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.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-123

Smart Growth, Environmental Justice and Equitable Development: Finding the Connections

Speakers: Charles Lee, Deputy Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, U.S. EPA; Tomasita Duran, Executive Director, Ohkay Owingeh Housing Authority, NY; Mary Nelson, Founding President, Bethel New Life; Daniel Nguyen, Workforce Development Coordinator and Environmental Justice Coordinator, Mary Queen of Vietnam Community Development Corporation; Adam Ortíz, Former Mayor, Town of Edmonston, MD

This session provides an overview of the connections between smart growth and environmental justice and illustrates how four communities are integrating smart growth and environmental justice approaches to achieve equitable development. This panel presents content from a new EPA publication identifying smart growth approaches that can be used to build healthy, sustainable, and just communities.

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$10.00

$10.00

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.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-246

Jobs, the Workforce, and the Economy: Rethinking The Role of Smart Growth and Sustainability

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$20.00

$20.00

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.

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

$30.00

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.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-324

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

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-252

Implementing Green Infrastructure: Creative Approaches to Reducing Regulatory and Financial Barriers in Rural and Urban Communities

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

$30.00

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.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

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.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-329

Building Sustainable Rural Communities with Regional Transportation Systems

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$10.00

$10.00

NPSG12-124

Just How Smart is Our Growth? Getting Ready for a Maturing America

Speakers: Rebecca Hunter, MEd, Institute on Aging and CDC-Healthy Aging Research Network, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chris Kochtitzky, MSP, Associate Director for Program Development, Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Mary A. Leary, PhD, Senior Director, Easter Seals Project ACTION, National Center on Senior Transportation & Other Transportation Initiatives; Joan M. Twiss, MA, Executive Director, Center for Civic Partnerships

The startling new n4a report, The Maturing of America, concludes that many communities are unprepared for their quickly aging populations, with 'no where near the level of progress that has to be made to ensure that communities are livable for people of all ages'. This session provides practical, evidence-based strategies for integrated planning and implementation consistent with Smart Growth, but also specifically responsive to an aging population diverse in ethnicity, resources, health and functional status.

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$10.00

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Subtotal

$200.00