Ms. Goodwin reviewed the preparations made thus far to inform the community of the |
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upcoming workshops, scheduled for the Older Persons Commission Center on |
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Woodward, off Main Street, in Rochester. On Friday, May 1, 1998 the hours will |
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be 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.; on Saturday, May 2, 1998 the hours will be 8:30 a.m. to |
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Noon. Following the Noon adjournment the Planning Commission will have a brief |
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session to review the comments from the workshop sessions. The Rochester Hills |
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Quarterly, coming out next week, will contain an article about the Master Land Use |
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Plan Update. Press releases will be published in the Oakland Press, Rochester |
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Clarion-Eccentric and Detroit Free Press-Oakland Section. An announcement will be |
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put on the City's WebPage as well as on the Cable channel. Notices will also be |
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mailed to persons on the compiled mailing list. Announcements will also be mailed |
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directly to all the boards and commissions. Ms. Goodwin and Ms. Beebe plan to go |
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over to the OPC (Older Persons Center) on Friday to make sure the room has the |
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proper facilities to accommodate everyone. |
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First: The workshop on Friday will start out with everyone altogether as one group |
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for the introduction and community wide findings and overall community goals. Then |
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they will break into two groups that will focus on subgroup areas which have been |
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discussed at previous meetings. There will be at each subgroup setting an enlargement |
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made on the city's GIS system of the small focus areas that have already been |
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discussed so that people can see them in map form. There will also be a series of |
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photographs and plans that illustrate issues about those sites. Each subgroup will be |
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run like a focus session on alternatives and issues related to specific areas. It is Ms. |
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Beebe's experience that this format will be very beneficial in identifying alternatives. |
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Regarding the previously discussed commercial corners, they will develop a prototype |
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so that commissioners can see the alternative uses that might be possible. |
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