فیلم تصویرسازی مجتمع شهری | نشست پلنی شب کنفرانس قوانین و ادعایی ۲۰۱۷

Title:Reimagining the Civic Commons | 2017 Policy and Advocacy Conference Evening Plenary

Reimagining the Civic Commons یک ابتکار ملی است که با احیاء و اتصال مکان‌های عمومی مانند پارک‌ها، میدان‌ها، مسیرهای پیاده‌روی و کتابخانه‌ها به منظور گرد هم آوردن افراد با پیشینه‌های مختلف، به مقابله با پراکندگی اقتصادی و اجتماعی در شهرهای ما می‌پردازد. قدرت مکان‌های عمومی را در پیشبرد اهداف اختلاط اجتماعی-اقتصادی و مشارکت مدنی از طریق جلسه عمومی عصر از کنفرانس سیاست و حمایت APA در سال ۲۰۱۷ بررسی کنید. این پنل به رهبری لین ام راس، AICP، بنیانگذار Spirit for Change Consulting و مشاور بنیاد جان اس و جیمز ال. ، اداره برنامه ریزی و توسعه شهر دیترویت؛ مایکل دی براردینیس، مدیر عامل شهر فیلادلفیا؛ و دانیل رایس، رئیس و مدیرعامل، ائتلاف اوهایو و ایری کانال. درباره Reimagining the Civic Commons بیشتر بیاموزید: http://civiccommons.us/

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قسمتی از متن فیلم: We’re gonna conclude the day in a way echoing themes that we’ve heard across sessions today we’ve heard from multiple speakers about the political challenges and the social challenges the country faces in terms of the things that divide us and structural challenges that planners are working and local governments are working to overcome to

Try to rebuild a sense of place in a sense of community and the folks you’re gonna hear from are gonna talk a lot about where some of those solutions lie in in what is referred to on the screen there and in this initiative is reimagining the Civic Commons so I think

It’s a great way to sort of close some of the conversations today with some very solution oriented ideas and some optimism and to lead this discussion is one of our own in a sense Lynne Rosslyn who was an APA staffer for for a while

And has gone on to do a lot of really fantastic work both in government at HUD as well as in the nonprofit sector with a national housing conference and Urban Land Institute she is uniquely positioned I think to lead this conversation given a lot of the work

That she’s done over the years most particularly when she was at HUD during the Obama administration helping conceive and lead the prosperity playbook project which APA was pleased to be a partner and I know many of you have been part of conversations throughout the afternoon today about

Sharing those those ideas so Lynne has been a real leader in helping us and I mean us and the broadest sense across the country identify a way forward for some of the economic and social and and ultimately political challenges that we face so it’s a it’s a pleasure to

Introduce my my friend and former colleague Glen Ross well good afternoon so I’m really excited to be here for three reasons one I survived Hurricane Ernest oh I’m happy to have left my home for a positive reason this week too as Justin mentioned you know anytime I come to an APA event

It always feels like a bit of a homecoming for me not only did I work for the organization in the research department for a number of years I have been a member of this organization as since I was a little baby planner at getting my undergraduate degree in

Planning so I’m actually doing this organization I was 19 so it’s really exciting after so many years and so many iterations and my own life and career to still be part of a network and a family where you can continue to grow and learn and share so thank you to jason and team

For having me and having our team here with you and the third reason I’m excited to be here is that I have an opportunity today with this team to share some of the early experiences and insights into a really fantastic initiative that I have the privilege to work on called me imaginating Pacific

Commons so get into my slides here so reimagine the Civic Commons is a national initiative it’s a demonstration and what we’re trying to do here is we connect and revitalize our civic spaces so our parks our water fronts our libraries our trails our community centers and not only are we trying to

Revitalize and connect to these places we’re also working to connect people of very diverse backgrounds in these spaces right so I don’t have to tell a roomful of planners and community developers that there’s real urgency behind this work you know that having vibrant public spaces is essential for public life you

Know it’s essential for inclusiveness and addressing the many issues that we face in our communities today and when I think about civic Commons I think really the core question we’re trying to answer through this work is what if our civic Commons one what if they won in our

Cities what would that look like for our cities what would that look like for our neighborhoods what would that look like for our neighbors so the investment that we’re making in this work is significant it’s 40 million dollars over three years and we’re just about a year in this was

Officially announced last September and we are partnered so I work on this through the knight foundation but our other national partners are the Kresge Foundation the Rockefeller Foundation and JPB foundation but importantly our dollars are being matched locally so you’re going to hear this throughout our conversation today Civic Commons is

About partnership and collaboration at all levels and across and up and down in every which way but I think it also ties back to the money right so this is not a national initiative where you’ve got four big foundations coming in with the very prescriptive view about what should

Be happening in these places this is for foundations saying we have a hypothesis of change and we want to be very deeply partnered in local communities and see how this manifests itself over the next few years so we are working in five places I’ve brought three of them with

Me so today you’re going to hear from Akron Detroit in Philadelphia but we’ve got great work happening in Chicago in Memphis and we have four overarching goals and I really think of these are sort of buckets of the kinds of outcomes that we’re looking for today we’re gonna

