CGPC Wants Your Opinion!

One of the major reasons planners focus on the built environment is the feeling it gives to the person experiencing it. Living or working in a poorly designed, or even deteriorating environment can lead to negative feelings about your situation over time while a well-kept, well-designed, and visually interesting place can have the opposite, positive effect. Yet we continue to accept forms of development that could be better – much better – with just a little additional thought and, often, at no greater cost.

To do this, though, we need to be clear on what we like and what we don’t like. We cannot expect designers and developers to produce developments, nor local planning officials to encourage good development, if we don’t let them know our preferences. One way to help identify them is through a survey that allows you to view different developments in different settings and register your reaction to them. Then we can ask what it is that those developments that we felt best about have in common – and, conversely, what those developments that we reacted most negatively to had in common. As a result, we will be in a better position to give guidance to developers and their design professionals, as well as evaluate the resultant proposals.

CGPC has put together a Community Development Preference Survey for you to take at your leisure. It is here on our web site as one of the links under “Programs and Services”. So go to that link and let us have your two cents’ worth. The more people that take the survey – and the more diverse they are in age, background, and where they live, the more we can learn.

Check it out today!