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2nd Annual Building Livable Communities:
Connecting Community Design and Active Living
Intro | Agenda | Speakers | Funders & Sponsors
2004 Agenda
8:00am – Registration
8:30am – Welcoming Remarks and Overview of the Day (Crystal
Ballroom)
- Rich McClintock, Program Director, Livable Communities Support
Center/CRNA
- Tom Gleason, Vice President for Public Relations, Forest City
Stapleton
- Steve Burkholder, Mayor, Lakewood, Vice-chair Metro Mayors
Caucus
8:50am – Opening Plenary — "Linking Smart
Growth with Active Living and Health"
- Don Chen, Executive Director,
Smart Growth America – Introduced by Corina Lindley,
Senior Community Health Specialist, Kaiser Permanente
The past few years have seen the expansion of the movement to
create livable communities through smart, well-planned development
that
protects open space and farmland, revitalizes communities, keeps
housing affordable and provides more transportation choices.
The director of the nation’s leading smart growth organization
describes the natural partnership that is being forged between
advocates for good community design and planning practices and
public health professionals working to create active, healthy communities.
10:00am – Concurrent Morning Breakout Sessions
Youth on the Move — Encouraging Active Living Among the
Next Generation (Executive Room B)
The alarming increase in the rates of obesity among our nation’s
youth combined with declining levels of physical activity are prompting
public health professionals to focus special attention on the next
generation. Learn about some of the efforts in Colorado to get
youth moving again.
- Jessica Sherwood, Director, Feet First (moderator/presenter)
- Dan Grunig, Director, Bicycle Colorado
- Dave Wann, Co-author, Superbia!
Making Communities More Walkable and Livable by Getting the
Street Design Standards Right (Room 827)
While residents argue for safe, quiet, and livable streets, many
communities still have design standards that call for overly
wide streets that encourage speeding and discourage walking or
bicycling.
Speakers will describe efforts underway in Colorado and other
parts of the country to revise the standards to build streets that
are
safe for all users.
- Garner Stoll, Community Development Director, Town of Parker
(moderator/presenter)
- Dan Burden, Executive Director, Walkable Communities
- Scott Hobson, Senior Planner, City of Pueblo
Getting the Message Out — Promoting Active Living Policies
and Programs (Room 927)
Public health professionals helping to build an active living
movement understand that it’s not only about bricks and mortar but
also about winning the hearts and minds of the American public.
Learn about policies and programs that get the active living message
out at the public policy, community and individual levels.
- Helen Thompson, Program/Research Liaison, UCHSC, America on the
Move (moderator/presenter)
- Eric Bergman, Director, Office of Smart Growth, State of Colorado
- Molly Hanson, Community Health Specialist, Boulder County
Public Health
Mixed Use Neighborhoods — Creating Safe, Vibrant Communities (Crystal II)
Policymakers, planners and residents often agree that the key
to creating safe, active and vibrant communities is to design
more
compact neighborhoods with a mix of uses and nearby destinations.
The challenge is how to overcome decades of single-use zoning
codes and institutional barriers that prevent this type of development
from taking place. Speakers from the public sector, the development
community and the non-profit sector will describe recent progress
on this front.
- Paul Zykofsky, Program Director, Local Government Commission
(moderator/presenter)
- Peter Park, Community Planning Manager, City and County of
Denver
- Will Fleissig, Principal, Continuum Partners
11:30am – Break/Networking
Noon – Lunch (Crystal Ballroom)
12:30pm – Luncheon Speaker
- Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper – Introduced
by Beverly Haddon, CEO, The Stapleton Foundation for
Sustainable Urban Communities
Afternoon Agenda
1:00pm – Developing an Active Living Movement in Colorado
- Marla Hollander, Director, Active Living Leadership, a program
of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Response Panel:
- Rachel Oys, COPAN Coordinator, CO Dept. of Public Health and
Environment
- Gay Page, CEO, Colorado Walks
- Rich McClintock, Program Director, LCSC
- Jim Dale, Director of Environmental Health, Jefferson Co.
Health Dept.
- Karen Roof, KRoof EnviroHealth Consulting (moderator)
Colorado is a state with a strong ethic of outdoor recreation
and a physically active lifestyle. While we’re not immune to
the national trends of increased rates of obesity and declining
physical activity we are well positioned to reverse these trends
before they get any worse. A key first step is to develop a strategy
for building a statewide movement for active living. This brainstorming
session – and the discussions and activities that will follow
in the weeks and months ahead – are designed to help kick
the movement off.
Stretch Break
2:15pm – “Completing the Street – a
Visual Perspective”
- Dan Burden, Executive Director, Walkable Communities – Introduced
by Karen Stuart, Mayor, City and County of Broomfield
Over the past seven years, Dan Burden has been on a voyage
to help American towns and cities discover ways to create
walkable, livable,
joyful communities. His work with communities (over 1,500
to date) often focuses on fixing or completing the street – the public
realm in most American towns and cities – by making sure
that it accommodates not just motor vehicles but also pedestrians
and bicyclists and children, seniors, and people of all abilities.
Tune in and let Dan inspire you with his knowledge and passion.
3:15pm – Closing Announcements
3:30pm – Post-Conference Tours
- Stapleton Tour with Tom Gleason, Vice President - Public
Relations, Forest City
- Walking Audit of Quebec Street with Dan Burden, Director,
Walkable Communities
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