In keeping with its tradition of judging programs based on their intentions rather than results, the American Planning Association has given its 2008 Award for Public Outreach to Portland’s Mayor, Tom Potter, for his VisionPDX program. This was a strange program to begin with, as Portland planners had already endlessly solicited residents for their opinions through hearings, open houses, and charrettes (not that any of the surveys were scientific).
Stranger still, since Potter was elected to a four-year term, was the timetable. It took more than two years just to collect and collate public opinions, and more time yet to make sense of it all (not that much of it made sense). This left Potter, who leaves office in January, little time to do anything about it.
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On top of that, as Bojack notes, “when the responses came back, many of them highly negative of the city’s penchant for worthless toys, they were handed over to the army of paid municipal planner types, who immediately threw most of them away and substituted a truckload of bureaucratic pap.”
In short, VisionPDX only confirmed what many skeptical Portlanders already knew: the city was only interested in their opinions if they agreed with the city’s preconceived notions. But since that is what urban planning is all about, it is completely appropriate that the APA recognize VisionPDX as a classic example of such planning.
Though looking at the Vision PDX Web site does reward the reader with some interesting and amusing comments, a few of which I have pasted-in below (these are not representative or a random selection but then the source of the survey was not either):
But Patrick, Portland is a Perfectly Planned Planner’s Paradise.
No big business, crummy jobs, underemployed overeducated young people, high taxes, unaffordable housing, thugs over running “Portland’s Living Room†(Pioneer Sq.), parks overrun by drifters, druggies, gang-type people , smelly downtown, poor schools, intolerable congestion and slow transit is a small price to pay for a Perfectly Planned Portland, the most livable city in the world.
Who needs stinkin businesses or jobs when we can have award winning planners run our city and the one hour transit rides they gave us to replace 15 min drives.
Portland is turning into the poster child of how badly planners screw up a city when given a chance – hopefully Portlanders will wake up and drive our 200 or so planners out of town in the total disgrace that they deserve.
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Though don’t worry Mr.Karlock has his own PLANS!
the highwayman said: Though don’t worry Mr.Karlock has his own PLANS!
JK: Oh, wise one, tell us what my plans are.
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JK: Oh, wise one, tell us what my plans are.
Rodz! Rodz! Rodz! Can you hip hop to that, Karlock?
JK: I see msetty is up to his usual standard of quality.
I see JK is up to his usual “quality” posts of ad hominen attacks and rants in which he generalizes all planners into the same pot and acts more “all knowing” then the planners he so derides. I bet half or more of those comments are written by Karlock and his friend(s?).
sustainibertarian said:. . . rants in which he generalizes all planners into the same pot
JK: Still looking for a planner in a city planning department (or those who contract to said city departments) who is not deluded.
I recognize that there must be some somewhere – they just seem to be quite rare.
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Well one of the most infamous urban planners in the US was Robert Moses.
See, even Mr.Karlock can love planners too!
JK: Infamous only among deluded planners that want people to live in the 1900s because they cannot cope with progress like Luddites. For the rest of us, he actually build roads to make people’s life better.
Why do planners have a problem with making people’s lives better, instead they try to shove their religion down out throats?
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Come on, as if you’re not trying to shove your ideology down other peoples throats.
Mr.Karlock, you are just as bad as the planners that you hate!
Hey Highwayman, your world view is showing when you accuse a freedom advocate of trying to force their ideology down other peoples throats..
I guess that pretty much says that you despise letting people be free.
Typical planner, hates other people being free.
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