Drill in on civic engagement and socio-economic mixing and so when we’re talking about civic engagement we’re looking for outcomes that increase trust that increase the diversity of folks who are participating in the advocacy for the comments but also the stewardship of the comments and when we’re talking about socioeconomic mixing we are

Looking again to bring a significantly more diverse group of people to these assets to make them understand that these assets are in fact theirs and also to use that social capital that we’re building in these public spaces to bridge that to other areas of civic life and the broader community so I am

Delighted to be joined on this panel by three truly outstanding members of the Civic Commons network we have Alexa Bush who is senior city planner with the city of Detroit’s Department of Planning and Development we have Mike Deaver Adina’s who’s the managing director for the city of Philadelphia and we have my friend

Dan Rice who is the president and CEO of the Ohio and Erie Canal Way coalition which is based in Akron I do want to say we only have an hour so we’re not gonna be able to cover everything with Civic comments so I really want to encourage

You to go spend some time on the Civic Commons website we also have lots of social media platforms where we are telling the stories of civic Commons in real time so if you go on the website amongst other things you will see a blog series that’s being written by our folks

In all the demonstration teams and they are telling the story of this work as it is happening and a big part of what we’re doing here is learning in a real time we’re learning as foundations we’re learning as team members we have in fact all of us are going to be leaving here

And going to Akron for our next learning networking meeting so there’s a lot of evaluation that’s that’s part of this but a lot of learning in real time and our goal is to try to share that as quickly as possible with a much broader audience so that you can think about

Reimagining civic Commons in your own community so with that bit of framing I want to get into the experience on the ground so I’ve asked each of our panelists to just give you about five minutes or so of the state of play of civic Commons in their community and

Then we’re gonna get into some questions in dialogue so Dan you are up first my friend well good afternoon everyone I understand we’re the last thing between you and a great reception so we’re going to try to keep this Lively well thank you very much for this incredible opportunity it’s really quite

An honor here to be with Lynne and Michael and Alexa and I will honestly tell you it’s just an incredible pleasure and privilege to be part of this learning journey of the reimagined Civic Commons never in a million years would I’ve imagined myself being at this juncture and this incredible opportunity

Because I were have the pleasure of working on a National Heritage Area project a 100 mile multi-use recreational trail that goes right to the heart of our community and we were actually the first city to actually complete this great resource within our community but what we’ve discovered over the years is

That it really doesn’t connect our citizens and residents to this resource it’s a great Civic common space but unfortunately people aren’t utilizing it for that purpose and so as Lynn you know pointed out I mean these are the the goals of the reimagined Civic Commons

This is the space at which we are trying to work in with another three mile corridor of the Ohio and Erie Canal towpath trail and it’s really an amazing resource because it was built literally by hand by Irish and German workers and mules over almost 200 years ago and it’s

Still there it runs right to the heart of our community and really through the hard work and leadership our of our local elected officials our Park agencies planning agencies it’s an incredible resource it’s used by over 2.5 million users but actually I actually don’t have my pointer with make

Sure this is a pointer here okay what oops no okay not a pointer the UC summit lake at the lower level there it’s a great lake and right in the middle of the heart of our city it’s also an area which has been entirely cut off by our

Highway system it’s been cut off by the rail lines it’s basically been isolated and it’s also our highly impoverished community it’s our highest infant mortality rate and lowest per capita income in the county we have in the downtown area just to the north of that the Civic gateway which we have our

Highest salaried employees it literally is the gateway oops OOP thank you it’s a gateway to the kaga Valley National Park where you have again millions of users but those users in the car go Valley National Park have no idea you have this great lake in the

Middle of the urban setting and so you have these audiences that quite frankly just don’t intersect with each other and it’s really quite frankly an incredible lost opportunity and so that really is our opportunity in Akron how can we connect these residents with the National Park how can we connect the

National Park into these great resources along the Ohio and Erie Canal and in the middle there is a Park East neighborhood where when we did our intercept surveys the comments the feedback we got back was it feels like I’m going through somebody’s backyard and it’s because you are going through somebody’s backyard

Literally and figure and also in our intercept surveys what we’ve learned is is that we have different populations that inhabit the space and we talk about maybe how spaces divide people this is one of those spaces the Ohio and Erie Canal and the towpath trail connects people to the

Resource B at the same time it divides them we have a home ownership that’s entirely 100% in the pinhole ownership you have partially subsidized home ownership but yet these audiences they don’t spend time with each other so literally fences in the spaces separating them from the civic common

Space and so the common thread obviously is the Ohio and Erie Canal and the top-hat trail and our goal is how can we transform that and really great create these great Civic common spaces along this wonderful resource Lynn referred to our team and I can’t say enough great

Things about our team we’re in a really pivotal moment in the city of Akron in which we’re experiencing our first mayor oil change in 28 years so this is really a culture shift force if you will because our new mayor’s has really embraced this whole concept and we actually refer to reimagine Civic

Comments as a new way of doing business because under the new administration he really wants to engage with all citizens so we can create these great Civic common spaces for all citizens regardless of race income or education and you see our partners listed there a couple of highlights here these are

