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Your Ideas, Your Neighborhood

ShapeSV is a platform in which Silicon Valley community members can: 

  • Learn facts about the upcoming development projects

  • Easily express their ideas on the upcoming projects and development broadly through online surveys; and

  • Ensure their views are shared with decision-makers in local government

 

The result: Neighborhoods are improved based on community voice.

ShapeSV provides community members a safe and comfortable space to voice and share their ideas on housing developments. 
Why did we develop this Community Engagement Tool - ShapeSV?

Catalyze SV was founded to make the community engagement process more accessible, inviting, collaborative and transparent. That means all voices must be at the table. 

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According to a report by a City Auditor, the City of San Jose needs to: 

  • increase the availability of online information

  • use more plain language in its hearing notices 

  • develop an online guide describing the planning process to receive meaningful community input. 

  • collect feedback on its public outreach on an ongoing basis

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 From our user research some of the pain points were lack of awareness of developments in the city, difficult means of participating, hard to understand language and no easy way to provide feedback or ideas for new developments. This tool will bridge these gaps in a friendly, fun way.

ShapeSV in its first iteration will incorporate:

  • A user-friendly, mobile-friendly website.

  • A simple way to search for developments by location

  • Short, easy forms for community to express what they want from developments (In multiple languages)

  • Community idea wall

We are building SHAPESV with the help and support from:

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