Capture comments from the community throughout the urban planning process.

1. Real-time Visualization of Place-based Comments www.PlaceVision.net

6. Citizens Add Comments to Remarks Map: 46 Comments, 4 Deleted in real-time

7. Citizen Comment Timeline Mayor’s Office of Citizen Services, 311 Call and Resolution Center, Grow WNY, Buffalo Green Code Announce Workshops First Buffalo Green Code Community Workshop Last Community Workshop, Grown WNY encourages map use Facebook & Twitter reminder to post comments to the map, 631 Impressions

9. Overall page view activity matches activity for those that made remarks, except at larger scale.

11. 10 Comments: 2pm 7 Comments: 4pm 7 Comments: 8pm Follow up comments from the workshops were made first thing in the morning (between 8am - 10am)

12. Most Comments are of good quality

15. Each table could have a scribe to insert comments live. A projected view of the map, refreshed every 30 seconds, would display the most recent comments from residents about their community.

16. Community Remarks website would have enabled real-time visualization of the comments as the meeting was taking place.

17. Instead, comments are going into GIS first, then will be imported into Community Remarks website to see all the comments in one place online Comments from the workshops could have gone into Community Remarks live, then exported to GIS to save time.

18. Citizen Remarks + See Click Fix = 1 Map http://www.buffalogreencode.com/community_remarks/mashup.php

19. Citizen Remarks + Flickr = 1 Map http://www.buffalogreencode.com/community_remarks/mashup_flickr.php

20. Community Remarks captures planning-related comments before, during, and after workshops. www.CommunityRemarks.com Data from multiple sources can be imported into GIS to create time-based snapshots of the past and present to create more informed plans.