Building Livable, Sustainable Communities

Dates: March 17-20, 2005, Yosemite National Park

Intro | Agenda

This Year's Topic:

This year's event focused on land use strategies that lead to more livable communities while also contributing to resource sustainability. The agenda included patterns for sustainable new development, green retrofits for existing development, creative parking standards, the important role of trees, coordinating watershed and land use decisionmaking, regional coordination in watershed management, the role of watershed councils, and strategies for protecting open space.

* Presentation handouts for this year's conference are available on the agenda, or in our Free Resources section.

At this year's conference, the Ahwahnee Water Principles for Resource Efficient Land Use were adopted. The entire set of water principles can be viewed in our Principles for Resource-Efficient and Livable Communities section.