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Agenda (click on links for presentation slides)8:00 Welcome - Ron Sundergill - President - Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy Introductions - Why are we here? - What is smart growth? 8:10 Welcome to Windsor - Deborah Fudge - Member - Windsor Town Council 8:15 Introduction of Keynote Speaker - Jake Mackenzie - Mayor - City of Rohnert Park 8:20 Keynote - Dr. Alex Kelter - Chief - EPIC Branch - California Department of Health Services 9:00 Panel #1 Synergy of Housing, Transportation
and Business as it relates to Smart Growth Development - Moderator:
Jim Leddy - District Director - Office of Senator Wes Chesbro 10:30 Panel #2 Success Stories and Barriers to
Success - Moderator: Dawn Montoya - Executive Director of the North
Bay Council 11:30 Panel #3 - Vision to Reality - What is Being
Done to Overcome Barriers - Moderator: Brad
Baker - President and CEO - Codding Investments, Inc. 12:20 Q&A 12:40 Concluding Remarks/Summation - Brad Baker
- Chief Executive - Codding Investments, Inc. Symposium AnnouncementAs preventing sprawl and providing vibrant pedestrian oriented development becomes an important goal in the North Bay, getting up to speed on Smart Growth and Form-Based Smart Codes has become essential. The Symposium will highlight existing projects that demonstrate the value of this approach toward development. Although the North Bay regional area is the focus, attention will also be paid to other successful Smart Growth developments around the state. There will also be presentations on panels by development practitioners who are experienced in the design, financing and building of these types of projects in the North Bay and in California. Space is limited. Advance ticket purchase is recommended as the event is expected to sell out! Our Distinguished Speakers Brad Baker - Moderator and Speaker Lois Fisher - Tour Guide of Windsor Town Green Laura Hall - Panelist/Speaker Dr. Alex Kelter - Keynote Speaker Jim Leddy - Moderator Andrew Michael - Panelist/Speaker Patrick Kennedy - Panelist/Speaker Valerie Knepper - Panelist/Speaker Linda Mandolini - Panelist/Speaker Dawn Montoya - Moderator Michael Pyatok - Panelist/Speaker Orrin Thiessen - Panelist/Speaker
Lead
Sponsors: Charles Evans City of Petaluma City of Rohnert Park City of Santa Rosa Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District Partners:
Non-profit
Partners: Government
Partners: Photos İFisher & Hall Urban Design
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The
Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy, along with their
co-sponsors, are proud to present “How to Build Sustainable
Communities: A North Bay Symposium on Smart Growth” on July
29, 2005, from 7:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. at the Windsor Town Council
Chambers.
Windsor
has planned and partially developed a model for how towns can support
well-designed, mixed-use development, so the event will take place
adjacent to the Town Green in the Windsor Town Council Chambers.
The story of how Windsor, Petaluma and other Sonoma County downtown
redevelopments have been conceived and are being implemented will
be a topic for presentations. An important topic will be the fiscal
and economic rewards of Smart Growth, and of Smart Code adoption
and implementation, along with prospects for housing affordability
through this type of development. Since most of the communities
in the North Bay region are on the future passenger train line,
transit-oriented development as a significant factor in planning
for Smart Growth will be a key discussion.
To
provide a provocative look at Smart
Presenters
will include: Orrin Thiessen, developer of the Windsor Town Green
Village and Laura Hall, a principal with Fisher & Hall Urban
Design, a nationally known advocate for form-based codes, who helped
to plan the Windsor development, was instrumental in Petaluma’s
adoption of a Smart Code, and has worked with Cotati’s downtown.
Other panelists will include experts in affordable housing/mixed
use development, in transit-oriented development, in the nuts and
bolts of financing these projects, which can be extremely lucrative,
and an architect who understands the special requirements of Smart
Growth.
Don’t
miss the optional tour of the Windsor Town Green, starting at 1:00
p.m.! Continental breakfast will be provided, but lunch will not
be served so that attendees can enjoy lunch in one of several restaurants
on the beautiful Windsor Town Green. 
