NPSG12-323

Eat, Play, Live: Creative Investments Towards Equitable Health Access

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$10.00

$10.00

NPSG12-106

People, Place & Planning: Engaging Residents & Using Data in Revitalization and Evaluation

Speakers: Crystal Dundas, Vice President, Communications and Program Officer; Wells Fargo Regional Foundation; Lois Greco, Senior Vice President, Evaluations; Wells Fargo Regional Foundation; Patrick Morrissy, Executive Director, Housing and Neighborhood Development Services; Eileen Flanagan, Chief Innovator, Community Development Consulting

How can you create and sustain long-term neighborhood change that engages and energizes current residents, leverages the assets and market momentum of a place, and assesses if you've accomplished what you've set out to do? Experience a participatory neighborhood planning process through the eyes of a stakeholder; hear first-hand how one New Jersey community is revitalizing based upon its superb transit access, location, artistic residents and industrial heritage; and learn about tools like Success Measures and PolicyMap that are available to support and assess the impact of these smart-growth activities. The session focuses on a participatory framework towards neighborhood revitalization developed and refined by the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation, and currently subscribed to in more than 40 neighborhoods in eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-223

Revitalization, Gentrification, and Equitable Development: Evaluating a Decade of EPA's Programs

Speakers: Mary Nelson, Founding President, Bethel New Life; Deeohn Ferris, JD, President, Sustainable Community Development Group; Ted Howard, Evergreen Coalition; Charlie Bartsch, Senior Advisor to the Assistant Administrator for Economic Development, Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization, U.S. EPA; Vernice Miller-Travis, Senior Associate, Skeo Solutions

Gentrification is often defined as the transformation of neighborhoods from low value to high value. This change has the potential to cause displacement of long-time residents and businesses because of higher rents, mortgages, and property taxes. This interactive session provides an overview of EPA's efforts to promote equitable development, engages the audience, and facilitates a candid discussion about the challenges and proposed solutions at the local level for advancing truly equitable development.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-149

Growing Wealthier Training: Achieving the Prosperity Benefits of Transit and Smart Growth

Speakers: Charles Kooshian, Senior Transportation Policy Analyst, Center for Clean Air Policy; Nadine Fogarty, Principal, Strategic Economics Inc.; Geoffrey Anderson, President and CEO, Smart Growth America; Joe DiStefano, AICP, Principal, Calthorpe Associates; Dennis M. Leach, AICP, Director of Transportation, Arlington Department of Environmental Services, Transportation Division; Michael Hoglund, Director, Metro - Research Center

Enhanced understanding of the economic, quality of life and equity benefits of Transit-Oriented-Development (TOD) and smart growth is essential for actually realizing these benefits. This training session will provide insight from experts in research, development, planning, modeling, TOD, policy and practice to guide participants on how to assess and maximize the broad benefits of TOD and smart growth, including affordable housing, and household transportation and energy costs.

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$20.00

$20.00

NPSG12-170

Plenary: Smart Growth for Economic Recovery

Speakers: Jared Blumenfeld, Regional Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9; Mary D. Nichols, Chairperson, California Air Resources Board; Mick Cornett, Mayor, City of Oklahoma City, OK

This plenary articulates the important role that the federal government is playing to support sustainable communities across the country — communities that will become more economically resilient in the future. It will also feature how leaders at the state and local levels have implemented smart growth approaches as part of a solution to recover from the economic crisis, move towards fiscal health, and become more economically resilient and vibrant along the way.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-222

Using Health As a Messaging Tool

Speakers: Judy Corbett, Executive Director, Local Government Commission; Richard J. Jackson, MD MPH, Professor/Chair, Environmental Health Sciences; Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Urban Planning, UCLA

The health message can be particularly potent as a messaging tool for supporting everything from Smart Growth measures to state legislation related to Global Warming. The Lung Association is widely credited for stopping the passage of an initiative to repeal California's global warming law. The California's Medical Association encourages their physician-members to advocate for Smart Growth and it is beginning to bear fruit. This session, led by Dr. Richard Jackson, highlights the messages that have worked and explores how the medical profession might go even further to encourage land use changes that create healthy communities.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-249

Advancing Opportunities for Rural Economic Development

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

$30.00

NPSG12-225

Land Use in a Building Code??? Meet the International Green Construction Code

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-328

Heritage-Based Rural Development

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-322

Smart Growth, Immigrant Integration and Sustainable Development

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-101

Comparing Coastal Responses to Promote Regional Resiliency

Speakers: Tina Shumate, Senior Technical Recruiter, Recruiting Manager, Mississippi Department of Marine Resources; Nicola Hedge, Climate Initiative Manager, The San Diego Foundation; Linda Giannelli Pratt, Chief Program Manager, Environmental Services, City of San Diego, CA

