NPSG12-203

Mixed Use: Perception and Reality

Speakers: Amber Hawkes, AICP, Urban Designer, Melendrez; Martin Leitner, AIA, Senior Designer, Urban Studio; Allan Kotin, Principal, Allan D. Kotin & Associates; Georgia Sheridan, AICP, Urban Designer, Torti Gallas and Partners

Proposed as a cure-all, mixed-use is called forth to reduce traffic, improve walkability, boost economic development, and generate often intangible levels of urban 'livability.' This panel looks at when, where and how mixed-use development does and doesn't work from an architectural, urban design, planning, and economic perspective. Through an inter-disciplinary discussion, the panelists answer the following questions: Where does mixed-use work best? Why doesn't it work everywhere? Does mixed-use guarantee an active urban environment? When are the costs and challenges for mixed-use development worth it?

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NPSG12-229

Transforming the Golden Westside: The Role of Youth in Sustainable Brownfields Redevelopment

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NPSG12-147

Participación de Residentes en el Proceso de Planeación

Speakers: Paul Zykofsky, AICP, Assoc. AIA, Director Asociado, Local Government Commission; Juan Antonio Ramírez, Coordinador, WalkSanDiego; Laura Silvan, Presidenta del Consejo Directivo, Proyecto Fronterizo de Educación Ambiental, A.C.

La participación activa de los residentes en la planeación urbana local resulta en múltiples beneficios tanto para ellos como para el municipio en general. Primeramente, el involucrar a los residentes en la planeación local resulta en mejores planes; planes basados en el conocimiento de los residentes de lo que funciona y lo que no funciona en cada colonia. Puede ayudar a evitar los conflictos en torno al desarrollo urbano y permite a los residentes entender los impactos positivos y negativos de las distintas opciones.

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NPSG12-242

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

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NPSG12-205

Transforming San Bernardino from Ground Zero to a Model Healthy City

Speakers: Evelyn Trevino, Program Coordinator, Bernardino County Public Health Department, Healthy Communities; Mark Hoffman, Senior Planner, The Planning Center | DC&E; Evette Deluca, Executive Director, Latino Health Collaborative; Peggi Hazlett, Assistant to the Mayor, City of San Bernardino

San Bernardino has long suffered from poor health outcomes resulting from the unintended consequences of environmental, economic, and social determinants. Mortality rates and hospitalization rates from preventable diseases far exceed statewide averages. In this panel, you will learn about the County's Healthy Communities program, a model 16-city collaborative, and its largest member, the Healthy San Bernardino Coalition.

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NPSG12-226

Smart Valley Places—Taking Advantage of the Great Reset

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NPSG12-142

Where's the Money:Smart Growth Funding

Speakers: Benjamin Starrett, ED, Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities; Jerry Maldonado, Program Officer, Ford Foundation; David Fukuzawa, Health Program Director, Kresge Foundation; Beatriz Solis, Ph.D., Program Director, Healthy Communities, The California Endowment; Emily Young, Ph.D., Senior Director, Environment Analysis and Strategy, San Diego Foundation

Join the 2012 edition of the smart growth funders panel to learn the latest about smart growth funding issues and trends. This panel has become an annual New Partners tradition that provides an opportunity for participants to hear directly from funders about their work and engage in face-to-face conversation about the direction of smart growth.

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NPSG12-245

Sharpening — and Using — Financial Tools in the Smart (Re) Development Toolbox

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NPSG12-303

Advancing Equity in Minneapolis/St. Paul: Action Research, Advocacy and Place-Making

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NPSG12-148

The Economic and Environmental Benefit of Good Urbanism

Speakers: Lee Sobel, Real Estate Development and Finance Analyst, Office of Sustainable Communities, U.S. EPA; Joseph Minicozzi, AICP, Executive Director, Asheville Downtown Association; Principal, Urban3, LLC; Mitchell Silver, AICP, Planning Director, City of Raleigh, NC; President, American Planning Association; Clark Anderson, Director, Western Colorado Legacy Program, Sonoran Institute

Innovative financial and policy analysis has demonstrated that Smart Growth development is not only more beneficial from an environmental standpoint, but it is also more fiscally responsible form of growth at a municipal level. This session explores analytic tools, property policy exploration, as well as leadership strategies that are applicable in any size municipality; from a public, private and advocacy perspective.

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NPSG12-310

Community Schools - The Case for Joint Use

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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.

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NPSG12-143

Healthy Metropolitan Food Systems

Speakers: Dan Carmody, President, Detroit Eastern Market; Malik Yakini, Executive Director, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network; Ashley Atkinson, Director of Urban Agriculture and Openspace, The Greening of Detroit; Michael Sands, Senior Associate, Liberty Prairie Foundation

Growing food is an act of empowerment that can build neighborliness, provide experiential learning, improve health residents' health, and promote social justice. Local food production, processing, and distribution can help improve access to healthy and nutritious food in underserved areas while increasing job prospects for residents with a wide variety of skill sets. Panelists share their wide variety of experiences in restoring vitality to metropolitan food systems in Chicago and Detroit.

