 Pulling system and after all this we're all gonna have our fingers crossed with the pulling works, too So you can scan that code and open it up on your phone You can type in that web address if you'd like to do it that way or you can do this via text I would recommend that as the last option because a couple of the polls are not going to work well for you in text Although most of them will All right Don't actually take a picture. You should be able to just open the camera Hold it up there and have something pop up That says do you want to open pollybee and click that link again turn to your village here? Other people at your table or nearby should be able to help call for help wave around You should be able to get some folks to help you here. All right So if you are not familiar with live polling, here's how it's going to work if all goes well We're going to pop up a few different question types throughout today And ask you to weigh in on your phones and it might be a couple different kinds of questions It might be a multiple choice where you can pick one or pick a couple in most cases I'm going to let you in on a little secret. We've let it Stand that you have unlimited choices We're going on the honor system. That's so that you can answer for somebody else at your table if people do not have phones But we trust you not to completely skew the results and vote over and over again You might have open-ended questions We might ask you to type in a text response or something like that and we'll see some of your text responses or vote something up and down So most people have it in at this point Okay, we're going to start you off with something really hard and Ask you a question around how do you know you're a Vermont designation champion? so You should be able to go to that poll and see a Question popping up at this point Are you seeing a question? Okay So you can choose one of these answers go ahead and choose up to two answers For how do you know when you're a month designation champion and these are your choices if you can't read them all Oh, well, you can explain tips in the grocery line and you do Maybe there's a poster of the DHT rock stars in your office wouldn't all of us like that Maybe you have memorized the state benefits table forwards and backwards Maybe you're still bitter that the town next door got designated before yours Maybe you're here because you're scheming to get me for pre-stand benefits into designation 2050 reform Or maybe something else So take just another minute or two for your top two choices If there's somebody near you who also need to help to vote help them vote I'm going to pull out a timer here You don't have to hit anything. It's all going to register for you 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Here's what we say Wow, we've got a lot of tip fans in the room. I was not expecting that one Even some whoos for tips that was a first. I think also a lot of people creepy fans We did not expect you were all here for that But we know we'll see if that comes out in your plans later on Okay, so now you know how to vote with life calling keep those phones handy because you're gonna need them again Some real purposes in a moment I remember still in the community workshop I'm so excited that I had the chance to talk to so many of you over the last few weeks and over the last however many years of course and Really excited also to get to share with so many of you today What we've heard from many people who are not in the room Including many people who've probably never thought or talked about designation programs before in their lives I have been out asking people all over the state. Have you even heard of designation programs? What do you think and I get a lot of blank stares? I've gotten a lot of people to say what and then when I start talking about Downtowns and village centers in these places that we love people start nodding their heads and they have a lot to say So I want to actually start with an exercise some of you have already done this in this program, but you get to do it again I love an exercise no matter what kind of planning I'm doing that starts with a little bit of history here called the six-word story Legend has it that years ago Or in a standing way was having lunch with friends and they made a bet with him that he couldn't write the six-word of story Of course, he did the bet and of course he came up with something amazing And his story legend has it was for sale baby shoes never worn Pretty hard to top that Apparently the story is not true, but it's such a good one that we have to keep telling it and also adapt it so I love asking people what is your six-word vision whatever context that happens to be and I'm going to clear these responses because we tested it earlier I want to ask you that right now even if you've already give us a given us one Take a moment and give us your six-word vision right now for Vermont's designation programs You can cheat on this one if you have more than one go ahead and give us two or three And as you share your six-word visions, we're going to start to see them popping up on the stage Of course What's up? It'll start coming in. It just takes a second a little lap More housing more money more access Growth is okay now I have some mathematical challenge going on here. That's okay All towns big and small thriving Communities thrive when we gather denser walkable affordable housing Healthy equitable communities innovative innovating and growing create housing for Vermont's future Infrastructure investment Trump's small-town politics vibrant communities with opportunities for all Nothing about us without us vibrant creative connected places for all Act 250 still sprawl. What's next? Growing old in a dense walkable community. I love that little cheat there. I caught that More homes cost money raised taxes Create environments for people to succeed Help more climate resilient housing plan for our uncertain future today Working landscape balanced with compact centers more housing and resilient safe centers Welcome home. You belong here, too Pre-existing frameworks for affordable green lifestyles Growth must be climate smart simpler more housing green growth easy helpful and results meaningful outcomes Keep Vermont wonderful with future planning Intentionality and inclusion for resilient progress