The Community Streetcar Coalition is a partnership of cities, transit authorities and architectural and engineering firms that supports the development of the Small Starts program within the Federal Transit Administration. The coalition invites you to attend its semi-annual meeting to learn more about the coalition and to participate in a discussion about current issues facing streetcar projects, the administration of the program by the Federal Transit Administration and the upcoming federal surface transportation bill.

Facilitator: Jeffrey Boothe, Partner/Chair, Holland & Knight/New Starts Working Group, Washington, DC

Opening Remarks
Emcee: Will Fleissig, President, Communitas Development, Inc., San Francisco, California

Invitation to Rail~Volution in Boston 2009
Kristina Egan, South Coast Rail Manager, Executive Office of Transportation, Boston, Massachusetts
David Dixon, Principal-in-Charge of Planning and Urban Design, Goody Clancy and Associates, Boston, Massachusetts

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Join this thought-provoking and inspirational session that promises to leave attendees with a great deal to think about — and do — when they return home. Europeans have long understood that pedestrian squares and streets where people gather, socialize and watch the world go by add immensely to a city’s vitality and value. New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and author/developer Chris Leinberger are in the forefront of the movement to implement pedestrian-friendly urbanism in America. Sadik-Khan has been empowered by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to shift the balance between the automobile and the pedestrian and to carve quality public space from the city’s 6,000 miles of asphalt and 12,000 miles of sidewalks. Leinberger makes the case in his new book, The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream, that the value of pedestrian-oriented urbanism is so high that it can be tapped to help pay for constructing and operating public transit.

Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation, New York, New York
Christopher B. Leinberger, Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution/University of Michigan, Washington, DC

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All aboard the Muni Metro to Castro Street, then ride the F-Line trolley down Market Street, San Francisco’s main transit artery. See how San Francisco’s workhouse transit line — with its tourist appeal — offers a scenic alternative to a light-rail transit subway. From the city’s famous Castro District, you’ll pass the construction site of a new surface boulevard that replaces the quake-damaged Central Freeway. At the foot of Market Street lies the Embarcadero, and a new light rail line — served by historic, vintage streetcars — leads to Fisherman’s Wharf.

Start this bike tour with a visit to Warm Planet Bikes in San Francisco, an innovative partnership that enhances access options for Caltrain riders by providing valet bicycle parking services. See how technology is advancing the accessibility of Caltrain stations for bicycles by using electronic lockers and Bikestation facilities. Learn about Caltrain’s Bicycle Master Plan and see the present and future of biking to Caltrain. The bicycling pace will be comfortable for all ability levels. Participants with or without bicycles are welcome on this tour.

Everyone is invited to this peer-to-peer training session for community advocates who are working on critical issues such as density, displacement, affordable housing and TOD. Hear advocates from around the U.S. share stories about cutting-edge strategies and best practices for community engagement, leveraging community benefits and engaging transit agencies. Practice your three-minute “elevator pitch,” and learn how to organize community outreach guaranteed to win community endorsement of proposed projects. Transit agencies, cities and developers are encouraged to attend to provide their perspectives, so that everyone can better understand the goals and constraints of all partners in TOD. Lunch will be provided. This peer-to-peer session is facilitated by TransForm (formerly TALC, the Transportation and Land Use Coalition) and Greenbelt Alliance, PolicyLink, and Reconnecting America.

This core principles session will explore the key elements of transit-oriented design and adapting transit planning and design to the surrounding development. We have learned in the past few years that merely placing new development near transit stations does not necessarily result in successful TOD. Instead, TOD projects must have certain key characteristics (such as density, mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly design, and a convenient and logical transit connection) to enhance transit ridership and create neighborhoods that meet the needs of today’s changing society. In this session, learn some common-sense guidelines and lessons learned when it comes to developing good TOD projects.

