Dayton Active Transportation Plan Public Engagement

Creative outreach and engagement strategies to ensure the input process was inclusive for the City of Dayton’s first Active Transportation Plan.

City of Dayton
101 W Third St
Dayton, OH 45402

Susan Vincent
Planning, Neighborhoods & Development
937-333-3683

Date: 2022

TGC led the community engagement for Dayton’s first Active Transportation Plan. Tasks included the following:

  • Developed and facilitated multiple stakeholder and focus group meetings and provided materials for the City to facilitate mini-meetings with local groups and clubs as well as multiple public input materials for pop-up events
  • Identified creative outreach and engagement strategies to ensure the input process included hard-to-reach communities, such as immigrants, youth and those with barriers to traditional participation.
  • Developed a project website as a landing page for public input and project downloads
  • Creating all public engagement materials, including paper surveys, online surveys, online input map, and promotional materials.
  • Established a social media guide for project promotion.
  • Prepared summary infographics of public engagement and comprehensive documentation of all input.