Built Environment Listening Sessions

project status:

active

The Built Environment Listening Sessions are intended to engage people and communities across Oregon. They are an opportunity to provide direct input to DEQ’s Built Environment program by sharing your insights and personal experiences as residents of Oregon. DEQ is engaging with diverse communities, industry, and government with a particular focus on giving voice to those who are most impacted and whose voices have historically been missing in planning decisions about built spaces.

The insights and experiences you share will shape the work of the program including which projects we work on and where, who and what we support through funding and technical assistance, and whom we partner with.

Check out the videos below to learn more about the built environment, its impacts, and DEQ’s role in this space.

1: Introduction to the Built Environment

What is the built environment?

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Spanish

Impacts of the built environment

2: Why does the built environment matter?

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Spanish

3: Built Environment at DEQ

How does DEQ work on the built environment?

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Spanish

Community Advisor Voices & Lived Perspectives

Aging in the Gorge Alliance, Hood River, OR

The built environment shapes our relationship with the community and ourselves. Participating as an advisor to help shape future built environment efforts with the DEQ is worthwhile to promote age-friendly communities and to ensure that marginalized voices are centered in future planning, policy, and practice. As a member of the Aging in the Gorge Alliance, our participation aims to focus on listening to the lived experience of older adults and their relationship to the built environment.
Euvalcree, Hermiston, OR

I believe it is worthwhile to participate as an advisor for DEQ due to the impact it has in the community. By hearing what the community sees as an issue it allows the built environment to focus its efforts on what is most needed in the community. Being an advisor allows to help shape the future built environment for not just myself but for everyone else around me. I’m looking forward to making an impact in the present and for the future built environment.
Black Rural Network, Nehalem, OR

Understanding the built environment is an important aspect of understanding our communities. Bringing people together to understand how our built environment impacts our rural coastal areas in especially important as climate change and tourism affects those who live here.