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Destination <br />Medical Center: <br />Walk <br />m - <br />h <br />1 : � y : LN, <br />In Rochester, a pilot project is employing "Community Co -Designers" to help plan <br />Discovery Walk design concepts. Destination Medical Center and several community <br />partners are working together to ensure that more diverse voices are included in the <br />design of public spaces, policies and programs. <br />Kevin Bright, director of energy and sustainability for Destination Medical Center <br />Economic Development Agency and the City of Rochester, is leading the effort in <br />partnership with Jess Roberts, Affiliate Researcher at the Minnesota Design Center at the <br />University of Minnesota. A steering committee comprised of several community <br />organizations helped to develop the initiative. <br />The steering committee chose to pilot this new approach on the design of Discovery <br />Walk, a planned linear parkway along 2nd Ave SW from Annenberg Plaza to Soldiers <br />Field Park. <br />"We found that sometimes the people that are most impacted by projects, programs <br />and policies are not part of the design process," said Kevin Bright, director of energy and <br />sustainability for Destination Medical Center and the City of Rochester. "The framework <br />we developed creates formalized opportunities for power -sharing and shared decision <br />making. This, in turn, leads to healthier and more equitable public spaces." <br />