In partnership with the NGO Fundação Tide Setúbal, randomly selected citizens in a peripheral neighborhood of São Paulo made 12 recommendations about a new design for the main street, as the first implemented action of the “Plano de Bairro do Território Lapenna”. Besides the effectiveness of the deliberation process and achieving consensus on some critical issues for the community, our partners were impressed with the potential of mini-publics to engage ordinary citizens who had never participated in other civic initiatives.