Actually some of our recent activations you see Alvin and Evelyn up there in the upper left-hand corner they actually met in Lok 2 which is right in the heart of our downtown area and by the way when we did intercept surveys in Lok two people asking where locked who was they had no

Idea and they were actually standing in the space that’s how much of a disconnect we’ve had with these spaces but Evelyn and Alvin actually are our ambassadors now and lock – and taking care of this space Summit Lake we’re actually doing canoe boat rides and picnics down there and people are

Connecting with the resource because what we’ve learned and our research is people don’t look at these as assets they’re actually they look at the lake as a liability because they’re literally afraid they’re 4 or 5 year old kids are going to walk right into the lake

Because the edge of the lake by design has not been designed properly enough and there’s no edge to the lake and so what we’re finding all these different experiments but we’re also having some challenges to be perfectly honest with you we’ve experienced vandalism already with some over activations and some of the benches

Have gone some of the swings are gone and we’ve replaced them in the reaction might be oh well that that’s kind of a sad thing to happen but we’re also Co stewarding with our partners because that’s one things we’ve heard from our local neighbors and residents as they’re

Tired of having things done to them and not with them and so through this civic engagement process we truly are building and designing activations with them and not to them and part of that is also Co stewarding and so we’re actually now stewarding all these spaces and I’m

Really not too troubled by the fact that we’ve had some vandalism because these are spaces that have actually been neglected for really decades and that didn’t happen overnight and we’re not going to change that perception overnight but if some small way we can keep trying and that’s where I love the

Support of the foundations because they’ve encouraged us to test these ideas and don’t be afraid to fail and trust me we’ve had plenty of failure in Akron Ohio but we’re going to keep on trying till we get it right here’s some of the other recent activations in the

In our Civic gateway area this is actually locked for that was recently activated last year I wish I could show you a before slide because it was very desolate and void of one thing and that is people but now we’re actually through lighting and seating adding some activation as well as landscaping to

These spaces and this is locked to before and this is locked to afterwards it’s actually right next to our hospitals in downtown Akron many comments we’ve heard has actually served as a healing garden this is also the space as I refer to we have experienced some vandalism some of the chairs have

Walked off they’ve gotten legs somehow literally and figuratively and some of them had ended up in the Ohio area cannot wait for you we’ve had to pick out of the canal but that’s okay but it’s also a great space that it provides opportunity for downtown workers to get

Out of their office towers spend time with people that they would not normally have an opportunity to spend time with one of the other beautiful features you see the waterfalls there and I know sometimes we have these apps that we put on our phone of nature sounds and we

Tell people you don’t have to go buy it an app for this just go out and spend time outside in these Civic common spaces this is Summit Lake and again some of the more activations that we’re having there one of our biggest challenge is to be perfectly honest with you as as I

Like to refer to it the Civic Common process there’s inherent tensions within it because they want us to test ideas but do it rapidly you know don’t study a project for eight months and then come back and say what you’re going to do go back and actually

Talk to the residents who are impacted by this and test those ideas out relatively quickly and then learn from what worked well and what didn’t work but sometimes when that happens not everybody is that within the communication loop and I will tell you that’s actually one of our biggest

Challenges because we have tremendous support at the top level from our mayor and the cabinet level but sometimes what we’re missing is those mid-level managers and as I said previously we’re working in a culture in Akron where they’re used to a different culture of 28 years ago and so now we’ve got to

Kind of change that culture we’re making progress but sometimes it feels like it’s a glacial progress at times but that’s just one of our challenges in Akron but more anything else we are just honored to be part of the reimagined Civic Commons process and I look forward to future conversations and

Questions with you today thank you [Applause] oh right great job Dan first off I just want to give some Geographic context Detroit is a very large city about 139 square miles a lot of the stuff you’re hearing about the comeback and a lot of investment is really happening around

The Downtown and Midtown area which is the small zone completely encircled by freeways where we’re really trying to focus is to bring some of that revitalization into the outer neighborhoods of the city so in the green area in to is one of our neighborhoods where we’re really trying

To focus and bring back some of the same investment in momentum just for size scale one of my colleagues Dan Patera made this graphic we’re working kind of in North Beach of San Francisco for a bit of context but that gives you a picture of kind of the wide geography of

The city and how much diversity there is across that space what we’re really focusing on and really our lens with the civic Commons is to think about using it as building a civic infrastructure for trying to think about doing neighborhood revitalization differently we’re really trying to build on the

Bones of what we have in a lot of our cities which were commercial corridors walkable main streets places you could get to bike from from your house and rather than try and compete with the suburbs by trying to out suburb them as our mayor likes to say we’re really

Trying to reinvest in this kind of walkable urban life and bringing back that vitality to these communities our team crosses a number of different sectors and agencies we’ve got two great institutional partners a number of different public agencies really spearheaded via the Planning Department with great support from the mayor’s

Office as well as a number of other stakeholders community development financial institutions CDOs nonprofits who each bring a really great skill set to the table to round out what the work is that the team is doing zooming into that area I just talked about what you

