Public Outreach Process

Citizen Involvement

The Plano Tomorrow plan is based on the visions of the community and required a thorough public outreach campaign along with several detailed work sessions with the Plano Tomorrow Advisory Committee. During the 26 month period, over

4,000

individuals participated with the plan's policies and actions through surveys, open houses, and on-site meetings, contributing to over

20,000

comments and ideas. With thousands of residents and business owners participating, the Plano Tomorrow Public Outreach Campaign has been the most successful initiative of any update to the city’s Comprehensive Plan.

Below is the four step process that was completed to create the plan. To promote citizen involvement, the city sent announcements to

82,000

residents through utility bills and delivered over

5,200

announcements to apartments; made

40,000

calls through a telephone calling service for a telephone town hall meeting; attended several neighborhood meetings including the Neighborhood Leadership Council's Quarterly Breakfasts; held Take the Case "meetings in a box" workshops with schools, neighborhoods associations, and the Plano Chamber of Commerce; hosted booths at the International Festival and Plano Balloon Festival; ran an announcement in the Dallas Morning News; created a promotional video that was available on the project website throughout the process, hosted four open house meetings at libraries across the city, participated with over

40

organizations, and had over

25

public work sessions with the Advisory Committee. In addition to posting meeting announcements on the project website, an active electronic newsletter was distributed with nearly