Walnut Creek is rewriting its General Plan, and this is the first community-wide workshop on it. City staff will run a facilitated conversation about what residents want the city to look like in 2050.
A General Plan is the document every later decision points back to. It sets where housing and jobs go, and it sets how streets are supposed to be designed: whether a road gets a bike lane or another lane of traffic, whether a crossing near a school gets rebuilt, whether walking and biking are treated as transportation or as recreation.
It is written now and lived with for twenty-five years. The projects we argue about one at a time are much easier to win when the General Plan already says the city intends to build them.
These processes are decided by whoever shows up, and the people who show up are usually the ones who drive everywhere. An hour on a Thursday is a genuinely high-leverage way to spend it.
We will be there. Come find us.
Bring the specific places that worry you: the intersection you will not let your kid cross alone, the street with no sidewalk, the trail that dead-ends into traffic. Concrete local examples land better in these rooms than general statements of support.
You do not need to prepare anything or know planning jargon to take part.
The City is also staffing tables at two farmers' markets, where you can give input in a couple of minutes without setting aside an evening:
You can also follow the project or send comments to the team directly through the City's project site.