Austin Metric

Katherine Gregor writes another excellent and detailed profile of Austin's comprehensive planning process.   This quote by one of the members of the plan's citizen advisers stuck out:

The risk now is that the task force – rich in community activists but weak on the business community – will become mired in questions …

This table tells you why we need to change Austin's public outreach model.  But first, some context.

Katherine Gregor of the Austin Chronicle delves into some of the dissatisfaction about the diversity of participants in the City's comprehensive planning process.  Highly-educated, center-city types provided the bulk of the engagement so …