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Benton County adopts Inclusive Outreach plan for comprehensive‑plan update; commissioners asked to serve as 'ambassadors'
Summary
County staff presented an Inclusive Outreach Plan and hard‑to‑reach maps, said a project website and survey are under development, and asked planning commissioners to volunteer as local ambassadors for in‑person meetings and targeted outreach before the project's June funding deadline.
Staff presentations at the Benton County Planning Commission work session described an outreach strategy for the county’s comprehensive‑plan update and asked commissioners to help publicize and host neighborhood meetings.
Shannon Marshall, program coordinator in Community Development, reviewed a package of documents that include a DLCD technical advisory (TA) grant agreement (the TA grant that provided $50,000 for the project), a contract with Cascadia Partners to run the planning‑process outreach, an Inclusive Outreach Plan and an Excel “menu” of engagement options. Marshall said the outreach work is at an early stage and that the project website has recently been made available to staff for content development; she estimated a website and survey may be ready within roughly two weeks for internal review and testing.
Marshall described “hard‑to‑reach” maps…
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