Smart Growth America Technical Assistance Webinar Optional dial-in: (855) 426-1528 � Conference ID: 78109639 September 14, 2016
Overview Of Smart Growth America Technical Assistance John Robert Smith Senior Policy Advisor and Director of EPA Technical Assistance
Smart Growth America’s Free Technical Assistance All of our free technical assistance workshops are comprised of • one full working day as well as half a day of pre-workshop prep including a tour given by local officials and a overview presentation by Smart Growth America. Facilitates solutions to local development issues so that • participating communities are able to grow in ways that benefit residents and businesses while protecting the environment and preserving a sense of place. Helps local leaders in urban, suburban and rural communities • create local smart growth strategies that make sense for their local context. • This year, we have set aside three workshops for rural communities with 20,000 or fewer residents.
Where we’ve been As a national leader in the field, Smart Growth America possesses extensive experience working with communities. We have already worked with 70+ communities through this program alone.
A Sense of Place Matters Communities across the country are in competition with each other, whether they know it or not, over place.
Support from EPA’s O ffi ce of Sustainable Communities This technical assistance program is funded under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Sustainable Communities through their Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities Program. www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/ buildingblocks.htm
Nine Standard Technical Assistance Tools ¨ Implementing Smart Growth ¨ Cool planning: local strategies 101 to slow climate change ¨ Parking Audit ¨ Planning for Economic and Fiscal Health ¨ Sustainable Land Use Code ¨ Fiscal Impact Analysis Audit ¨ (Re)Building Downtown ¨ Complete Streets ¨ Using LEED-ND to Accelerate the Development of Sustainable Communities This year, we will also offer our new Complete Streets • Consortium Series in addition to the above nine standard tools.
Our Technical Experts John Robert Smith , Smart Growth America • Christopher Zimmerman, Christopher Zimmerman, Smart Growth • America Emiko Atherton Emiko Atherton, National Complete Streets • Coalition Jim Charlier , Charlier Associates, Inc • Chris Duerksen , Clarion Associates • Eliot Allen , Criterion Planners • Mandi Roberts , Otak, Inc •
Implementing Smart Growth 101 Technical Assistance Team: Smart Growth America
Implementing Smart Growth 101 This workshop draws The workshop provides: on SGA’s national • Best practices to local leaders expertise to provide in urban, suburban and rural actionable steps that communities working to create your community can housing and transportation use to overcome the choices near jobs, shops and barriers to smart schools growth and build • Resources to refine and stronger economies implement local priorities with now and for smart growth strategies that generations to come. make sense for your community
Implementing Smart Growth 101 Participants will learn how to: • Set smart growth goals • Develop an action plan for implementation using a foundational community planning document • Shift funding allocations and economic development plans • Craft new policy • Amend core planning documents
Parking Audit Technical Assistance Team: Smart Growth America and Charlier Associates, Inc
Parking Audit Participants will dig into This workshop provides the five elements of an impartial evaluation of parking as they relate to local policies and their community: practices through a • Demand detailed Parking Count Audit in the community • Supply and o ff ers advice based • Economics on the state of the • Enforcement practice. • Administration
Parking Audit Explore topics like: Participants will learn: • Fee-in-lieu The state of local parking practice • nationally payments How tools like ordinances, parking • On-street parking • districts and zoning overlays might • Shared parking or work in their community paid parking How to conduct a detailed • • Petroleum Parking Count Audit dependency and Answers to specific technical • sustainability questions and problems
Sustainable Land Use Code Audit Technical Assistance Team: Smart Growth America and Clarion Associates
Sustainable Land Use Code Audit The workshop provides: This workshop provides an assessment of An overview of the three paths to a • sustainable code: removing barriers and regulatory barriers, creating incentives and gaps in development filling regulatory gaps codes that impede long- Assessment of the costs and term sustainable growth • benefits of sustainable code patterns, as well as provisions possible code incentives. Examples of best practices from It also discusses the • around the nation benefits and costs of sustainable code Working session to conduct an • initial sustainable code assessment provisions.
Sustainable Land Use Code Audit Explore topics like: Participants will learn: What a preliminary Renewable energy • • sustainability audit indicates Energy conservation • about local zoning and Climate change • subdivision ordinances Recycling • Why aspects of local code • Community health might be inhibiting sustainable • Water conservation development patterns and • growth Housing diversity • How to conduct a detailed Urban agriculture • • code assessment Green infrastructure and • water quality Tips and advice on • implementation Natural resource protection •
Using LEED-ND to Accelerate the Development of Sustainable Communities Technical Assistance Team: Smart Growth America and Criterion Planners
Using LEED-ND to Accelerate the Development of Sustainable Communities This workshop teaches Compared to conventional participants a three-step development, research indicates leveraging process: that green neighborhoods Identifying ND-eligible produce more business 1. lands opportunities, jobs, household Catalyzing projects on savings, and fiscal benefits. 2. those lands This workshop reviews the Amending land use and 3. LEED-ND rating system, transportation plans to highlights elements that interface expand eligible land supply with local regulations, and and improve vicinity presents how cities and counties conditions so as to increase achievable ND can leverage LEED-ND. points
Using LEED-ND to Accelerate the Development of Sustainable Communities • The percent of the jurisdiction that will Participants eventually achieve ND location eligibility will learn realistic • Creating infrastructure and transportation goal setting systems that equate to ND Silver, Gold or for: Platinum criteria • The jobs, economic activity and fiscal outcomes that are possible with ND leveraging
Cool Planning: Local Strategies To Slow Climate Change Technical Assistance Team: Smart Growth America and Otak, Inc.
Cool Planning: Local Strategies To Slow Climate Change This workshop is tailored to focus on a few of the This workshop following themes that fit your community’s goals: seeks to actively Grow cooler Get well-connected • • involve Grow more compact Put parking in its place • • communities in Get centered Make way for transit • • the process of and transit-oriented Mix up your land uses • finding solutions development Recycle urban land and • that can be Change travel habits buildings • implemented at Find better models for Make streets complete • • big trip generators the local level to Make way for • Green your buildings slow climate pedestrians • Plant trees in your town change. Make your community • • or neighborhood bicycle-friendly
Cool Planning: Local Strategies To Slow Climate Change Benefits of “cool planning”: Participants will learn: • Insulation against future • How a global problem gas price hikes can be addressed at the local level • Energy independence • How community design • Retention of local dollars affects greenhouse gas • Lower transportation emissions costs • More active and healthier communities
(Re)Building Downtown Technical Assistance Team: Smart Growth America
(Re)Building Downtown The workshop will bring together a large This workshop cross section of the community to assists communities ensure a diversity of opinion. SGA in creating livable, generally works with the following walkable downtowns stakeholders to ensure a productive by helping public dialogue: o ffi cials understand • Elected officials (executive and local challenges and legislative) and their senior staff by identifying • Community leaders strategies and best • Downtown business owners practices to meet • Developers local needs. • Agency officials • Planners • Engineers, • Legal experts
(Re)Building Downtown Topics Covered Participants will learn • The benefits of a • Local land use thriving downtown regulations • Development and • Public investment Redevelopment practices strategies • Administrative • A target mix of land processes uses • Public projects • How to leverage public projects
Planning for Economic and Fiscal Health Technical Assistance Team: Smart Growth America
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