Our friends up north in Traverse City are undertaking "The Grand Vision" – a land use and transportation study process to facilitate providing a framework for propelling the Grand Traverse region for the next 50 years and beyond (aka. figure out how to effectively absorb their enormous growth in a way that maintains their quality of life). Their mission: "to use a transparent and citizen led discussion and process to ensure the development of a community vision, plans for the future, and projects that address land use and transportation challenges facing the region."
Check out their video which invited people to this session and lays out the planning process — http://www.thegrandvision.org/index.php! According to one participant, there were over 500 people were there and most were saying, “More Transit, please!”