See in the dark blue are properties that are currently held by the Detroit Land Bank so these are all residential and some commercial properties that are publicly held at the moment right in this little area of Detroit we’ve got some of our strongest and most intact neighborhoods and Palmer woods in

Sherwood Forest and also somewhere you can see just a mile or two a greater amount of disinvestment this tracks pretty closely with the average household incomes in the area where we’ve got incomes that are like 10 times from Palmer woods to the Fitzgerald neighborhood where we’re working in such

Close proximity where we think we’ve really got for this idea of socio-economic mixing some of the people and communities together and how do we start to leverage that and bring people together overall like much of Detroit its majority african-american so there is still a lot a very strong african-american upper and middle class

And really our challenge is to try and address some of these economic challenges but also to integrate the universities to have a greater impact in the neighborhood what we looked at in terms of our civic Commons was really to think about this work at three different scales one at the scale of a

Neighborhood where we’re taking on about a quarter square mile of land another is at the scale of that Main Street or the walkable commercial corridor and the third is down to the building level scale our entire project is within about a 10 minute walk really nestled between

These two universities and in this area of great public ownership so I’ll jump in and give you a little quick preview of the neighborhood this map zooms in what’s shown in the green color are vacant lots what’s shown in blue are vacant structures so there’s over a

Hundred vacant homes in the area which we see is our best strategy for density given the market reality we’re really taking a rehab first model and also saying how do we start to create a blight free area of Detroit we’re calling it the blight free quarter square mile where there’s not

Necessarily new construction on every lot but they are landscapes that are intentional and contribute to the good of the community we’ve been working very closely with residents and trying out a number of different techniques that public meetings from photographing every elevation of the neighborhood and having

People sign in as a way to get to learn who’s where to doing some of those meetings in the vacant watch themselves to really try and meet people where they are and get them engaged with the process together we’ve come up with a plan that puts a future to every one of

Those parcels the big moves are creating a new city park in the heart of the neighborhood the craft streets do not go all the way through this neighborhood so we’re looking at using vacant lots to create a walking and biking trail that would add some connectivity comm traffic and

Address a lot of other issues the other things you see are new landscape type ologies and places where structures can be rehabbed this idea of actually promoting cycling and walking one of the earlier stats I head up there 28% of people in Detroit being the Motor City

Don’t have access to a car so for us biking is also really about equity and giving people a real way to safely get around in the neighborhood we’re also trying to integrate with this a workforce component so how can we actually put people back to work and rebuilding their neighborhood which I

Think we’ll talk a little bit more about with a great partnership with the greening of Detroit and their adult workforce training programs we’ve been bringing on some private development partners so we’re trying to layer our federal resources the philanthropic resources we have but also attract some

Of that private investment so we put out an RFP to ask developers to take on not only the rehab of these houses but also the vacant lot next door since we’re working at about a 3 to 1 ratio on the vacant lots to structures but what you

See here is the vision for how that all comes together where you’ve got homes rehab this new park the Greenway and landscapes that are really transformed to create a complete neighborhood without needing to build a single new house at the corridor we’re really looking at investing in a place that you

Know is the place of city life where people want to be it’s got it could be Complete Streets it could be that walkable Main Street that place where people actually want to hang out meet shop and that diversity of retail to attract a variety of potential

Users this is what it looks like today it’s a little bit rougher about 80 90 percent vacancy no Street trees and none of those amenities that you really want to go and hang out in knowing how long some of these bigger capital investment projects take we’ve also been experiencing or experimenting with

Working fast doing pop-ups grabbing some temporary paint and putting down bike lanes and really trying to get not only residents but some of our other agencies to the table to really talk about and show how this could work we’ve got a number of programs to try and incent

Device business owners one is using actually CDBG funds to do a grant competition quarterly to inject money into small businesses and rehabs we’re doing a lot of programming to try and test out ideas in some of these vacant spaces and really bring people who might not have been to the neighborhood or

Back out to the neighborhood who haven’t been there before and really try and mix people with residents you’ve been there old timers and new timers could be future timers together the last big move that we’re really excited about in the building you see with the white awning is to actually build a physical

Manifestation of this on the street itself so we’re looking to do one of the storefront rehabs is actually a kind of collab home based space where all of our different partner agencies can actually work so to the nonprofit’s we’ll use this as their permanent home we’ll have seats for planning and other

Departmental agencies the developers banks etc to really be a real permanent investment in this neighborhood in a place where people can find the resources we are breaking ground on both this space and the park next month so we’re super excited to see where this goes but the comments but in a

Lightening round that’s kind of what we’ve been up to in Detroit for the last year managing director of city of Philadelphia but you might be wondering why the managing director is here to talk about this or rebuild initiative it will be housed in in the managing directors office and lead by about a

Staff of eight or ten under the jurisdiction of my office that will include Parks and Recreation staff as well as folks from the Philadelphia free library so I’m talking about rebuild but it has a connection to civic Commons honest rebuild is a five hundred million dollar investment over seven years in

Parks recreation centers playgrounds libraries and trails throughout the city of Philadelphia the how do we get to 500 million dollars we the mayor as soon as he took office about a year and nine months ago and here in ten months ago proposed to City Council that we tax big soda so we have

