Public involvement
Public involvement provides the opportunity to review the progress of the Lewis and Clark Multi-Use Trail Study development process, ask questions of the project team and is a great way for the public to stay informed and share information.Four days of regional stakeholder workshops will be conducted, including up to 28 individual working sessions. This important program will include:
- One day in each of four regions of the Lewis and Clark corridor, probably including southwestern Iowa, from the Missouri border to the edge of the Omaha/Council Bluffs metropolitan area; the Omaha/Council Bluffs metropolitan area; the central-west Iowa region between the Council Bluffs and Siouxland metropolitan areas; and the Siouxland metropolitan area.
July 27, 2009 7:30a.m. - 9 a.m. Hamburg (Hamburg Fire Station, 711 Main Street) 10:30 a.m. - noon Southern Loess Hills Welcome Center (Just west of exit 10 off
Interstate 29 at 2083 Crossroads Drive in Percival)2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. Glenwood (Glenwood Senior Center, 20 North Vine Street) 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Council Bluffs (Public Library, 400 Willow Avenue) July 28, 2009
7:30a.m. - 9 a.m. Council Bluffs (Community Hall, 205 South Main) 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Council Bluffs (Community Hall, 205 South Main) 12:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Missouri Valley (Rand Community Senior Center, 100 S 4th Street) 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. Onawa (Onawa Community and Recreation Center, 320 10th Street) July 29, 2009
7:30a.m. - 9 a.m. Onawa (Onawa Community and Recreation Center, 320 10th Street) 10:30 a.m. - noon Sloan (Sloan Community Center, 423 Evans Street) 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. Sioux City (Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, 900 Larsen Park Road) 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Sioux City (Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, 900 Larsen Park Road) July 30, 2009 8 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Sioux City (Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, 900 Larsen Park Road)
- Workshop discussions during the day organized by specific interest group. These may include tourism and business/economic development interests; user groups and recreationalists; public sector; historical and cultural interests; and environmental interests.
- An evening regional workshop, inviting residents at large to discuss the potentials of a Lewis and Clark multi-use trail and possible determinants of the trail route.
An internet-based survey regarding travel, experiences and opinions of the Iowa Lewis and Clark corridor will provide us with local knowledge and measure recreational preferences and travel and consumer patterns in the Lewis and Clark Multi-Use Trail study area.
The charrette process invites public participation and involvement, and each design session culminates in a public presentation for the specific region. Each charrette will relate trail types, contexts, resources, and opportunities into a conceptual network. Traveling workshops have been scheduled for the week of Sept. 21, 2009.
During this part of the process, maps and base information will be highly illustrative and help orient public participants, such as aerial photographs and graphic examples from our experience designing comparable facilities.