Moderator: Al Raine, Vice President, Practice Leader, AECOM, Boston, Massachusetts
Cynthia Nikitin, Vice President, Project for Public Spaces, Inc., New York, New York
GB Arrington, Vice President, PB PlaceMaking, Portland, Oregon
Ann Cheng, Senior Planner, TransForm (formerly TALC, the Transportation and Land Use Coalition), Oakland, California

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Attend this workshop and learn how to foster the collaborative decision-making that is so important when it comes to building effective and livable communities. Learn how to engage and increase participation from both the public and private sectors — which leads to successful community planning, less economic risk, and the leveraging of assets among all the participants.

Moderator: Effie Stallsmith, Community Planner, Office of Planning and Environment, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC
Ellen Vanderslice, Project Manager, City of Portland, Oregon
Maribeth Feke, Director of Programming and Planning, Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Cleveland, Ohio
Cynthia Hoyle, Transportation Planning Consultant, Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District, Urbana, Illinois

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For communities considering light rail, the first question asked should be HOW to build it, not WHERE to build it. Attend this workshop and learn how Bellevue, Washington, and San Jose, California, have approached the development of new light rail systems in their community by creating community-specific best practices.

Moderator: David Knowles, Vice President, Planning and Development, David Evans and Associates, Inc., Portland, Oregon
Chris Augenstein, Deputy Director, Planning, Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), San Jose, California
Maria Koengeter, Senior Planner, City of Bellevue, Washington

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Pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods and their streets and transit stations really CAN fit together to make an enjoyable place to live. And good design guidelines are essential to making that happen. This session will give you the basics of design guidelines for shaping your own livable community. Learn about some of the latest examples of how transit agencies and communities are developing guidelines to maximize livability, transit ridership and economic opportunity — while at the same time taking into account our current energy and environmental challenges.

Moderator: Steve Dotterrer, Principal Planner, Bureau of Planning, City of Portland, Oregon
Stephen Antupit, Senior Associate for Urban Strategies Design, Mithun, Inc., Seattle, Washington
Thomas Bennett, Senior Urban Designer, PB PlaceMaking, Portland, Oregon
Phil Erickson, President, Community Design & Architecture, Oakland, California

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New trends in public and private financing techniques are fortunately helping to implement both transit and TOD projects. Hear about these new financing mechanisms at the private level, as well as some public policy options and issues that promote transit and transit-friendly development as a way to respond to energy and environmental challenges.

Moderator: Bob Ruzzo, Deputy Director, MassHousing, Boston, Massachusetts
Eva Hage, Associate, Steer Davies Gleave, Vancouver, British Columbia
Peggy Jen, Senior Program Officer, Bay Area Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), San Francisco, California

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This session will explore the realities and the myths of successfully negotiating the New Starts/Small Starts program. Hear about the “promise and the pitfalls” via lessons learned by agencies that are considering entering the New Starts/Small Starts process, as well as by those that have successfully delivered projects using this type of funding. Special attention will be focused on how to decide if the New Starts/Small Starts program is right for your project, and if so, how to make the most of it.

Moderator: James de la Loza, Senior Vice President, AECOM, Los Angeles, California
Peter Varga, Executive Director/CEO, The Rapid, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Stephen Del Guidice, Transit Bureau Chief, Arlington County Department of Environmental Services, Arlington, Virginia
Doug Moore, Vice President, Planning and Development, Central Ohio Transit Authority, Columbus, Ohio
Jay Duncan, Vice President, AECOM, Boston, Massachusetts

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This session will provide an important overview of current and potential legislation — not including transportation authorization — that pertains to climate change and energy. Learn how sustainability-related legislation may affect funding for transit and ultimately create more opportunities to build sustainable communities.

Moderator: Jeffrey Boothe, Partner/Chair, Holland & Knight/New Starts Working Group, Washington, DC
Kate Rube, Policy Director, Smart Growth America, Washington, DC
Colin Peppard, Federal Transportation Program Manager, Friends of the Earth, Washington, DC
Janine Benner, Legislative Director, Office of Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Washington, DC

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Climate change, and society’s response to it, will have a profound effect on how we should shape our communities. The sprawling way many of our communities have developed to date has resulted in transportation being the second largest (and fastest growing) contributor of greenhouse gas (GHG) of any sector in the United States. The built environment is the single largest determinant of how we travel — thus creating the need for compact, vibrant communities that enable walking, biking and transit use. This session will explore “on the ground” strategies that communities can use to reduce their carbon footprint.

