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Community Visioning and Corridor Planning:
Experiences from Lincoln City, Oregon
By Kurt Olsen, Alison Nelson, and Alexandra Roberts Bullock
Like many communities, the small coastal town of Lincoln City, Oregon, has conducted several community visioning and planning processes. For its latest effort, however, Lincoln City took a new approach. Unlike previous processes, this one included an international design team that came to town for a five-day community visioning process. This PAS Memo provides background on Lincoln City's previous visioning efforts and describes the unique approach it took for the Cutler District, offering recommendations for others about to embark on a similar process.
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