Henry Luke-
Newsletter #31-COMMUNITY VISIONING RESULTS
June 2002
HAMPTON ROADS, VA-Hampton
Roads is the brand name for the Norfolk, Virginia Beach & Newport News MSA.
Hampton Roads, with a population of 1.6 million is the 4th
largest metropolitan area in the Southeast. Hampton Roads seaports
hold the # 2 position on the East Coast.
The Virginia Port Authority plans to protect this position with more than
$3 billion in expansion over the next 15 years. The budget includes:
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$260 million for dredging
channels to 55 feet
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$645 billion to upgrade four
separate port facilities
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$ 2 billion to create a new
container facility on 2500-acre Craney Island with new rail and highway
access
In November,
Hampton Road citizens will vote on a $6 billion bond issues to fund six
major highway, tunnel, rail and transit projects.
Hampton Roads will visit Jacksonville, FL for their Annual regional
City Visit on September 22-24, 2002.
HARRISBURG, PA-The
Capital Region includes three counties, 103 municipalities, and 27 school
districts with a population of over 500,000. To create a sense of
community and define this region, the Harrisburg Regional Chamber has
developed the Technology Corridor concept. A summary of facts
supporting the initiative include:
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Existing and potential
regional passenger rail service
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An industry cluster based in
technology hardware, software development and bio-technology
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A large post-secondary
education and workforce development base
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Technology entrepreneurs
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Cultural, restaurant, and
community revival
http://www.harrisburgregionalchamber.org/display.aspx?pathId=envision
WILKES, NC-The
Wilkes Vision 20/20 Third Annual Implementation Luncheon will be July 11,
2002. In August, Wilkes Vision will lead the celebration opening
four new middle schools.
http://www.wilkesnc.org/vision/
SAGINAW, MI-Saginaw
County, MI has 35 municipalities and a population of 210,000. In
March 2002, Saginaw County announced its first Land Use Plan. It was
developed on a voluntary basis with all but three of the municipalities
participating. The plan is based on meeting the Saginaw County
Vision 2020 Key Benchmarks. The Saginaw News said in an April
2, 2002 editorial,
“ Thinking collectively about how we use
our land resources is no small accomplishment. If no other good
comes out of the countywide Strategic Planning Process, Vision 2020 will
have made an enormous impact on the county’s future by bringing officials
together to look at the county as a unit. But we’ve already seen
Vision 2020 spark a fresh outlook. And we have few doubts that dust
won’t settle on many of its other initiatives.”
http://www.saginawcountyvision2020.org/
RICHMOND, VA-Last
year, the Greater Richmond Partnership introduced the region’s new
“brand”. The “Historic Richmond Region: Easy to Love” focuses on
these themes:
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The Richmond region offers
fun, easy living, affordability, and accessibility.
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Polished by culture, the
Richmond Region has trendy areas and endless pockets of discovery.
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The Richmond Region is an
historic setting that reminds us who we are as Americans.
http://www.grcc.com/vision2010/
CURACAO,
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES-Vishon
Korsóu has an excellent grass roots outreach program. A local bank
included the following in its annual report.
“Vishon Korsóu applies a Training Alliance as one of its main means of
reaching its ultimate goal. Since there is a strong need for
training, last year a special educational program was set up for a great
number of volunteers in order to improve the quality of their support to
others. Not only the trainees, but also their trainers are
volunteers. In this way, the core of well-trained volunteers keeps
growing, which is of great value to our society. In 105 different
groups, over 2,000 volunteers were trained to enhance their organizational
skills and to learn, for example, how to handle conflicts. Since the
constructive spin-off of this special training program has been felt
already in their respective organizations, Vishon Korsóu will continue
this program.”
http://www.vishonkorsou.org/
YAKIMA,
WA- On June 17, 2002, Henry
Luke was in Yakima, WA for two “For a Better Tomorrow”
meetings.
http://www.uppervalleyvision.net/ While there, he attended
a program hosted by the Marguerita Casey Foundation to listen to opinions
about the foster care system and issues impacting children, youth and
families. The Foundation was established in 2000 and will offer $30
million annually in grants. Yakima was the last of six cities
participating in the listening program that will help set the criteria for
awarding the grants. Two of the other cities were our Vision
clients-Mobile, AL
(
http://www.mobilechamber.com/development/
) and Rapid City, SD ( http://www.hpcnet.org/frontiers
).
The Marguerita Casey Foundation and Annie E. Casey Foundation are
beneficiaries of Jim Casey and his family. Casey was the founder of
UPS.
The Annie E. Casey
Foundation has excellent research at
http://www.aecf.org/
TUSCALOOSA, AL-Tuscaloosa-Northport
has been named as one of ten “All American Cities” for 2002.
CABARRUS, NC-The
Envision Cabarrus First Annual Implementation meetings will be September
19, 2002.
http://www.envisioncabarrus.org/
PAST COMMUNITY
VISIONING REPORTS, the
Community Strategic Planning Process, and client web sites can be reviewed
from the menu below. Luke Planning, Inc. provides facilitation for
Community Vision and Community Strategic Planning. Please forward this
newsletter to anyone who may have an interest in these topics.
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