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| Neighborhood
Parking Solutions |
January
22, 2007
With Jeffrey Tumlin, Principal, Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates
Parking is one of the toughest and most sensitive issues confronting governments,
businesses and communities. Jeff Tumlin, a leading national expert on parking
and transit-oriented development, will address how better approaches to
parking management can support community goals of access, economic revitalization
and quality of life.
For
Arlington, San Francisco, Seattle, Walnut Creek, CA, and a variety of
major employers, commercial districts and transit agencies, Tumlin helped
identify the most cost effective mix of investments in new parking, improved
parking management, and transportation alternatives to meet local access
and quality of life goals.
In San Francisco,
the city replaced parking minimums with maximums, following Tumlin's innovative
analysis correlating parking with affordable housing production, gentrification
and traffic generation.
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| Sharing
Streets: Designing Arterials So People Can Safely Walk |
| December
5, 2006
With:
Jim Daisa, primary
author for the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ recommended
practice for “Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban
Thoroughfares
for Walkable Communities”
How arterial roadways
could and should interact with their surroundings to create more pedestrian
and community-friendly places is the subject of this presentation and
long-awaited draft report. The guidance was produced by the country's
chief association of transportation professionals, the Institute for Transportation
Engineers (ITE), in partnership with the Congress for the New Urbanism.
The presentation will address the latest thinking in how to balance the
interests of travelers and community stakeholders when planning and designing
for thoroughfares in urban areas. There is an inherent tension between
these interests - one focuses on travel time and speed while the other
focuses on community character, economic development and transportation
choices. Adding the needs of freight carriers, emergency service providers,
local business people, transit operators and others into the mix, the
balancing act becomes even more challenging. Learn how transportation
planners are beginning to move beyond treating urban arterial roads as
only conduits for cars.
View the manual at:
www.ite.org/css
For more background, see: http://www.newurbannews.com/ThoroughfaresMar06.html
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| Making
the Bus Fly: Delivering
Great New Bus Service Tomorrow |
| July
25, 2006
With:
Michelle Pourciau, D.C. Department of Transportation
Michael Madden, Maryland Transit Administration
James Hamre, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authorit & formerly
with Arlington County
Rapid bus service is coming to the region, offering a new level of performance.
Unlike multi-billion Metrorail projects requiring years of planning, new
high-performing bus service can be put in place within a year or two --
for a fraction of the cost. This bus service can provide a critical gap
between conventional bus service with broad coverage and high capacity
but costly rail service. So what are these innovations for a new kind
of bus service? What can a rider expect from the service? What kind of
service counts as "rapid"? Come
learn about distinctive new rapid bus service on Georgia Avenue in D.C.,
University Boulevard in Prince George's and Montgomery Counties, Maryland,
and also learn from the experience of the Pike Ride in Arlington, Virginia.
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Taming
Traffic Through Transit Oriented Development:
Learning from experience in the Washington Area and around the country |
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| April 25,
2006 |
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With:
Dennis Leach, Director, Arlington County Transportation Division
Mariia Zimmerman, Vice President for Policy, Reconnecting America |
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| When neighbors
express concern about new development, it's the impact of traffic and parking
that often worries them. However, recent research shows that well-designed
transit-oriented development can mean better transportation choices with
negligible increases in traffic along with new restaurants, stores, public
facilities, and a stronger tax base. The presenters will discuss recent
research, community experiences, and development policies that reduce traffic
impacts while accommodating new growth near transit.
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Click here
to view the slide show presentation by Dennis Leach
Click here
to view the slide show presentation by Mariia Zimmerman |
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| Designing
D.C.'s Future: Shaping Buildings and Public Spaces to Enhance Community
Identify and Protect the Environment |
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| January
30, 2006 |
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with:
Dhiru Thadani, Urban Designer, Ayers/Saint/Gross, Inc.
Paul Morris, Urban Designer, PB Placemaking |
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| New residents,
buildings and businesses are filling in vacant lots and renovating buildings.
Leading urban designers discuss how D.C. can guide new development so that
new buildings enhance neighborhoods, reclaim auto-oriented commercial strips,
restore neglected parks and public spaces, make transit stations vibrant
village centers, and build greener. About
WRN's Fall 2005 Fall Forum Series This event is the fourth in the Fall 2005
forum series: How Should D.C. Grow?. This series will address how D.C. should
guide change and growth occurring for the first time in 30 years in D.C.
neighborhoods, corridors and business districts. These forums aim to inform
the D.C. Comprehensive Plan revision process which is occurring this fall
and winter. Learn more about the D.C. Comprehensive Plan at: www.inclusivecity.org
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How
Should D.C. Grow?
