Start Date
05/18/2024
End Date
05/18/2024
Description
The weCollab neighborhood planning effort yielded the first fully resident-led neighborhood plan to be adopted by the City of St. Louis in June 2023. This meeting brings together key stakeholders to share the components and approach to organizing and carrying out a process that centers existing Black residents when developing and acting on a vision for the future. From the weCollab planning effort, Invest STL created a Resident-Led Neighborhood Planning Playbook that captures learnings from their perspective as a funder. The playbook contains reflection questions for residents, neighborhood-based anchor organizations, funders, consultants, and local government as well as practice exercises and additional resources. Discussion will highlight elements and examples from their learnings and help participants identify actionable initiatives they can take in their own neighborhoods or areas of work. The session will consist of a brief introduction to the process, plan, and the resulting playbook of learnings. We will offer an orientation to the playbook, its contents, and how it can be used in neighborhood meetings, within organizations, and independently as an educational tool.
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Distance Learning
No
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Health, Safety and Welfare
No
Hours
1.0
Learning Outcomes
1. Define neighborhood planning and identify and discuss what it means for a planning process to be resident-led.
2. Recognize attributes of resident-led neighborhood planning processes and emerging practices.
3. Illustrate how resident-led neighborhood planning can influence existing governmental processes, developer activity, and model policy recommendations.
4. Evaluate their current practices whether as a planner, developer, design professional, or citizen in alignment with resident-led neighborhood planning and identify tension points, threats, or challenges to their existing practices.
5. Infer how they might apply experientially learned outcomes to planning process facilitation, funding, engagement and outreach, and building relationships and solidarity in reinvestment or development activities.
Instructors
LoRin Jackson,Alexa Seda,Lisa Potts,Monique Thomas,Kevin Wright
Course Codes
CNU32064
Provider
Congress for the New Urbanism