A penny and a half on every ounce of sugary drinks that are sold in the city of Philadelphia but it’s at the point of distribution not at the local but they go or corner store or grocery store we’re still in court right now so we’ve

Won just to let you know the big soda was not happy with us so they took us to court we’ve won decisively in the two lower courts we’re hoping that the state Supreme Court will it within a few weeks say they’re not going to hear the case

Because of the way that the two lower courts ruled in our favor but if if they don’t we’ll be in the Supreme Court state Supreme Court and hopefully we’ll be out of there and with a win in January so we’re assuming that we’re going to win and I think our lawyers

Feel very confident of that so that will fund 300 million dollars of the of the program there’s a hundred million dollars already pledged by a local regional foundation and we expect to raise another 25 to 50 million dollars of foundation support and also expect to get some state and federal

Money which will get us close to or maybe a little more than five hundred million dollars this idea of can we do this I think we were inspired by the Civic Commons there’s been a probably a decade or more of investment by night and then in the last few years within

The context of civic civic Commons and other regional and local foundations into the public infrastructure and I think we more than more than adequately made the case or for the for the proof of concept for this idea of investing heavily in the public infrastructure and those facilities that build equity an

Opportunity across the city so this idea of rebuild really I think in some significant way was made possible by the knight historic investment and then more recently the Civic Commons investment you look at you look at your left you see sort of the existing conditions in our facilities we have a massive system

A hundred and fifty staffed recreation centers and playgrounds seventy swimming pools five year-round indoor ice rinks fifty gymnasiums about 85 gymnasiums that we run for the school district the library system has 48 reach 48 neighbourhood branches fifty-two counting the four regional branches and then 55 when you count the Central

Library in Center City the park system has about 11,000 acres in it and there’s about a hundred and twenty-five neighborhood parks are usually around an acre or two spread throughout the neighborhoods of the city and then there’s of that 11,000 acres of going back to the park 6,000 acres or natural

Land so it’s a massive system you can see the difference between what we currently have and then a few of these more recent investments that really are transformational in nature that really changed the whole dynamic of the of the public facility and opened it up to much more year-round consistent and

Productive use in the neighborhood the neighborhoods that we serve in fact this the one in the lower-right locate an improved programming is a rec center a library and a health facility all wrapped into a single facility on South Broad Street in South Philadelphia and it’s up and running over the maybe

Opened up eight or nine months ago what’s the vision for rebuild we want this idea of equity is really important to the mayor and really important to the administration we don’t shy away from it we talk about it a workforce work investments in universal pre-k which was one of the other big

Programs that was funded by the that will be funded by the soda tax so it’s every child in Philadelphia has opportunity to go to unify publicly funded pre-k programs in their neighborhood we want to improve the neighborhood assets across the city we want to support sustainability so we

Want to use the best sustainable practices that there are we want to also create jobs and build the economy and we want to be a national leader for civic and investment and engagement here’s some of the components again this is transformational this is not a repair program every Center will go from

Wherever they are moderate investments big investment little investment up to the height what we consider to be high quality space for the programs and the use of citizens in those public facilities this is a big number to workforce diversity inclusion we are proposing to create a pathway for women

And minorities into the building trades building trades in Philadelphia have been white for the longest time this is a major breakthrough we have an agreement with them to start a unique and hopefully successful apprentice and pre apprentice program that over the course of this seven years will bring

Hundreds of folks who have not been had access to building trades jobs and will train them and bring them to journeyman status and carrying a union card so that’s a very big part of this as well as in both the contracting of for professional services as well as for the

Contracting itself we have really high percentage goals in both of them and we think we’re willing to pay premiums to do that in terms of payment time in terms of bonding and insurance we will support our women and minority contractors in that way and rebuild and then to do a unique community engagement

Process that not only listens to people about what they want for a facility what they’re looking for but also engages them in stewardship and programming and builds their capacity around the interest their interest in that facility in that neighborhood so we really develop leadership and buy-in in the

Process it’s a little different than the normal what do you like we’ll give it to you we’ll see you later focus on equity focus on economic growth we want to do both we want to invest in neighborhoods that have been historically neglected and under invested but we also want to invest in

Areas of growth as well we’re not afraid of that if we can drive other investments in the neighborhood in question we’ll be happy to do that the investments were driven by this contextual analysis that we looked at demographic factors neighborhood conditions environmental needs health factors and ongoing initiatives so

That’s the sort of the basic data that we’re using to invest in the facilities and to make our choices we’ve we admit that a lot of work with our City Council it’s they’ve been really hard on us around site selection around diversity and inclusion I think we’ve reached a

Pretty good deal with them and last spring and we have a few more hoops to jump through to get to the finish line but we think they’re not insurmountable and I think we have you have to mind the politics here otherwise we’re not going to get to 300 million bucks because they

Had to obviously pass the the tax terms of civic engagement we night has been really gracious and they’re investing big time up front on the civic engagement piece around rebuild we again want to not only listen to people about what they want but we also want to build capacity around the the leadership

Skills that people think they need in the neighborhood leadership skills and capacities they need to engage in this public facility in a new way and and assume with us the stewardship in programming responsibilities we won’t even memorialize that in a compact that what here’s what we promise you here’s

What you promise us and then live up to that over time so that’s a quick overview just one quick thing to close what we have a deep commitment to equity in their in the Kennedy administration we think these kinds of projects and the ones that that you heard about prior to me

Are really in the vanguard of creating value around inclusivity equity fairness and opportunity which is which really runs counter to what’s going on in Washington and runs counter to what’s going on in our state capitol in Pennsylvania it’s not enough to resist we need to succeed and build value economic social environmental value

Around these programs and every chance we get we have to do that and we have to succeed otherwise we’ll be beaten down by the rhetoric of the right and won’t you know again we’ll end up being sort of one one-trick ponies that can only resist we want to do a lot more than

That I think all of us in this room this is an opportunity to pave the way for the future of the country we think good planning and smart planning that’s inclusive and collaborative will help us have these kinds of projects be successful and the vanguard of the future of America thank

You so Mike I’m ready to go March on the hill now I wouldn’t ask a couple of questions of the panel and then we’re going to open it up to to your questions and feedback as well and the first question I want to get at is and Danny

Touched on this a bit in in your remarks surakameth is not just about the work that you are doing in community it’s always also a new way of doing business for your own organization but also for the partners that are leading this work and so I’d love to hear a little bit

More from each of you about how the principles and the values of this work are actually in using everything else that you’re doing how are you collaborating how are you partnering and as I said previously I mean we’re just coming out of 28 years of an entire culture and so it was

Twofold it is really getting people conditioned to not thinking about the way they did thing for 28 years but then also you have this kind of pent-up demand for civic engagement so it’s really kind of a yin and a yang within our administration we still have some departments who really are operating

Under that those principles of the previous administration which is a little frustrating at times and then there’s just like I said it’s just a tremendous amount of opportunity in our residence to really be involved in decision making process going to what Michael was alluding to and really taking ownership of their communities

And that’s really what quite frankly excites me and really energizes me because it really creates an opportunity for ownership co-creation co.design and co stewardship absolutely I think for us what we’re really trying to figure out is what is this model for doing this kind of work I think the neighborhood that we’re

Working in was sort of first out the gate I started with the city two years ago as the planning department was getting restructured after the city bankruptcy so we’re sort of in a like push the reset button in terms of how we govern and I think know them you know

We’re going to exist in a resource-constrained world that Detroit has had pretty constrained resources for quite some time and I think a lot of people just went into survival mode to get vibe or like I need my grant this is my program and that’s my thing that this

Is really a time when we’re actually trying to work very intentionally across sectors to figure out how do those partnerships work does it matter who sits where at the table if we’re at the table who leads it who follows how did all those relationships play out but I

Think this model of collaborating across agencies across sectors is gonna have to be fundamental as we look at scaling this type of work and scaling reinvestment in neighborhoods across Detroit we always joke that we wish we could steal someone else’s playbook like know the tricks to doing this but I

Think we’re really trying to internalize a lot of the lessons and get smarter as we go as we try to grow what we’re doing in the city make anything to add all about this but within the managing directors office the key partners are not not only Parks and

Recreation and library we also have our water department and our streets department as part of the government local government collaborative we are connected to the local foundations and philanthropy Network it’s really connected to investing in various elements of this so they’re involved and many of the nonprofit’s will be part of

Managing projects if you had a portfolio of over a million dollars of projects as a as a CDC you will be able to be part of managing some of these construction projects being a project managers some of the projects so we’ve we’ve learned from the Civic Commons over the last

Four or five years that these kind of partnerships and connections and value driven programs allow and actually encourage you to build deeper into the community as well as yeah and I would also say from the funders perspective you know we’re figuring out how to work together right

So we have four national funders who are used to doing their own thing night in particular works in all of these three cities outside of civic comments and so we’re learning in a real-time as well across our four national partners how we work together to fund something like

This how we collaborate but also how we collaborate in different ways with each of the communities that we’re working with and so it really is it’s truly a learning culture that we have going on because we’re trying to figure out you know the next thing we do won’t be

Another reimagine the Civic Commons it’ll be something else but this idea of multi funder collaborative and how they work with the mechanics of it actually are how we best position ourselves as national funders to support local community that’s part of the transformation a part of the idea behind

This so it really is that we’re all in different phases of it but it really is a tremendous amount of collaboration in sort of learning in real time the next question you want to ask sort of gets back at the two themes that I mentioned which are socioeconomic mixing and civic

Engagement and so you know we know this work is hard and messy and complex I think that was a theme of our last Learning Network meeting yes it’s just hard and messy and complex and so who is still missing you know we’re about a year in for for the city’s

Philadelphia’s further along because they were our pilot city who’s still missing when you’re looking at the mixing going on what engagement strategies have you tried thus far where you’ve gained traction what do you need to do in the future to get where you need to go on

That on that goal I mean I think we’re excited to see based on some of the surveys we’re doing that we’re actually for us getting a really great cross-section economically racially student residents coming to meetings I think there’s two things we’re really focused on is one okay great we found

