meeting is tomorrow (Wednesday, 7/30), 8:30 at Ted Koffman's House, 168

Millbrook Road (off Norway Drive, pavement becomes gravel, branch to right, driveway is marked FR 272).

CD & LU Road shows
Audience:

-- Developers

-- Municipal officials and councils, boards, committees, including warrant

committees:

-- Realtors

-- Large donors

-- Financial professionals

-- Community groups - churches, Rotary, Lions

-- Schools

Ingredients:

-- Visual survey (would you like your town/neighborhood to look like this,

or this)

-- Discuss tools/solutions to achieve preferences identified, including

hypothetical or model ordinances, incentives, taxes, etc.

-- Implications of solutions - financial, regulatory, changes, etc.

-- Elements - emphasize visual over verbal, provide interactive

opportunities, include assignments/opportunities to participate when

possible.

When and how:

-- Over the winter and into spring

-- Take to various groups

-- Make the presentation flexible, to adapt to various audiences

-- Consider two presentation approaches:

* Two-phase presentation, with brief introduction and visual survey,

followed by a charrette to planning solutions based on visual survey

results. Maybe ask participants to do a little homework before the first

and/or second session. Aimed at professionals, municipal boards, and

others.

* Complete-in-one presentation to voters, community groups, schools, etc.

Build-out scenario

Ghost of Christmas Past meets Ghost of Christmas Future, or How will our

decisions shape the future of MDI?

-- Present images of villages 50 - 100 years ago

-- Show possible future based on current zoning ordinances in 10 years, 20

years . . . (e.g., how many more ridges might be built on if unprotected?)

-- Create demonstrations of plausible alternatives using CommunityViz and

other software with COA and consultants

Needs assessment:

-- Housing group is currently researching a housing study. This group is

interested in knowing commuter data, including distance/time to work

(research Crikelair 2001 MDI transportation study) and housing preferences,

single home vs. multi-family units, rent vs. own, cluster vs. sprawl,

in-town vs. rural, etc.

Timeline & Action Plan:

Road show(s)

-- Tailor to audiences

-- Presentations ready to hit the road Winter 2003/2004 before Town Meetings

* Mt. Desert - January

* Bar Harbor - February/March

* Southwest Harbor - ?

* Tremont - ?

* Meet with warrant committees before warrant articles finalized(?)

Promote MDI Tomorrow participation on warrant committees

Set benchmarks and identify means of reporting progress/activity

Prepared by Marla Major, Friends of Acadia and MDI Tomorrow

288-3340, marla@friendsofacadia.org

To contact MDI Tomorrow:
MDI Tomorrow, c/o University of Maine Cooperative Extension, 63 Boggy Brook Rd., Ellsworth, ME 04605, 207-288-8212.

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