These are going to keep coming in I can tell you sharing a lot and unfortunately We can't spend the whole time, but we are capturing every single one of them We will share them back out so that you can read the ball Feel free to keep typing them for a minute here if you want to we'll cut it off in a second These are amazing part of what we're doing in this process is capturing every one of these individual visions six-word visions that we can capture and Then taking a look at what they'll mean when we start putting them together So I'm going to cut it off finish your last thought here for a second If you have more that you did not get to type in we're going to give you sticky notes in a minute because we are here And plan after all and you can share more six-word visions on your sticky notes I do want to share with you some that have come in already that have been pretty powerful though Vermont more than flannel and maple syrup Vibrant communities surrounded by healthy landscape Vibrant communities supported by easy button Public infrastructure investments in water and sewer Opportunity choice and prosperity for everyone Beautiful creative multimodal healthy thriving communities Fewer programs more benefits less hassle Black and brown people finally owning homes Vermont achieves affordable housing for all residents Vermont strong for all always That is just a sample There are more and more and more and they're beautiful and creative and challenging There is something interesting when we start to look at them all There are different layers of them We put them all together and some of the really common expected words pop up in those word clouds again Not all that surprising although maybe there are a few surprising words here But we can actually start to tease out several different layers of vision And this is going to help shape our work for the rest of the day We see a few different things. We see some of these statements that are really about why we're here today Why are we even doing this work of designations and gathering to spend the day here at Randolph Center? Some of them are a little bit more about how Vermont will grow and evolve how it should how it must how we want it to and Some of them are really specifically about what the designation program should do and be and become Here's a snapshot of what we see around what those designation programs should be it might be things like village centers Reimagined to include infill or one designation all land included Fewer programs more benefits less hassle that would go in that category Public infrastructure investments in water and sewer I will say of all the thousands of six word visions. I've collected and planning that is probably the first one that mentioned sewer But here we are We're going to dig into those in the afternoon deep dive The house or about how Vermont needs to address really important themes ahead By the well-planned places affordable housing investing in watersheds saving towns Achieving complete streets in every Vermont town art and creativity infused in everything This is what we're going to dig into next in this morning deep dive But before we do we just want to spend a couple more minutes honing in on this big why of really why we're all here Why are we even investing in designations and spending time on these big topics? What do we see for our future in Vermont and these are a few snapshots of those powerful why's that we saw vibrant communities surrounded by healthy landscape or supported by that easy button Connected and livable Growth but make it sustainable and equitable equitable multimodal beautiful creative healthy love living thriving communities Connected and unique robust downtowns about So I'm going to be a couple last poll questions here before we really put you to work at your tables So pick up those phones again The first one is to take a look at those visions that I just shared Of course, they are just a sampling of what we pulled out of all of them But they represent an interesting snapshot and we're curious out of those nine or so Which of those why is filled the closest to you to why we're really all here today? So take a minute What's an easy button? I think that was an idea suggested by somebody who's here today Does that person want to explain or own up to it? I This is a product that staples actually sells it's a big red button that says easy and theoretically You push it and all your problems go away though. I've not quite found that to be the case So yes, if we all have that easy button So pick pick up the three of these that you feel are closest to what our why might be or other If you feel like none of them are not that any of these are right, but we're curious which ones get closest right now Take about another 10 seconds on this 9 7 6 5 4 3 2 and 1 Let's see what you said All right, we have a real winner out of that lead here vibrant community surrounded by a healthy landscape No accident. I'm sure that is really our state planning goal in a nutshell And a lot of others right there in the middle of it all feel very important to people So the very last challenge I'm gonna give you before we go into deep dive is A total experiment. I'm gonna admit and it may be complete chaos and not work at all, but it'll be fun to try We're gonna give you a chance given what you see here where the energy is So definitely vibrant communities surrounded by healthy landscape There's a lot of love for that easy button connected in unique robust downtowns about Opportunity choice prosperity for everyone Growth but sustainable and equitable. These are all getting some good support We're gonna do our best effort to rewrite this and come up with something awesome in about one minute And the way we're gonna do this is we're gonna give you a chance to do that open-ended response again So you type in your best shot But when you do everybody else gets an up vote and down vote button along with it So any idea that you see getting typed in you can vote it up You can vote it down and you'll instantly get a chance to see which ones are getting voted up You might say okay. Yeah, I see what people like. I'm gonna take a stab at rewriting that and We'll see if we can get any closer to something really really good We have one minute until I need to start the instructions for the next activity So I'm