How can D.C. meet the new demand for city living while enhancing neighborhoods
and sharing the benefits with vulnerable residents? |
A
Housing Strategy for D.C.'s Future:
Results from the Comprehensive Housing Strategy Task Force |
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| December
7, 2005 |
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With:
Adrian Washington, Neighborhood Development Company & Co-Chair, Comprehensive
Housing Strategy Task Force
Marilyn Melkonin, Telesis Company
Nan Roman, National Alliance to End Homelessness |
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| How will
D.C. address the needs of all its residents from middle class working families
to those threatened with homelessness? How will D.C. ensure that rising
demand for housing won't push out long time residents or prevent moderate
income families from settling into city neighborhoods? Join a discussion
with members of the D.C. Comprehensive Housing Strategy Task Force as they
propose strategies and policies to address the city's housing crisis.
This event is part of
the Fall 2005 WRN forum series: How Should D.C. Grow? This series addresses
how D.C. should guide change and growth happening in city neighborhoods,
corridors and business districts. These forums aim to inform the D.C. Comprehensive
Plan revision process that is occurring this fall and winter. Learn more
about the D.C. Comprehensive Plan at www.inclusivecity.org.
View the Comprehensive Housing Task Force report, Homes
for an Inclusive City: A Comprehensive Housing Strategy for Washington,
D. C. |
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How
Should D.C. Grow?
How can D.C. meet the new demand for city living while enhancing neighborhoods
and sharing the benefits with vulnerable residents? |
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| October
24, 2005 |
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With:
Martha Ross, Senior Researcher, Greater Washington Research Program, Brookings
Institution
James Gibson, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Social Policy and former
D.C. Assistant City Administrator
Kathryn S. Smith, Historian and retired Founding Director, Cultural Tourism
DC |
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| Amid a
booming housing market and the prospect of future growth for the first time
in decades, the D.C. government is revising its long-range Comprehensive
Plan which guides the city's land use over the next 20 years. How can the
growth that is coming to the city and the region be managed so that it benefits
existing residents and neighborhoods, while making the city a better place
to live and work for everyone?
This event is part of
the Fall 2005 WRN forum series: How Should D.C. Grow? This series addresses
how D.C. should guide change and growth happening in city neighborhoods,
corridors and business districts. These forums aim to inform the D.C. Comprehensive
Plan revision process that is occurring this fall and winter. Learn more
about the D.C. Comprehensive Plan at www.inclusivecity.org. |
Click here
to view the presentation by Martha Ross
Click here to view the notes
from the presentation by James Gibson
Click here to view the presentation
by Kathryn Smith |
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Planning
D.C.'s Transportation Future:
Transit, Streets, Traffic and Parking for a Livable City |
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| September
7, 2005 |
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With:
Dan Tangherlini, Director, D.C. Department of Transportation |
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| As D.C.
looks to a future of revitalized neighborhoods and business districts, how
is the city planning to increase access while managing traffic and parking
for residents, visitors, workers? Dan Tangherlini, innovative Director of
D.C. Department of Transportation and Metro board member, discusses his
vision for making the city's transportation system work.
This event is part of
the Fall 2005 WRN forum series: How Should D.C. Grow? This series addresses
how D.C. should guide change and growth happening in city neighborhoods,
corridors and business districts. These forums aim to inform the D.C. Comprehensive
Plan revision process that is occurring this fall and winter. Learn more
about the D.C. Comprehensive Plan at www.inclusivecity.org. |
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Re-Imagining
Tysons Corner:
Design Tools for Creating Win-Win Solutions for Residents and Developers |
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| June 21,
2005 |
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Moderator:
Stewart Schwartz, Coalition for Smarter Growth
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Panel:
Jeff Speck, Architect, Director of Design, National Endowment for the Arts
Rob Goodill, Architect, Torti Gallas CHK, Inc.
Geoffrey Ferrell, Urban Designer, Ferrell Madden Associates L.L.C.
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| Tysons
Corner, with its considerable concentration of jobs and housing, is an economic
engine of Fairfax County and a traffic nightmare. Metro is coming, but with
traffic congestion reaching epic proportions and transit relief just around
the corner, many residents are wondering how the area can become a walkable,
bicycle-friendly, and transit-accessible center.
