirely to this chapter. We would like to help plan this meeting. We envision it to be based on the comments collected during table discussions. Key This new draft version shows the edits made to the previous draft of the Comprehensive Plan. Underline = New text (Sample) Strikethrough = Deleted text (Sample) Double strikethough = Text moved to different section (Sample) Double Underline = Text moved from a different section (Sample) HOUSING DRAFT CHAPTER AUG 2018 Vision The quality and diversity of the City’s housing stock is the basis for viable neighborhoods and thriving communities. To be a truly world class city, Charlottesville must provide quality, affordable housing opportunities that meet the needs are affordable and attainable for people of all residents, including those of middle income households incomes, racial and ethnic backgrounds, life stages, and abilities. To meet that need, and ensure the environmental sustainability of our communities, Charlottesville’s neighborhoods will feature a variety of housing types and sizes, affordable to all income levels; and located within convenient walking, biking or transit distances of enhanced community amenities including: mixed-use, barrier free, high density pedestrian and transit- oriented developments near employment and cultural centers, with connections to facilities, parks, trails and services. Goal 1: Preserve the City’s existing housing stock for residents of all income levels* 1.1: Preserve and improve the quality and quantity of the existing housing stock through the renovation, rehabilitation and/or expansion of existing units as a means of enhancing neighborhood stability. 1.2 Continue supporting the City’s tax relief programs to enhance housing affordability for low-income, senior and disabled households homeowners. 1.3 Promote programs, such as the City’s Home Improvement Program, that provide financial support for residents to renovate their homes to meet changing family needs.* 1.4 Promote the Design for Life C’ville program that provides a rebate of permit fees for incorporation of visit-ability and live-ability design features.* Grow the City’s Housing Stock Goal 2: Provide new housing options for residents of all income levels. 2.1: Continue working toward the City’s goals goal of 15% supported affordable housing by 2025. 2.2: Incorporate affordable housing units throughout the City, to enhance community sustainability and diversity. 2.3 Encourage creation of new, on-site affordable housing as part of the residential portions of rezoning or special use permit applications with an emphasis on provision of affordable housing for those with the greatest need households with incomes no greater than 50% of area median income.* 2.4 Promote housing options to accommodate both renters and owners at all price points, including moderately priced housing. 2.5 Explore, develop and implement a program promoting and encouraging the use of accessory dwelling units as affordable housing options. Importance of Incentives Goal 3: Establish a series of incentives to create new affordable, mixed-income, accessible and environmentally sustainable housing and a variety of housing types beyond the urban corridors and in small area plans. 3.1: Create a landlord risk reduction fund to encourage private market landlords to provide affordable rental housing units. 3.2: Waive developer fees for residential developments including a minimum 15% (of total housing units) on-site affordable housing units. 3.3: Identify, and prioritize the use of, all allowable land use and planning tools, including increased density, in an effort to stimulate affordable housing development. 3.4: Examine the feasibility of implementing a tax credit program for landlords renting affordable housing units in the City of Charlottesville. 3.5 Implement an Affordable Housing Program, a compilation of all allowable land use, zoning and planning tools to promote and support the development of affordable housing, including: increased density, reduced setbacks, an expanded ranges of allowable housing types, and reduced parking requirements. Funding Initiatives Goal 4: Establish and/or promote an assortment of funding initiatives to meet the housing needs of households with varying levels of income.* 4.1: Continue supporting the use of Low Income Housing Tax Credit program proposals for the creation of affordable rental units.* 4.2: Continue funding programs providing assistance to those unable to afford market rate housing options in the City.* 4.3: Promote long-term affordability of housing units through the use of various tools, such as deed restrictions, deed covenants and community land trusts. 4.4: Evaluate the merits of establishing tax deferral programs to encourage the preservation or development of affordable rental housing, as well as lessening financial burdens for homebuyers earning less than 30% of area median income. 4.5: Promote the Special Tax Rate program for residential properties that become or are developed as 30% more energy efficient than statewide building code. 4.6: Continue offering reduced water and sewer meter connection fees for affordable housing. 4.7: Continue annual allocations of Capital Improvement Funds to the Charlottesville Affordable Housing Fund. Goal 4: Explore progressive and innovative zoning regulation and land use reforms to support the development of affordable housing. 4.1: Update the zoning ordinance to include an Affordable Housing Program. 4.2: Evaluate the effectiveness of existing planning and zoning tools, such as Planned Unit Developments and Special Use Permits, in promoting the development of affordable and mixed-income housing. 