Q&A
Considering community feedback in the ULURP process
0:37:29
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Keith Powers inquires about how community feedback might influence Raju Mann's approach to applications in the ULURP process. Mann emphasizes the importance of building trust and responding to feedback to maintain the legitimacy of the process.
- Stresses the need for decision-makers to show they are listening and responding to community concerns
- Highlights the importance of acknowledging and incorporating community feedback, even if not all concerns can be addressed
- Emphasizes that the public's participation should feel worthwhile to maintain trust in the process
Keith Powers
0:37:29
Thanks.
0:37:30
You're going to be sending in a position right before the city council on the Ulerb where you'll be hearing public council members.
0:37:39
You'll certainly be hearing that component of a community board or president and others ahead of your well, can you talk about how those actors might be persuasive or influence or even just inform how you might approach a certain application.
0:37:58
Certainly, when there's application that might have large resistance to them, and you're gonna hear that.
0:38:05
How you find that way way those out in the process when determining your vote.
Raju Mann
0:38:11
Yeah.
0:38:11
I mean, I think it's it's I mentioned this briefly in my remarks, but I think it's really important that the line use process you know, incentivize and gender trust among the parties involved.
0:38:24
And I think That means that the commission and the council have to really find ways of responding to feedback so that people feel like when they show up at hearings, that it's worth their time to show up at hearings.
0:38:35
And that people are taking their opinions and perspective seriously.
0:38:38
I think it's pretty critical to legitimacy of the whole process for people in the process to feel like decision makers are paying attention and are finding ways to respond to the concerns with the raising.
0:38:50
It's, you know, again, never a an ability to respond to a 100% of the concerns.
0:38:54
But if people who are showing up at hearings and taking time out of their day to participate in the process don't feel like people are listening.
0:39:00
It undermines the validity of the process.
0:39:03
And so I think it's incumbent on all on all of us to find those opportunities, whether they're big or small, to acknowledge concerns and find ways of incorporating those concerns in projects.