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NPSG12-305

Sustainable Return on Investment (SROI) An Interactive Demonstration

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NPSG12-324

Restoring the American City: Augusta, GA and Laney Walker/Bethlehem

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NPSG12-210

Area-Wide Planning: Innovations at the State, Local, and Federal Level

Speakers: Elizabeth Schilling, Policy Manager, Smart Growth America

The area-wide approach is a unique strategy aimed at revitalizing brownfields-impacted neighborhoods through a community-centered, collaborative planning process. The process focuses not only on planning, but also on creating a framework for implementation that draws on public, private, and community partnerships, and supports a more strategic use of state/federal brownfields funds for neighborhood development.

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NPSG12-141

People's Planning for Improvements without Displacement: Transportation, Housing and Environmental Justice

Speakers: Margot Ocañas, Policy Analyst, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, RENEW Initiative; Lauren Ahkiam, RENEW Complete Streets Initiative Coordinator, Pacoima Beautiful; Holly Harper, Boyle Heights Living Streets Initiative Coordinator, Green LA Coalition; Tafarai Bayne, Community Affairs Manager, TRUST South LA

This panel focuses on efforts currently underway in three different areas of the City of Los Angeles to increase equity in working class communities of color. These fair growth efforts, focused on alternative transportation infrastructure and affordable housing, place community residents as the leaders in re-envisioning a community and reaping the benefits of the improvements through comprehensive People's Planning efforts and advocacy for equitable policy.

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NPSG12-150

Advancing an Agenda for Healthy, Equitable, and Sustainable Environments in California

Speakers: George Flores, MD, Program Manager, Community Health, The California Endowment; Richard J. Jackson, MD MPH, Professor/Chair, Environmental Health Sciences; Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Urban Planning, UCLA; Carl Anthony, Co-Founder, Breakthrough Communities (invited); Paloma Pavel, PhD, Co-Founder, Breakthrough Communities; Autumn Bernstein, Director, ClimatePlan; Jeremy Cantor, MPH, Program Manager, Prevention Institute; Kendra Bridges, Land Use Policy Director, Sacramento Housing Alliance; Azibuike Akaba, Community Technical Assistance Coordinator, Neighborhood Environmental Indicators Project' Patty Ochoa, Environmental Health Coordinator, Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles, CA; Steve Padilla, Principal, AQUARIUS GROUP, INC.; Genoveva Islas-Hooker, MPH, Regional Program Coordinator , Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program

This session focuses on current and emerging opportunities to advance healthy, equitable, and sustainable environments across California. We will explore activity at the state (Health in All Policies), regional (Sustainable Community Strategies), and local (Building Healthy Communities) level with an emphasis on sharing of promising approaches among leaders from a diversity of California communities.

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NPSG12-206

Rooted In Community: Native American Collaboration on Smart Growth and Green Design

Speakers: Trisha Miller, Director, Green Communities, Enterprise Community Partners; Tomasita Duran, Okay Owingeh Housing Authority; Jamie Blosser, AIA, LEED AP, Associate and Director of Santa Fe Office, Atkin Olshin Schade Architects; Moderator: Susan Gitlin, LEED GA, Co-Lead, U.S. EPA's Green Building Workgroup, Codes, Standards, and Sustainable Design Division, Office of Sustainable Communities, U.S. EPA

This panel showcases a network of housing leaders, community designers, and sustainability advocates working together to overcome barriers to smart growth and green design in Native American communities. It focuses on the Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative, which was recently launched to engage tribal leaders in developing solutions for culturally appropriate, green affordable housing. Panelists share examples of how sustainable development goals are linked to core cultural values and rooted in the spirit, the community, and the land.

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NPSG12-244

Housing and Freeways: How Close is Too Close

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NPSG12-231

Little Trips, Big Difference: Predicting Traffic for Mixed-Use Sites

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NPSG12-128

Teaming Up for Success: Collaboration Between Nonprofit Organizations and Government Agencies

Speakers: Shane Hope, AICP, Community & Economic Development Director, City of Mountlake Terrace, WA; Andre Leroux, Executive Director, Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance; Jeremy Madsen, Executive Director, Greenbelt Alliance; Alison Van Gorp, Urban Policy Director, Forterra; Sally Wakefield, Executive Director, Envision Minnesota

Tight budgets mean state and local governments often lack the resources to plan for and implement smart growth. One way to help overcome these resource constraints is for nonprofit organizations and government agencies to team up. Such partnerships may force a fundamental rethinking of the traditional nonprofit-agency dynamic in which the nonprofit is the 'advocate' and the agency is the 'target'. The panel explores collaborations in the SF Bay Area and the Seattle region that attempt to forge agency-nonprofit cooperation.

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NPSG12-126

Rural to Urban, Village-City-County: Advanced Form-Based Coding Coast to Coast

Speakers: Paul Dreher, Zoning Administrator, City of Newport, VT; Jane Lafleur, Executive Director, Friends of Midcoast Maine; Daniel Parolek, Principal, Opticos Design, Inc.; Jason King, AICP, CNU-A,Town Planner, Dover, Kohl & Partners

This session shares results and insights from diverse Form-Based Coding (FBC) applications. Following adoption of a FBC in Newport, Vermont (7 square miles) over $200 million of development is occurring. Contrasting in size, Lee County, Florida adopted a code for 130 square miles of undeveloped land previously zoned for 1-acre lots. The code includes a TDR mechanism that allows rights to be transferred to designated sites within the coded area and for sprawl repair beyond the FBC boundaries.

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NPSG12-321

Planning for Solar Energy in Your Community

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$15.00

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$330.00