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Brighton consultants report early community outreach: traffic, housing and agriculture top concerns
Summary
Design Workshop and city staff presented results from the first community engagement window for Brighton’s comprehensive plan, citing focus groups, an open house and an online questionnaire; staff highlighted transportation (70% of questionnaire respondents), housing affordability, and preservation of agricultural/open space as recurring themes and announced March workshops on growth scenarios.
Design Workshop and Brighton city staff summarized findings from the first community engagement window of the city’s comprehensive plan update, telling council and the planning commission that early input focused on traffic congestion, housing affordability, multimodal connections and protecting agricultural land.
Design Workshop principal Jessica Garrow and planner Emily Burrows told the meeting that consultants ran six focus groups (38 participants) covering businesses, water infrastructure, housing and transportation and that an open community questionnaire drew more than 300 responses. “Seventy percent of folks who participated in this questionnaire identified traffic congestion as the number 1 concern on their mind,” Garrow said,…
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