Moderator: Fred Hansen, General Manager, TriMet, Portland, Oregon
Joni Earl, Chief Executive Officer, Sound Transit, Seattle, Washington
Felicia Marcus, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Trust for Public Lands, Emeryville, California
Shelley Poticha, President and Chief Executive Officer, Reconnecting America and The Center for Transit Oriented Development

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Transit projects are designed and built at the corridor scale, but too often land use and access planning simply do not match up. Thinking about TOD at the corridor scale requires new analytic and planning tools. This session will examine how and why you need to think about TOD at the corridor level; how collaboration can help avoid cannibalization of development between jurisdictions/station sites; and what tools are needed to understand the roles of stations from access, market, and land-use planning perspectives.

Moderator: Sam Zimbabwe, Technical Assistance Director, Reconnecting America, Washington, DC
Trent Lethco, Associate Principal, ARUP, New York, New York
James Constantine, Principal, Looney Ricks Kiss Architects, Princeton, New Jersey
Dena Belzer, Principal, Strategic Economics, Berkeley, California

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Research has shown that if families rent or buy in a pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use neighborhood where they can own one or no cars it can result in an annual savings of $8,500. This emphasizes the effectiveness of locating housing near transit — a major attraction for residents who want and need affordable housing. Hear how five cities are prioritizing sites near transit for affordable housing resources and also what California is doing to aid in the effort. Speakers also will discuss enhancing affordability through developer agreements, incentives, land use regulations, inclusionary housing and other tools.

Moderator: Sam Adams, Mayor Elect, City of Portland, Portland, Oregon
Adrienne Quinn, Director, City of Seattle Office of Housing, Seattle, Washington
Mercedes Marquez, General Manager, Los Angeles Housing Department, Los Angeles, California
Diana McIver., President and Chief Executive Officer, DMA Development Company, LLC, Austin, Texas
Karen O’Connell, Esq., Economic Development Director, Town of Dedham, Massachusetts
Doug Shoemaker, Director, San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing, San Francisco, California

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Ever wonder why those seemingly great-looking TOD plans never get built? Maybe you’ve spent a lot of money hiring consultants and conducting community meetings to help shape a development vision — only to find that the private sector doesn’t “see” what you see? Talking to developers and investors at the TOD Marketplace — which has become one of Rail~Volution’s most well-attended events — will give you plenty of insight, ideas and lessons learned for next time. This popular annual event serves as a forum where developers, investors, transit agencies, cities and property owners can meet, talk about the art of the deal, and even strike up a deal. Hear a panel of national developers and investors provide feedback on two Bay Area projects and the master plan for three mixed-use projects along a new DART line opening in 2010. Following the 90-minute panel discussion will be an opportunity to meet with panelists in small groups, and a reception and showcase of local and national development opportunities.

Moderator: Shelley Poticha, President and CEO, Reconnecting America and The Center for Transit Oriented Development, Oakland, California
Jeffrey Tumlin, Principal, Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates, San Francisco, California
Harold Dawson, President and CEO, The Dawson Company, Atlanta, Georgia
Will Fleissig, President, Communitas Development Inc., San Francisco, California
Fred Harris, Senior Vice President, AvalonBay Communities, Inc., New York, New York
Lydia Tan, Executive Vice President, Bridge Housing, San Francisco, California
Jeff Ordway, Manager of Property Development, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, California
Jason Tundermann, Associate, Cherokee, Raleigh, North Carolina

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Attend this session that’s interactive, fun and informative — and all about blogging! Learn how to use a blog to report the news, conduct advocacy, and build community support around sustainable transportation and livable communities.

Moderator: Kathy Albert, Deputy Director, Executive Administration, Sound Transit, Seattle, Washington
Jeff Wood, Program Associate And GIS Specialist, Reconnecting America, Oakland, California
Aaron Naparstek, Editor in Chief, Streetsblog, New York, New York
Clarence Eckerson, Director of Video Production, www.streetfilms.org, New York, New York

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It’s no secret that communities that work well for alternative modes of transportation require different design forms than the car-based city. However, successful design types for these communities continue to evolve, as the tools for designing and building livable communities continue to evolve. This session presents a review of current trends in using form-based codes for both large cities and smaller communities — as well as a look at advanced design standards that can improve streets for all transportation modes in an energy-challenged world.

