Master Plan

By Alan Robbins

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MASTER PLAN

A Community Association Strategic Planning Guide for Homeowners Associations, Condominiums, and Housing Cooperatives

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MASTER PLAN

A common-sense approach… Powerful results!

Alan Robbins created the CAPSERV Strategic Planning Process and wrote Master Plan to empower community association volunteers with the ability to develop well thought out strategic plans supported by pro-active communications and purposeful implementation.

Whether you live in a new or well-established community, you can put together a successful plan with clarity of purpose and goals that are within your reach.

Master Plan tells a compelling story about Forest Grove, a community that utilized CAPSERV planning solutions to implement a successful strategic plan that proactively changed the course of its future. By connecting Forest Grove's story with the step-by-step planning process outlined in this book, readers can gain a deeper understanding about how to carry out effective plans that enable their associations to accomplish their missions and fulfill the long-term aspirations for their communities.

Note from author about cover -

 if a decision is made to do artwork, icons, or pictures on the front cover, I would suggest that your designers think in terms of residential housing developments and planned communities. If they do on line research for image concepts there should be plenty of images for inspiration under community associations and planned communities... I would stay away from images of people and general strategic planning. The primary and secondary front cover titles and back cover text do enough to cover the planning side.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9781647012335

Book preview

CHAPTER I

COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION BASICS AND THE FOUDATION FOR PLANNING

As my discussion with the board and managing agent began, we agreed that my first impressions of the community’s strengths and weaknesses were accurate. It was evident that there was a consensus amongst the directors about the need for a major planning initiative, but there was also a good deal of frustration about past failures and a lack of confidence about their ability to put together a viable plan that would actually work. In the past, the board constantly ran into roadblocks that interfered with its ability to get the job done. Committee volunteers were not engaged and continued to focus on their own objectives and pet projects. Internal politics and squabbling among the committees about implementation authority and responsibilities often dominated productive discussion. Most notably, there was little homeowner buy-in, or interest in what the board was attempting to do. While most day-to-day operations were in order, the board, committee volunteers, and managing agent appeared to be lost in the weeds when it came to dealing with the community’s long-term