5:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Registration
7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Plenary Session
The Critical Importance of Smart Growth to the
Business Community
There is a growing fit between the new economy
and the aspirations of the smart growth movement. Participants
learned from business leaders why they feel that smart growth
and more livable communities are important to their future success
and what they plan to do about it
7:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
Registration
8:30 a.m.-8:45 a.m.
Welcome Remarks
8:45 a.m.–9:15 a.m.
Plenary Session
Smart Investments
The California State Treasurer described his groundbreaking
efforts to direct state resources to Smart Growth.
9:15 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Plenary Session
How to Achieve Smart Growth: Developers and Local
Government Officials Explore the Challenges
Everybody wants it, so what’s stopping us? This session
began a dialogue between leading local government officials
and developers about the challenges each group faces when trying
to implement smart growth practices. Many of the breakout sessions
which follow will continue the public/private sector dialogue.
10:45 a.m.–12:00 noon
Breakout Sessions
- Track 1: Smart Redevelopment: Financing the Comeback
- Track 2: The Livability Doctor is In: A Consultation with
the Experts
- Track 3: Engaging Business as a Strategic Partner
- Track 4: Policies That Encourage Green Building
- Track 5: Focus on Tour One and Two: Accommodating Growth—A
Look at Inner City Revitalization and New Suburban Development
12:15 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
Lunch and Ahwahnee Awards Presentation
The 1999 Ahwahnee Awards, named in honor
of the Ahwahnee Principles, presented exemplary projects and programs
that further the creation of more livable, pedestrian-oriented
and transit-based communities.
1:45 p.m.–4:45 p.m.
- Tour One: Planning for the Future: Otay Ranch
- Tour Two: Explore Downtown San Diego
1:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Breakout Sessions
- Track 1: Making Infrastructure Choices: Where Should Our Money
Go?
- Track 2: Building Back Trust—Neighborhoods and Local
Governments Working Together
- Track 3: Partners for Smart Growth You Never Knew Were There
- Track 4: How to Integrate the Environment and Urban Form
- Track 5: Focus on Tour Three: The Inside Stories of San Diego’s
Uptown and Mid-City Communities
3:15 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Breakout Sessions
- Track 1: Innovative Funding for Innovative Projects
- Track 2: Taking General Plan Ideas to Fruition
- Track 3: Schools as the Building Blocks for Community Vitality
- Track 4: Designing With Nature: Where Does the Water Go?
- Track 5: Focus on Tour Four: TODs in Mission Valley—Creating
Community Beyond the Offramp
4:45 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Plenary Session
Making Plans to Move Forward Into the Next Century
As we enter the new millennium, opportunities abound for the
Smart Growth movement. This session inspired participants to
go home and take on the challenge.
