Shreveport Caddo 2030 Master Plan

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SAVE THE DATE!
Saturday, August 28, 9 am - 1pm @ The Shreveport Convention Center

A Public Forum on the Great Expectations Draft Master Plan

It's your plan - join us for a Report, Discussion, and Lunch to celebrate the completion of the Draft Master Plan!

A year after the Master Plan Visioning Forum, the Master Plan Community Advisory Group and Planning Team will report back to you on the Draft Master Plan. You helped define the 20-year Vision for Shreveport-Caddo - now you'll have a chance to find out about how the Master Plan will help Shreveport-Caddo achieve your Vision.

This event begins the public review and comment period on the Draft Master Plan. The Draft Plan will be posted to the project website on August 16, 2010 and hard copies of the Draft Plan will be distributed to public libraries in the planning area, as well as being available at the offices of the Metropolitan Planning Commission on the fourth floor of Government Plaza. Public hearings on MPC approval of the plan will be scheduled for the end of September and October.

[This event has been postponed to August 28 from the original date of July 17.]

The Master Plan draft document is being completed by the planning team. Public presentation of the draft document for public review is currently scheduled for July 17 (time and place to be determined). At that time a draft copy of the Master Plan will be made available on this web site. During June, the Community Advisory Group and MPC staff will be reviewing a draft of the plan (calendar). All CAG meetings are open to the public.

MAY SCENARIO PUBLIC MEETING MATERIALS NOW POSTED ON THE WEBSITE!

The powerpoint presentation and display boards from the May Scenario Public Meetings can be viewed in the Document Library

The powerpoint can be found under presentations

The display boards can be found in maps and images

DON'T FORGET TO ATTEND THE MAY SCENARIO PUBLIC MEETINGS

See what Shreveport-Caddo could be like in 20 years and let us know what you think!

(Please attend the meeting that is most convenient for you. All meetings will be identical in content and format, and will discuss the entire planning area.)

All meetings will be from 5:30-8:00pm

Monday, May 10

West Shreveport Library, 4380 Pines Road
David Raines Library, 2855 Martin Luther King Boulevard

Tuesday, May 11

Cedar Grove/Line Avenue Library, 8303 Line Avenue
Hollywood/Union Library, 2105 Hollywood Street

Wednesday, May 12

Shreve Memorial Main Library, 424 Texas Street

Thursday, May 13

Broadmoor Library, 1212 Captain Shreve Drive
Hamilton/South Caddo Library, 2111 Bert Kouns Industrial Loop

Download the May Scenario Public Meeting flyer here and share with your community. Your input is needed as the Master Plan gets closer to completion!

WORKING GROUP MEETINGS SCHEDULE UPDATE!
Working group meetings scheduled at the end of March, including those scheduled for March 29, March 30, March 31 and April 1, have been rescheduled. The working group schedule going forward consists of the following meetings and dates:

April 20
Green Systems @ Shreveport Green offices, 4:30-6:30 pm

Downtown/Waterfront @ Downtown Library, 5:30-7:30 pm

April 21
Infrastructure and Transportation @ Downtown Library, 5:30-7:30pm
Housing/Neighborhoods/Revitalization @ Downtown Library, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

April 22
Economic Development @ Downtown Library, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
History/Arts/Culture @ Downtown Library, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

What's New on the Website?

The March Strategies for Solutions Public Meeting boards are now up on the website! Click here to view them in the Maps and Images Library. These meetings shared initial strategies with the community. Anyone with additional input on these strategies can email the team at shreveportcaddo@goodyclancy.com

*NEW* The Shreveport- Caddo Phase I Preliminary Fiscal Evaluation Report is now available for viewing! Click here to download.

*NEW* The Shreveport- Cost of Growth Presentation is now available for viewing! Click here to download.

Want to read Personal Vision Statements from the participants at the Great Expectations Visioning Forum? Click here to read what residents of the Shreveport-Caddo area had to say! (10 pdfs consisting of 20-30 Personal Vision Statements each are located under the "Great Expectations Visioning Forum" header.)

Attending the Great Expectations Visioning Forum on August 22nd?

Click here to download the Participation Guide

The Shreveport-Caddo 2030 Master Plan now has a facebook page! Become a fan and get up to date information on the planning process!

Speakers Bureau
Is your organization interested in learning more about the Master Plan and how to get involved? How about hosting a Master Plan speaker at your next meeting? Call Ron Tisdale at 318 673 6468 or e-mail him at ron.tisdale@shreveportla.gov.

Nearly 500 Participants Helped Shape the Future of Shreveport-Caddo at the Great Expectations Visioning Forum! Saturday, August 22, 2009

Nearly 500 Shreveport-Caddo area residents from a broad range of backgrounds and neighborhoods throughout Caddo Parish attended the Visioning Forum for the Great Expectations 2030 Master Plan on Saturday, August 22 at the Shreveport Convention Center to help shape the future of the Shreveport-Caddo area! Seated in randomly-assigned tables of ten, participants discussed and gave input on a variety of topics, including:

• What places within the Shreveport-Caddo area do you most value, and why?

• What are our biggest opportunities and challenges as we plan for the future?

• What can be done to make Shreveport-Caddo a model of racial understanding and cooperation?

• How should the Master Plan address topics such as arts and culture, quality of life, environmental quality, housing and neighborhood revitalization, economic development, transportation, infrastructure and public facilities?

• What should the future of Shreveport-Caddo be like?

The response was a powerful outpouring of ideas, thoughts, challenges, inspirations, and insights. Discussions were facilitated by trained volunteer facilitators and responses recorded on networked laptop computers at each table. Electronic key pads were intended to record each participant’s input and provide a “real-time” summary of input from around the room, but network issues prevented many of the keypads from working, so participants used paper surveys to record their responses instead. Despite these technical snags, however, many rich and thoughtful conversations took place and a great deal of valuable input was collected by planners. The planning team is currently recording and summarizing all of the input received. A summary of all participant input from the Visioning Forum will be available on this website soon! (You can sign up for email updates here to receive a notice when the Forum Summary is available.)

A surprise visit from the future planners of Caddo Parish! At the end of a long but productive day, Forum participants were treated to a special surprise: While their parents were working hard in the Visioning Forum, several children of Forum participants had spent the day in child care crafting their OWN master plan! They capped off the day’s activities with an inspiring presentation of their ideas for the future of Shreveport.

THANK YOU!!! The planning team sincerely thanks ALL Visioning Forum participants who volunteered their time to help shape the future of Shreveport-Caddo. Your hard work and input will help make the Great Expectations 2030 plan a plan that reflects your needs. We are also very grateful to the dozens of volunteer facilitators and recorders who helped make the forum such a success. We couldn’t have done it without you!

To view the Forum Report, agenda, slide presentations, and display materials from the Visioning Forum, click here

To view press coverage of the event, click here. To view images from this event click here!

To sign up for email notifications of future Master Plan events, click here.