For Immediate Release
Windfall for the Valley
Springs Community Plan!
Valley Springs. The next meeting of the Greater Valley
Springs Advisory Group will feature a question and answer session with Tim McSorley, Executive Director of the Calaveras Council of
Governments (COG).
COG was recently awarded a Community-Based Transportation
Planning (CBTP) Grant from Caltrans in the amount of $204,648 to fund “Rural
Smart Growth: A Community-Based Plan for Valley Springs.” Funding should be received in early
2009. The project will produce a
community planning document consistent with the Calaveras County General Plan
and the California Environmental Quality Act.
At the heart of the proposed community planning effort is a
highly participatory public design process called a charrette. A charrette is a concentrated series of
meetings, workshops and design sessions in which a professional design team
works with the public to produce a collaborative vision or a plan. McSorley will
further discuss this process at the meeting.
GVSAG Coordinating Committee Co-Chair Marti Crane says
community participation is critical to a successful community plan. The next GVSAG meeting is at
The GVSAG encourages broad
public participation in community planning and in the general plan update. “We need your ideas and look forward to
seeing you there!” says Crane.
For further understanding of the
GVSAG, please visit www.gvsag.org, email info@gvsag.org, attend the November 20 meeting,
call Marti Crane at 772-2555 or Mike Hazelhofer at
(209) 743-3987.