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North Bay Symposium on Smart Growth II
From Vision to Reality: Strategies to Improve Livability in the North Bay
The Symposium will provide relevant and practical information on Smart Growth and Smart Codes that lead to more sustainable communities. It will focus in detail on selected smart growth principles and highlight existing projects that are considered examples of best practices.
Agenda:
8:30am Registration
9:00am Welcome and Introductions
9:15am Presentation: The Challenge of Growth in the Bay Area
Ted Droettboom, Association of Bay Area Governments
9:45am Presentation: Let Me Build Livable Neighborhoods: A Developer’s Perspective
John Anderson, New Urban Builders, Chico, CA
10:30am Break
10:45am Presentation: Adopting and Implementing a Form-Based Code:
The Petaluma Experience
11:30am Presentation: Making Parking Work in Livable Communities
Patrick Siegman, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, San Francisco, CA
12:15am Lunch
1:00pm Presentation: Transit Oriented Development: From Potential to Reality
Shelley Poticha, Reconnecting America, Oakland, CA
1:45pm Presentation: The Next Frontier: Retrofitting the Suburbs
Paul Zykofsky, AICP, Local Government Commission, Sacramento, CA
2:15pm Panel Discussion and Next Steps: Question and Answer Session with Speakers
3:00pm Adjourn
3:05pm Tour of New Development in Downtown Petaluma (optional)
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