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A public voice on growth, counted
Verified surveys, counted by neighbourhood and delivered to decision makers.
Idea for assessment, not an approved project
The problem
What residents describe today.
Residents give opinions in comment sections and at events, and it is hard for decision makers to count them.
New roads and new residents are coming, and services need to be planned before the rush.
Evidence
Opinions given in comment sections and at events are hard to count. Whether a verified, one-response-per-resident tool would be used has not been tested.
The idea
An approach to assess.
- Surveys and calls for ideas in one place, one response per verified resident.
- Results counted by neighbourhood and delivered in a clear report.
- Feedback is input, not a vote. Council still decides.
- The response is followed in public.
Before anything happens
What this idea still needs.
- Tarrabin Consulting's role
- Tarrabin Consulting wrote this idea and can advise on it. We do not run these services and we hold no approval to build them. Any decision belongs to the people and organizations responsible.
- Decisions needed
- How residents would be verified without collecting more than needed, how results are reported, and the rule that feedback is input and not a vote.
- Next step to test it
- Test the idea with this page's survey and ask whether residents would use a verified version.
- Communities
- Where an idea touches First Nations or Métis communities, those communities decide. Nothing goes ahead without their written mandate, and the Crown's duty to consult stays with the Crown.
Video
Video in preparation
The video is being re-cut before publication.
Your opinion
Three questions. Under a minute.
Is this a problem for you, and would this idea help? Your answers are counted with everyone else's.
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