Public Engagement
Get Involved!
Community residents are invited to participate in team building, workshops, networking, and neighborhood projects to make Fairview a safer, more connected, and vibrant neighborhood.
Public Engagement Efforts
The Reconnecting Fairview Corridor Plan project team is led by the Fairview Community Council, NeighborWorks Alaska, and the consultant team, Arup. Our values for the plan include:
- Create meaningful opportunities to co-create a vision for Reconnecting Fairview, facilitating activities that reflect and celebrate the diversity of Fairview, its history, and community interests.
- Center building community trust and empowerment, acknowledging the legacy of urban renewal and how intentional efforts have been made to minimize these values.
- Ensure engagement activities meet people where they are, recognizing the range in community members’ capacity, needs, and familiarity with planning processes.
- Increase awareness and transparency of government processes and how investments are made, building long-term civic participation and partnerships beyond this effort.
Fairview Theory of Change
Vision: A healed and vibrant Fairview that is: welcoming, connected, respected, empowered, and activated year-round.
Engagement must provide:
- A robust and creative public engagement process can remediate engagement fatigue and exclusion while growing the civic power necessary for Fairview to achieve self-determination over its future.
- Leverage a creative public engagement process as a tool to engage all Fairview residents–especially those historically ignored–while building trust, belonging, and civic capacity.
Outcome: Fairview residents are excited, civically active, and grow into neighborhood leaders that shape the future of Fairview and the city.
Project Team and Stakeholders
NeighborWorks Alaska and Fairview Community Council have contracted Arup to lead development of the Plan. Reconnecting Fairview Corridor Plan will rely on close collaboration, expertise, and lived experience shared throughout the project by the following community stakeholders:
- Fairview’s community leadership and governing bodies: Fairview Community Council, the Reconnecting Fairview Committee, the NeighborWorks Alaska Community Engagement Committee, among others.
- Agency partners throughout Anchorage, including leaders of relevant concurrent planning and infrastructure efforts.
- Representatives from elected office, community-based organizations, and other nonprofit partners.
- Property and business owners along the Fairview corridor.
- Community residents, workers, and other members of the public.
Contacts
NeighborWorks Alaska
- Lindsey Hajduk, Director of Community Engagement & External Affairs, [email protected]
Arup
- Kate White, Principal in Charge, [email protected]
- Carleton Wong, Project Manager, [email protected]
- Elizabeth Owen, Deputy Project Manager, [email protected]
Technical Advisory Committee
The Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) serves as an advisory body and sounding board for the direction of the project. The TAC serves as a focused core group representing agency partners and community leadership who will provide input and deliverable review during key points of the planning process. TAC members include representatives from the following agencies:
- Fairview Community Council
- Fairview Business Association
- Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities
- Anchorage Community Development Authority
- Anchorage Metropolitan Area Transportation Solutions (AMATS)
- MOA Parks & Recreation Department
- MOA Planning Department
- MOA Public Transportation Department
- MOA Traffic Department
*MOA = Municipality of Anchorage
Completed and Ongoing Outreach Activities
Due to the number of outreach activities hosted by the Fairview Community Council and NeighborWorks Alaska, the list below only includes major activities.
Date
Activity
Ongoing
Reconnecting Fairview Committee: meets the First Thursday of each month
Ongoing
Fairview Community Council: meets the Second Thursday of each month
Ongoing
Fairview Collaborative Meetings: meets the First Monday of each month. Meeting with Seward to Glenn Highway Connection Planning and Environmental Linkages Team, AMATS, MOA Project Management & Engineering.
May 9, 2025
Carrs Gratitude Pop-up Event
May 3, 2025
Fairview Cleanup Pop-up Event
Apr 15, 2025
Anchorage Transportation Fair
Feb 19-23, 2025
Anchorage Design Week (see summary here)
Jan 15, 2025
Collaborative Council meeting
Dec 20, 2024
Reconnecting Fairview project kick-off with Arup
Dec 10, 2024
Seward to Glenn PEL Public meeting: Reconnecting Fairview table
Sept 29, 2024
“What is a Gambell Main Street” Community Workshop
Jul 20, 2024
Fairview Block Party: Reconnecting Fairview table
Feb 21-25, 2024
Anchorage Design Week (see summary here)
Jan 11, 2024
Fairview Community Council: Reconnecting Fairview potluck & project kick-off
