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)
