Title:”An Incredible Opportunity”: Justin Moore, AICP, on the Belize City CPAT Project
جاستین مور، AICP، به عنوان رهبر تیم پروژه تیم کمک برنامه ریزی جامعه (CPAT) در شهر بلیز، بلیز خدمت کرد. در این ویدئو، جاستین بینش‌هایی را که از تجربه با مدیر برنامه‌های APA، رایان شرزینگر به دست آورده، بحث می‌کند. درباره CPAT شهر بلیز بیشتر بدانید:
https://www.planning.org/communityassistance/teams/yarborough/
درباره برنامه CPAT بیشتر بدانید:
https://www.planning.org/communityassistance/teams/ (برچسب‌ها برای ترجمه ت) برنامه ریزی محله
قسمتی از متن فیلم: Hi my name is Ryan Scherzinger programs manager with the American Planning Association here at the national planning conference here with Justin Moore he is the executive director for the New York public design Commission and he was the recent team leader on the Belize City community planning assistance teams that we did last year
And they presented on it here at the conference and Justin could you tell us a little bit about what the situation was and it was specifically on the neighborhood of Yarbrough in Belize City what was the situation when we got down there great yeah so the the cpap program this
Was actually the APA his first international C Pat so a really wonderful opportunity to bring this sort of technical assistance work to a community outside of the US that really needed some help so Belize City the Belize City Council working with the inter-american Development Bank the IDB
Had an idea to look at a focused Neighborhood Development that fit within a larger land use and planning framework that was developing in the city really focused on connecting that kind of core downtown heritage historic area that already had some tourism with the new port development so these were kind of
Disconnected parts of the city that needed a link through the Yarbrough which was really kind of the core heart of the community in many ways with the Yarbrough cemetery and and a lot of rich heritage assets that were there but still kind of disconnected from that important economic activity and really a
Need for planning and improvement in the neighborhood so our team was really able to kind of dive right in and in kind of understand some of the issues in the community everything from historic preservation and cultural heritage to flood resiliency and and green infrastructure that was really needed in improving that community long
Term but also looking at really identifying kind of public assets such as parks improving transportation in the neighborhood so as with all sea pets you know part of the big thing for sea baths is community engagement so you know tell us a little bit about how the community engagement process went how people
Receive the project how they provided input all those sorts of things yeah so it’s really a great question because I think one of the strengths of cpad in the model is really that we’re outsiders right we’re kind of people with different expertise and background coming from all over the US so we have
Team members from New York Texas Colorado all over the place so we’re landing in this community that we don’t know so the community engagement piece was really key to making sure that the work that we’re doing is is relevant and necessary so the structure is the team
Leader I had the opportunity to go on that first visit where we had the opportunity meet with a mayor the city council staff and and all sorts of different community organizations that they had sort of convened and and we’re working with and one of the my favorite
Components of that was there is this local school where they’re literally ways of students from from classes from the from the local high school that came in and were helping inform our process and our questions so that kind of very direct tie with with organizations physically in the neighborhood so we’re
Not meeting at the City Hall or in some kind of detached place we’re meeting with people in the community where things stand and so that was a really great opportunity to hear all different kinds of voices so from the elected officials from people in the business community but also you know people on
The street my favorite kind of stories that when sort of landed on that first site visit I had a TV interview and so the local partners there had made sure that they wanted people to know that this effort was happening and so they work to
Have us on TV and radio so he did these short TV interviews like right when we we started just to tell people about the project and so while we’re walking around the city and touring the neighborhoods people would come and walk up and say hey you’re doing this you’re
This planner from the US what’s going on and so that was really key to kind of have that kind of megaphone to reach more people I’m so that process was really great and that was formative for us deciding who was going to be on the team the kinds of expertise on issues
That we brought back later so then when we came back with the the full team we had really great workshops focus groups public meetings different times that day different locations to really reach his broad an audience as possible and we got so much great feedback and input around
That and I think it was really formative for work in that we were able to do work that was focused to things that that community wanted to advance you know we obviously had our ideas and best practices that we have as as experts in different films coming here but it was
More important that the work that we were doing was rooted in an interest that we heard from people in those meetings so it’s always really important to get you know political leadership involved and you know the elected officials involved in a project so you know so how was that experience in
Belize City well yeah I think the the first thing is that the mayor mayor Daryl Bradley was really involved from the beginning and really engaged his staff so Maryland I call her the deputy mayor Carla the the the single planning staff member and having that investment
From the very top leadership was key and and it was really committing the time and making the connections and resources so the mayor actually joined us for one of our very long kind of work sessions and and spent the afternoon with us kind of work shopping on us reporting back to
Things that we heard in the community meetings and and hearing kind of you know things that he knew were were possible or other things that we missed and so having that deep knowledge and leadership was really important to kind of bolster our work and I think
In many ways for these kind of smaller community projects where there is a situation with under resource communities and and really wanting to do a project that’s realistic not us coming and making a big plan a nice vision that isn’t real and isn’t possible having that leadership there to help us
Understand what’s real and what’s possible was really important you know the thing that was interesting was while we were there there are a number of different initiatives going on there was a city branding campaign there was responses to some zoning and new development initiatives that were
Happening and so he was it was also important for us to see kind of real-time what the challenges and interactions were in this community and I think the flip side to that argument is that us being outsiders the kind of expertise the the types of conversations
