Building Community Capacity: How Collaborative Planning Is Changing the Culture of Governance in Seattle Amber M
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Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Graduate Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2009 Building community capacity: how collaborative planning is changing the culture of governance in Seattle Amber M. Kobler Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd Part of the Urban, Community and Regional Planning Commons Recommended Citation Kobler, Amber M., "Building community capacity: how collaborative planning is changing the culture of governance in Seattle" (2009). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 10564. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/10564 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Building community capacity: how collaborative planning is changing the culture of governance in Seattle by Amber M. Kobler A thesis submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING Major: Community and Regional Planning Program of Study Committee: Gerardo Sandoval, Major Professor Tara Lynne Clapp Betty Wells Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2009 Copyright © Amber M. Kobler, 2009. All rights reserved. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures ....................................................................................................................................... iv List of Tables .......................................................................................................................................... v Abstract ................................................................................................................................................. vi Chapter 1. Overview .............................................................................................................................. 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 1 Background ........................................................................................................................................ 2 Building Community Capacity through Collaborative Planning........................................................ 3 Problem Statement & Research Questions ......................................................................................... 6 Case Study Selection: Why Seattle? ................................................................................................... 6 Methodology ...................................................................................................................................... 8 Data Collection and Analysis ........................................................................................................... 10 Research Organization...................................................................................................................... 11 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................ 13 Chapter 2. Literature Review ............................................................................................................... 14 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 14 Shifting the planning paradigm: from scientific rationality to collaboration ................................... 14 The evolution of citizen participation and the neighborhood movement ......................................... 19 Government vs. Governance ............................................................................................................ 23 Defining capacity ............................................................................................................................. 27 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................ 32 Chapter 3: Methodology ....................................................................................................................... 34 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 34 Hypothesis and Purpose ................................................................................................................... 35 Methodology .................................................................................................................................... 36 Conceptual Definitions ..................................................................................................................... 39 Operationalizing Variables ............................................................................................................... 40 Operational Framework .................................................................................................................... 41 Theoretical Framework .................................................................................................................... 42 Data Collection: Units of Analysis and Methods ............................................................................. 43 Interview Design, Methods, and Procedures .................................................................................... 46 Data Analysis ................................................................................................................................... 48 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................ 48 Chapter 4: Establishing the Context ..................................................................................................... 50 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 50 The 1985 Downtown Land Use and Transportation Plan ................................................................ 51 The Citizens Alternative Plan (CAP) ............................................................................................... 54 Creating the Office of Neighborhoods ............................................................................................. 59 State Growth Management and the 1994 Comprehensive Plan ....................................................... 61 The Neighborhood-Planning Program (NPP) .................................................................................. 65 After the planning process: implementation and increased capacity ................................................ 72 iii Changing tides: The new administration .......................................................................................... 75 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................ 76 Chapter 5: Ripple Effects ..................................................................................................................... 79 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 79 Outreach: Engaging stakeholders ..................................................................................................... 79 Partnerships ...................................................................................................................................... 87 Learning............................................................................................................................................ 93 Empowerment and Signs of Governance Capacity .......................................................................... 98 The Neighborhood Matching Fund ................................................................................................ 103 How the Neighborhood Matching Fund Works ............................................................................. 105 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................................... 110 Chapter 6: Lessons and Challenges .................................................................................................... 113 Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 113 Research questions, hypothesis, and framework ............................................................................ 114 Summary of findings: Increased capacity and signs of governance ............................................... 117 Lessons, challenges and policy implications .................................................................................. 120 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................................... 122 Appendix A. Research questions and subquestions ........................................................................... 124 Operationalizing