Community Engagement

Photo credit: Whately residents, Annual Town Meeting, Whately Elementary School | Chris Larabee for the Daily Hampshire Gazette

Make your voice heard in our plan!

Open House Schedule

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Wednesday, March 13
6 p.m.- 7:30p.m
Virtual on Zoom










Wednesday, March 20
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Whately Town Hall, 194 Chestnut Plain Rd



Thursday, March 21
5 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Whately Town Hall, 194 Chestnut Plain Rd

General Visioning Theme. Collaborate with your neighbors to develop your best ideas for the future of housing, transportation, economic development, natural and cultural resources, community facilities and services, open space and recreation, and land use and zoning, and climate change at the town and village scale. Learn about the survey results and provide feedback on a vision statement and priorities. Recording of March 13th Virtual Meeting.

Digital Equity & Economic Development theme. Learn about the survey results and provide feedback on a vision statement and priorities. Drop-in style event with extra stations focused on the topic of digital equity and economic development.

Housing theme. Learn about the survey results and provide feedback on a vision statement and priorities. Drop-in style event with extra stations focused on the topic of housing.

Results are in!

To draft an overarching vision that will guide the comprehensive plan’s recommendations and priorities, we collected your input. See survey results.

What is community visioning?

Scenario planning is an opportunity to explore alternative futures for Whately and the trade-offs associated with those alternatives. The workshops will allow Whately stakeholders to:

  • Develop a collective vision for infrastructure, sustainable development, and conservation
  • Identify differences between that vision and current conditions
  • Identify the actions that will be needed to achieve that vision

To truly address the long-term issues facing Whately, the comprehensive plan has to tackle those difficult questions that arise from an honest assessment of our community’s challenges and clearly state the hard choices we must make to achieve the community’s vision for the future. Many of these hard choices are rooted in the fact that a “business as usual” approach often results in systems and patterns that are unsustainable or that produce results counter to our community’s stated vision and goals. The uncertainty and complexity associated with planning for the next 15 years can feel daunting.

Working together, we can create a vision and develop concrete actions to make Whately a thriving and welcoming town.