Politics & Government
General Plan Committee to Close Online Survey
Online survey to be closed soon. Paper questionnaires will be taken until at least August.
General Plan Update Steering Committee Chair Denise Delmar gave a brief report to the City Council regarding the latest from the general plan update process at Tuesday's meeting.
To date, the GPUSC has held two General Plan Town Hall forums in search of input from Sierra Madre residents and community members. The was held in November of last year and was widely considered a success.
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A was held in early May at the and the event again drew many people interested in the update process out to discuss the plan and share their ideas.
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The committee's goal of collecting as much public input as possible has been facilitated by the use of surveys offered to residents that ask a number of questions about their opinions on what direction Sierra Madre should be heading .
The GPUSC has also been offering an online version of the survey, though Delmar said that will be closing on June 24. But that doesn't mean people still wishing to be involved are out of luck. Delmar said that anyone wishing to complete a handwritten survey could still do so and submit it to the committee.
"We've had the survey out now for about eight months," Delmar said. "So I'm kind of feeling safe that if people wanted to submit the survey they could have done so by now."
Delmar went on to say that she expected the GPUSC to stop accepting the hand-written surveys by August, but that no firm decision had yet been made by the committee.
That issue will be among many others discussed by the committee at their next meeting on July 19. While the committee typically meets on the first Tuesday of each month, they had to reschedule their July meeting due to several committee members being unavailable for the original meeting date.
"I encourage everybody to come down and talk with us," Delmar said. "Our meetings are very interactive [and] we love to have participants come and talk to us and let us know what's going on."