Moderator: Steve Dotterrer, Principal Planner, Bureau of Planning, City of Portland, Oregon
Laura Hall, Principal, Hall Alminana, San Francisco, California
Lee Einsweiler, Principal, Code Studio, Austin, Texas
Phil Erickson, President, Community Design & Architecture, Oakland, California

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Attend this introduction to strategies that ensure new transit projects fit into and support existing communities in both urban and suburban settings. Existing communities present special challenges for transit projects, including those related to community input, dense development near stations, impact mitigation, environmental enhancement and traffic management. Panelists will present lessons from recent projects, as well as best practices developed from surveys.

Moderator: Henry Kay, Deputy Administrator of Planning and Engineering, Maryland Transit Administration, Baltimore, Maryland
Paul Pattison, Senior Transit Engineer, URS Corporation, Charlotte, North Carolina
Rob Smetana, Principal Planner, City of Lakewood, Colorado
Michael Madden, Chief, Project Development Division-Office of Planning, Maryland Transit Administration, Baltimore, Maryland

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Attend this session and get a valuable review of plans, policies and recent trends in designing today’s sustainable, transit-supportive communities that are accessible to everyone — including seniors, people with disabilities, children and families.

Moderator: Dorene Giacopini, Commissioner, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Oakland, California
Ellen Dektar, Coordinator, LINCC/Alameda County Child Care Planning Council, Oakland, California
James Corless, Senior Planner, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Oakland, California
Valerie Fletcher, Executive Director, Institute for Human-Centered Design, Boston, Massachusetts

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Urban designers, engineers and transit agencies must work together to create successful station designs that increase transit ridership and provide communities with the greatest return on their transit investment. Learn lessons from an urban designer/architect, engineer and transit agency owner on how to work together to create successful station areas.

Moderator: Tom Markgraf, Owner, Markgraf & Associates, Portland, Oregon
George Crandall, FAIA, Principal, Crandall Arambula PC, Portland, Oregon
John Lackey, Senior Vice President and Director of Transit, David Evans and Associates, Inc., Portland, Oregon
Dave Unsworth, Senior Project Manager, TriMet, Portland, Oregon

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The transportation sector accounts for one-third of U.S. CO2 emissions, with cars and trucks being the biggest contributors. What, then, can communities do to reduce travel demand and vehicle miles traveled? After an introduction to the topic and the “Growing Cooler” study, participants will hear what is being done from Australia to Berkeley to reduce driving and make a major impact on greenhouse gas emissions.

Moderator: Gerard Walters, Principal, Fehr and Peers Associates, Walnut Creek, California
Paul Kearsley, General Manager-City Development, City of Whitehorse, Melbourne, Australia
Matt Nichols, Principal Transportation Planner, City of Berkeley, California
Tracy Winfree, Director of Public Works for Transportation, City of Boulder, Colorado

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Communities with a lower-income population sometimes fear new transit and TOD as the spearhead for gentrification. However, studies indicate that roughly two-thirds of demand for TOD housing comes from lower-income communities. The significant value premiums generated by TOD, particularly for housing, represent a powerful tool for creating mixed-income communities, enhancing older urban neighborhoods, and enabling existing residents to remain as proud members of more diverse communities. Attend this workshop and learn about the underlying policies, economics, and urban design issues related to using TOD effectively in a mid-income housing community.

Moderator: David Dixon, Principal-in-Charge of Planning and Urban Design, Goody, Clancy and Associates, Boston, Massachusetts
Bob Ruzzo, Deputy Director, MassHousing, Boston, Massachusetts

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Modern streetcar projects are being viewed as an economic and land development tool more than as a tool for moving people. Streetcar projects in Seattle, Portland, Tampa, Little Rock and Kenosha, Wisconsin, have all had major impacts on land development patterns. They also have linked vibrant, new, high-density mixed-use neighborhoods to downtowns and have proven affordable even for cities that can’t support investment in light rail. This session will explore the financial realities of implementing streetcar projects, the public-private partnerships that have formed to build and operate them, and the economic impacts of maturing streetcar systems.

