The Community Development Process - SAGE Publications Inc

The CommunityDevelopment ProcessThe Community Development Process can be difficult, time-consuming,and costly. Community residents often are more concerned with dailytasks than thinking about, and coming up with, a vision of their Community sfuture. Residents want their children to go to good schools, they want decentjobs, and they want a safe, clean environment in which to live. Without avision, however, communities have a limited ability to make decisions aboutthese issues. It is analogous to driving across the country without a should determine a Community s future other than Community resi-dents? A consultant hired by the local government to develop a plan, a stateor federal agency making decisions about highway bypasses or wetlandspreservation, or a private developer constructing a shopping mall or a resi-dential subdivision could all make a large impact on a Community s of a Community need to participate in and actively envision thefuture of their Community ; otherwise, other groups and individuals will deter-mine their future for Community Development Process can be as important as its Process we present in this chapter follows the model in Figure Themodel shows a linear Process that begins with Community organizing andmoves on to visioning, planning, and finally implementation and continues to be some debate over the importance of Process versusoutcomes in Community developm

involved in fund raising or planning may provide opportunities for which some people are searching. In many instances, residents have experiences and skills that are underused, and they are seeking opportunities to make better use of these skills. Although time is cited frequently as the primary reason for lack of par-

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