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Consultants report broad participation in Imagine Pender 2050; residents emphasize managed growth, flooding and housing
Summary
Clarion Associates told the Pender County Planning Board that more than 1,400 surveys and nearly 180 in-person attendees informed early public engagement for the county's Imagine Pender 2050 comprehensive-plan update. Top priorities included coordinating growth with infrastructure, protecting farmland and addressing stormwater and housing needs.
Leanne King, project manager with Clarion Associates, told the Pender County Planning Board on Dec. 3 that the first round of public engagement for Imagine Pender 2050 drew more than 1,400 survey responses and nearly 180 in-person attendees during a seven-week outreach period in September and October.
King said the engagement program included 10 in-person forums, tabling at 15 events and a parallel online process open from Sept. 17 to Oct. 29. Clarion and county staff used three evaluation objectives to measure the outreach: participant satisfaction with engagement, representativeness relative to the county's demographics, and increased participation compared with the county's last comprehensive-plan process in 2018 (Pender 2.0). King said respondents reported high satisfaction and signaled…
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