Goals and Activities to Achieve Mission Elements

Goals and Activities to Achieve Mission Elements

Mission Element 1: To promote planning in Cambridge through advocacy, education, outreach, over-sight, and working with neighborhood groups.

Goal	Activities
Hold elected officials accountable:	A published report on voting records and zoning petitions
Continue public education on planning issues.	Articles in Cambridge Chronicle
Create planning roundtable.
Emphasize planning
Keep the momentum after the Larkin petition passes. Follow through on the planning process.
Put on planning forums on zoning and planning issues.
Pursue outreach to neighborhood groups and individuals.

Mission Element 2: To create processes for ensuring the long-term well being of the city's residents.

Goals:	Activities
Work the Cambridge Growth Management Advisory Committee processes
Be aware of what other cities are doing.	See RaceStudio www.dnai.com/~racestdo/.
Keep the momentum after the Larkin petition passes.

Mission Element 3: To work to implement planning by and for residents.

Goals:	Activities
Work the Cambridge Growth Management Advisory Committee processes
Keep the momentum after the Larkin petition passes.	Newspaper articles on Larkin Petition and East Cambridge Planning Project.

Mission Element 4: To pursue zoning reforms.

Goals:	Activities
Work the Cambridge Growth Management Advisory Committee processes
Build relations with the city council.
Create our own CRGM petition on what is beyond Larkin.
File petitions in areas that Cambridge Growth Management Advisory Committee has not addressed.

Mission Element 5: To hold elected officials accountable.

Goals:	Activities by Whom and When
Build relations with the city council.
Hold elected officials accountable	A published report on voting records and zoning petitions.