Community engagement is a farce. It's never actual community engagement. It's gathering the very loud voices of 5-10 very loud and angry people and maybe a selection of hand picked organizations who will speak in your favor. Then we let them yell and moan over the voices of trained and educated professionals in their field. And then the process is dragged out so long that the budget gets cut and anything valuable in the original plan is scrapped. There...has to be a better way.