Our Woodland Legacy Symposium, December 8, 2011: Planning for People, Place and Profit
Jeff Speck, city planner, architectural designer, and author (http://jeffspeck.com), challenged 150 participants of the Our Woodland Legacy Symposium on December 8 to design our urban core and neighborhoods to be more pedestrian and bike friendly, with skinnier streets and street trees, and explained the economic and cultural benefits of doing so. The audience included mayors, council members, developers, engineers, business owners, conservationists, and concerned citizens. To see Jeff’s powerpoint presentation, and review the results of the day’s roundtable discussions, follow the links below. He concluded with these thoughts:
WHAT CAN WE DO NOW?
• Put some roads on a diet
• Revert our one-ways (to 2-ways)
• Welcome Bikes
• Cull Our Codes
• Fund more street trees
• Build one great new place
Notes from the Roundtable Discussion are available for download at the bottom of this webpage. Comments during the “Greening News” segment, where audience members shared dozens of sustainable practice stories, were posted by Cindy Hadish of the Cedar Rapids Gazette to her live blog. Click to View.
Luncheon keynote speaker Cedar Rapids City Manager, Jeff Pomeranz, outlined the City of Cedar Rapids’ Sustainability Guiding Principles; click the presentation below to learn more. Additionally, the downtown revitalization efforts of West Union, using a variety of green technologies, were featured during an afternoon workshop. For information about West Union, follow this link to a recently-published article.
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Thank You to Our Sponsors!
Major Sustaining Sponsor
Holloway Family
Environmental Trust
President’s Circle Sponsors
City of Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Supporting Sponsors
Skogman Realty
Hall & Hall Engineers, Inc.
Greater Cedar Rapids Area
Homebuilders Association
Developers
Thomas Dostal Developers
Jim Sattler, Inc.
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