Triangle survey launched with public dashboard, paid block-captain outreach and in-person support

The City’s Triangle planning team and consultants introduced a public survey tool and outreach plan aimed at shaping a neighborhood vision for the Triangle site, telling participants the survey will go live in time for a March 11 community kickoff.

Project facilitator Elizabeth opened the meeting and said the immediate goal is to draft survey values and question options with community organizations. Matt Harter of Civic Trust described a dashboard that will display anonymized survey results and demographic breakdowns in near-real time so residents can see how the neighborhood is responding. Harter said the system will verify responses with an email or phone number and that paper and door-to-door surveys will be used to reach people without internet access.

The nut graf: Organizers said the survey phase is intended to surface community values and measurable goals that will guide site options and later decisions; the dashboard and a ground-based field program are intended to increase transparency and participation across demographic groups.

Civic Trust’s presentation emphasized survey integrity and transparency. "As soon as people take the survey, anonymized results go straight into a public dashboard," Harter said, adding that demographic summaries will let participants check whether outreach is reaching different neighborhoods. He said the team will not link identifying contact details to individual responses and that email or phone verification helps ensure "one person, one voice."

Staff and consultants also described outreach mechanics. Project staff said they will recruit and pay community organizations to serve as block captains and community connectors, with a block-captain role described as $40 an hour for roughly 100 hours over 9–12 months; lower-tier connectors can be paid per event. Organizers committed to a field program that includes door-to-door engagement and paper surveys so older adults and residents without internet can participate. "There will be a field program attached to the survey responses to make sure we capture all of the community," Elizabeth said.

The team demoed question formats intended for the survey: fixed-option rankings (to generate clear quantitative results), open-text fields (to capture ideas the multiple-choice options miss), and an "elements" feature where residents can post project ideas and have neighbors endorse them. Staff said paper responses will be entered into the same dashboard so offline input will feed the public results.

Organizers said they will post a draft of the survey questions and related materials for review, send an email with links and contact details, and aim to publish an initial survey by the March 11 kickoff. They also said there will be both English and Spanish application links for block-captain recruitment. The meeting closed with staff promising follow-up materials and opportunities for more review sessions if needed.

The next procedural step: organizers will circulate the draft survey and a storyboard for comment, then finalize outreach plans and aim for a March 11 public launch.