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In the early Spring of
2004, the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning(CMAP)
announced the launch of the Full Circle community planning and mapping
project.
Overview: In
this three year project, community-based organizations and local residents
will participate in creating detailed maps of their neighborhoods, and in
planning future development. Web technologies enable both the data-gathering
and visioning phases. This neighborhood planning effort will feed directly
into future neighborhood development processes.
Purpose: The purpose of the Full
Circle project is to empower local residents and community-based
organizations to plan the future development of their neighborhoods.
Objectives:
(a) Ensure that neighborhood concerns
are clearly articulated within the larger public planning process.
(b) Give local residents access to the
best tools and processes available for planning the future of their
communities. Full Circle tools will tap the power of the Internet and GIS
mapping to give neighborhood residents new capabilities for creating a
well-informed, shared vision of the future.
(c) Establish mechanisms for
continuous exchange of data, creative ideas, goals and intentions from
neighborhood residents to neighborhood planners and back again.
Full Circle is funded in part by a $675,000 grant from
the United States Department of Commerce under its
Technology
Opportunities Program.
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