Community Visioning

This guide from the Pennsylvania Land Trust Organization is targeted at rural Pennsylvania communities. It offers an overview of the community visioning process, describing the basics (initiating the process, the end product, community opinion, stakeholders, steering committee) as well as the visioning process (e.g., defining community boundaries, forming leadership groups, inventorying community resources, creating scenarios, developing the community vision statement, developing the action plan) and key ingredients for community vision (local leadership, community participation, open outcome, regional perspective, financial support, consultant roles). It describes several visioning techniques and offers short case studies on visioning processes in four rural communities: Millersville, PA; Hazlet Township, NJ; Pike County, PA; and Damariscotta, ME.