| February 2, 2012 | to | February 4, 2012 |
Location: San Diego Sheraton Hotel & Marina (1380 Harbor Island Drive, San Diego, CA)
After celebrating its 10th anniversary in Charlotte, the New Partners Conference begins its second decade by heading west, back where it started—San Diego, California.
The eighth-largest city in the United States, San Diego is one of the most livable and sustainable major metropolitan areas in the nation. An innovative pioneer in the smart growth movement, the San Diego region provides inspiring models for creating transit-oriented, compact development; transforming downtowns and ethnically diverse, older neighborhoods; designing walkable, mixed-use urban villages; and fostering the emergence of leading high-tech, telecommunications, and clean-tech businesses.
The program will span three full days with optional pre-conference events scheduled for Wednesday, February 1st and Sunday February 5th. The main program will kick off on Thursday morning, February 2, and continue through Saturday afternoon. The schedule includes a dynamic mix of plenaries, breakouts, implementation workshops, specialized trainings, peer-to-peer learning opportunities, and coordinated networking activities. It will also feature exciting tours of local model projects in and around the San Diego region.
There will be something for everybody, from veteran experts to smart-growth novices, with 100 sessions and workshops to choose from. Learn from hundreds of speakers who cross disciplines to share insights, valuable tools and strategies for making smart growth a success in your community. The program will be infused with sessions and case studies focusing on important equity and environmental justice issues.
Please click here for additional and registration information.
| October 12, 2011 | | 2:00 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
Time: 2:00pm
Date: October 12, 2011
Applications are now being accepted for free technical assistance from Smart Growth America. This program has been made possible by a five-year grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide direct assistance to communities across the nation to develop local strategies to grow in ways that benefit families and businesses while protecting the environment and preserving a sense of place.
Organizations or communities interested in this opportunity can apply for one of twelve workshops offered through the program, including:
- Implementing smart growth 101
- Planning for economic and fiscal health
- Regional planning for small communities
- Sustainable land use code audit
- Smart growth zoning codes for small cities
- Complete streets
- Walkability workshop/audit
- Transportation performance measurement
- Parking audit
- Implementing transit-oriented development 101
- Cool planning: local strategies to slow climate change
- Using LEED-ND to accelerate the development of sustainable communities
As a national leader in the field, Smart Growth America has accumulated extensive experience working with communities to help them use land strategically, make the most of existing resources and invest strategically to catalyze private development. Smart Growth America is dedicated to providing best practices to local leaders in urban, suburban and rural communities working to create housing and transportation choices near jobs, shops and schools.
Apply today for free technical assistance
Go to www.smartgrowthamerica.org/sc-tech-assistance to learn more about this exciting opportunity. Full application guidelines as well as more details about individual workshops and a digital application form are all available there.
Questions about this program? Join them next week.
Anyone interested in learning more about this program and the application process is invited to join a webinar on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 2:00 PM EDT. This event is free but registration is required: click here to register.
This technical assistance is funded by U.S. EPA’s Office of Sustainable Communities under its Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities Program. The Building Blocks program funds quick, targeted assistance to communities that face common development problems. Three other nonprofit organizations—Cascade Land Conservancy, Global Green USA and Project for Public Spaces—also received competitively awarded grants under this program this year to help communities get the kinds of development they want.
| June 23, 2011 | | 8:00 am | to | 12:00 pm |
Date: Thursday, June 23, 2011
Time: 8:00am – 12:00pm
Location: UMass-Boston Campus Center Third Floor Ballroom
Join the Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance’s second gathering of leaders who are builidng vibrant, welcoming, healthy, and affordable neighborhoods.
Admission is Free, but seating is limited. RSVP above under “Ticket Information”. Complimentary breakfast and sign-in begins at 8:00am.
For more information, contact Ina Anderson at 617-263-7470.
Registration
| February 3, 2011 | to | February 5, 2011 |
Sponsored by the SURDNA Foundation & the Local Governments Commission
Date: February 3-5, 2011
Location: Charlotte, NC
The Local Governments Commission is presenting the 10th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth conference February 3-5 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Smart growth encourages development that creates healthy, vibrant places that give people greater opportunity and choice. How can smart growth support equitable development, environmental justice and economic vitality and empower communities of color, tribes and disadvantaged groups to shape the neighborhoods, communities and regions in which they live? The 2011 New Partners for Smart Growth Conference includes several sessions and a pre-conference workshop that explore these critical issues and showcase strategies and opportunities for greater collaboration among the smart growth, equitable development and environmental justice communities.