Moderator: Sam Adams, Mayor Elect, City of Portland, Oregon
Tiffany Sweitzer, President, Hoyt Street Properties, LLC, Portland, Oregon
Michael Mann, Acting Director of the Office of Sustainability, City of Seattle, Washington
Scott Bernstein, President, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Lori Mason Curran, Market Research Manager and Real Estate Spokesperson, Vulcan, Inc., Seattle, Washington
Keith Jones, Regional Transit Director-West Central Region, URS Corporation, Fort Worth, Texas
Rick Gustafson, Vice President, Shiels Obletz Johnson, Portland, Oregon

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While streetcars and light rail can greatly enhance a community’s livability factor, the reality is that — on the front end — neighbors, developers and government planners want greater predictability about what will happen once the transportation systems are in place. This session demonstrates two remarkably effective approaches developed by national TOD experts that have been used to increase community understanding and support for transit and new development.

Moderator: John Danish, Board of Directors, City of Irving Representative, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Irving, Texas
CJ Gabbe, Project Manager, Fregonese Associates, Portland, Oregon
Mark Bachels, National Leader-Sustainable Community Development Manager, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Kawana Waters, Queensland, Australia

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Community outreach, effective education, and interactive tools that can help develop the long-range message of the land use-transportation linkages can take many forms. This session will explore three very different, but equally effective, ways to build support for transit and TOD as an important solution to our energy and environmental challenges.

Moderator: Lea Schuster, Executive Director, Transit for Livable Communities, Twin Cities, Minnesota
Kathleen Osher, Executive Director, Transit Alliance, Denver, Colorado
Jan Wells, Associate Director, Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA, New York, New Jersey
Becky Schlenvogt, Principal Planner, Region of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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How much parking is the right amount of parking in your TOD project? When should transit agencies consider cutting existing parking in order to get more TOD? What are the risks of providing too much parking and too little, and how have developers, transit agencies and cities successfully addressed these risks? In this interactive toolbox session, three national parking experts will walk participants through real-life examples of how smarter approaches to parking have resulted in higher transit ridership, less congestion, happier citizens and higher returns on real estate investment.

Moderator: Patrick Siegman, Principal, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, San Francisco, California
Terri O’Connor, Transportation Planning Manager, Wilbur Smith Associates, San Francisco, California
Dan Zack, Downtown Development Coordinator, Community Development Services Department, City of Redwood City, California
Kenya Wheeler, Senior Planner, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, California
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Bike rental programs are all the rage in Paris and Barcelona and now are gaining a toe-hold in the U.S. In addition, car-sharing companies are growing and providing an important link from transit to home and work. This session will review these and other innovative, sustainable strategies for traveling to transit — or just traveling without a car.

Moderator: Tom Miller, Chief of Staff to Major Elect Sam Adams, City of Portland, Oregon
Susan Shaheen, Co-Director, Transportation Sustainability Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, Richmond, California
Andy Thornley, Program Director, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, San Francisco, California
Nate Kvamme, Freewheelin’ Program Manager, Humana, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky

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If you and your community are considering streetcars as a viable, attractive option for creating vibrant urban core areas, this session will provide great insight and lessons learned. Where should a community place its streetcar system and why? What are the obstacles, and how can you overcome them? Hear how Portland is planning the expansion of its existing system and how Tucson and Santa Ana are nearing the development stage of their initial streetcar segments.

Moderator: David Knowles, Vice President, Planning and Development, David Evans and Associates, Inc., Portland, Oregon
Toni Bates, Senior Planning Manager, Parsons Brinckerhoff, San Diego, California
Patrick Sweeney, Senior Transit Planner, Portland Office of Transportation, Portland, Oregon
Terry Nash, Project Manager, HDR, Phoenix, Arizona

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With the appropriate policies in place (explained in Part 1 of this two-part workshop), public transportation linked to compact, mixed-use development offers enormous potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This session will focus on the methodologies and tools that help measure a community’s carbon footprint inventory greenhouse gas emissions. It will showcase examples and highlight methodologies that could work in your community — as all of us work together to minimize climate change at the local level.