gonna start my timer and you can go and we'll see what we get to at the end There you go. We see the first ones coming in walkable places of money Vibrant communities I see an up vote down though three ups Going crazy five ups for money nine for walkable places Seven for money Well, here comes vibrant communities from the bottom Embracing older and historic communities thrive or die. That sounds like New Hampshire's in the room Money's coming back from behind Vibrant resilient communities for all lively communities with healthy landscapes coming up Center inclusion and diversity. Okay, some new ideas creeping up here. All right. We got 30 seconds left Vibrant resilient communities for all is getting up there, but walkable places is way up at the top Is that where it's gonna land? And we've got ten up. No, we don't I said, okay, that's it walkable places interesting All right So that gives you an interesting snapshot into where the energy is in the room as we go into our first deep dive session It's about 11 o'clock. We're still gonna have lunch at 12 30 We're gonna do a report out rapid report out in fact at 12 15 So that means we've got about an hour and 15 minutes to introduce what you're gonna be doing at tables and Go do a really great activity Well, some sleeper was still coming in people up voting here while I'm talking. I'm gonna shut you off So at your tables, we're gonna do it's called a deep dive which means you are gonna go deep into some big Questions for the next hour 15 minutes or so But I want to introduce you to you what we're doing So we just did the why now we're gonna go back to those how's those big themes that we know are really really important to the future of Vermont to what's coming at us when we look to 2050 things that we know the Designation programs need to address or at least need to consider and these are the topics on your table signs Right here some of the six-word visions just a few that really helped shape what we might want to see out of these topics interesting though breaking news coming right now from Randolph Center Vermont a student experiment unfortunately works Time machine instantly transports all of Randolph Center to the year 2050 a Little scary hold on. This is actually good news Not only to 2050 But to the annual designation summit in 2050, so you were right where you should be in fact and Vermont is probably looking a whole lot rosier than you ever thought it would in 2050 Vermont is a place where all the people are engaged Where all the historic buildings are beautiful Where all the downtowns are strong and filled with affordable housing for all people Not only that but all the flood plains and village parks are helping to protect the villages and downtowns from climate hazards All people have the opportunity to thrive and start businesses and find economic opportunity And no place is left behind no matter how small or how remote And if that is not enough for you at the end of every Crosswalk in Vermont and there are many now There are unicorns and rainbows It doesn't get better than this and is all thanks to the designation programs In fact the designation programs have succeeded so wildly That there is now a daily news fever Devoted just to sharing all the amazing news that is coming out about the designation programs That would be the wrong designation day and In the year 2050 you were all back here in Randolph Center invited as guest editors to help write the front page front page news of this anniversary edition Celebrating the reform of the designation programs and that summit way back in 2023 that started it all You're here to dig in specifically to these key topics and themes Because the designation programs have moved the needle on every single one of them and have helped to achieve the progress that we wanted to see Climate resilience and adaptation housing access and growth diversity equity opportunity all of these amazing topics Now your tasks sitting at tables with these leaders is To write this front page news and to make the best front page edition of the designation times the Vermont has ever seen And by the way, it is now the top daily in Vermont. The circulation is pretty amazing So at your tables over the next hour or so You're gonna write a really bold headline about your topic if you're sitting at the designation type or I'm sorry That's afternoon if you're sitting at the climate resilience and adaptation table Write an amazing headline about what happens when the designation program is just completely managed to move the needle on that or Housing or business growth, whatever your topic happens to be You're gonna help us identify what the impacts and outcomes actually look like if designation programs really do make an impact in these areas What is it that we're seeing? What are those top goals and outcomes and indicators that we're gonna notice in the year 2050 if we really do this, right? We're gonna have you write 10 on the poster and write the top five that we should really be aiming for and looking at And then at the part where we honestly have no idea what you're gonna come up with but we cannot wait to see Is this map down at the bottom of livability Valley? Which is the prime poster child of designation success in 2050? This value right here in Vermont has taken those reformed designation programs and put them to work and has seen progress on so many fronts all because we have reformed those programs and made an impact in choosing The way to structure them The way to align benefits with the work and action that needs to happen to move the needle on these topic areas So we're gonna look to you To help us shape this great map on the front page news and show us what has actually happened on the ground in livability Since those reformed programs were put to work What are the changes we're seeing in what types of places? What activities and benefits and where are activities and things not happening? Thanks to the designation programs You have 75 minutes. I mentioned that you have a village You have lots of supplies that I'll show you in a minute And you have a resource team which is all the smart with America staff Department of Housing and Community Development staff And you have lunch waiting. So you have to do a really good job and get this done if you want to have lunch Let me give you a little