Designing in Color (DCo), a collective of architects and designers, is collaborating on the West Hollywood Strategic Plan. This plan is the city’s first major update of its kind in over twenty years.
Overview of the Strategic Plan:
- The strategic plan is designed to guide the city’s development, addressing the needs of its diverse population.
- It includes community member interviews, focus groups, pop-up events, and general meetings to gather a wide range of feedback.
Participation Opportunities:
Action Team:
- Composed of 5 community members from West Hollywood.
- The role is part-time, lasting 9 months.
- Responsibilities include enhancing project visibility, providing feedback, and engaging with the community.
- Participants will receive a stipend, attend 3 community events, promote the project, attend at least 6 team meetings, and provide feedback on the strategic plan.
Core Coalition:
- Consists of community-based organizations and individuals.
- This group will support the project through guidance and engagement, focusing on the community’s needs and interests.
- This is a voluntary role for 9 months, involving at least 3 meetings, attendance at community events, and providing feedback on the strategic plan.
- For more information and to access the complete document, please visit this link.
This is what a Strategic Plan looks like. Found one from a reasonably balanced community, Huntington Beach which outlines recognizable efforts and actions of which the City of Weho’s Choice does not. More good Weho money spent after bad.
https://www.huntingtonbeachca.gov/files/users/city-manager/2023-27-Strategic-Plan-(final).pdf
“Addressing the needs of a diverse population”? Human needs are human needs. When I first researched DCo a while back, the first impression was not authentic. While they may have a team with various qualifications, it appeared they were focused on Word Salad Community Engineering by soliciting input from the community through juvenile Pop Up meetings and feedback. Feed back on specifically what? There is an additional filter group entitled Community Stakeholders and members. Exactly who are these folks and what are their qualifications? This appears mighty opaque busy work How about being straightforward by addressing a specific goal, with… Read more »
There is no link included.
This entire exercise is a farce based on naive narratives that ignore that the world does not already have almost eight billion people vying for existence. The concepts of anti-racism espoused on the design firm’s website are racist by their very words (but few dare confront the truth and challenge intolerant ideologies). This is yet another example that West Hollywood officialdom has a municipal fetish for being used as a Petri dish. It also completely disrespects the truly progressive history of the development of the city in the last 39 years. Nothing short of completely abandoning the land and ceding… Read more »
Five people, most a bit short on “lived experience” in West Hollywood, steered by staff. How could this process go wrong?
Unfortunately that seems to be how policy is made in West Hollywood. Staffers living outside of West Hollywood, sitting in their cubicles or working remotely, augmented by hired consultants also remote, working on a Word Salad Chinese Puzzle, barely briefing City Council that attempt to wedge in their personal priorities and what could go wrong.