Urban Plans spend two years studying Detroit and talking with over 30,000 residents

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This will be the result....thoughts?

http://www.freep.com/article/20130108/NEWS01/130108058

Following two years of study and 30,000 conversations with the public, the Detroit Works Long-Term Planning team is unveiling a book-length final report this week that holds out the promise of a better, if different, Detroit.

The big question now is what happens to “Detroit Future City,” as the compilation of text, data, maps, and recommendations is titled. The Detroit Economic Growth Corp., headed by President and CEO George W. Jackson Jr., takes over the general overseeing of the report, and the Detroit Works team is recommending that a consortium of civic leaders be formed to help popularize Detroit Future City’s ideas.

Sandra Turner-Handy, an east side resident and community outreach director for the Michigan Environmental Council, served as a process leader for the Detroit Works long-term planning team. She said residents overcame initial suspicion of the project once they realized that Detroit Future City would recommend that every neighborhood be improved, if in many different ways depending on conditions.

“Once they got past the mistrust, they were in,” she said this week. “The residents were excited and ready. Our goal is go make sure we give the residents what they need to help them recreate their communities.”