Public participation is increasingly recognized as a fundamental component in the success of any project. Amigos offers trained multi-lingual facilitators experienced in involving diverse communities in the process of project design. By involving residents in the process of creating parks, we hope to enhance their awareness of the importance of native plants, habitat, and water conservation in healthy communities. With the ability to build the parks it designs, Amigos has the capability of turning the vision of residents into reality.
We incorporate surveys, interviews, focus groups, community meetings
and other creative participatory processes into our work with the
community. Once we have reached a statistically significant number
of participants in our outreach, we begin analyzing the response data
and incorporating comments into the design. Through incorporation
of the community outreach data and sustainable design principles,
Amigos produces conceptual designs for public review and comment.
Draft documents are presented to focus groups and local officials
and revised prior to presentation to agencies and funding groups.