What mix of development,
street and urban design would it take to allow residents, workers, and shoppers
the best opportunity to escape traffic congestion and conveniently walk
or ride transit to destinations? Can design-based planning help create win-win
solutions for developers and residents?
Join us to discuss the possibilities for designing a new Tysons Corner where
people can live, work, and play, and where walking, bicycling, and riding
transit are not only possible, but desirable.
Sponsored by: the McLean Citizens Association, the Washington Regional Network
for Livable Communities, the Coalition for Smarter Growth, and The Great
Falls Group of the Sierra Club, The Great Falls Citizen Association, Audubon
Naturalist Society. |
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| Arlington
Responds to Affordable Housing Challenges |
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| May 26,
2005 |
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with
Chris Zimmerman, Arlington County Board |
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| Arlington
recently announced its intention to strengthen its efforts to preserve and
create affordable housing despite a court challenge and attacks from the
Virginia General Assembly on its policies. In December, a circuit court
struck down the county's newly adopted 10 percent affordable housing guidelines.
In February, the Virginia General Assembly nearly passed bills to curtail
Arlington's and Alexandria's efforts to provide affordable housing through
the development review process. Arlington County Board Vice Chairman Chris
Zimmerman will discuss recent challenges and the county's efforts to incorporate
affordable housing as part of new development Learn about Arlington County's
next moves to increase affordable housing under the constraints of Virginia's
restrictive laws and maintain diverse, mixed income communities. |
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See County
Board resolution, February 15, 2005, declaring its commitment to affordable
housing.
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| Sponsored
by: The Enterprise Foundation |
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| Creating
Safe Pedestrian Access to Metro Stations: A New
View of Wheaton Metro Station & Beyond |
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| April 21,
2005 |
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with
Nat Bottigheimer, Maryland Department of Transportation
Yolanda Takesian, Kittelson & Associates
Joe Davis, Wheaton Redevelopment Program |
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| Can wide,
fast roads be tamed to serve people trying to walk to the Metro station?
Learn about Maryland's new thinking in managing high volume streets to better
serve transit riders, walkers, local residents and shoppers. Presenters
will use recent efforts at the Wheaton Metro station in Montgomery County
to show how concepts for retrofitting suburban-style roads for pedestrians
and transit riders can work. Speakers will also explore how these designs
can be more broadly applied and accepted by residents, transportation engineers,
and public officials throughout the region. |
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| See the
Wheaton Metro Area Pedestrian Safety Evalution, providing a land use
integrated approach to pedestrian safety. |
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| Housing
Strategies for a Smart Growth City |
| Fall Forum
Series |
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| Following
WRN's initial Housing for the City public forum series last fall, this new
series brings key policy and funding issues into sharp focus. This four-part
forum series addresses current dilemmas and opportunities for building and
maintaining affordable housing and mixed income neighborhoods in the District
of Columbia and the region. In part, this series will inform the D.C. Comprehensive
Housing Strategy Task Force process. The series will also explore how federal
polices dramatically impact local affordable housing supply. |
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| Click here
for more information about this series. |
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| Making
Metro Work: Addressing Metro's Funding Crisis |
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| Wednesday,
August 11 |
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Featuring:
Robert J. Smith, Chairman, Metro Board of Directors
Christopher Zimmerman, Arlington County Board of Directors and Metro Board
of Directors |
Moderated
by:
Bruce DePuyt, Host of Newschannel 8's Newstalk |
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| Why do
Metro fares continue to increase? Why are buses and trains so crowded? What
is being done to repair the aging system and provide reliable service? Join
us for a discussion about what is happening to address Metro's immediate
funding and service problems. Also, learn from Metro's leaders about their
ideas to solve Metro's perpetual funding shortfalls. |
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| Sponsored
by Sierra Club and Washington Regional Network for Livable Communities. |
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| Design
Matters: Building Livability |
| Spring
Forum Series |
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| The
Spring 2004 WRN Forum Series: Design Matters will look at approaches and
solutions that create livable neighborhoods. Despite renewed interest in
urban locations, design and marketing strategies are often automobile-oriented
and suburban in character. Transit-Oriented Development is much more than
building close to Metro. We will explore what it takes to create a sense
of place and community. The five session series will open with a discussion
of the challenges facing infill development - how to fit in, and is just
fitting in enough? Subsequent sessions will address new approaches to zoning,
retail development, traffic and parking, and recognition of smart growth. |
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for information about this series.
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