"the engineer and architect ... should be able to return with a sense of how your goals might compete with or complement each other."

Meeting Two

The goal of this meeting is to better define project goals and vision. If appropriate, this is a good time to feature the expert panel you have convened earlier. You should leave the meeting with a solid draft of a project description that clearly details what you are trying to achieve.

Questions to Ask
1. Competing or complementary goals?
2. Satisfied with project description and next steps?
3. Key elements of team operating agreement?

Question One: Do we have competing or complementary goals?

Between the first and second meetings, the engineer and architect should have spent some time discussing the goals and visions you outlined during your brainstorming session. While they will not come back to you with "answers," they should be able to return with a sense of how your goals might compete with or complement each another.

Ask your expert panel to come to this meeting with a draft project definition for your team, indicating where they believe the goals or visions may not work together and where they can be successfully accommodated. This draft project definition should then be reviewed and revised by the team at this meeting. This is where experience and innovation will be particularly helpful. In the past, communities and WSDOT have often believed that designs tended towards reduced liability rather than increased livability. And, for some projects it may be that the two have not been compatible. However, a number of successful projects throughout Washington are tributes to the notion that often compromise can be reached. These two goals, and others like them, don't necessarily have to be mutually exclusive.