Visioning process enters homestretch

After getting input from 5,000 residents, Council to vote on project’s top ideas next month

By Angela Webber

The Beaverton Valley Times, Jul 26, 2010

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After two years of hard work, Beaverton’s Visioning Advisory Committee presented its findings to City Council on Monday night.

“This is a big night for us,” said Holly Thompson, program manager for Beaverton Community Vision.

Mayor Denny Doyle called the committee’s work “a phenomenal effort” that will be used to shape the city’s priorities for decades.

The visioning project collected 6,500 ideas from more than 5,000 Beaverton residents at community meetings on what the city’s future should look like.

From there, the committee took 160 ideas and produced a survey sent to all of Beaverton’s households and 1,883 residents responded. All of the ideas that were a priority for more than 10 percent of survey participants made it into the final action plan.

Council will vote on the plan in August. If the plan is passed, which is expected, the vision committee will then find partners and set timelines for each of the priorities. That next step of the plan will be presented to council early next year.

Consultant Jason Robertson said that the action list of 117 priorities provides “a snapshot of the city in the future.”

Though the list is lengthy, Robertson said an overall theme is that “connectivity is key.”

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