CDS Conducts Focus Groups for Houston Parks Board

Public input needed on Cypress Creek parks
The Houston Chronicle

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The Houston Parks Board is asking for public input at open house meetings on a case study examining ways to implement the Cypress Creek Greenway... Meredith Dang, land use transportation coordinator for the Houston-Galveston Area Council, said the case study is part of a larger grant to study regional sustainable development. The larger study is focused on the 13-county region. "One of the components of that is we are looking at ways to promote (sustainability) at the local level," Dang said.

...Steven Spillette, president of CDS Market Research, has been involved in the information-gathering process with the Houston Parks Board and Marsh Darcy Partners since December 2012.

"We've been doing a lot of background work to compile demographics and economics in the area, the status of governance … and developing a public outreach strategy," Spillette said. "In many ways, the core of this effort is having very extensive dialog with the community in the Cypress Creek corridor."

Since then, CDS Market Research - an urban consulting and market research group - has conducted numerous small group meetings.

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