Learn how a strong regional approach to planning and problem-solving — including a coalition of key partners led by the private sector and representing Envision Utah, Utah Transit Authority, UDOT and others — is promoting housing options, clean air, transportation choices and sound planning in Salt Lake City. Tune into the latest report on transit and livability from Rail~Volution key players. Their perspective and insight will broaden the understanding of stakeholders in every community.

John Inglish, General Manager, Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City, Utah
Ross "Rocky" Anderson, Mayor, Salt Lake City Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah
Robert Grow, Founding Chair/Emeritus, Envision Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Orrin T. Colby, Jr., President, Utah Transit Authority Board of Trustees, Salt Lake City, Utah

State of the Rail~Volution
Earl Blumenauer, 3rd District, Oregon, United States Congress, Washington, DC

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This session will show how cities have addressed environmental issues while also promoting walking to and from light rail stations.

Moderator: Laura Brennan Ramirez, Principal, Inneval LLC, St. Louis, Missouri
Kelvin Walsh, Manager, City Design and PlaceMaking, Maribyrnong City Council, Maribyrnong, Australia
Rich Cassidy, Senior Transportation Planner, Transportation Options Division, City of Portland, Oregon
Nancy Stevens, Project Manager for Community Health Initiatives, Kaiser Permanente, Portland, Oregon
Jonathan Amburgey, Professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

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Learn how several US cities have successfully planned for or implemented the not-so-new concept of streetcars.

Moderator: Tom Furmaniak, Vice President-Southeast Region, LTK Engineering Services, Atlanta, Georgia
Thomas Brennan, Senior Associate, Nelson/Nygaard Consulting, Portland, Oregon
Caleb Winter, Research Analyst, TriMet, Portland, Oregon
Keith Jones, Executive Director, Central Arkansas Transit Authority, North Little Rock, Arkansas

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Learn how Salt Lake City and other agencies used effective campaigns to sell transit and attract customers.

Moderator: Kim Duncan, Executive Director, Marketing & Customer Services, TriMet, Portland, Oregon
Tim Healy, Marketing Manager, Sound Transit, Seattle, Washington
Alan Matheson, Executive Director, Envision Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Maria Garcia Berry, CEO, CRL Associates, Denver, Colorado

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Learn how you can use the FTA land-use criteria to make the case for TODs in your community and for maximizing project competitiveness in the New Starts process.

Moderator: Diana Mendes, Director of Project Development-Vice President, DMJM+Harris, Fairfax, Virginia
Brigid Hynes-Cherin, Deputy Associate Administrator-Office of Budget and Policy, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC
Michael Allegra, Chief Capital Development Officer, Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City, Utah
Otis Rolley, Director, Baltimore Department of Planning, Baltimore, Maryland

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Learn some win-win strategies to create home ownership opportunities, including the sale of condominiums on leased land at TODs.

Moderator: Manuela Silva, Principal, Urban Solutions Group, Fairfield, California
Mark Farrar, Principal, Millennium Partners, San Francisco, California
Jeff Minter, Executive Vice President, Unidev LLC, Bethesda, Maryland
James Hencke, Senior Planner, PB PlaceMaking, Portland, Oregon

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This session focuses on techniques and outcomes of the successful regional visioning process. Speakers illustrate the benefits of regional visioning, the strategies for moving multiple local viewpoints toward regional consensus, and techniques for implementing a regional vision once it has been adopted.

Moderator: Cheryl King, Director of Transit Planning, Wilbur Smith Associates, Atlanta, Georgia
Alan Hoffman, Founding Principal, The Mission Group, San Diego, California
Karin Morris, Senior Regional Planner, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Robert Grow, Founding Chair Emeritus, Envision Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

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Commuter rail is fast becoming the mode of choice in many metro areas. This panel focuses on commuter rail projects emphasizes community issues that shape commuter rail implementation: safety, noise and vibration, and station planning. In many communities such as Denver, developers are leaping ahead of transit planning, resulting in development-oriented transit instead of TOD. How have these trends influenced transit implementation decisions?

Moderator: Art Brown, Vice Chairman/Mayor Pro Tem, OCTA/City of Buena Park, California
Louise Rice Lawson, Director of Economic Development, City of Hercules, California
Kammy Horne, Director of Environmental Services, West, DMJM Harris, Phoenix, Arizona
Mahlon Clements, Principal, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca, Seattle, Washington

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This toolbox will feature a resource designed specifically for average citizens who want to make a positive contribution toward shaping growth and development of their neighborhoods, towns and regions.

David Goldberg, Communications Director, Smart Growth America, Atlanta, Georgia

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Find out the myths vs. realities of whether you really need steel wheels to make a good TOD.

