The University of Idaho Horizons Program engaged communities throughout Idaho to create plans to meet economic, educational and infrastructure needs. Many of these projects require design plans for outdoor public spaces, community beautification, and the design or retrofitting of space for public gardens and farmers markets. The UI Extension Rapid Response Design Team has been created to respond to these community action plans in a timely manner so that communities can proceed with efforts to fund and implement these projects.

The Rapid Response Design Team meets initially with each community to gather information and present alternative design concepts, returning later to present final plans. Through this process communities have quality design work and drawings to seek professional assistance and project funding. These design projects have proceeded with the support of University of Idaho graduate students in Landscape Architecture, as well as regional and local UI Extension Faculty.

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