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“Lafayette committed to a process with Strong Towns that involved navigating unchartered waters. We had confidence that despite a clearly known destination or path, merely working in good faith with shared goals and principles would result in a positive outcome. A year into the relationship that has proven true. Now we have a Return on Infrastructure Investment Diagnostic Framework that will enable us to make substantially better decisions as we move forward as a community. We hope that Strong Towns can benefit other communities in a similar fashion.”
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“I, Phillip Soares, PE TE MPA, being a Professional Civil Engineer and Professional Traffic Engineer in the State of California, support Strong Towns 100% because it gives me the tools that I did not learn in college to try to make a better community now and in the future.”
“Our community (Carbondale, IL) has recently gone through an assessment of our downtown to attempt to revitalize; Strong Towns gave me tools and language to address our planning committee and planners, and resources to point to in beginning to engage city officials; it also equipped me to begin this process, identify who to approach and how, get involved in local government, not as a partisan but just as a concerned citizen who can work for change. ”
“The Strong Towns approach has provided much of the philosophical basis for the City of Lancaster, California to evaluate its long-term fiscal issues and formulate our responses to those issues. This is not a “planning” approach for us, but a “mindset” and “values” approach that seeks to change the way we think about the built environment and the decisions we make concerning it.”
“I initially got hooked on Strong Towns when I saw the video ‘Conversations with an Engineer’ a few years ago. When I find people arguing for wider streets and more parking I share StrongTowns’ blogs and podcasts for inspiring examples of productive development, livable streets and community renewal.”
“The work of Strong Towns has helped me to better understand the financial assumptions behind the work and I do, and it has helped me to make my work more relevant to the communities I work with. ”
“Whether on issues of safety and equity for non-motorized transportation, fighting the car-dominated land-use planning, or offering tools for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of development options, the Strong Towns blog and podcast, plus member comments, give me many new ideas every week.”
“Strong Towns also gives me the ammunition to help me defend politically unpopular decisions (i.e. a road diet) to help the public, politicians and bureaucrats better understand that the old way of doing things may very well lead to bigger problems in the future.”
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“I work as a planner, and I believe planners should always be in the habit of observing, questioning, and finding truth, in an arena often dominated by politics and ideology. Strong Towns keeps me observing and questioning.”