Moderator: Roderick Diaz, West Coast Planning Manager, STV Incorporated, Los Angeles, California
Maria Rosario, Practice Leader, Sustainable Community Development, PB PlaceMaking, Washington, DC
Alden Raine, Vice President, DMJM+Harris Planning, Boston, Massachusetts
Jack Gonsalves, BRT Specialist, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Portland, Oregon

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Learn how transit agencies, cities and nonprofit organizations are working at very different scales to create a great sense of place at transit stations around the country.

Moderator: Paul Zykofsky, Director, Center for Livable Communities, Local Government Commission, Sacramento, California
Troy Russ, Senior Associate, Glatting Jackson, Orlando, Florida
Rebecca Draper, Project Manager, Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative, Los Angeles, California
Ellen Shubart, Campaign Manager, Campaign for Sensible Growth, Chicago, Illinois

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Many transit and land-use advocates have promoted TOD as a development type that is both sustainable and desirable for the long term. Expert panelists will identify actions they believe are necessary to successfully produce TOD in the current marketplace.

Moderator: Brenda Scheer, Dean, University of Utah College of Architecture and Planning, Salt Lake City, Utah
John DeLaurentiis, Deputy Executive Director-Planning, Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
Lee Norris, Managing Director, Cherokee Investment Fund, Raleigh, North Carolina
Brigid Hynes-Cherin, Deputy Associate Administrator-Office of Budget and Policy, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC
Dan Tangherlini, Director, District Department of Transportation, Washington, DC

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Transit-related referenda continue to have mixed results around the country, though recently there have been more major successes than failures. This panel discussion will focus both on the range of issues voted on in the past year (in cities of all sizes) and on the major issues that shaped those results, with a focus on the impact of TOD and related economic development.

Moderator: Alan Wulkan, Senior Vice President, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Phoenix, Arizona
Cal Marsella, General Manager, Regional Transportation District, Denver, Colorado
Wulf Grote, Director of Project Development, Valley Metro, Phoenix, Arizona
Lucy Galbraith, Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Austin, Texas

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This presentation will share examples of successes and failures in such collaborations in the Chicago and San Francisco metropolitan areas — and how transit improvements are figuring into the equation.

Moderator: Ron Stewart, Principal, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, Portland, Oregon
Gita Dev, Principal, Dev Architects, San Francisco, California
Samantha DeKoven, Housing Associate, Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago, Illinois

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The market for TOD products now has been well established, as more and more developers understand that TOD can outperform traditional real estate products. Local governments advocate TOD, yet getting development approval for TOD projects remains highly problematic in most communities. Learn from developers what they need to develop TOD on your site and in your community.

Moderator: Paul Morris, Managing Principal, PB PlaceMaking, Portland, Oregon
Lee Norris, Managing Director, Cherokee Investment Fund, Raleigh, North Carolina
Jon Pertchik, Senior Vice President and Managing Principal, The Staubach Company, Boca Raton, Florida

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Learn from an international expert about tools to encourage healthy ways for children to get around.

Jacky Kennedy, Program Manager, Green Communities / Active & Safe Routes to School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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See how station art can connect transit communities of all sizes, from Washington, DC to the Wasatch Mountains.

Moderator: Brenda Tierney, Project Manager, Community Involvement, Regional Transportation District, Denver, Colorado
David Allen, Metro, St. Louis, Missouri
Michael McBride, Manager, Art in Transit Program, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Washington, DC
Michael Moonbird, Director, Bad Dog Rediscovers America, Salt Lake City, Utah

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Hear about innovative financing strategies being pursued across the country, including those in Fairfax County, Virginia; the Bay Area; and Portland, Oregon.

Moderator: Gloria Ohland, Senior Editor, Reconnecting America, Los Angeles, California
Jeff Ordway, Manager of Property Development, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, California
Rick Stevens, Project Manager, Dulles Rail Project, Fairfax, Virginia
Michael Powell, President and CEO/Boardmember, Powell's Books/Portland Streetcar, Portland, Oregon

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Across the country, downtown transit terminals are undergoing “extreme makeovers,” making the transformation from single-mode operational terminals into multi-modal/inter-modal transportation centers that are catalysts for transit-oriented development. Hear how these inter-modal/multi-modal centers play a key role in creating vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban neighborhoods.

Moderator: Rich Weaver, Manager-Planning and Programs, American Public Transportation Association, Washington, DC
William Baumgardner, Associate, Arup, San Francisco, California
Eric Anderson, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Denver, Colorado

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This session profiles the Federal Highway Administration Context Sensitive Solutions initiative from the perspective of federal, state and local agencies. The speakers profile how multiple, and at times contradictory, objectives can be successfully met through a single project.

