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Investing time to learn about your community will not only
create a strong basis for service to the association, it will
also establish a solid foundation to begin the process of
developing an effective plan.
What is important to your members?
If improving the landscaping is important to you, it is likely that you will be most familiar with others in
your community who share the same desire. As a decision maker for the entire community, it is necessary
to have some form of outreach to clearly understand the priorities and needs of all the members in your
community. Ask your committee representatives for their perspective on needs, conduct an annual survey,
or develop a task force to ask members what is important to them.
What conditions are present in your general community?
Conduct some general research into your surrounding community to determine factors that will impact
your association and its members. Gather information about the status of the employment and housing
market in your community. Keep track of plans for new development or other changes to property use
in your area. If there are other community associations in your neighborhood, develop a process for
exchanging information with them.
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