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City of Newberg wins first STAR Award for Citizen Involvement
The planning division of the City of Newberg is the first recipient of the STAR Award for Citizen Involvement. The award will be presented to city staff in November at a regular meeting of the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC).
The STAR Award recognizes exemplary efforts, by an organization or an individual, to involve citizens in a land use planning process. Newberg will receive the award for engaging its community in Newberg’s Future, a public outreach campaign designed to provide information and obtain feedback from citizens on how Newberg should plan for growth in the next 30 years.
With such a large task at hand – a 30-year planning effort – Newberg’s staff decided to use a variety of methods to tap into a cross section of its community. Over a five-year period between 2004 and 2008, the city organized:
- 2 community nights – a “one-stop shop” community open house for citizens to hear about long-range planning and many other community topics
- 21 editions of News of Newberg’s Future newsletter
- 20 meetings of the ad hoc committee on Newberg’s Future
- About 20 neighborhood meetings in each area proposed for a change
- Speakers at civic clubs and events
- Booths at community events
- Public questionnaires
- Website updates
- 15 public hearings
- Regular articles in the Newberg Graphic
“This award is a tribute to all the citizens of Newberg who took time to drop by a booth, read a newsletter, fill out a questionnaire, or just listen to a presentation,” said Barton Brierley, Newberg’s Planning and Building Director. “We wanted to make it easy for everyone to learn about and have a voice in the future of Newberg. We were rewarded by really learning what our citizens want.”
“Newberg’s planning division went to great lengths to communicate with all segments of its population,” said Christine White, a member of the state’s Citizen Involvement Advisory Committee (CIAC) that created the award. “It would have been easy for Barton and his staff to do one-quarter of what they did and feel good about it. But they obviously know how important it is to hear from the citizens.
“Our feeling on CIAC is, the more people you get involved, the better the product you are going to get. And with that comes a great sense of pride within the community. More people have ownership in the project.”
CIAC is an advisory committee to LCDC.
Nominations for awards in 2009 will be announced soon. The deadline for nominations is February 1, 2010.
For more information, please contact Cliff Voliva at the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development at (503) 373-0050, ext. 268, or via e-mail at: cliff.voliva@state.or.us.
