Through facilitation exercises, participants at the workshop came up with key focus areas to be considered for better integrating CSS and practical solutions principles into ITD’s decision-making process. The focus areas that emerged were:
Participants then developed and refined questions relevant to each focus area, for the ultimate purpose of developing a practical solutions/design checklist.
After the workshop, the questions were updated and specific recommendations were provided to ITD regarding which questions should be asked at which stages of the project delivery process. These recommendations are provided in further detail later in this report.
In conjunction with the recommendations, ITD’s Planning Services Section created a list of action items for themselves detailing how ITD’s existing guides, manuals, and processes will be altered to enhance CSS and public involvement outreach efforts. These action items were:
