Welcome to the Canfield Vision Plan
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society
but the people themselves."
--Thomas Jefferson |
The Canfield Strategic Vision Plan is an effort to create a long term
community plan for the Canfield community. Because change happens all the time,
a community must decide the specific criteria they will use to judge, manage
and even direct that change. Instead of reacting after the fact to forces
that alter their community, residents armed with a strategic vision can better
reinforce the changes that they desire, and discourage changes that detract from
that vision. Having a shared vision allows a community to focus its diverse
energies and avoid conflicts in the present as well as the future.
By including residents, businesses, non-profits, local officials,
and other community members in a process that empowers them as a whole, visioning
reinforces the idea that people do have a say in their collective futures, and
they also have a responsibility to each other. Visioning is a process that all
community members can have a stake in; the vision is their plan to provide their
future, not someone else's imposed idea of what it should be.
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