The Citizen's Role and Public Involvement

In its preparation of the LRTP 2011 Update, the SMTC team of professional planners are called on by the public to get involved. 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 2011 Update, by participating in one or both of the following ways:

• Submit "open comment" via e-mail to the SMTC
• Complete the online LRTP 2011 Update Survey.

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

In early 2010, SMTC funded a statistically valid survey jointly administered with SOCPA for the LRTP 2011 Update as well as the new Onondaga County Development Guide. The National Research Center, Inc. was hired to administer the mailed survey to randomly selected citizens and compile the results. A similar survey is available online for anyone to take. Complete the online LRTP 2011 Update Survey.

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 2011 Update by participating in an indeterminate number of meetings, workshops and focus groups, at which the LRTP 2011 Update will be presented. The SMTC will reach out to a wide variety of individuals and organizations in an effort to be added to a meeting agenda where the LRTP 2011 Update was presented, and comments and feedback can be solicited.

The SMTC will work 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 2011 Update. If you are part of a group or organization that would like the SMTC to give a presentation on the LRTP 2011 Update, please contact the SMTC at (315) 422-5716, or e-mail us.