Visioning Workshop
On October 7th, Design Workshop, the Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee and the City hosted a Visioning Workshop at Branson High School in the school’s auditorium. Roughly 80 people, representing organizations, workers and residents, attended one of the two events and helped the consultant team drill down into more detail about the issues facing Branson and highlight priorities for future City efforts.
The workshop began with a 75 minute presentation by the consultant team that presented attributes of successful communities, reflected on responses received from the August Open House, included keypad polling questions intended to clarify Open House responses and reported on existing conditions of the respective topics. The presentation was organized into the following topic areas:
Economic Development
- Economic Development (Industry, Retail, Development Incentives)
- Tourism (Entertainment/Attractions, Visitor Services, Lodging/Accommodations, Convention Center)
- Infrastructure (Utilities)
Land Use
- Land Use & Development (Growth, Redevelopment/Infill, Development Codes, Sustainable Development)
- Transportation (Roads, Pedestrian Network, Public transportation, Bicycle Systems)
- Parks, Recreation & Open Space (Parks, Open Space, Trails, Recreation)
- Governance (Charter City, Intergovernmental Agreements, Annexation)
Community
- Community Character (Downtown, Highway 76, Neighborhoods, City Gateways)
- Environment (Water, Air Quality, Floodplain)
- Community Services (Social Services, Safety & Security, Health and Education)
- Arts & Culture (arts, culture, community values)
The same presentation was given twice in an effort to gather input from as many people as possible– one at 3:30PM and one at 6:30PM. View the presentation that was given to the attendees.
View the Visioning Survey results that summarize the questions asked during the October 8th presentations, combined with the responses collected online between 10/08 and 10/22.
After the presentation, attendees were split into three groups: Economic Development, Land Use and Community. Attendees were assigned to a table based on the number, which correlated to a table number, given to them as they signed–in. At each of the tables, the group was assigned with answering a specific question or two. The questions were designed to let the community provide input on how to incentivize businesses to locate in Branson, locate where redevelopment priorities should be, identify what defined sense of community and list what cultural, arts or social services are missing in Branson today. The responses to these questions are available for download below.
For those that attended the Visioning Workshop and have input on a question at a different table than you were assigned to, you may provide response to all of the questions here: Break–Out Group Questions. These questions are also in the Visioning Survey (link above) for those that did not attend the October 7th workshop.
Input received from the keypad polling and the break–out groups was extremely valuable. This information will help form the alternative futures to be presented on October 28th. We appreciate all of the response and time that people have devoted to the Community Plan 2030!
Document Downloads
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Visioning Workshop Presentation
Visioning Workshop Survey Results
This consolidates responses from both the 3:30PM and 6:30PM presentations.
Survey Results
Economic Development Table
How to Attract the Types of Businesses the Community Wants?
Attendees answered the question “How can we attract the types of businesses that we all identified in the keypad polling session?” The document lists all the responses from both sessions.
How to Attract the Types of Businesses the Community Wants?
Land Use Table
Where should redevelopment occur?
Attendees answered the question “Based on responses from the infill questions, where should development/redevelopment occur?” The document download lists all of the responses. Some attendees marked on maps of the City where infill opportunities were located.
Where should redevelopment occur?
Community Table
What Makes a Good Community?
Attendees answered the question “What makes a good community to you?” The document download lists all of the responses.
What Makes a Good Community?
What is Community elements are missing in Branson?
Attendees answered the question “What is missing in the community? (community help facilities, health care facilities, education, compassion, love, emotion)” The document download lists all of the responses.
What is Community elements are missing in Branson?
