Stakeholders: Local residents
Nature of claim: Loss of property, noise pollution, property value, utilities issues, drainage issues, environmental impact issues, possible positive impact on local jobs and tax revenue for cities, taxes they will be contributing for project, viewsheds
Characteristics: Both for and against
Method of contact: Town meeting, notices in local media, direct mailings, billboards
Approach: Education, suggest a system to ensure fair compensation, present options, offering forum for views
Stakeholders: Commuters
Nature of claim: Key beneficiaries of I-69, because of better roads
Characteristics: Most in favor of project
Method of contact: Town meeting, notices in local media, direct mailings, billboards
Approach: Education, offer more specifics on how it will affect their routes
Stakeholders: Existing and potential businesses
Nature of claim: Key beneficiaries of I-69, because of increase in potential traffic
Characteristics: Nearly all in favor of project, unless road will will displace them
Method of contact: Phone book, business directories, business association
Approach: Education, information, offer more specifics on how it will affect their traffic
Stakeholders: Trucking firms
Nature of claim: Key beneficiaries of I-69
Characteristics: most in favor of project
Method of contact: Contacting trade organizations, billboards, radio ads, truck stop advertising
Approach: Education, information, offer more specifics on how it will affect their routes, as well as their access to goods and merchandise, as well as their access to supply routes, supply chains, licensing, fuel costs, weigh stations, maintenance
Stakeholders: Tourism industry
Nature of claim: Enhanced accessibility for tourists to previously inaccessible locations
Characteristics: Supportive, unless tourist sites would be destroyed
Method of contact: Contacting trade organizations, Chambers of Commerce, travel magazine editorials and advertisements
Approach: Education, information on how this will affect their traffic potential and customer base
Stakeholders: Environmental agencies and private environmental activist organizations
Nature of claim: Potential deforestation, destruction of species and habitats
Characteristics: Very hostile
Method of contact: Formal newspaper notice, public hearings
Approach: Education, information on how this project will impact all natural resources and wildlife
Stakeholders: Agencies that depend on tax revenue
Nature of claim: Increased money from federal government for agencies who oversee the construction and maintenance of roads, increased employment and tax revenues
Characteristics: Very supportive
Method of contact: Offical channels
Approach: ?
Stakeholders: Law enforcement entities
Nature of claim: Increases need for law enforcement, will require increased budget, but will also alter crime pathways, making job more difficult, increased potential for revenue from citations and traffic infractions
Characteristics: Mixed
Method of contact: Official channels
Approach: Orientation and training sessions
Stakeholders: Amish communities
Nature of claim: Way of life will be threatened
Characteristics: Very opposed to project
Method of contact: Contact elders, set up public meetings targeting Amish population
Approach: Education, suggest a system to ensure fair compensation and ensure that their ways of life will be as undisrupted as possible, offering forum for views
Stakeholders: Farmers
Nature of claim: Slicing fields, potentially increased pollution, crop loss, water runoff and irrigation issues, widened potential local market, possible drop in cost of bringing product to market
Characteristics: Mixed, but generally against
Method of contact: Advertisements in supply and feed stores, radio, trade magazines, television, town meetings
Approach: Education, suggest a system to ensure fair compensation, emphasize the benefits, allow much input, in order to map least destructive route, open forums
Stakeholders: Construction companies, engineering firms, materiel providers, labor unions, & employees
Nature of claim: Revenue, jobs
Characteristics: Universally supportive
Method of contact: Preexisting trade networks
Approach: Education
Stakeholders: Utility providers
Nature of claim: Increase in service areas, new markets, potential interference with existing utilities
Characteristics: Generally supportive
Method of contact: Trade organizations, advertisements in trade media organs
Approach: Education, publishing of specifications
Stakeholders: Historical, cultural and archaeological preservation entities
Nature of claim: Archaeological, cultural and historical resource preservation
Characteristics: Generally against
Method of contact: Directly contact interest groups
Approach: Emphasize potential for new discoveries
Stakeholders: CRM firms
Nature of claim: Great deal of paid work, but concerned with potential loss of archaeological resources
Characteristics: Generally supportive, as long as artifacts are properly conserved
Method of contact: Publishing specifications in journal, and making specifications
publicly available