AVOID THE SINS OF THE PAST BY GETTING
MEANINGFUL INPUT FROM MARGINALIZED PEOPLE
Planning, well-meaning or not so, has rarely produced equitable results for all stakeholders.
Certainly for much of the 20th century, people of color
and other marginalized people bore the brunt of elitist to bigoted planning,
zoning and other regulations.
Upwards of 100 Black communities were bisected or
destroyed by freeways. Eminent domain robbed generational wealth from many
minority main streets.
Sewage plants, factories and land uses with severely
negative environmental impacts almost always wound up in areas where people
were poor and not well connected to city hall.
The planning profession realizes that even the most
well-educated, well-meaning planner has biases.
No single human being can personally know the dozens of different lived experiences and expectations of the diverse community they are shaping through planning.
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