The Pragmatics of Successful Public Meetings

Professional planners and designers often find that their technical infrastructure solutions are opposed by the public because of different values and thus decision rules. The public has a strong affinity for western notions of justice, equality, and risk minimization. John Rawls theorized three basic aspects of western justice: distributive, procedural, and access. Structured public involvement is a public participation protocol that recognizes these values and incorporates them so as to increase public satisfaction with infrastructure planning and design outcomes. The specific aspects of S.P.I, and the analytic minimum impedance surface used for transmission line routing are discussed