Actually, not about predicting the future in the year 2100, but rather our goal is to envision a future that reflects our core values: diversity, inclusiveness, attractive places, caring and learning participation and sustainability.

The forum's main objective is to generate a set of big ideas that will be used to guide future planning initiatives. This kind of big thinking that we're doing is what we call the inspirational phase of planning which staff is given the opportunity to dream about future opportunities for the streets. It's not just the surface of the street, it's what's below the surface, right all of the utilities and the actual network, and it's about the adjacent buildings and how they interact with one another and the open spaces.

And so, when we consider these streets, we want to think about not only how we design, but how we program and how we maintain them to create a more enduring sense of place, and these are the connections. This is what really creates a fabric, a strong fabric for our community. The ideas, while they're not expected to take shape immediately, can be weaved into future planning initiatives. Well, one of the results of the forum we found was really interesting.

Is that most people, when presented with an opportunity to talk about an alternative street infrastructure rather than have a car oriented dominated Street? You shared the right of way more so than than than today and at present, at the end of the day, we want participants to walk away from the event with a common vocabulary around sustainable Street infrastructure, and we want them to continue to think about ways to work together to achieve a common vision rather than working at cross-purposes.

It's a great time to start planning now, because once we get busy, we won't necessarily have that time. We use this opportunity to start thinking about the future and then, when it gets busy, we can go ahead and begin to implement the great ideas and thoughts that have come out of this visioning exercise.