The following presentation was given at the August 25, 2014 Seaside City Council meeting to report on the 10-month progress of the Seaside 2034 Visioning project. It includes information contained within the Seaside Community Town Hall recap.

1. SEASIDE 2034
Building a bridge to our Future
VISIONING SEASIDE IN 20 YEARS

2. Tonight’s Update
1. WHERE WE’VE BEEN!
2. WHERE WE ARE!
3. WHERE WE’RE GOING!
EM

3. WHERE WE’VE BEEN!
What is Visioning?
vi sion ing
noun: the development of a plan,
goal, or vision for the future.
Visioning is a dream for the future that
takes the expectations, hopes and dreams of
a community and distills them into one
voice or vision statement within a
designated period of time.
SEASIDE 2034
EM

4. WHERE WE’VE BEEN!
Seaside 2034: The process so far
1) Assignment given by City Manager (Sept, 2013)#
2) Meetings and LOC Workshop in Salem (Oct, 2013) #
3) Post workshop development (Oct/Nov, 2013) #
4) Environmental Scan (Dec, 2013 - Feb, 2014)#
5) Council & Community Interaction (throughout)#
6) Surveys (Feb-April, 2014)#
7) Teen Summit (May, 2014)#
8) Community Meetings (May/June, 2014)#
9) Town Hall (August, 2014)
SEASIDE 2034
EM

5. WHERE WE’VE BEEN!
Environmental Scan
JG

6. WHERE WE’VE BEEN!
Community Interaction
From the
beginning, one
extremely
important
element to this
process has
been continual
promotion &
community
interaction.
JG

7. WHERE WE’VE BEEN!
Surveys
• Five (5) surveys#
• Close to 700
total responses
(between all five)#
• Many comments
and feedback
that’s driven the
entire process.
How do
you see
Seaside?
Participating stakeholders included
visitors, residents, and community
members that live, work and play here!
JG

8. WHERE WE’VE BEEN!
Teen Summit
A partnership
with the Sunset
Empire Park &
Recreation
District helped us
put together a
Teen Summit in
May that drew
around 50 teens.
JR

9. WHERE WE’VE BEEN!
Teen Summit
In addition to
real-time polling,
we also captured
notes, photos (via
a photo contest)
and a few videos
where teens told
us what they liked
and didn’t like.
#SeasideOR4ME Contest-winning photo
JR

10. WHERE WE’VE BEEN!
Teen Summit
A Seaside “confessional” also captured a few thoughts
JR

11. WHERE WE’VE BEEN!
Community Meetings
Five community meetings, led by councilors and a
handful of community leaders kept the process going.
JG

12. WHERE WE’VE BEEN!
Town Hall Meeting
EM

13. WHERE WE ARE!
Town Hall Report
EM

14. WHERE WE ARE!
Town Hall Report
JR

15. WHERE WE ARE!
Town Hall Report
JR

16. WHERE WE ARE!
Town Hall Perspectives
Perspective 1
Unlike any other coastal community in Oregon, Seaside #
is different because it provides both residents and #
visitors with abundant opportunities to nurture families #
and enjoy nature in a safe community atmosphere.
Perspective 2
Unlike any other community in Oregon, Seaside is #
different because vacation feels like home. For people #
who value an authentic small-town feel, Seaside is an #
ideal place to relax, renew, enjoy nature and create #
memories.
EM & JR

17. WHERE WE ARE!
Town Hall in a few words!
Perspective 1 Perspective 2
Happy, Healthy &
Inspired.
A safe, livable
community.
Remember: Our vision is a guiding
light, not a long list of actionable steps.
EM & JR

18. WHERE WE ARE!
Project team’s perspective
It’s not an “us-versus-them-community”
we live in. The young, mature and
everyone in between all want to work
together. If anything, this evening said
that if we do more of JUST THAT, we’ll
be very successful between now and 2034!
EM

19. WHERE WE’RE GOING!
Next steps
• Bring BACK the
Coraggio Group#
• One workshop, in late
September, to finalize
the vision process#
• Publicity of reports and
Seaside Vision
Statement#
• Final report in October#
• Action!
JR