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Visioning is a community engagement process that helps people to articulate or define the future they want for their communities. Visioning is often completed in conjunction with a master planning initiative and often looks decades ahead.

Pioneered in Snoqualmie, WA, the Character Impact Assessment process is used to assess the potential impact of development proposals on community character. The process is based on an adaptation of the Environmental Impact Statement process.

The Community Capitals Framework is a conceptual model for evaluating the overall health of a community and its capacity for community and economic development. The framework is based on successful communities that focus on seven types of capital.

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a community process and methodology focused on positive change and identifying community assets. AI can be adapted for use in a wide range of community events, projects, and long-term planning processes.

The Discovery Process is a community exploration method based on observing and talking to people in their natural daily routines. After "Discovering" the community's character, this process culminates in creation of a vision.

A comprehensive planning concept to address built infrastructure, environmental infrastructure, and economic/social infrastructure in the planning process. By focusing on multiple networks, communities may be planned holistically.

The Natural Step Framework (TNS) is a science-based, systems framework to help organizations, individuals and communities take meaningful steps toward sustainability.

The Placemaking process involves identifying community sites that need revitalization, determining a vision for the site, and crafting a new place that will fulfill that vision. The Placemaking approach can be effective on various levels of scale.

Developed by America Speaks, 21st Century Town Meetings connect citizens to official decision-makers and provide a facilitated process for people of different backgrounds to get involved in the public decision making process.

Wealth Creation in Rural Communities is an approach to create multiple forms of wealth that are owned and controlled locally. This systems approach links together assets, producers, and consumers in ways that encourage economic development in rural a