Them and we got them to come here is the hypothesis true are they meeting each other are you coming with your friends and sitting at the high school cafeteria table like how do we actually start to understand and support that kind of social capital building that I think is

At the heart of the hypothesis of the mixing I think – for us the piece that we are probably focusing most on is really how do we engage youth in a more meaningful way you know for us we also have a new superintendent of our public schools which we’re really excited about

Where whether it’s through the school system or through other networks etc how do we really start to engage youth who will really be the beneficiaries of a lot of this thinking and work into that work we’ve we’ve done a little bit of polling and it basically is a linear

Relationship between age and how excited you are about change where we’re like oh these are gonna be our champions in a certain sense as well of really driving what the future looks like so I think it’s a group that you know in Detroit there’s not a lot of afterschool

Programs there’s not a lot of other infrastructure around it we’re trying to get really creative about how do we best engage with youth the community it’s interesting because I we also struggle with the youth but I think there’s only two audiences and I think we’re still having some challenges with one is in

That some of the residents within our communities and ironically enough we were hit with it really very forcefully where we want to do some of the intercept surveys and they’re actually city streets and we were actually told by this Neighborhood Association that they didn’t want us there and that was

Really harsh but it was part of the experiment we learned that we’ve got some work to do there and yet is it’s within obviously the area of our civic common space it’s right along the towpath trail the havenaire Canal and so we’ve got some challenges we’ve got some

Work to do there and I also think some of our mid-level city administration departments and oh Michael we talked about that how do you how do you get there I think it’s funny we paid enough attention to and I think it’s or and we know we need to get there and

They have to think they have to both tell us how to go and we also have to create some place to move forward with them so I think it’s a going to be both we’re going to learn from then and hopefully we’ll put some make some sense

To them about really grabbing on to this new heightened level of community engagement and they’ll give them the skills to to work in that new context so it’s I think we have a ways to go there but I think we understand the question and that’s always a good story and it’s

A good start so I’m going to ask one more question then we’re gonna open it up to the audience and this question is about political buy-in right so in in each of these cases you’ve got mayor’s who really get it but in many cases you’re working on something and maybe

You have a mayor who’s not in your way or who maybe sort of likes what you’re doing but they’re not necessarily converted to being a champion for the work and so I wonder if you can talk about that process in getting the mayor getting the top leadership in your

Community to really understand what you’re trying to do and then become a champion for the work in their own ways well but I think it was very smart and tying like the previous mayor we tried to pass the soda tax and was around health issues and it made some sense to

The medical community but that’s not a big constituency so we’ve lost two times on that but connecting it to universal pre-k Community Schools and improving parks recreation centers libraries across the city in a massive way really carried the day so we had an immense constituency of citizens behind us and

And and the industry spent about 15 million I was trying to beat us I mean I might be a little high but I’m close we had a probably a quarter of that Bloomberg came in and funded us to get on the airwaves and to fight back so but building sort of building the

Constituency on the ground across the neighborhoods and across the city and having a rationale a well-thought-out rationale a well-thought-out history of investments that we can show people the value of that really made a difference yeah we’re just really blessed and fortunate because with a transition leadership I remember when we first

Brought back the remastered Civic Comics project Akron Mayor of oregon’s said what else you got you know keep bringing it the county executive the time basically said you need to be doing this because we can’t do it in government because if we fail we get blamed for it

And so we need you to do these experiments and test these ideas so and so and that permeates all through council in all levels of government so I mean I can’t say enough great things about the visionary leadership because let’s be honest we’re the smallest city

Amongst all the five cities in our mayor and council recognized if we’re going to grow its community we’ve got to really enhance and activate these Civic common spaces are more equable so that there are great spaces where everybody wants to spend time together into the neighborhoods and really thinking about

Not only what does equity look like but really in Detroit in particular what is the history of redlining of segregation and how investment happened of how resources are between the metro area in between the city itself where I think you know I think the the way that

Demographics are changing I think a lot of the challenges that cities are facing right now really come back to some of these core issues I think for us the issue of rebuilding trust at the local levels of government is huge and maybe being able to frame some of

This work as being just so critical to that exercise maybe a way to shake off some of the scariness of really pulling back the curtain on some of the process and allowing people actually feel empowered and understand what’s going on as a way to build that trust again so now I want

To open it up to you all if you want to come to the mic and you just identify yourself before you ask your question okay um excellent panel thank you all very much and congratulations on the progress you’ve all made I’m Tamara Abbott I hail

From Oregon I have a question how do you cultivate commercial interest in downtown revitalization I have a city that looks sort of like yours it’s much de minimis by comparison particularly when there’s a Walmart down the street and affordability at Walmart is better how do you define that niche if you’re

Trying to create a you know we’ve brainstormed about things like micro brew pubs at whatever which sort of has a different socio-economic implication isn’t necessarily you know I might like it but I don’t know if our 60% Hispanic community might like it so specifically on target is how do you cultivate that

Commercial interest and then if any of you want to talk a little bit about the role of the public-private investment and how to retain those businesses over the long term kind of resale cultivation and attraction I think for us it has a couple of layers where we’re really

