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57 <br /> Timeline of Community Planning Work <br /> Pre-process interviews and review: In the first month, RENA and the August 15- <br /> Jackson Center worked together to review past plans, including the Small <br /> Area Plan & the various Task Force reports. We devised questions for the September 30 <br /> planning departments and key stakeholders and completed several small <br /> group interviews, to better understand what the gaps were in previous <br /> efforts and what common priorities and themes had been identified as <br /> starting points for community discussion. We identified leaders from the <br /> sub-neighborhoods and other major stakeholders to invite to the Unity <br /> Board, and sent out invitations. Unity Board members include neighbors <br /> from sub-neighborhoods including Historic Rogers Road, Billabong, TallyHo, <br /> Meadow Run, Phoenix Place, Rusch Rd, and Sandberg areas, and leaders <br /> from St. Paul, Church of the Advocate, and Faith Tabernacle. <br /> Unity Board Meeting 1: The group reviewed the proposed process and October 8 <br /> charge. We shared visions for the future of Rogers Road 10 years from now <br /> and began discussing priorities identified from past planning efforts and <br /> what had changed since that time. We had dialogue about the struggle of <br /> past processes to move toward implementation and began discussing sets <br /> of questions to help this effort move forward comprehensively. <br /> Unity Board Meeting 2: The group developed a draft of priorities for future October 22 <br /> development based on the themes from the shared visions and from the <br /> previous plans. Three small groups participated in a rotation activity into <br /> categories of past priorities, updating them, challenging them, and mapping <br /> vision into strategy. <br /> Unity Board Meeting 3: The group began to geographically map answers to November 7 <br /> questions set forth from the priorities for future development that began to <br /> elaborate on the "what" and "where." <br /> Unity Board Meeting 4: The group critiqued the existing work to date, November 22 <br /> finalized the priorities for any future development, and worked on mapping <br /> questions related to the priorities. <br /> V <br />