deeper introduction to what you have on your tables right now You have a packet of materials that contains a little bit more about your mission and what lies ahead So I'll let you go in a minute You can open this up You do not have table facilitators. It is your collective job as your table village to move your group through this process There are ten key roles that we think really make the difference in moving your group forward and in your packet You'll find a list of these, but you'll also find a packet of individual cards It'll look something like this So we're gonna ask your groups to sign all of those roles You may not have ten people at your table, which means of course some of you're gonna have to wear multiple hats Which will make you feel right at home Here are a few obstacles to what they are you might be the librarian which is the keeper of the resource materials You're gonna find some handouts and resources in these packets That you may not want to use right now You might you might want to turn to them It's your librarians job to keep them handy and pull them out and say hey, this might be handy to our discussion You'll have a shopkeeper who's in charge of all the goodies We're about to give you like sticky notes and foam shapes and pipe cleaners and all kinds of fun things that will make your work fun You have a meta whose job it is to keep an eye on the overall goal And make sure that you're moving toward what you need to do that everybody's getting a chance to participate in way You'll have a timekeeper whose job it is to keep an eye on the agenda and make sure that you're staying on track with these sessions You'll have an artist or a scribe Every planning process is better when there's a creative at the table So if you're the kind of person who likes to draw and sketch or model or make things or you just have really good handwriting And you can transfer things on the poster neatly that might be a good role for you You should have a mechanic who's somebody who can fix things if you're going wrong at your table That might mean helping the group make a decision. You'll get some dots. You might decide to take a vote Maybe you just need somebody to tell you a joke. Whatever's going wrong your mechanic can help set up right Every table should absolutely have a note taker If folks could listen up for a sec before you get too excited about your table rolls, that would be awesome I promise you can do it in just a minute Note taker is really important because you are capturing main ideas on your poster But you're gonna be saying a whole lot more and we really want to hear the details You also will not have time in the next hour and 15 minutes to have the level of conversation That will make everybody feel great about getting the consensus. I'm sorry. I wish we had that time, but we do not So we know there may be people who will not agree with everything that gets added to your poster Who do not agree with every conclusion and we want to hear those points of disagreement We want to make sure that every voice is captured That's the reporter's job and everyone else please feel free to write a note and stick it in an envelope If there's something you feel is important to say that does not make it on your group's poster Every table should have a kid. We always want you that these events so put on your 10-year-old hat Your job is to question everything Ask why ask how dig deeper ask all kinds of questions at your table out of curiosity You will have a preacher in other words the person at the end Who is responsible for getting up and in 10 words or less conveying a powerful headline about your group success? We will have a rapid report out which literally means one minute per table So this person is charged with putting some great words down and sharing them out just that quick headline We're gonna post up all of your headline front page news posters so that at lunch You can all walk around and see them in detail and put some stickers on to show us what you love and what you don't But we want to hear that headline from everybody And every group may want to have a busy body or spy or a task rabbit or whatever you want to call this person Who's free to float around and check out what other tables are doing or ask for ideas or come and check out the Supply tables in the back We're gonna give you some materials on your table, but we've got a whole lot more So if there are other resources or information doc you're looking for you want more scratch sheets things like that Come see us in the back and we will help you out You will get some more Worksheets and things like that that you can play with at your tables if you want to do draft versions Your table cloths are made of paper So please write on them and scratch them up and we make diagrams and work on that together We've got loads of newsprint in the background I'm just gonna quickly go through what we suggest each group do in terms of moving through these activities I want to repeat this is a suggestion This is your time and this is your village and you can do what you want to reach the end goal But you have a suggested agenda that you can work through if you like you can also abandon it And work through this the way you want Our suggestion is that you take five minutes just to get organized to choose your roles if you haven't done so Do your inspections if you haven't done so Then spend about 20 minutes on those impacts and outcomes and really articulate if we see amazing progress in 2050 what is that going to look like we want to hear what success looks like in your topic area if Designation programs succeed and then you're going to end up writing those ten on the paper and ranking your top five We suggest you might read some sample outcomes that are in your pocket what we've heard throughout this process This is not our team's lens of saying these are most important. They are truly just a sample You might go around and use sticky notes and each write a couple of top ones that you think are important And then cluster them and find some themes and see where you agree and write them on your poster So that's 20 minutes for that We suggest you spend about 40 minutes on that map exercise really taking a look at the map and having some Thoughtful wonderful conversations to say where would we draw some lines? Where should the