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has seen it as an important ingredient in future metro. area planning and <br />decision- making. <br />Should the Planning Commission and Council choose to ignore their <br />own vision statement and proceed without convening a collaborative process <br />then those presentations will seem hypocritical, the funds spent by <br />McKnight a tragedy and the time and careful thought given to the city vision <br />a waste of time and resources. <br />We stand at a crossroads tonight. We can choose to return to the <br />same -old process that has created years of animosity and suspicion in this <br />city or, we can, as. one participant in the visioning process stated, "take our <br />city back." <br />When he left Ramsey for the last time, Michael Herman, who <br />facilitated much of the process, handed to me a folded scroll of paper. They <br />were the guidelines and sayings that had hung on the walls of the Ramsey <br />Room during all those sessions. When I asked him why he was giving them <br />to me and not city staff or council, he said, "I am not giving them to you <br />