Public Involvement Plan and Toolkit for Las Cruces
The city of Las Cruces, New Mexico requested EPA Smart Growth Implementation Assistance to develop strategies for engagement in a community that includes ethnically diverse, low-income populations that had limited or no previous involvement in community planning and design.
Creative outreach and participation strategies were tested in two visioning workshops for the El Paseo corridor, a 1.7-mile corridor that extends southeast from Main Street in downtown Las Cruces to the New Mexico State University campus.
Public Involvement Plan and Toolkit for Las Cruces (pdf) (2011) includes many of the outreach and participation tools the project used to begin developing a vision for the El Paseo corridor. City staff in any community seeking to increase community participation could use these materials.
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