Home--Livable Communities--Reality Check Tampa Bay
On May 18, 2007 over 300 leaders from the seven-county region gathered to engage in tabletop exercises designed to increase awareness and educate about the interrelationships among regional land use, transportation systems, and natural resources. Participants, led by trained facilitators, join 10-person groups to use a detailed map to plan future growth by placing Lego® building blocks to represent additional homes and jobs. These individuals are asked to determine where new residents will live and new employment will locate.
Reality Check Resources (May 2007):
The Participant Guidebook is a resource and tool for the participants in the morning exercise. It includes not only information relevant to the agenda for the day's activities, but also a wealth of data and research on our region.
Full Participant Guidebook (68 pages - 23MB)
Section 1: Welcome, Exercise Agenda, Rules and Visualizations
Section 2: Regional Visioning Research & Programs
Section 3: Population & Job Growth Data
Section 3: Housing
Section 3: Transportation
Section 3: Enivronment
Section 4: Acknowledgements
Summary Report - Download the complete summary report which includes composite maps of all 32 tables together, observations from the exercise, and specific data on each individual table.
Results Presentation - Spokespersons from the morning exercise shared the results of their table. Download the PowerPoint with the tables Guiding Principles, Photos from the table, and Bold Ideas/Implications.
Reality Check Tampa Bay Video
- seven minute video with commentary from participants throughout.
Map - All Roads Composite Map
Map - All Transit Composite Map
Participating Organizations - see a list of participating organizations. Every effort was made to evenly select participants from the private, public and non-profit sectors. Participants came from all seven counties.
Media Coverage - view the various news/radio coverage of Reality Check Tampa Bay.
Individual Table Results - The results from each table have been uploaded to an Adobe PDF for viewing.
Tables 1-5
Tables 6-10
Tables 11-18
Tables 19-25
Tables 26-32
Guiding Principles - Each table brainstormed guiding principles for growth of the Tampa Bay region. The top three principles from each table were reviewed and summarized into the six most common principles and voted upon by the participants during the luncheon program. See the top six principles and voting results.
Photos
Photo Presentation
Speaker Presentations
Ed McMahon, Urban Land Institute - download .pdf
John Fregonese, Fregonese Calthorpe Associates - download .pdf
Sub-Regional Workshop Results
From October 3rd through November 28th, One Bay hosted over 15 workshops with the public as well as interested organizations. Over 650 people participated in the workshops and had the chance to discuss, negotiate and plot future residential and job growth, regional land use, transportation systems, and natural resources. The results of and all fifteen workshops will be combined with the results of the May 18th event to be analyzed and developed into future growth scenarios for the region.
Each public workshop resulted in a summary document which can be downloaded below.
Compilation Maps - Population & Employment Legos
Workshop Survey Results
Individual County Workshop Summaries
Hernando County
Pasco County
Pinellas County
Hillsborough County
Polk County
Manatee County
Sarasota County