Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development
Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association
Mass Housing Partnership
American Planning Association of MA
Date: September 30, 2010
Time: 9:00am – 2:00pm
Location: United Church of Christ Conference Center: Framingham, MA
This workshop will highlight different strategies communities have successfully used to foster local support for planning and development activities that promote affordable housing. Topics include:
- Organizational development
- Community outreach and innovative initiatives
- Developing local leadership
- Case study: 89 Oxbow, Wayland
Who should attend: municipal officials, board and commission members, housing partnerships and committees, community development and planning staff, housing advocates, developers, and housing authorities.
For more information contact:
Miryam Bobadilla at Miryam.Bobadilla@state.ma.us
Connie Kruger at CKruger@mhp.net
| June 9, 2010 | | 8:30 am | to | 3:30 pm | | June 10, 2010 | | 9:00 am | to | 12:30 pm |
How to Keep & Attract Businesses to Your Downtown
Date: June 9 & 10, 2010
Time: 8:30am – 3:30pm (June 9), 9:00am – 12:30 (June 10)
Location: Newburyport City Hall, 60 Pleasant St., Newburyport, MA, 01950
This workshop will examine the fundamental economic principles that support a strong and vibrant downtown. Peg Barringer, Finepoint Associates, will provide information and techniques on how to use these principles to strengthen existing businesses and recruit new businesses.
The second day of the workshop speakers will highlight successful implementation of these concepts.
Speakers for June 10:
Ann Lagasse, Leasing Director, Newburyport Development
Sheila Pwomey, Leasing Manager, Newburyport Development
Maria Dickinson, Economic Development Officer, City of Lowell
Registration Deadline is May 28, 2010
Register online: www.mass.gov/dhcd
| 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
| April 28, 2010 | to | April 29, 2010 |
Sponsored by New Urban Research
Date: April 28-29, 2010
Time: 8:30am – 4:00pm
Location: Hyatt Place Boston/Medford – 116 Riverside Ave. Medford, MA 02115
Participants will learn to use ArcGIS 9.3.1 in order to:
- Create Thematic Maps
- Address Mapping
- Download and Map Census & American Community Survey Data
- Conduct Spatial Queries
- Download Free Shapfiles
- Create Well Designed Maps
Additional information and registration:
http://www.urban-research.info/workshops/massachusetts-gis.htm
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Lecture
Date: Monday, February 22, 2010
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Lincoln House (113 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138)
The Metropolitan Area Planning Council, responsible under state law for developing a comprehensive regional plan for the Greater Boston region, sought the involvement of some 5,000 individuals and organizations to craft MetroFuture, a plan adopted in December 2008, after five years in the making. The plan has a focus on growth where people already live, work, and play, linked by an efficient transportation system and surrounded by a protected set of natural resources and amenities. Marc Draisen, executive director of MAPC, will reflect on the initiative’s success, challenges, and lessons learned, as MetroFuture is now poised to go from plan to implementation and action.
The event is free but pre-registration is required
For additional information and registration, please contact:
lincolninstitute@resource-plus.com
(888) 845-8759
online registration available here
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