The City of Pensacola’s Strive to Thrive Pensacola 2035 Visioning Survey, an online public survey to provide input that will shape the comprehensive vision for Pensacola, will be closing Wednesday, July 31.
Anyone who lives, works, or visits Pensacola is invited to participate. The survey builds on Pensacola’s Resident Satisfaction Survey and invites the public to share their perception of Pensacola today and ideas about its future. The survey will help the project team identify priority goals and initiatives that will help make Pensacola a more equitable, livable and resilient city.
The city has partnered with Gehl, a renowned urban design and strategy firm, to help craft Pensacola’s Strategic Plan process, “Strive to Thrive: 2035.” The process includes robust citywide engagement, focus groups, and research into the city’s strengths, opportunities, and how Pensacola can anticipate and take advantage of global trends. Once finished, the plan will cast a vision for the next decade of investments and set key goals and priorities.
The visioning survey will be live for the next five days. The survey complements other engagement efforts, including pop-ups at neighborhood events throughout the summer, and a public open house held June 26 to share ideas in-person with city staff and the Gehl team.
Gehl is an urban design and research consultancy offering expertise in the fields of urban design, master planning, strategy and city planning. Gehl addresses global trends with a people-focused approach, utilizing empirical analysis to understand how the built environment can promote well-being. They apply this analysis to strategic planning and human-centered design to empower citizens, decision-makers, company leaders and organizations. Gehl’s work is based on the human dimension – the effect of the built environment on social interaction between people. Gehl considers lively and widely used public spaces to be vital keys to quality of life in cities and to overall well-being. Gehl has led city vision plans and strategies in hundreds of cities around the globe, from Buenos Aires to Charlotte to West Palm Beach.