4.3: Evaluate effects of all land use and zoning regulations on affordable and mixed use housing to ensure they will not unduly restrict mixed-income and mixed-use redevelopment. Provide ongoing evaluations of all policies and ordinance relative to housing. Support Partnerships Goal 5: Support projects and public/private partnerships for affordable housing projects, including moderately priced housing, and mixed-use/mixed-income developments. 5.1: Encourage major employers to create a city-wide Employer Assisted Housing Program to assist the local workforce in obtaining affordable or market-rate housing near their places of work. 5.2: Support redevelopment of public and/or other subsidized housing to re-integrate those properties into existing neighborhoods. Support the Resident Bill of Rights as formally adopted, where appropriate. 5.3: Work in cooperation with local governments and regional agencies to promote a regional fair share approach to providing affordable housing. 5.4: Support housing programs at the local and regional level that encourage mixed-income neighborhoods and discourage the isolation of very low and low income households. Goal 5: Establish and/or promote an assortment of funding initiatives to meet the housing needs of households with varying levels of income.* 5.1: Continue supporting the use of Low Income Housing Tax Credit program proposals for the creation of affordable rental units.* 5.2: Continue funding programs providing assistance to those unable to afford market rate housing options in the City including persons who are homeless and at-risk of homelessness.* 5.3: Promote long-term affordability of housing units through the use of various tools, such as deed restrictions, deed covenants and community land trusts. 5.4: Evaluate the merits of establishing tax deferral programs to encourage the preservation or development of affordable rental housing, as well as lessening financial burdens for homebuyers earning less than 30% of area median income. 5.5: Promote the Special Tax Rate program for residential properties that become or are developed as 30% more energy efficient than statewide building code. 5.6: Continue offering reduced water and sewer meter connection fees for affordable housing. 5.7: Continue annual allocations of Capital Improvement Funds to the Charlottesville Affordable Housing Fund. Goal 6: Offer a range of housing options to meet the needs of Charlottesville’s residents, including those presently underserved. 6.1: Ensure affordable housing is similar to market rate housing in design and other physical features, allowing affordable units to blend into existing neighborhoods. 6.2: Encourage the use of the of the Design for Life C’ville program to promote and expand visitability/live-ability features and market inclusion.* 6.3: Evaluate the impact of development on affordable housing opportunities for underserved and vulnerable populations including low-income, elderly, disabled and homeless individuals and families, and implement measures to minimize displacement as the City continues to grow. 6.4: Expand use of supportive housing options, such as rapid rehousing or permanently supportive housing programs, which allow homeless, near homeless and other special needs populations independent living options.* 6.5: Support enforcement of the federal Fair Housing Act to provide equal access to housing and prevent unfair housing practices Goal 6: Prevent and end homelessness 6.1: Use the best practice approach of housing first, which places people experiencing homelessness into housing as rapidly as possible and provides wrap around services to help them maintain their housing. 6.2: Provide permanent supportive housing (PSH) for persons with disabilities who are homeless or at- risk of homelessness 6.3: Prevent homelessness through safety net supports and social services to enable residents to maintain their housing. Goal 7: Increase the energy and water efficiency, and environmental sustainability, of the City’s housing stock. 7.1: Encourage the incorporation of green sustainable principles (e.g. LEED, EarthCraft Virginia, Energy Star, etc.) in all housing development to the maximum extent feasible both as a way to be more sustainable and to lower housing costs. 7.2: Demonstrate the value of energy and water upgrades in residential developments. 7.3: Develop an energy/water improvement program and/or strategies to increase housing affordability for low and moderate income households. 7.4: Create a public outreach /education campaign promoting existing Green Building programs and incentives for multifamily housing. Goal 7: Support projects and public/private partnerships for affordable housing projects, including moderately priced housing, and mixed-use/mixed-income developments. 7.1: Encourage major employers to create a city-wide Employer Assisted Housing Program to assist the local workforce in obtaining affordable or market-rate housing near their places of work. 7.2: Support redevelopment of public and/or other subsidized housing to re-integrate those properties into existing neighborhoods. Support the Resident Bill of Rights as formally adopted once the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority begins redevelopment efforts. 7.3: Work in cooperation with local governments and regional agencies to promote a regional fair share approach to providing affordable housing. 7.4: Support housing programs at the local and regional level that encourage mixed-income neighborhoods and discourage the isolation of very low and low income households. Goal 8: Ensure the City’s housing portfolio offers a wide range of choices that are integrated and balanced across the City, and which meet multiple City goals including: community sustainability, walkability, bikeability, public transit use, increased support for families with children, fewer pockets of poverty, access to local jobs, thriving local businesses, and decreased student vehicle use.* 8.1: Encourage mixed-use and mixed-income housing developments throughout the City’s neighborhoods. 