designation programs be and invest and what kind of projects or activities should happen? To move our outcomes forward Where should they not happen? Which places should be outside the lines if any maybe it's not Again, you could take some time individually to brainstorm what you think should happen in those places to do your own Versions of maps or do it in small groups and then come back together to share By the end try to get to one version of a map that you can all pretty much agree on and give us a legend The little foam shapes that you're getting are great for a key if you want to do that to represent certain types of things like the multi-family housing or a certain type of industrial development or maybe it's something like Plenty resilience work, but do what you like. These are your maps. You can scratch up the base map and change it however you like Last really share back and align yourself as a group again discuss. What do you agree on? What do you not agree on and capture all of it? By the end write that final headline That is what you do last that is what your preacher can help with if that's the person who has the best words You can all work on that together But write an amazing headline because that is the 10 word statement You're going to get up and share with everybody else in our rapid report up in the end We want to collect everything back from you all your scratch work all your sticky notes So that we can harness all the great nuggets that happens All right I'm going to put up the first section again. We're going to be wandering around to give you more help and information I'll give you warnings at the big benchmarks like a warning after 25 minutes Warning when you're ready to switch to the maps you can of course be on different timing But just to let you know where you are Have a great time in your village in 2050 and we'll see you back in 2023 for lunch very soon Of your conversation Give us some good notes that end up in that envelope so that we can read more about what you talked about All right, five minutes to finish up and then we'll call you up here to report out and go to lunch Lunch is ready and waiting We need somebody from every table to come on up ready to report out I think we have a handful No Okay, we're gonna let the first people who are ready come up Let's ask everybody else for attention, please We won't get started until we have some quiet so that we can hear everybody's headlines and We won't get you to lunch until we hear that lines. I think we're gonna have Yep, everybody come up Okay, I think we're getting there with two lines. So we'll just go one at a time. So those of you who are presenting Listen up books. If you're presenting you really get ten words or less Okay, we're gonna keep you to it because everybody wants to go to lunch So tell us your biggest goal this awesome headline Don't forget to tell us which group you were as well if that is not clear from your headline Okay, and come up speak really close in the microphone so everyone can hear you Hello, I was a transportation livability table 14. Maybe yeah table 14 great table So our headline is the following Vermont villages and town centers are two places not through places That's it. I'll go next you were table six or four whenever we were a business in economic development some of us came from six so we summed up our various sticky notes and points into very simply You can get there live there and work there Thank you Well, we were the climate resilience and adaptation group and our headline is after third superstorm of the summer unaffected Vermont sends feds home So we were with transportation with the building table 15 and our title was people get it Transportation for all makes all places better Table 16 housing growth and access Vermont grows with housing that meets the needs of all From the greatest table in the room here Housing growth and access headline is that there is a Vermont's the best best place for all to live so we were table 12 and rule lands smart growth and conservation and The headline is conservation pay-off downtown celebrates 20 years of flood-free living So we were a table one and climate resilience and our headline was one million Vermonters safe and sound after record-breaking rings We were taken to climate resilience and adaptation and Our headline is 1000 year flood briefly disrupts lunch hour We were the other housing growth and access table and after a long long Discussion about a very creative headline. We went with housing supply meets demand in new designated areas So we were table five economic development Vermont supports local businesses and workers achieve adaptive and fair communities Historic and creative places that table and our line is everything old is new and sustainable again You are going to get to those amazing headlines. That was really remarkable work I thank you all for bearing with some complexity in that exercise. I know that was a challenge And we can't wait to really explore all the incredible ideas that you put together on paper for us I can't wait for you all to go and explore some of these ideas So just very practically speaking it is lunch time We hope you enjoy about 45 minutes off to eat and mingle and network and check out these designs in part because it's fun But in part because all of these ideas are going to influence what we do after lunch, too So do take some time to check them out You're going to find some red and green and yellow sticky dots because we need dots again today the planning conference So take those as you walk through and if you see an idea that you like on a poster put a green dot next to it If you see something you don't think is right put a red one if you wish you wash you put a yellow one You are welcome to do that on your way over to lunch as we form a line If you ordered a special lunch or told us that you had a dietary restriction Head to the right and there are some special lunges on the way if they're not quite here yet Alice will help you out here. Okay, great And otherwise dig in and joy some lunch from downtown Randall of spine as to be as Without at the end of lunch We are going to ask you to help us out by going to your next table So we'll give you the prompt to kind of clear up and we'll reset and get ready to go by 15 Jerry, did you have anything else? Okay, enjoy lunch