Moderator: John McNamara, Associate Vice President, DMJM Harris Planning, Phoenix, Arizona
Angelo Papastamos, Project Development, Utah Department of Transportation, Salt Lake City, Utah
Emily Drennen, Advisory Council Member, Bay Area Air Quality Management District & SF MTA Citizens' Advisory Council, San Francisco, California
Barbara McCann, Principal, McCann Consulting, Washington, DC

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This session looks at how transportation choices available to communities and regions affect household budgets and regional economies, providing another example of the benefits of strong transit commitments.

Kevin McCarty, Director of Federal Policy, Surface Transportation Policy Project, Washington, DC

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Learn how to successfully integrate key design features in and around transit facilities to ensure that they are accessible via a range of transportation modes.

Moderator: Steve Dotterrer, Principal Planner, City of Portland Bureau of Planning, Portland, Oregon
Robert Hickey, Policy Director, Urban Ecology, Oakland, California
Matt Haynes, Transportation Planner, Fehr & Peers Associates, San Francisco, California
Robert Hodder, Senior Policy Advisor, AARP Public Policy Institute, Washington, DC

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This session focuses on the various cooperative initiatives with transit agencies and third-party institutions, ranging from transit pass programs, project funding strategies, innovative demonstration projects, new parking requirements, and third-party development plans that rely on transit.

Moderator: Edward Lewis, President, NAACP Tri-State Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah
Tim Yantos, Executive Director, Northstar Corridor Development Authority, Anoka, Minnesota
Natashia Holmes, Senior Transportation Associate, Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago, Illinois

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Learn how port authorities, developers, environmentalists and communities are adapting their waterfront properties for higher and better uses.

Moderator: Robert Apodaca, Director of Business Development, McLarand Vasquez Emsiek & Partners, Oakland, California
Chek Tang, Principal, McLarand Vasquez Emsiek & Partners, Oakland, California
James Brown, Vice President/Technical Director, Environmental Services, Parsons Brinckerhoff, New York, New York
Dan Tangherlini, Director, District Department of Transportation, Washington, DC

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Join this open conversation about the ways in which transportation professionals and urban designers can work more closely to maximize development, ridership and value capture.

Moderator: Shelley Poticha, President and CEO, Reconnecting America and the Center for Transit Oriented Development, Oakland, California
Ellen Greenberg, Principal, Freedman, Tung & Bottomly, San Francisco, California
David Taylor, National Director, Transit-Oriented Design, HDR, Tampa, Florida

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Explore ways to support a sustainable future for your community through smart planning and design choices.

Moderator: Carolyn Young, Executive Director of Programs and Communications, TriMet, Portland, Oregon
Lisa Padilla, Principal, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, Los Angeles, California
Samuel Assefa, Deputy Chief of Staff in Charge of Economic and Urban Development, City of Chicago Office of the Mayor, Chicago, Illinois
Soren Simonsen, Principal Architect/Urban Designer, Cooper Roberts Simonsen Architecture, Salt Lake City, Utah

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Listen to experts discuss the evolution of partnerships with their transit agency as everyone works toward the common goal of sustainable, viable transit-oriented development.

Moderator: Lynn Flint Shaw, Board Member, Dallas Area Rapid Transit Board of Directors, Dallas, Texas
Brigid Hynes-Cherin, Deputy Associate Administrator-Office of Budget and Policy, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC
Marilee Utter, President, Citiventure Associates LLC, Denver, Colorado
Theresa O'Donnell, Planning Director, City of Dallas, Texas

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This session will address key regulatory barriers to developing TOD, as well as expert insight about ways to overcome those barriers.

Jeffrey Tumlin, Principal, Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates, San Francisco, California

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This session examines the latest, best methods for measuring how TOD is performing — providing valuable leverage for future policy and funding decisions.

Moderator: Gail Murray, Board Member, District #1, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, Calif.
John DeLaurentiis, Deputy Executive Director-Planning, Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
Cali Gorewitz, Program Associate, Reconnecting America, Oakland, California
Elizabeth Deakin, Director, Transportation Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, California

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Listen to experts discuss the most innovative developments in the area of “first-last mile” connections to rail and transit.

Moderator: Lavinia Gordon, Transportation Options Division Manager, City of Portland, Oregon
Todd Boulanger, Board Member, Bikestation, Vancouver, Washington
Dan Sturges, Senior Program Manager, WestStart, Boulder, Colorado
Eileen Kadesh, Market Development Planner, King County Metro Transit Market Development, Seattle, Washington

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SAFETEA-LU created a new Small Starts program that can provide up to $75 million for streetcar, bus rapid transit and commuter rail projects. Compared with FTA requirements for more costly New Starts projects, Small Starts will offer a simplified approach and set of criteria. This working session will provide an opportunity to share your ideas on how Small Starts should be evaluated.

Facilitator: Don Emerson, Principal Consultant, PB Consult Inc., Herndon, Virginia