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4 <br />a <br />mA Citizen's Guide: Community Decision -Making Basics <br />'A i <br />Becoming involved <br />This list of provides some ways to become involved with your local government: <br />• Start regularly attending local government council/board meetings and planning commission meetings. <br />• Find out if communities have a regular newsletter or e-mail distribution list, or if they have a bulletin board on <br />their website that is updated on a regular basis <br />• Join local committees or citizen groups in order to advocate more effectively (i.e. Becoming a member of your <br />local park board or planning commission or council/board) <br />The best time to have input and discussion in a community's land use decisions is when a comprehensive plan is being <br />prepared or updated or when new ordinances are being considered for approval. Before a project proposal is presented <br />and environmental review documents are prepared, the stage is often already set for how a community will grow and <br />develop. Through regular, cooperative work with local government officials it is possible to be able to design <br />procedures and ordinances that can accomplish more for a community's environmental protection than the <br />information/analysis that is a part of the environmental review process. <br />