Hurricane Katrina's destruction along the Gulf Coast has required communities to rebuild from scratch, rethinking urban patterns and long-range planning. Today, new master plans across the Mississippi Gulf Coast aim to curb sprawl and rebuild compact communities with green infrastructure to manage storm water and mitigate flooding in low-lying areas. On another coast, San Diego County residents need only recall the recent multi-year drought and devastating wildfires to recognize climate change impacts bearing down on the US southwest. The region, however, is emerging as an incubator for innovative development of plans to mitigate and adapt to our changing climate, with philanthropy playing a catalytic role and local governments like the City of San Diego leading by example. Join this discussion comparing and contrasting approaches of two coastal regions to advance smart growth and promote regional climate resiliency.

Audio CDs: 1

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$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

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$15.00

$15.00

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

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-227

Health, Justice and Equity in Freight and Infrastructure Development

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-152

Putting Parking in its Place for Smart Growth

Speakers: Valerie Knepper, Transportation Planner, Metropolitan Transportation Commission; Richard W. Lee, Ph.D., AICP, Associate, Fehr & Peers; Christine Eary, Associate Regional Planner, SANDAG; Donald C. Shoup, Professor of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles; Meea Kang, Principal, Domus Development: Executive Director, California Infill Builders Association; Richard W. Willson Ph.D. FAICP, Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Jeffrey Tumlin, Principal, Nelson/Nygaard; Samir Hajjiri, Sr. Traffic Engineer, City of San Diego, City Planning & Community Investment Dept.; Kathy Garcia, Planning Director, City of Del Mar; Ian Sacs, P.E., Director, Transportation and Parking, City of Hoboken, NJ; Robert Swierk, AICP, Senior Transportation Planner, CMA Planning; Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority; Mott Smith, Principal, Civic Enterprise

Hear from the nation's foremost parking experts, to reconceptualize parking to support smart growth in our communities; explore the roles of different governmental agencies and the private sector in reforming parking policies and practices; and address housing, TOD, and transit. The session delves into: the fundamentals of rethinking parking policies—The High Price of Free Parking and the theory of 85%; new development—how can smart parking policies support the viability of new construction? Government roles—how can cities and MPOs pursue parking policies and practices to effectively support smart growth? Finally, The Cutting Edge—what's happening in the Big Apple and elsewhere "at the frontier"?

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

$30.00

NPSG12-211

Rural Sustainability: Federal Collaboration, Regional Innovation and the Partnership for Sustainable Communities

Speakers: David Doyle, Sustainable Communities Coordinator, U.S. EPA, Region 7; Elizabeth Wampler, Program Associate/Data Analyst, Reconnecting America; Annie Goode, Environmental Protection Specialist, USDA/Rural Development

In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation and Department of Housing and Urban Development formed the Partnership for Sustainable Communities aimed at improving rural quality of life including access to affordable housing, enhanced rural transportation options and environmental protection. In collaboration with USDA, the Partnership is working to show how its six "livability principles" support economically and environmentally vibrant rural communities.

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$10.00

$10.00

NPSG12-212

Learning to Share — How to Get Your Community Ready for Bicycle Sharing

Speakers: Brett Hondorp, Principal, Alta Planning & Design and Alta Bicycle Share; Lynn Harris, Senior Analyst, UCI's Parking and Transportation Services; Matthew Lasky, Transportation Planner, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's Bike Sharing Team; Brodie Hylton, Operations Director, Alta Bicycle Share

With the growth and success of bicycle sharing systems worldwide, many jurisdictions are clamoring to be next in line to bring bike sharing to their communities. This session offers practical experience in all phases of bike share operations including: site planning, financing, equipment purchasing, liability, marketing, staffing, and bicycle rebalancing and maintenance.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-208

Smart Water: Aligning Land Use and Infrastructure for Healthier Communities and Cities

Speakers: Deven Upadhyay, Manager, Water Resource Management Group, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California; Emily Gordon, Senior Associate, Green For All; Randall Lewis, Executive Vice President, Lewis Operating Corporation

Sustainable water infrastructure is a critical component to any smart growth strategy or development. This panel explores how integrated land-use planning, green infrastructure and a range of policy incentives can support the development of healthy communities with an essential and reliable water supply and delivery system. You will be deftly guided through the complex and inter-related policies of the water industry and receive a valuable overview of successful planning strategies that facilitate smart growth.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-311

National City: A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Achieving Sustainable Environmental and Social Equity

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

$30.00

NPSG12-320

Luncheon. EPA National Awards for Smart Growth Achievement Videos

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$10.00

$10.00

Subtotal

$335.00