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Stakeholder engagement sessions are always the most productive. I've been to a few of those. They're closed to the general public, and usually involve land owners, businesses and organizations in an area and that's where most of the decisions are made.

Public engagement sessions are useless because 99% of the attendees don't provide any useful input that hasn't already been presented by stakeholders. They're a waste of time and money to put on a facade of democracy. You will never satisfy everyone in the public and it's a waste of time and energy to even try. I've been to a lot of community engagement sessions and always walk away feeling like I've just wasted three hours of my time to collect, at best, two or three genuinely useful criticisms.