MetroQuest is designed to help develop and maintain the support you need to make smart choices for your region. How?

• Engage non-experts, decision makers, stakeholders and the public
• Simplify complex choices
• Promote holistic and long range regional planning
• Foster dialogue about values and visions
• Demonstrate transparency through meaningful and proactive involvement
• Educate the community on regional planning issues
• Demonstrate the costs and benefits of alternative choices
• Collect valuable feedback on priorities and acceptable trade-offs
• Generate and maintain support for a plan throughout the planning cycle
• Monitor progress towards your shared vision.

What kind of change are we talking about?
Effective stakeholder engagement in long range planning is only useful if it leads to positive change. MetroQuest generates support for smarter municipal, regional and metropolitan plans that translate into benefits for all stakeholders.

• Reduce costs by promoting wise use of infrastructure and cost effective growth management
• Improve mobility by promoting development that decreases traffic congestion and travel times and increases the viability and appeal of alternatives
• Improve environmental conditions by illustrating the costs and benefits of policy choices on the region’s air, land, and water
• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by promoting land use, housing, transportation and energy related choices that reduce our dependence on fossil fuels
• Increase sustainability by promoting responsible choices that meet the needs of both current and future generations