1. Positive Planning Or Something Sinister?
The SOS Foundation Presents
Envision Madison
Positive Planning Or
Something Sinister?

2. Meeting Outline Prayer by Invitation Pledge
Envision Madison Presentation
by Scott Smith

3. "Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or wholly reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Divinity School Address, 1838

4. Catch Phrases & Terms Typical Terms Sustainable Development
Sustainable Communities
Smart Growth
Urban Sprawl
Urban Planning
Global Warming—Climate Change
Excluded By Design
Future Planning
Individual Liberty
Property Rights

5. Objective and Purpose What is Envision Madison?
What is the Envisioning Process?
Movements, organizations, and events like this do not simply materialize from nowhere.
Who's really behind it all?

6. Envision Madison, Or So They Say…
“Envision Madison, is a grassroots, long term planning approach for Madison County.”
“a community driven effort to help identify and develop a ‘vision’ for the future of Madison County.”
Source(s):

7. The Envisioning Process
“The process for Envision Madison is designed to create and build on public engagement at every stage of the process.”
“Envision Madison Stakeholders will select elements of the scenarios they think should be explored. The reaction to the scenarios will serve as the basis for the vision's products: a set of goals, along with a vision scenario that illustrates one plausible way these goals might play themselves out in the cities and county. Envision Madison will then take the principles and vision scenario and translate them into an action plan that includes both strategies and short-term tactics to shape the future of Madison County.”
Source(s): *

8. Robert Grow

9. Stakeholders A Jill Anderson Carlos Aponte Gary Archibald
George Archibald B
Connie Ball
Mickey Beaver
Jordan Busby
Terry Butikofer
SRC President - BYU-Idaho C
Christine Campbell
Kim Clark
Tom Cluff
Craig Cobia
Stephanie Cook
Colby Coombs
Bruce Crapo
Patti Crapo
Brent Crowther D
Glen Dalling
Jerry Dalling
Melanie Davenport
Allen Dunn
Winston Dyer E
Ryan Easton
Trever Einerson
Rex Erickson F
Ron Feik G
Kathryn Gardner
Rachel Gonzalez
Marianna Gonzalez
Janet Goodliffe H
Doug Hancy
Dan Hanna
Harold Harris
Ted Hendricks
Brent Hill
Leslie Huddleston
Ethan Huffman J
Christine Jarski
Justin Jenkins K
Troy Kartchner L
Randy Landon M
Rochelle Mathews
Doug McBride
Kelly McCandless
Anthony Merrill
Jerry Merrill
Art Morales N
Matt Nielson P
Phil Packer
Aaron Peterson
Shay Phister
Glen Pond
Randall Porter
Spencer Priest R
Dell Raybould
Craig Rindlesbacher
Blake Rindlisbacher S
Randy Schroll
Cory Smith
Sally Smith
Betsy Smith
Richard Smith
Liza Souders
Bart Stevens
Bruce Sutherland
Jason Swatsenbarg T
Amy Taylor
Teri Tengiao-Phillips
Geoffrey Thomas
David Thueson
Shane Turman W
Jedd Walker
Jeff Walters
Johnny Watson
Richie Webb
Jon Weber
Bart Webster
Joseph West
Scott Wood
Lori Woodland
Richard Woodland Z
Mary Zollinger

10. Executive Committee Gary Archibald Co-Chair Lori Woodland Kim Clark
President, BYU-Idaho
Jon Weber
Madison County Commissioner
Glen Dalling
Mayor, Sugar City
Richard Woodland
Mayor, City of Rexburg
Randall Porter
Committee Member
Jeff Walters
Carlos Aponte
Richard Smith

11. “Partners” Envision Madison: Madison Economic Partners, Inc.
Madison County
City of Rexburg
City of Sugar City
Rocky Mountain Power
BYU-Idaho

12. Envision Utah Is this even possible?
Leave Your Personal Interests at the Door, Please!
“In order to accept the invitation to participate, each prospective Partner or Special Advisor signed a pledge form, promising to overlook his or her own self-interest (either personal or of those whom he/she represented) while bringing expertise to the table. They were all challenged to work toward the common good of the community and to look beyond the short term issues now facing the region. Furthermore, they were told that the
Coalition and the Partnership would take a neutral position on all growth-related issues until the process was complete and the community had voiced its desires for a preferred growth strategy for the future of
the Greater Wasatch Area.” (“The History of Envision Utah” 15).
Is this even possible?

13. Envision Utah: Key Players
Robert J. Grow
Founding Chairman
Peter Calthorpe
Urban Designer
John Fregonese
3-D Modeler

14. Robert Grow

15. Peter Calthorpe

16. What’s their angle?
Are these guys just opportunists who want to make a buck on the “green” movement, or are they committed environmentalists?

17. The Agenda Is the Envision Process following its own agenda? ~OR~
Does it follow an agenda laid out by a larger, less benign entity?

18. Glen Beck on Agenda 21

19. ICLEI

20. More ICLEI
Why is the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives praising the Utah Envision model?

21. Others’ Views of Envision Utah
In a study from UNLV titled, “The Utah Model: Lessons for Regional Planning,” Brenda Scheer observes the following.

22. More UNLV

25. More Beck: The Local Connection
It was fuzzy when we found it.
Why doesn’t Agenda 21 show up in local conversation?

26. J. Gary Lawrence
Gary Lawrence is one of the key thinkers on sustainable development, an advisor to the US
President’s Council on Sustainable Development and to US AID. He was on the US Government
delegation to the 1996 Habitat II Conference and has also been Director of the Centre for
Sustainable Communities at the University of Washington and Chief Planner in the City of Seattle.
Source: “The Future of Local Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” J. Gary Lawrence

27. Give It an Innocuous Name
“Participating in a UN advocated planning process would very likely bring out many…[who] would actively work to defeat any elected official who joined ‘the conspiracy’ by undertaking [Agenda 21]. So, we call our processes something else, such as comprehensive planning, growth management or smart growth.”
Source: “The Future of Local Agenda 21 in the New Millennium” J. Gary Lawrence

28. What can you do?
Join the SOS Madison County group on Facebook to become and stay informed.
Become a member of the SOS Foundation and come to future meetings so that together we can be organized in the fight.
Attend the Envision Madison kick-off meeting on JUNE 13TH and express your concerns.

29. You Can Do More
and Visit with City and County Government Officials
Go to City Council and County Commission Meetings