OXFORD – The first of three Vision Plan meetings was held Tuesday at the community meeting room in the Oxford Primary School.

The meetings are put on by the Center for Community Design Research at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

“We’ve worked with a number of communities in upstate to facilitate development and growth in villages and towns,” said Maren King, professor of the CCDR. “In the first stage, we develop questions that help us better understand the community.”

About 20-25 people attended the first two workshops as well as focus groups made up of the businesses community, non-profits and service agencies, and agricultural representatives.

CCDR asks community members questions that are “as much for them as us” said King, who then analyzes the information and organizes it into easily identifiable material.

King said the first stage involves understanding resources and assets, concerns, and things the community would like to see built upon.