PROGRAM OVERVIEW | Downtown Colorado, Inc. (DCI) is pleased to invite your participation to learn more about an opportunity to serve as a pilot community, free of charge, in a program with access to extensive training, workshops, and technical assistance to consider community revitalization and property redevelopment. The 2024 Colorado Challenge Accelerator Program will help establish a list of opportunity sites for investment, building a stronger community team to connect public and private resources to get things done, and help shape a funding strategy with a timeline and talking or proposals points to share with funders. 

DESCRIPTION | How do comprehensive and strategic plans turn into policy, capturing community vision and attitude? How can your policies create a predictable environment for investors, town staff, and your community? We review how best practice policy-writing turns your community vision into results.

SPEAKERS |  Jim Heid

LEARNING LESSONS

1. Building community consensus and sustaining engagement through private-public partnerships, committee ownership, and financing mechanisms.

2. Process for turning vision into regulation. 

3. Tailoring example policies to fit community goals: do’s + don’ts.

4. Suggestions for durable, iterative policies.

5. Communicating predictable policies to the private sector.