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<DIV><SPAN class=950164819-13012004>Dear Avner,</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=950164819-13012004>Thank you for sharing your powerful story of
using OST in master planning. It is a story that we can all learn from and use
as a teaching story for others. Could you please say a little more about the
point that you made that delaying the OST was an ingredient for its success--was
this about political readiness? And could you please say something about what is
in place to take the ideas from the OST into follow up? </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Avner
Haramati<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 13, 2004 3:29 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> OS and Master Plan -
long<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P align=left>Dear colleagues </P>
<P align=left>About 10 months ago you helped Tova and myself in your good
advise on how to use OS for the creation of a new Master Plan for a city.
</P>
<P align=left>Last week during 3 days (17.00-22.00) it happened, in a small
city (Arad) in the northern desert of Israel. This city which had glamorous
days, sank in the last 15 years into kind of depression. The youngsters leave,
they feel penetrated by the very fast growing of Bedouin population that
surrounds them, (creating safety anxieties), lack of leadership, and a
traumatic event of death of youngsters in a huge yearly Rock Festival. This
Festival which was a life giving event and Symbol died with police
investigations and court accusations. </P>
<P align=left>Choosing OS was also in order to elevate the energies and hope.
The theme was " Arad, what is my dream and how will we fulfill it?". About 500
people participated along the days (250-350 each day), including the planners,
governmental planning authorities, the city management, neighbors (including
Bedouins) and the newly elected Mayor (1.5 month).</P>
<P align=left>A lot of skepticism prevailed among the professionals, the
planners were afraid to be confronted with over expectations, For the
governmental authorities (who give the money for the Master Plan), they
refused at the beginning that the planners will meet the public, in order to
prevent pushing of private interests. The new Mayor who got the process as a
heritage was for it but hesitantly since he was not sure if it will be a
success. </P>
<P align=left>As the os evolved more and more young people and diversity
showed up, and the discussions deepened. The lost energies of these talented
people were exposed as the dreams unfolded and their fulfillment’s seemed
plausible. For most of the people it was a great success and they were excited
and thankful for bringing back the hope. </P>
<P align=left>some anecdotes: </P>
<P align=left>An 11 old girl who passed by asked what is going on there
inside? "Dreaming your city" was the answer "How much does it cost"? asked "It
is free and you are most welcome" . She walked in and soon she was seating
with an old guy, helped him to finalize his ideas translate them to Hebrew.
She printed his summary, and refused to take credit. This 11 year old girl who
continued to come, speaks Hebrew, Russian, English, French and some Arabic
…and for us she symbolized the future and direction of Arad for the people
(40% Russian new emigrants and surrounded by Arab-Bedouin tribes).</P>
<P align=left></P>
<P align=left>Originally the plan was to do the OS on August. Since I traveled
for 2.5 months, they chose to postpone it to November. I felt unease, but we
remembered the second principle and trusted it. In October they decided to
wait (and it was not easy) until after the elections, in order not to trap the
new Mayor and let him decide if he wants it. It so happened that it became so
obvious now that the postponing was crucial to the success of the OS.</P>
<P align=left></P>
<P align=left>At the end, the manger of the planning authorities in the South
of Israel told us that now she believes that it is possible to have a real
participation of citizens in the preparation of Master Plans and she wants us
to present it to all the planners.</P>
<P align=left></P>
<P align=left>“If we will continue with what we have started in these 3 days
we will have a new Festival in town” said one of the old timers in the closing
circle.</P>
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<P align=left> </P>
<P align=left>Summary</P>
<P align=left>We invested a lot of energy, more than ever, to encourage the
steering committee to choose a committed `project manager`, to invite all the
stakeholders including the all spectrum of citizens and neighbors, and we
insisted on a leading positioning of the new Mayor. We succeeded somehow to do
it without quarreling with the client, even though we felt the urge to do
it.</P>
<P align=left>We felt that being 2 of us there (with Tova) was needed in order
to cope with the tense political and depressing atmosphere that prevailed.</P>
<P align=left></P>
<P align=left>Now they are in the process of building the mechanisms to
support whatever came up in order to make it happen, in their daily life and
in within the Master Plan.</P>
<P align=left>Thank you</P>
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<P align=left>Avner Haramati</P>
<P align=left>Jerusalem</P>
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