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Stand: A community visioning effort, for you and for me Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Stand is a community visioning effort for the Chattanooga region. You’ve heard word in several media outlets, including the Times Free Press and local news blog Chattarati. And maybe you’ve taken the four-question survey yourself. However you know about Stand, and wherever you’ve seen it in your community, you must know: this effort is about your deepest hopes for our community. No agenda, just dream.
We at CreateHere have had the privilege to witness some of the early planning that went into Stand, which is led by a team of community volunteers and leaders. Our staff members have taken the survey, and as invaluable supporters of the work we do, we urge you to do the same. Let the focus of the survey be all your own, and the action that follows will reflect exactly what you want.
In perusing Stand’s volunteer page, we found some great ways to plug in, and being fans of the blog format, thought we’d try our hand at a little something in that arena. A little prompt from our colleagues on the visioning effort:
“Show and tell: what’s your big idea for Chattanooga? Share your daydreams, off-the-wall ideas and napkin sketches, no matter how outlandish or practical.”
So, our big ideas for Chattanooga? Parks and public transportation, green energy and downtown nightlife. For Trey Meyer, economy Fellow, the Chattanooga of the future is as noble as it is productive. “An interactive community that inspires human progress—life, liberty and the pursuit of purpose.”
For Katherine Nielsen, executive liaison, Chattanooga’s future is bright green. “We would be the top investor and user of innovative, green technologies in transportation and other municipal operations, like having cisterns to manage storm water and simultaneously creating a source of water for keeping parks green or filtering to make it potable.”
And for you? What’s your big idea for Chattanooga? Tell Stand, and tell the entire region.
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