<html><div>At 10:19 AM 5/16/00 -0700, you wrote:</div>
<div>>I'm working on a local government planning project that requires
a public </div>
<div>>review of the planning document to get community input.
Everyone is </div>
<div>>expecting the same old process of presenting the plan then
having people </div>
<div>>come to a podium or something and blah blah blah. I don't
want to do that.</div>
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<div>>There must be a way to use OS here. Has anyone used OS this
way to </div>
<div>>transform an otherwise mundane bureaucratic input process into
something </div>
<div>>more. Something where people from the general community
are learning and at </div>
<div>>the same time providing input to those who must make final
decisions.</div>
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<div>>Don</div>
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<div>It may be a little late. Sounds like the plan is already done, and
therefore (to some extent the space is already closed. Open Space is a
great way to develop the Plan in the first place -- and for sure the
community will come alive and there will be plenty of input. At this
point i would be more than a little concerned that either the folks would
take Open Space seriously in which case they might throw out the plan and
make the planners unhappy. Or they wouldn't take it seriously, and it
would be back to same old, same old, and the community would be unhappy.
The advantage of mind numbing Blah, Blah, Blah is that when you are numb
it doesn't hurt so much. </div>
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<div>Harrison</div>
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