We were having the way that we worked right with facilitating let’s say a public meeting or the way that we would go on a site visit walk around what we were looking at and paying attention to the mayor was with us and his staff were with us while we’re doing that and so
They’re learning from that exposure with our team oh it’s interesting that you’re looking at this issue in a way that we didn’t know or understand or oh that’s really interesting the way that you kind of framed this community meeting in a way that we can have a different conversation when we have that
Conversation it’s a political conversation it goes a totally different way and we don’t get to reach the issues so I think that there is a really great interaction and learning and exchange for for them for how we worked as well so with this project it was really important too because you know obviously
They were a very under-resourced community and things like that and I think that you know you mentioned it earlier you know you get this big shiny plan and you know it sits on a shelf and you know as the saying goes but you know I know that our focus the team’s focus
In this case was really to leave them some tangible things and things like that so tell us a little bit about some of what the team left behind that you know that the community could really dive into right away yeah I think a really important part of our work with
The C Pat was really trying to leave something was actionable and especially there is a unique opportunity here because there was the relationship with the the IDB then the Development Bank that was looking at really wanting to fund ultimately some of these initiatives and ideas and so you know their general
Mindset would be a big kind of street reconstruction or a sewer project something like that but what we were talking about was a different type of interaction that was more community volved and engaged so public space transformations with temporary initiatives and things like that and something that I think was important in
Our early site visits was presented to the mayor the the team there different projects examples right kind of a little bit throwing us could spaghetti at the wall so I showed waterfront plans I show kind of community plan zoning resiliency all these things but I also showed a
Project from a different part of my my life which is work I do in my own community back in Indianapolis which is really kind of grassroots get your hands dirty type of stuff and that was what really resonated there and so as it was interesting is now exciter like my kind
Of expertise in waterfront community planning and development wasn’t the only component that was important to think about in terms of strategies for what planning is or what urban design is and so that was kind of formative in who we ultimately selected as team members and while we went back and framed some of
Our discussions was around that actionable project things that people that actually live in that community could directly engage in that could that they’re not just people stakeholders coming to the community meeting that these were products that this community was actually going to do and implement directly so that was very formative that
Was a key part of many of the conversations that we had when he had the kind of hundreds of kids or the the dozens of community residents stakeholders kind of coming out to meetings we’re talking about this is what I’m actually going to do as a
Direct result of this so we have in our report and find the report online kind of a matrix of short-term long-term goals but also high cost low cost high investment low investment in terms of people’s time and energy that we serve gave directly for the Yarborough communities very specific
Targeted recommendations but we also provided some case study examples to kind of show that these projects can be done in low budgets and low staffing and low resources so that kind of mirroring of giving some specific recommendations there that we know are things that it was an art idea was people at the
Meetings idea or you know we talked to the mayor and the staff and say is this possible and they said oh yeah we can do that right and so there’s that very direct action that’s possible so community planning assistance if it is a you know obviously something that we
Volunteers from from mostly APA but we do get some volunteers from outside the APA as well you know it’s generally good experience for people you know by the end of it and I’m just curious as to what your experience was in this project and perhaps you know what you could tell
Other planners who might want to get involved and the program yeah it’s really interesting I’ve been an APA member for time and I honestly didn’t know about and you know after learning about it I it’s really great because one it really in a way reflects the the organization’s values right the idea of
Using this incredible resource of the membership of the APA and its networks to to help communities that that need help is is something that I think a lot of people that are in the planning and urban design and urban field in general are are interested in and invested in
And so this is a program that is specifically targeted to do that work and so kind of learning about the program and seeing the work that’s been done is it was really kind of a great foundation to convince me like okay and make carve out the time to do this and
I’m so glad I did because it was a really an incredible opportunity one to kind of expand your net work and the type of work that you do this was my first time personally working in an international context and in this kind of very focused format and
I learned so much from doing that and so much from the team these are people that you know I work in interdisciplinary in different departments and agencies here in New York but this was working from people from totally different cities and from total you know there is an academic
There’s some my it works for a Business Improvement District there is a transportation engineer these are teams that you wouldn’t necessarily work with in a professional capacity and so that was a really great opportunity and I really would encourage people to look into cpad and volunteering to to use
Your your resources obviously to benefit a community that needs it but also for your own professional growth a great outcome of this project is obviously the project and the relationship with the city but the the new relationships and friendships that come out of the people
That I met doing see pat down in Belize City is great in fact Shannon Van Zandt who she’s a professor at Texas A&M and the landscape and planning department they’re invited some members of our team back to her school and we did a whole panel on diversity
And urban planning and design and so we were able to have a whole conversation that was really rooted in the work and the issues that we saw and dealt with down in Belize City I’m kind of translating that to some of our own professional working lives so it’s a
It’s a really great opportunity and way to kind of expand and to serve well thanks so much justin for joining us today and obviously for joining the Yarbrough belize cpad team we appreciate it appreciate your service to apa if you want to learn more about CPAC go
To planning or exceed Pat and you can learn about the Belize project and others
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Time: 1511283076
Date: 2017-11-21 20:21:16
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