Make engagement easier

I’ve watched, for a second time a TED Talk by Dave Meslin called The Antidote to Apathy. In the video Meslin, a community activist, talks about ways to get people in engage in their communities’ politics and planning.

On proposal was to make planning notices more straight forward and readable.  I don’t know if this sort of idea will be integrated into Saint John’s new zoning by-law, but it should be considered.  I know there are plans to make the zoning by-law more readable, and the idea of making the public notices more readable seems to fit with that.

 

http://www.ted.com/talks/dave_meslin_the_antidote_to_apathy.html