Click here for more information about the equitable development sessions and scholarship opportunities…
| May 26, 2010 | | 10:00 am | to | 11:30 am |
Mixing It Up – Recent Efforts on Smart Growth Housing Districts in Massachusetts and Connecticut
Date: May 26, 2010
Time: 10:00am – 11:30 am
Location: Suffolk Law School, Room 205 (120 Tremont Street, Boston)
David Fink of HomeConnecticut and William Reyelt of the Massachusetts Department of Housing & Community Development will present information and answer questions related to smart growth zoning strategies. Join this timely panel discussion, followed by a Q & A session.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required and seating is limited. Light refreshments provided
Additional Registration information here
For event details, please contact:
Tracy Hudack
thudak@mapc.org
617-451-2770 x.2018
www.metrofuture.org
| June 2, 2010 | | 9:30 am | to | 11:30 am |
Co-Sponsored by The Massachusetts Association of CDCs and the Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance
Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Time: 9:30 – 11:30 am
Location: One Beacon Street, 29th Floor
Registration Begins at 9:00am
In 2006, CHAPA and MACDC produced a major report and sponsored a conference on revitalization strategies for our state’s smaller cities. Since that time, unpredictable changes have taken place, including the economic recession and the foreclosure crisis.
Against this backdrop, the Patrick/Murray Administration has implemented a number of important initiatives, including the Gateway Plus Action Grant and the Growth Districts Initiative, which have helped to spur housing and economic development activity. A number of leading civic groups, such as MassINC and the Pioneer Institute, continue to prioritize the revitalization of gateway cities in their research and policy work. And state legislation has been proposed to provide various incentives, such as an expansion of the historic tax credit, to revitalize these cities.
What is the current state of the smaller cities in Massachusetts? What successful strategies have emerged to promote neighborhood planning, development, and revitalization? How can community-based organizations partner with local government and the private sector to implement positive change? What new tools and resources are needed?
Cost: $15.00 for CHAPA and MACDC members; $25.00 for non-members (includes continental breakfast). Space is limited and you must register by Thursday, May 27. No refunds will be provided to those who register but do not attend the forum.
Registration: You may register online, by phone, fax, or email.
Online: http://www.chapa.org/?q=event;
Phone: 617-742-0820; Fax: 617-742-3953
Email: jmissick@chapa.org
| May 18, 2010 | | 8:00 am | to | 3:00 pm |
New ideas on the enhancement and sustainability of America’s public transportation resources.
Date: May 18, 2010
Time: 8:00am – 3:00pm
Location: The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Keynote Speakers:
U.S. Congressman John W Oliver
U.S. Department of Transportation Under Secretary for Policy Roy W. Kienitz
U.S. Federal Transit Administrator Peter M. Rogoff
In addition to business and government leaders and transportation experts, the Summit will feature a rare panel discussion with General Managers of five of the largest transit systems in the nation - Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, and Washington, DC.
America’s network of transit systems is one of our most effective economic engines as well as a key player in the effort to reduce emissions that cause greenhouse gases. Yet many of these systems, particularly those in our largest cities, are financially and physically distressed. Solutions to the financing and management of metropolitan transit issues are too often caught in the crossfire of local control and parochial politics, leaving little consideration for the innovative, broadly applied solutions that could enhance and sustain these resources throughout the country.
The National Transit Summit brings together practitioners and policymakers, environmentalists and industry leaders to exchange ideas and forge a practical agenda for improving our transit systems and financing their sustainability to meet society’s needs now and for the future.
To RSVP: please send an email to kmillios@massinc.org, including your name, company,
email and phone number
Additional Information here
Presented by the Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance
Date: June 10, 2010
Time: 8:30am
Location: UMass Boston Campus Center, 3rd Floor Ballroom (100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125)
Join the Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance (MSGA) as they kick off their new Great Neighborhoods program, which will help residents create communities that are affordable, diverse, walkable, and have a high quality of life.
Learn how other cities and towns broadened opportunities for local residents.
Listen for lessons that metro Boston should adopt.
Share your ideas in discussions with panelists and Smart Growth Alliance members.
Additional information and registration here
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