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• City of Baltimore, MD: Multi-Pronged Approach to Public Outreach Baltimore's Department of City Planning was charged with developing its sustainability plan, known as TransForm Baltimore. Baltimore has followed a comprehensive approach to public outreach by recog- nizing that the public does not only want to provide comments on the draft plan, but they want to be involved in the plan development from the beginning. As a result, the City undertook a multi-pronged outreach strategy to develop the plan, which included working groups, community conversations, a youth strategy, and a sustainability forum, as summarized in the draft plan's public engagement chapter. The draft sustainability plan was released for public comment on December 31, 2008, and the public had six months to provide feedback via Baltimore's online public consultation portal and through public meetings, The public consultation portal enabled residents to review the plan, post comments, and 440%04-414 review other comments. Review- ers were asked to categorize their comments as support, support with conditions, observation, recom- mendation, or objection. This tool allowed the City to gather all feedback in a central repository and provided the public with an easy-to-use forum for commenting ' t on specific sections of the plan. 6.4 MILESTONE FOUR: IMPLEMENT POLICIES AND MEASURES Milestone Purpose:To implement the measures in the sustainability plan to improve the overall quality of life in the community. Milestone Description: After the plan is released and adopted, it is time to start implementing it. Imple- mentation can take a variety of different forms. such as passing new regulations, forming taskforces, ini- tiating pilot projects, educating the public, changing purchasing patterns, or developing plans for specific issues identified in the sustainability plan. CAMPAIGN FOR NEW YORK'S FUTURE MISSION STATEMENT The Campaign for New York's Future is a coalition of civic, business, environmental, labor, community and public health organizations that support the goals and strategic direction of PIaNYC. Our goal is to make every neighborhood in NYC a great place to live and work, as well as make a significant contribution to fighting climate change. The coalition aims to encourage public debate—as well as fair Aand effective action—now and in the years to come. A% A We recognize the need to both seize the opportunity for immediate action and to insure that this long-term plan evolves with continued dialogue and changing 45 conditions.