8.2: Link housing options, transportation, and employment opportunities in City land use decisions.* 8.3: Encourage housing development where increased density is desirable and strive to connect those areas to employment opportunities, transit routes and commercial services.* 8.4: Promote environmentally sustainable patterns of development, as well as economic and job creation, in relatively underinvested, financially depressed areas. 8.5: Promote redevelopment and infill development that supports bicycle and pedestrian-oriented infrastructure and robust public transportation to better connect residents to jobs and commercial activity.* 8.6: Through community engagement efforts, develop small-area plans that lay the groundwork for transportation-oriented, mixed-use and mixed-income neighborhoods, within the context of the broader vision for Charlottesville.* 8.7: Through public outreach efforts, provide information about the benefits of/opportunities for patterns of urban living, such as more efficient land use, shared public space, smaller more energy efficient units, and walkability. Assess the effectiveness of efforts and examples.* 8.8: Improve access for lower-income households to adult learning and employment opportunities, job training, health food sources, and public amenities, such as parks and recreational facilities, shopping destinations, and libraries with the goals of reducing family isolation, deconcentrating poverty, and enhancing neighborhood and school health, and economic mobility. Goal 8: Offer a range of housing options to meet the needs of Charlottesville’s residents, including those presently underserved. 8.1: Ensure affordable housing is similar to market rate housing in design and other physical features, allowing affordable units to blend into existing neighborhoods. 8.2: Encourage the use of the Design for Life C’ville program to promote and expand visit- ability/live- ability features and market inclusion.* 8.3: Evaluate the impact of development on affordable housing opportunities for underserved and vulnerable populations including low-income, elderly, disabled and homeless individuals and families, and implement measures to minimize displacement as the City continues to grow. 8.4: Expand use of supportive housing options, such as rapid rehousing or permanently supportive housing programs, which allow homeless, near homeless and other special needs populations independent living options.* 8.5: Enforce the federal Fair Housing Act to provide equal access to housing and prevent unfair housing practices. Goal 9: Increase the energy and water efficiency, and environmental sustainability, of the City’s housing stock. 9.1: Encourage the incorporation of green sustainable principles (e.g. LEED, EarthCraft Virginia, Energy Star, etc.) in all housing development to the maximum extent feasible both as a way to be more sustainable and to lower housing costs. 9.2: Demonstrate the value of energy and water upgrades in residential developments. 9.3: Develop an energy/water improvement program and/or strategies to increase housing affordability for low and moderate income households. 9.4: Create a public outreach /education campaign promoting existing Green Building programs and incentives for multifamily housing. 9.5: Encourage the incorporation of food access avenues (e.g., affordable stores, agriculture space such as greenhouses, school and community, neighborhood farmers markets) in all housing developments to the maximum extent feasible both to increase self-sufficiency and as a way to be more sustainable and to increase access to food. Goal 10: Ensure the City’s housing portfolio offers a wide range of choices that are integrated and balanced across the City, and which meet multiple City goals including: community sustainability, walkability, bikeability, public transit use, increased support for families with children, fewer pockets of poverty, access to food, access to local jobs, thriving local businesses, and decreased student vehicle use.* 10.1: Encourage mixed-use and mixed-income housing developments throughout the City’s neighborhoods. 10.2: Link housing options, transportation, food access, and employment opportunities in City land use decisions.* 10.3: Encourage housing development where increased density is desirable and strive to connect those areas to employment opportunities, transit routes and commercial services.* 10.4: Promote environmentally sustainable patterns of development, as well as economic and job creation, in relatively underinvested, financially depressed areas. 10.5: Promote redevelopment and infill development that supports bicycle and pedestrian-oriented infrastructure and robust public transportation to better connect residents to jobs and commercial activity.* 10.6: Through community engagement efforts, and in conjunction with the completion of an Affordable Housing Strategy, develop small-area plans that establish targets for a minimum number of supported affordable housing units that substantially contribute to the City’s goals of 15% supported affordable housing 2025 within the context of transportation-oriented, mixed-use and mixed-income neighborhoods.* 10.7: Through public outreach efforts, provide information about the benefits of/opportunities for patterns of urban living, such as more efficient land use, shared public space, smaller more energy efficient units, and walkability. Assess the effectiveness of efforts and examples.* 10.8: Improve access for lower-income households to adult learning and employment opportunities, job training, health food sources, and public amenities, such as parks and recreational facilities, shopping destinations, and libraries with the goals of reducing family isolation, deconcentrating poverty, and enhancing neighborhood and school health, and economic mobility.