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`r-"~ [~~~wnt"vvtt Nilo`~ Visit~ning Process Becla;~ <br /> Envision Downto~nm Hilo 2025 is the name of a grassroots community visioning project that <br /> began on March 22, ?004, with the first in what was to be a series of community workshops. On <br /> thOt day In MafCh, haweVer, WarkShOp OraanlZP.rS and Da rti r'1 manta warp unrnnm rP Ihnf fhPV ~niPrco }H,n <br /> seed of an organic process that would eventually grow into acommunity-wide, even island-wide, <br /> effort. this modest, hastily arranged one-day workshop was the catalyst that pulled the public "into <br /> action. <br /> <1 y L >n .t C>r 'h A,n = ~ my qq~~~~ - <br /> HOW (fA~~ Jla~leC~: WOf~C5110~'J ~i ~ ~_~as ~b,ufho•wt I>P~rPi <br /> rnp~aq~ uban gi~miih and ' <br /> The first community workshop featured Cherie Enns, a <br /> . ,k prnord Smut ~yow~tl• <br /> Smart Growth lecturer and professor of geography at University ~ ~,plec include hou~ing and <br /> College of the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Chene t ispoda~„~ _ ~ _ <br /> F ~ com>>t <br /> felt O natural af{Inlty far Dawntown H110 and made annual tops ,.~cy,i ,ahz rammunihc-s, slror~c{ sEnse <br /> with her students- Prior to her visit in the spring of 2004, Cherie ~ of place and pre>e-vine opFa~ ' <br /> contacted both the Hilo Downtown Improvement Assodation ' spaces <br /> (DIA) and the County of Hawaii Planning Department (Planning ' <br /> Department) and generously offered to conduct a workshop on Smart Growth. Coincidentally, the <br /> DIA had recently enlisted Susan Gagorik as a Planning Department liaison to its Board of Directors. <br /> Susan and DIA"s Executive Director Mary Ann Wanush brainstormed and then sold their idea of a <br /> town half style of meeting, which would be co-sponsored by the DIA and Planning Department. Two <br /> sessions were scheduled for Monday, Mardi 'l_2, 2004, at historic Central Christian Church on Haiti <br /> <br /> Street in Downtown Hilo. Cherie began each session with a Smart Growth presentation. The <br /> <br /> second part of each session was devoted to small group mapping exercises using postersized maps <br /> of the Downtown Hllo CDH- Each group placed stickers on the map which indicated the places and <br /> features they thought were "great," "not so great," and then they added their "dreams" for Downtown. <br /> Both audiences that day participated enthusiastically and the organizers found that people <br /> were reluctant to leave at the close of each workshop. A <br /> l ~ e simple mapping exercise had opened up discussion about <br /> Y r <br /> possibilities and sparked an interest that was impossible to <br /> ignore. On that rainy Monday sixty people took time from <br /> their busy schedules to share their thoughts and dreams for <br /> Downtown Hilo, and they wanted to know what was next <br /> t and what they could do to help. Workshop organizers were <br /> i <br /> - energized by this positive response and decided that the time <br /> was right for someone to lake responsibility for keeping the <br /> momentum going. Something should be done with those <br /> Workshop #1-March 22, 2004 poster-sized maps that were now riddled with colored dots <br /> 9 <br /> <br />