Agreed (on the one-way signs). Stephanie, this is a great tool - I remember checking it out when it was introduced to the HPHA. The issue then and now is that unless we get the city to adopt it so city agencies are tracking what's in here, it adds even more burden on neighborhood groups to do the admin work. Any chance we can get JC to adopt this tool or something similar?

And after May 14 it's a great tool that will be used.

Either way SustainableJC.org will host this tool as citywide organization on behalf of the various Neighborhood Associations - happy to do it; we can figure out how to so on our back end; from what I read on the Harsimus presentation Steve gave it. This first iteration was just to test it and see if there would be a response.

We also want to map flood zones and some other issues to our Green Map so there is an opportunity to deploy citizen solutions like smart tree pits, Rain Gardens and other GI; we will create those opportunities for our Rain Garden Campaign but the Green Map reporting will be the way to present back to City Council, Wards / Neighborhood Association and JCEC, which is what we are after. Would love to discuss further.

More info here -
http://sustainablejc.org/wordpress/projects/jc-green-map/
http://sustainablejc.org/wordpress/projects/green-infrastructure-rain-gardens/

Thanks,
Debra

From Steve Fulop's government modernization plan:

"The explosion of social media provides Jersey City with an opportunity to garner a wealth of information from constituents. From online constituent surveys to asking the community questions on Facebook, the Fulop administration believes that the key to improving the city is through community involvement. Many cities have adopted programs such as “See-Click-Fix” that allow residents to take a picture of an issue like a pothole and submit it to the appropriate government agency. Not only will my administration use a social “bottoms up” approach to understand neighborhood issues, but also to drive neighborhood priorities. Imagine the use of a Groupon- like tool that solicits citizens for feedback on the priority of various government activities in their neighborhood. The neighborhood will help prioritize whether it is more important right now to fix a given pothole or paint a crosswalk at an intersection.

More: http://stevenfulop.com/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/docs/fulop_government_structure_and_modernization.pdf

The difference will be that the information won't go anywhere.

Excellent Steve and as a way to make these commitments more transparent and accessible, SJC will be publishing our Surveys, e.g., JC Moms Composting Survey we did a couple of weeks ago and the Commercial Solar Survey we are about to go out with, onto the SJC Green Map, which is a social media 'story telling' platform. This information, alongside of SeeClickFix, when published onto a mapping tool like this offers an integrated way to report on neighborhood activities and will be a useful planning tool for Neighborhood Associations. Very exciting time to think Citizen Movements like ours and City Government can finally WORK TOGETHER !

SeeClickFix has an Open API, so getting the location data out in a meaningful way to then merge with other geo data points will be (relatively) easy.