Development Projects
New Online Community Engagement Tool Launched
Contribute Your Ideas for Community Planning and Housing Development in Hartford, Pokégnek Édawat Dowagiac and South Bend
Three Pokagon Band citizen charrettes, or town hall style meetings, took place in February in South Bend, Hartford and Dowagiac. In the past year over 200 Pokagon Band citizens have either attended a charrette or completed a community development questionnaire. Citizen input is critical to project success. Before we build we need to know what citizens need and want. Citizen input will drive the community master plan for all three villages.
We recently launched an online community engagement tool, the links to which can be found below. If you could not attend a charrette you can still participate, from anywhere in the world. If you have attended a charrette we welcome additional input from you. Please take a moment right now to go online and tell us what you think is important to consider when designing your community. Then come back to the site often to check on development progress and to give us your thoughts. Each of the three villages under consideration are represented by the online surveys. Feel free to provide input on how you feel tribal resources should be spent, on whichever village you're most interested in, or all three.
Dowagiac.metroquest.com
Hartford.metroquest.com
SouthBend.metroquest.com
The Band’s community design consultant, Conservation Design Forum is currently working on community master plan concept drawings. Input provided from citizens is driving the designs, as well as conservation guiding principles approved by present and past Council administrations. The community design process requires citizen input at each step:
- Initial charrettes and online engagement tool: dream big! Tell us what your ultimate Pokagon community looks like and what you think is most important.
- First draft community design: did we capture what you wanted? Does it work or not?
- Second draft community design: Did we fix what was not right on the first draft?
- Submit citizen input and designs to Tribal Council.