Moderator: Gary Prince, Senior Project Manager, King County Metro Transit, Seattle, Washington
Adam Millard-Ball, Ph.D. Student, Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (IPER), Stanford University, Stanford, California
Jeff Tumlin, Principal, Nelson\Nygaard, San Francisco, California
Stephen Antupit, Senior Associate for Urban Strategies Design, Mithun, Inc., Seattle, Washington
Tina Hodges, Program Analyst, Office of Budget and Policy, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC

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Californians working to reduce VMT through land use changes and increased use of transit have formed a number of effective non-traditional partnerships. Among the most proactive and effective has been a sector of public, private and nonprofit health professionals. Learn how to partner with health-related groups and other like-minded organizations to achieve local and state greenhouse gas reduction goals.

Moderator: Judy Corbett, Executive Director, Local Government Commission, Sacramento, California
Autumn Bernstein, ClimatePlan Coordinator, ClimatePlan/Transportation and Land Use Coalition, South Lake Tahoe, California
Bonnie Holmes-Gen, Senior Policy Director, American Lung Association, Sacramento, California

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Getting the right hand and the left hand to work with each other inside a transit agency on joint development projects is challenging on a good day. The typical collision of interests revolve around what is more important — transit or development? Parking or pedestrians? Easy transfers or linking development to the station? Listen to public and private perspectives on this issue and where this has — and has not — been done successfully across the country.

Moderator: Peter Albert, Manager, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Planning Initiatives Program, San Francisco, California
Don Arambula, ASLA, Principal, Crandall Arambula, Portland, Oregon
Ralph Petty, Community Development and Parks Director, Millbrae, California
Troy Russ, Principal, Glatting Jackson, Orlando, Florida

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Developers of TOD projects always are looking to transit agencies to partner by funding public elements and infrastructure within TOD projects to “make the numbers work.” Good intentions of using public money to fund TOD infrastructure often fall short when it comes to implementation. Several programs have been proposed and implemented in the past years, but the ability of the developer to access these funds often has been problematic and confusing. Join this session and discuss ways to bring the public’s good intentions together with the realities of private development.

Moderator: Cheri Bush, Senior Transportation Planner, Wilbur Smith Associates, Dallas, Texas
Paul Marx, Director of Planning, Sacramento Regional Transit District, Sacramento, California
Megan Gibb, Manager, Transit Oriented Development, Metro, Portland, Oregon
Jack Wierzenski, Director, Economic Development and Planning, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Dallas, Texas
Doug Johnson, TLC Program Manager, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Oakland, California

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On nearly a daily basis, we hear about climate change and global warming in the media. Sustainable development and green building play an important role as a viable solution to this problem. Attendees in this session will learn about the use of green building technology and principles in successful transit oriented development projects across North America.

Moderator: Bruce Fukuji, Urban Design Practice Leader, PB PlaceMaking, San Francisco, California
Paul Morris, Vice President, Sustainable Planning and Development, Cherokee, Raleigh, North Carolina
Bailey Pope, Vice President of Design and Construction, The Dawson Company, Atlanta, Georgia
Heather Lowe, Assistant Vice President of Development, EBL&S Development, Berkeley, California

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Mingle with conference attendees, as well as advocates and experts from throughout the Bay Area, who are working on transportation choices and pedestrian-friendly communities. Drinks, appetizers, live music and art will be abundant at this beautiful public space venue located near the hotel conference site. Event host and beneficiary is TransForm (www.transcoalition.org).

Join us for the TPD fall business meeting and discussion. TPD officers and members will report on division activities with the federal transportation bill reauthorization, APA’s Legislative/Policy Committee, and APA’s Complete Streets Initiative. Afterward, network with transportation planners from around the country at a special reception.

Facilitator: Todd Ashby, Project Manager, Snyder and Associates, Ankeny, Iowa