Public Involvement

It is essential for a successful planning project to identify and capture a commonly held vision of the future. In our projects, we go beyond traditional planning methods and reach out to a broad population.

Hands-on public & stakeholder workshops

Fregonese Associates has pioneered methods for capturing the community's best ideas through simulated decision making activities in a workshop format such using instant polling and exercises that ask participants to make important trade-off decisions. We have employed workshops successfully in projects ranging in scale from the Mountlake Terrace, WA Downtown Plan, to a vision for the Grand Traverse, to long-range planning for South Louisiana's recovery.

Training

We strive to share our tools and experience that we have gained around the country in order to transfer regional concepts to on-the-ground projects. In partnership with the Southern California Association of Governments, FA initiated a training program called "Toolbox Tuesdays" for planners in Southern California on several of FA's cutting edge tools including the creation of visualizations, our ROI model, and our scenario building tool, Envision Tomorrow.

Websites and publications

With expertise in design and publication, Fregonese Associates has created many publications for clients entirely in-house. We consistently use the best tools to create compelling websites, newsletters, and reports to engage citizens in the planning process.

Videos

Fregonese Associates utilizes videos in many projects to bring project information to a wider audience. Some of our recent notable videos include:

The Big Look: Examining
Oregon's Land Use Laws

Louisiana Speaks.
Our Voice. Our Plan. Our Future.