Picture It Better Together: Taking Transportation Goals From Policy To Reality

The Capitol Region Council of Governments has available several products from a two-year livable communities project called Picture It Better Together: Taking Transportation Goals From Policy To Reality.

The Picture It Better Together project had two distinct components: a CRCOG regional component that focused on local and regional growth policies and a neighborhood component. Both of these components solicited the public's perspective and input into what makes a livable community.  Our goal for this project was to listen to the public and then provide information on development, conservation, and preservation practices to achieve what the public wants.  In addition, we sought to contribute to the discussion of social equity as it relates to local, regional, and state development policies.

This project provided us with the opportunity to talk directly with hundreds of citizens; we found that "Where do we grow from here?" is a topic on many people's minds.  One of the surprises was the strength of the public's desire for more choices-whether in development patterns in general or specific areas such as our transportation system.  Our materials (described below) help clarify the issues we face as individual communities and a region and begin to define actions we can take to provide more choices to our citizens.