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About the Process With the December 2019 amendment of the Town Center into new south and north overlays, the Commission gained an opportunity to pause and rethink the path towards creating guidelines for the north overlay, During that time, the City Commission determined that the TCNQ Re -envisioning process should be driven by values and aspirations articulated by the community as input in a process to find balance and common ground. Therefore, the project process was designed to achieve three goals: • Inclusiveness and transparency: seek to maximize the public information and engagement elements of the process. • Range of opinions: Gain insight into a broad range of community values and concerns. • Balanced recommendations: Reach impartial and legally defensible conclusions based on community opinion combined with neutral technical considerations. Achieving consensus on the issues concerning the Town Center North (or, indeed, on any Citywide issue) was not among the purposes of the public engagement process. The project team clearly understood that there is, in fact, no single "public" in Sunny Isles Beach. Instead, the public consists of a range of stakeholders who hold a wide array of views and concerns. Therefore, the aim was to listen to and gather input from the community's wide spectrum of stakeholder interests, to find balance among their disparate perspectives, and to help the City Commission reflect their decisions back so that participants can see how their concerns were considered. The process conducted by CGA consisted of S main interrelated tasks. Task 1 Task 2 Snapshot Ot the Mobilization Present 1. Mobilization: The project was kicked -off with strategy meetings between the consultant and City staff to work out details of the schedule, data needs, and public engagement plan (PEP). This task included the design and launch of a project webpage on the City's website, identification of the elements of a social media campaign, coordination on planned face-to- face engagement events, decisions about an online survey, and other components of the PEP. During the Mobilization task, the project team also conducted a series of stakeholder meetings (adding to approximately 2-1/2 days of meetings). The stakeholder groups included residents, landowners, developers, activists, and elected officials. 2. Snapshot of the Present: In this task, the project team gathered and ' analyzed information to develop a fact -based understanding of present conditions in the Town Center pertaining to population, development, housing stock, policies and regulations, mobility, services and environment. The team mapped key factors from this examination and further conveyed the information via pictographs, charts, and photos. The Snapshot is not an exhaustive or deep analysis, but rather a means to take an impression of the TCNQ at a moment in time. The most up-to-date available data were used. �• 3. Framing the Future: This purpose of this task was to collect public input on topics relevant to _ the TCNQ, so the project team could outline potential actionable options for subsequent consideration. The results of Task 3 Task 4 Framing the Future Documentation & Recommendations J J Outline of the Re -envisioning process tasks. 26 City of Sunny isles Beach