Go Vocal for Planning & Placemaking

From initial concept development to project completion, Go Vocal's platform supports meaningful engagement at every step of your project and empowers you to involve community members in shaping the places they live, play, and work in.

From a comprehensive plan to a revitalization project, planners and placemaking experts count on Go Vocal to:

Simplify resident engagement in a geospatial context.
Identify and track user interactions and locations.
Maintain engagement throughout extended processes.
Efficiently collect in-context feedback on lengthy documents.

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Why planners and placemaking experts love Go Vocal

A complete toolbox for insightful engagement across the full IAP2 spectrum

Interactive maps, document annotation, surveys, and 10+ other engagement methods
Streamline hybrid engagement workflows with easy data digitization
Dynamic timeline featuring project phases with automated participant notifications

ESRI integration and GIS file uploads

Seamlessly integrates with ESRI for enhanced mapping and data visualization capabilities.

Faster and better insights

24/7 clear insights through advanced dashboards
Built-in AI to organize and analyze community input up to 50% faster
Create and share impactful reports with our easy-to-use report builder

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Case studies

500+ local governments trust Go Vocal with their community engagement projects.

Explore our case studies to discover tips and best practices from successful initiatives leveraging our digital platform.

Toronto, Canada

Population:

121,700

Engaging 60,000+ community members: Toronto Centre scaled participatory budgeting across 14 neighborhoods

When Toronto Centre embarked on its participatory budgeting initiative, it faced a fundamental challenge that many government agencies encounter: how do you meaningfully engage diverse communities in complex decision-making while maintaining administrative efficiency? The solution – a structured, technology-supported approach using Go Vocal – has now successfully allocated over CA$2.25 million across 14 neighborhoods over multiple cycles, creating a replicable model for large-scale community engagement.

City of Allen, TX

Population:

106,000

City of Allen, TX improves efficiency and equity in comprehensive planning with Go Vocal

Facing an important comprehensive plan update, the City of Allen, TX wanted to hear from more people while improving efficiency. By building a hybrid strategy around the Go Vocal platform, the team increased participation, streamlined its process, and gave leaders the confidence to act on near-representative community input.

constructive engagement on a contentious topic

City of Benicia, CA

Population:

30,000

Supporting the City of Benicia, CA, in constructive engagement on a contentious topic

The City of Benicia faced a significant challenge in developing an industrial safety ordinance to regulate a local oil refinery. This was a highly polarizing issue, with conflicting concerns about public health and safety, and the economic impact on the community. Della Olm, Management Analyst & Fire PIO, discusses the city’s efforts to create a space for constructive dialogue, inclusive engagement, and transparency, and how Go Vocal’s engagement platform helped.

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Guide

The beginner’s guide to digital community engagement

This guide will walk you through the basics of digital community engagement and is meant to serve as a resource for beginners and seasoned practitioners alike. After all, setting a solid foundation for your community engagement initiative is key to its success.

Blog

Community engagement for environmental justice and sustainability

On everything from clean water and waste management to access to sustainable transportation, it is crucial to put environmental justice at the forefront of your sustainability plans, and community engagement can be an essential tool to achieving this.

Webinar

Go Vocal x Konveio Partnership: A journey through the planning lifecycle

Go Vocal and Konveio have teamed up to ensure local governments can match the right communications and engagement tools to each part of a project lifecycle. Local governments can now do it all; launch a project using Go Vocal's engagement tools; refine early drafts or mockups using Konveio's embedded document engagement platform; and then communicate out findings and reports, all in one place.

Real Customers,
Real Results

Here’s what clients say about Go Vocal

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Something that we really like about the Go Vocal platform is that now we can put the bill directly on the platform and people can read it and annotate in their own time. They can even do it from their phone. It makes what should be a public process even more convenient.

Yusuf Daneshyar

Secretary of Communications & Public Engagement, City of St. Louis

“We decided to launch our platform with Go Vocal because of the ease of use - not only for our residents, but also for our teams!”

Milzy Carrasco

Director of Neighborhood Engagement, City of Lancaster, Pennsylvania (USA)

“In addition to increasing the quantity of participants, we were able to improve the quality of our community conversations.”

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Chelsey Aprill

Communication Manager, City of Allen

“We presented the platform to our leadership team, and they absolutely lost their minds. They are so pumped for the site and the work it will enable us to do for the Comp Plan. Your team deserves a huge thank you for being so incredibly responsive and flexible and working with us to stand our platform up on such a short timeline. We really appreciate it!”

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City of Seattle

Office of Planning & Community Development (WA, USA)

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Why planners and placemaking experts love Go Vocal