The key exercise at the June 3 and 4 “Plan Policy” workshop series supplied participants with a list of primary policies supporting previous workshop directives and goals, and asked for feedback on each.

Working as individuals and later as small groups of three or more, participants rated each policy as “a great idea,” “a bad fit,” or “don’t know.” Quite a few comments were provided and transcribed, explaining the ratings, and sometimes explaining what would be necessary for the policy to suit Southern Pines.

The file below contains the workshop results from all three meetings, including pie charts, written comments, and copy of the two worksheets given participants.

Check it out - all 72 pages of it - and see how well residents thought the draft policies suited Southern Pines’ vision and overall goals established in earlier meetings. 

Worksheet results (combined) (1.7 Mb, Acrobat® file)

Work on Southern Pines’ Long-Range Plan continues with the “Plan Policy” workshop, scheduled in repeating format for three times: Wednesday, June 3rd from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the Southern Pines Recreation Center, 160 Memorial Park Court, and twice on Thursday, June 4th - from 11:30 to 1:30 pm at the Douglass Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Avenue, and from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the Southern Pines Recreation Center.

Each meeting will present important results from prior workshops including a draft preferred growth strategy and directives, plus a range of draft policies forming the backbone of the future plan. Attendees will be asked to discuss, rate and prioritize each policy, and add their own if desired. Results will shape the policy framework of the plan, basically a set of actionable guidelines for the Town’s future investments and activities.

Files linked below include the utility insert mailed to all Town utility customers, a copy of the display ad prepared for the Southern Pines Pilot, and a copy of the press release issued to area media outlets.

Utility insert (424 Kb, Acrobat® file)
Display ad (204 Kb, Acrobat® file)
Press release (116 Kb, Acrobat® file)

One of the key exercises at the April 22 and 23 “Plan Options” workshop series gave planners a sense of where and how residents would allocate growth over the next 20 years, given vision and plan directives established earlier in the process.

Working as individuals and later as small groups of three or more, participants placed a total of 16 dots in areas identified as having significant growth potential, showing how much new development, infill, or re-development they thought appropriate for each area. Each dot represented 150 housing units, which multiplied by a per-household factor, approximated the total number of new residents estimated to arrive in Southern Pines between now and the year 2030.

Each file below contains a copy of the base individual or group worksheet, with results broken down by the meeting place and date, and an “all” sheet showing how results from the three workshops combined. A third file provides a copy of the short “site manual” given each table to provide area context for those unfamiliar with each area.

It’s interesting stuff, and important now for the plan’s future policy framework, since much of what residents seem to be saying about growth is contingent on specific, qualitative directives - in other words, growth may occur in Southern Pines, but residents want it to be good growth, i.e., in concert with the community vision. 

Individual worksheet results (2.1 Mb, Acrobat® file)
Group worksheet results (2.0 Mb, Acrobat® file)
Site manual (708 Kb, Acrobat® file)

Following a slide presentation, the first exercise at the April 22 and 23 “Plan Options” workshop series allowed participants to prioritize and comment on a dozen guiding principles called “directives” emerging from the process.

Here are the results and transcribed comments from that exercise - taken from nearly 100 directives worksheets. Additional details describing the process and the various charts included, as well as a reduced-size version of the worksheet itself, are included in the downloadable file linked below.

Directives worksheet results (933 Kb, Acrobat® file)