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

ABA12-205

Delivering Value and Efficiency with Technology

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$18.00

$18.00

NPSG12-131

Still Starbucks-Free: Rural Main Streets—Small towns need vitality, too!

Speakers: Kathy Callies, Acting President, Rural Learning Center; Dennis (Denny) Ross, Mayor, City of Maupin, OR; JoAnne Bush, Mayor, City of Lake Village, AR; Chris Beck, Senior Projects Advisor, U.S.D.A.-Rural Development

Given the global economy's demand for greater economic efficiencies (fewer small farmers) and environmentally sound natural resource practices (less extraction), many rural communities are facing a dramatic shift in the economic opportunities available to them. Starbucks may not be coming any time soon, but rural leaders understand that creating great places to live and work is an essential ingredient to their economic future and have requested USDA funding for strategic, place-based investments. This session focuses on three case studies: a new meeting center in Howard, South Dakota, a revived market in Maupin, Oregon, and a historic renovation in Lake Village, Arkansas.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NHF15-241

Genetic Testing in Hemophilia Care: Who, What and How

MP3

$10.00

$10.00

NPSG15-201

Deal Makers & Game Changers: Being Responsive to a Market for Equitable Development

90-minute session

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-166

Kicking the (driving) Habit: Low-Density Cities Move to Sustainable Transportation

Speakers: Ellen Greenberg, Associate Principal, Arup; Dena Belzer, President, Strategic Economics; Eileen Yazzie, Transportation Planning Project Manager, Maricopa Association of Governments, AZ; Shannon Scutari, Sustainable Communities Working Group; Jason King, AICP, CNU-A, Town Planner, Dover, Kohl & Partners; Susie Byrd, Councilmember, City of El Paso, TX; Katie Updike, Managing Partner, Building Solutions, LLC

This 'talk show' style session investigates two tales from the Southwest. In El Paso, Texas, the City Council has resolved to become the "Least Car-Dependent City in the Southwest," launching initiatives that have brought the City into the national discussion on multi-modal placemaking. In Arizona, the Maricopa Association of Governments' Sustainable Transportation and Land Use Integration Study is trying to jump start the region’s path to a sustainable transportation future.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

Subtotal

$222.00