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

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

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-301

Climate and Energy Planning: Community Partnerships that Work

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

NPSG12-161

Not Your Father's DOT: Progressive Trends in State Transportation Policy

Speakers: Roger Millar, PE, AICP, Director, Smart Growth America's Leadership Institute; Mary Taylor Raulerson, Principal Planner, Kittelson & Associates; Allen Biehler, PE, Allen Biehler Consulting LLC; Lynn Peterson, Sustainable Communities and Transportation Policy Advisor Governor's Office; Paul F. Morris, FASLA, Deputy Secretary for Transit, North Carolina Department of Transportation

State transportation agencies spend billions of dollars every year on transportation infrastructure. How can we make sure that this spending is focused on supporting and enhancing livable communities? Pennsylvania, Oregon, North Carolina and others have been working towards transportation reforms to create and support livable communities. Learn about their good work and efforts to leverage these successes nationwide.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-307

The Evolution of Smart Growth — the San Diego Story

MP3

$20.00

$20.00

NPSG12-225

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

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-104

Overcoming Barriers to Sustainably Redevelop Historic Communities: Focus on Main Street

Speakers: Nora Johnson, Policy Fellow, Office of Sustainable Communities, U.S. EPA; Yolanda Bouchee, Green Historic Preservation Specialist, U.S. EPA, Region 5; Joi Ross, Owner/CEO, APEX Direct, Inc.; Matthew Walsh. Assistant for Special Projects, City of Concord, NH

Green building practices do not need to be limited to new construction: historic properties can be an important way to incorporate green building into existing building stock and play an important role in downtown revitalization. This panel describes US EPA's efforts to assist in green historic preservation nationwide, focusing on EPA's recent Concord, NH, technical assistance project to help Concord identify tools to sustainably redevelop the upper stories of their historic properties downtown. The panel discusses lessons learned and provide tools for both developers and communities. In addition, the assessment tool resulting from the project is presented, designed to help determine how successful a community has been in marrying green building practices, historic preservation, and smart growth principles.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-242

Facing the Critics: Tools and Trainings to Successfully Counter Smart Growth Opponents

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

NPSG12-250

Building Support for Mobility Options: Effective Outreach Tactics for Engaging Grassroots Groups and Underserved Communities

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

Subtotal

$185.00