NPSG12-162

Essential Components of the 21st Century Community: Housing for the "Missing Middle"

Speakers: Lina Velasco, Senior Planner, City of Richmond, CA; Lisa Wise, Principal, Lisa Wise Consulting, Inc. Moderator: Stefan Pellegrini, Principal, Opticos Design, Inc.

This session examines and debates the potential for medium-density housing as an essential future component of our livable communities. Several indicators have increased recent interest in higher-density housing, including changing demographics, decreasing housing affordability, and increasing efforts to conserve energy through more compact development patterns. At the same time, higher-density housing has been challenged by high development and entitlement costs, limited market share, and incessant NIMBYism. Well-designed, medium-density housing, however, suggests that there is a high potential for cost effective, appropriately-scaled development patterns that will allow today's low density communities to evolve and transition in response to future challenges.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

SEA08-119

Win, Win, Win: A Community Capacity Building Model That Works

Speakers: Sean McGee, Jeanne C, Grothaus, Patrick , DPowell, Dr, Judy Tansky

MP3

$10.00

$10.00

NPSG15-251

Building Youth Leadership for Strong Communities

2-hour session

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

NPSG12-151

EPA's Building Blocks: Lessons Learned from a Year of Tool Development & Delivery

Speakers: Kevin Nelson, AICP, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Sustainable Communities, U.S. EPA; Chris Duerksen, Managing Director, Clarion Associates; Sue Schwartz, AICP, Director of Planning and Community Development, City of Greensboro, SC; Frank Williamson, Alderman, City of St. Louis, MO

In 2011, the EPA's Office of Sustainable Communities created the Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities Program to develop smart growth and sustainability tools that could be delivered to communities in a short term and targeted manner. Given the range of issues facing communities to implement smart growth, the toolbox created from this program aims at to achieve: walkable communities, a reduction in vehicle miles travelled, and protection of land and water resources. This session reviews the development of this program, its intended impact and focus on tool delivery and implementation.

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

ABA12-135

Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Who Is the Most Compliant of Them All? The Ins and Outs of HR Audits

MP3

$15.00

$15.00

OAE11-121

Featured Panel: Multiple Identities: Engaging LGBT Employees from Communities of Color

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$24.00

$24.00

NHF15-328

Embracing Your Inner Geezer: Retirement Planning

MP3

$10.00

$10.00

OAKSUM-001

Opening Plenary: Susan L. Taylor

Speakers: KPIX TV Host Dr. Brenda Wade; Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums & First Lady Cynthia Dellums; Tom Guarino, PG&E; Oakland City Council President Jane Brunner; Janice Mirikitani, Founding President of Glide Foundation; Congresswoman Barbara Lee

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

Subtotal

$149.00