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Wednesday, November 8, 2006
POSTPONED
Smart Growth: Developing for a Sustainable Future
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
LEED™-Gold Pennsylvania DEP
Southeast Regional Office
2 East Main Street,
Norristown, Pennsylvania 19401
Continuing Education Credits:
This program is worth 1.5 AIA LUs (HSW).
Our towns are losing their sense of community to the all too familiar pattern of commercial and residential development known as sprawl. An alternative means of development, one which preserves our communities and open space for future generations is needed. This seminar provides an introduction to what we can do to promote sustainable development in our communities.
There are many terms used today in discussing efforts to reduce sprawl: green urbanism, sustainable development, sustainable communities/cities, new urbanism, anti sprawl or Smart Growth. Whichever title one may use, each captures the important roles municipalities have in shaping more sustainable places, communities and lifestyles. We need communities that reflect a new urbanism, which is dramatically more ecological in design and functioning and has ecological limits at its core. The seminar approaches this topic from three different, but related, viewpoints to Smart Growth: advocacy to promote change in our current planning codes and regulations; planning to create the means by which we can implement these ideals into the municipal level; and community from the viewpoint of a local municipality which implemented Smart Growth standards into their ordinances and the lessons they wish to share. Municipal officials, designers and planners are encouraged to attend.
Schedule:
6:00 - 6:30 Registration and Refreshments
(hors d'oeuvres and beverages)
6:30 - 8:30 Speakers (click here for bios)
advocate: Thomas Hylton
author Save Our Land, Save Our Towns
planner: Robert Kerns AICP
planner, Wallace Roberts & Todd, Philadelphia
community: Jim Wendelgass
township manager, West Vincent Township
Thanks to our sustaining sponsors:
Platinum: Anonymous Sponsor (Platinum+), Antron® Carpet Fiber, EwingCole, Liberty Property Trust, Lutron
Gold: AKF Engineers, DVL Automation, The Hankin Group, Tozour-Trane, Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC
Silver: Armstrong Ceiling Tile, Bala Consulting Engineers, Inc., Ballinger, Brandywine Realty Trust, Bruce E. Brooks & Assoc., Corporate Lamp Recycling, WS Cumby & Son, LF Driscoll Co., Forbo, Hercules Cement, Herman Miller Inc., Homasote Company, Honeywell International, InterfaceFlor Commercial, IMC Construction, Johnson Controls, Inc., MAB Paints, MaGrann Associates, Mannington, Mohawk Fine Papers, Norwood Construction, PECO Energy, Pentex Construction, Company, Inc., Paul H. Yeomans (PHY), Consulting Engineers, Inc., Sherwin Williams, TOTO USA, Urban Engineers, Weston Solutions
Certified: Burt Hill, RDLA
Cost:
Pre-registered:
$20 Members
$25 Non-members
$10 students/municipal officials
At the door:
$25 Members
$30 Non-members
$15 students/municipal officials
You are encouraged to
pre-register, as space is limited
at the seminar location.
Questions:
Contact David Mazzocco
with questions.
Registration
RSVP by November 5.
Click here to register.
Directions:
Conveniently located 1 block from the Norristown SEPTA transportation hub as well as easy access from area major roadways. Street-side parking surrounds the building. The Wachovia parking lot on E. Main St. is also available.
Co-Hosts:
The Delaware Valley
Green Building Council and
AIA Philadelphia's
Committee on the Environment
Event Sponsor:
EP Henry
Contributing Sponsors:
SCHRADERGROUP architecture LLC
Close the Loop LLC
GreenGrid
Girl Friday Graphics
and the
Pennsylvania DEP Southeast Regional Office