The Citizen's Role and Public Involvement

In its preparation of the LRTP 2007 Update, the SMTC team of professional planners are called on by the public to get involved. “Technical analysis and policy support from our local and state transportation decision-makers represent only part of the equation,” stated SMTC Director Mary M. Rowlands. “The informed views of the public are necessary in any long-range planning process.”

As a resident of the Greater Syracuse Metropolitan Area, you have opportunities to play a role in this process known as the Long-Range Transportation Plan. Your input is vital in assisting local decision makers and professional transportation planners make choices that we are all responsible for and from which we will all benefit. The SMTC encourages you to get involved. Share your thoughts, opinions, and views today for the next (2011) Update, by participating in one or both of the following ways:

• Submit "open comment" via e-mail to the SMTC
• Fill out the Public Opinion Survey: download a printable version to mail back to us.

View the Public Involvement Plan to learn more about the many other public participation opportunities.

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In contrast to its typical approach of holding three formal public information meetings during specific stages during the planning process, the SMTC broadened the exposure and increased the outreach of the LRTP 2007 Update by participating in an indeterminate number of meetings, workshops and focus groups, at which the LRTP 2007 Update was presented. The SMTC reached out to a wide variety of individuals and organizations in an effort to be added to a meeting agenda where the LRTP 2007 Update was presented, and comments and feedback were solicited.

The SMTC worked with various neighborhood associations, community groups, business associations, chambers of commerce, planning federations, the City of Syracuse’s Tomorrow’s Neighborhoods Today (TNT), FOCUS Greater Syracuse, Leadership Greater Syracuse, towns and villages throughout the MPO area, and more to effectively promote the LRTP 2007 Update. If you are part of a group or organization that would like the SMTC to give a presentation on the next LRTP (2011) Update, please contact the SMTC at (315) 422-5716, or e-mail.