The document outlines an agenda for a workshop on implementing plans. It includes: - Introduction by Emily Innes - A panel on the facets of implementation featuring Daphne Politis, Susan Sweitzer, and Tania Hartford - Small group discussion on successful implementation strategies and obstacles - Report backs from the small groups - Closing remarks The panelists discuss how to create an implementable plan, keep it relevant over time, and increase implementation capacity. Potential blocks to implementation mentioned include unaligned plans, lack of inter-department coordination, and unmet expectations. Strategies suggested include partnerships, community engagement, setting short and long-term goals, and identifying people/organizations responsible for tasks.

1. Getting From Now to Success:
Implementing the Plan
Friday, October 21, 2016
3:45-5:00 pm

2. Introduction
•Emily Innes
The Many Facets of Implementation
•Daphne Politis
•Susan Sweitzer
•Tania Hartford
•Emily Innes
Panelist Discussion
Small Group Discussion
Report Back
Final Thoughts
AGENDA
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3. Daphne Politis, AICP
•Principal, Community Circle
Susan Sweitzer
•Senior Project Manager, Norwalk Redevelopment Agency
Tania Hartford, AICP
Moderator:
Emily Keys Innes, AICP, LEED AP ND
•Senior Urban Planner, Harriman
PANELISTS
INTRODUCTIONS
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4. What can one do to help create a plan that is
implementable?
What can you do to make sure the plan stays
relevant and up to date?
What are ways of increasing implementation
capacity?
DAPHNE POLITIS
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5. DAPHNE POLITIS
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6. SUSAN SWEITZER
Potential Blocks to
Implementation
•Defined market window for
changes based on
development/ redevelopment
•Plans for discrete areas within
a municipality may not be in
alignment with each other or
with the comprehensive plan
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7. SUSAN SWEITZER
Potential Blocks to
Implementation
•Implementation strategies
may require coordinated
efforts by several municipal
departments who may not be
in agreement with goals and
priorities
•Expectations set during the
process may not be met by
actual implementation – these
expectations may have been
unreasonable from the
beginning or conditions may
have changed over time
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8. Build a partnership/committee to follow-up on the plan
•TDI Program
Embrace the community engagement built during the planning
process
•Lynn Planning Study
•Commonwealth Places Program/Placemaking
Set incremental goals, short, medium, long-term, designate
people/organizations to carry out tasks, and develop incremental
check-ins on your progress
•Salem Downtown Market Study
•TA Connect
TANIA HARTFORD
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9. EMILY KEYS INNES
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10. EMILY KEYS INNES
# Strategies % of Favorable Responses
1
Create a more attractive environment for walking and biking and improve
public safety throughout the Urban Renewal Area.
96%
2
Incentivize/accelerate development of large vacant parcels for light
manufacturing, health care, education, and mixed-use development.
95%
3
Bolster the city’s arts, cultural and recreational assets and attract more
visitors to Lawrence.
94%
4
Preserve, protect and enhance the city’s historic buildings and infrastructure
through adaptive re-use.
93%
5
Support the expansion of small businesses that generate jobs and build local
wealth.
92%
6
Activate Essex Street through new and expanded retail, cafes, restaurants,
galleries, and upper-floor residential uses.
90%
7
Encourage sustainable development through renewable energy production,
energy efficiency, and Low-Impact Development.
89%
8
Create linkage mechanisms that capture the value of new development for
citywide quality of life improvements.
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11. EMILY KEYS INNES
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12. EMILY KEYS INNES
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13. ANELISTS
Discussion topics
•How to set up a plan for implementation?
•Who is involved in implementation – local, state, federal, nonprofit, private?
•How do public interest and private interest interact?
•What are the shifting sands that affect implementation after the plan is set?
•How do you adjust/adapt/revisit?
•How do you manage expectations around implementation?
•How do you measure implementation? How do you develop metrics?
•How do you add accountability? One-year check-in? Define roles? Annual
report?
•What funding resources are available?
•What other strategies are available?
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14. SMALLGROUPDISCUSSION
Please break up into four groups
Panelists will moderate the discussion
1.What have you found to make for a successful Implementation
Plan?
2. What obstacles have you encountered?
3. How have you been able to address or mitigate these blocks?
4. What would you say is the number one most important element
in ensuring the success of an implementation program?
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15. REPORTBACK
Designate a spokesperson from each group
Prioritize and report back the top three responses
for each of the questions that the group learned
from the discussion?
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16. FINALTHOUGHTS
THANK YOU!