Looking to some of that local leadership from the community development organization to help us be that curator of you know what are we hearing from people what are some of the needs I think in our case there’s just so much need I think our economic growth corporation has said there’s probably in

The ballpark of a billion dollars of retail leakage that goes outside of the city so we’re we’re just not keeping that and so I think for us it’s it is really that different model than the Walmart or the big-box I mean we would take some big box if anyone would like

To come to this but where you’re talking about that sort of walk I think we’re really getting into that walkable you know walkable neighborhood scale of retail which is a really different animal I think it attracts a different kind of entrepreneur I think you know retail is

In a very tricky spot right now and where that’s going is a really open question I think for us that’s a market that isn’t as saturated in the same way that that personal connection that experience of shopping and of being on the street of knowing the ice cream

Store owner down the corner actually has had some resiliency for people that visit that anonymous big-box or I could buy it online kind of experience we are trying to layer as many resources as possible so I mentioned the Motor City match program that we have which is a

Quarterly competition where we have a track for property owners and a track for entrepreneurs and essentially you apply in on both sides the lower levels have technical assistance so maybe you need help put any other business plan if you’re an entrepreneur and the idea is people graduate through that program on

Both sides to having a match which would be a property owner and an entrepreneur in the same space with some grant funding that we provide with the hopes that you know they’re matching that with some resources and for us commercial lending is pretty weak in the city so

There’s some real gaps on the financing side but yeah it’s a it’s a very dynamic place right now just given where retail is but I think there is something to that personal connection of that walkable intimate retail that it’s really different south for cities this

Is just out of my league generally but I think this idea of high-quality public amenities in our downtown on the weekends and there’s people from all over the city from every neighborhood and we have the kind of manage that they’re just free we have these wonderful spray grounds at Park area and

Fountains that over the last 20 years have just enlivened the life in our downtown and have attracted folks want to come downtown now I don’t know the impact of that on the on the commercial retail side it’s are it’s really going well and we’re building like mad but just that idea of

You know let’s go downtown you know there’s stuff for us to do there’s places for us to be getting to the connecting race to class through the civic space and in the Commons is promoting is really alive there right now the direct sort of data driven connection back to retail success I just

Don’t have that I mean the only good ads that’s one of the tensions I think that we’re experiencing with the reimagine civic Commons is that there’s a real void Princeton downtown Akron of housing well but now there’s gonna be about probably 200 to 300 units coming on board about fifty fifteen million

Dollars housing but is it equitable is accessible at everybody we’ve heard the gentrification work for instance down at Summit Lake now some people want to put sailing and all sorts of boating activities but is that really what the residents want you know to your point is

It a microbrew or is it a winery but does that really fit in with the neighborhood so it’s a balance and I call it attention within the reimagine civic Commons and quite frankly something we’re struggling with can I ask where I think a Civic space and

Thinking you needed to show how to use it so you needed to organize the same amount of events like a Carranza probably will assess putting and for community walks community picnic day or something and I couldn’t if you organize it how to use the know the spaces get the citizens involvement and create

Event I think it’s also very necessary and I’m not sure that the Philadelphia to case it’s so citywide but the probably you can do downtown the events or community-based events or something like that and if you show the example or how to use it’s a really necessary for

Civic environment for other civic spaces we didn’t go into great detail I mean there’s a tremendous amount of programming that is that email across these cities I had off to Dan for taking time out while he’s planning this learning networking meeting but you know nice model in particular but this is

True across civic comments is one about proto so you know Dan mentioned this idea we want you to fail fast because we just want you to get out there and try it because part of this is demonstrating to ourselves but also to the community and it gets the juices flowing so when

They’re coming to these events these pop-up events that are going on they’re starting to experience this mace in a different way I see it in a different way and then share their ideas like I liked that but what if you did this so there’s a tremendous amount of programming and that programming is

Being leveraged as another way of engagement and and and to get feedback on what the permanent solution is going to be in each of these places hi this is for Michael in 2003-2004 the American Institute of Certified planners tested our community planning assistance team program in Philadelphia

We were brought in Mayer Street had done his take down all the dangerous buildings leaving 30,000 Lots one of our findings in in in long story short was trying to get collaboration between the Parks Department the Recreation Department the Planning Commission and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society if I remember correctly trying to get

That because they were all competing for those 30,000 Lots and I guess I my ears perked up when you were talking about your office I never heard the Planning Commission mention just wondering no I was just curious because it seemed like it was moving and things were going and

I know political situations change but I didn’t hear the Planning Commission mentioned when you talked about your office so about 90% of the city workforce and organ departments and agencies report in to the managing directors office the law department the administrative offices and the planning offices which is under neighborhood sort

Of Neighborhood Development are separate so so they’re not in my chain of command but within the rebuild which I failed to say there is a connection to the planning and to the the Neighborhood Development wings that aren’t in my shop but there is a connection within theirs Oversight Committee of the writ of

Rebuild that they’re part of and well I think expect to play a continuous role in advising and directing the amount of the work that we’re doing thank you well we are right on time we covered a lot of ground so please join me in thinking Dan and Mike and Alexa Praveen [Applause] you

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