1000 Friends of Connecticut’s First Annual Smart Growth Conference

Sponsored by:

BL-Companies

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Rabina Properites

SHAWMUTL

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Tentative Schedule

8:30

Coffee and Registration -- Your coffee is sponsored by Fuss & O’Neill

8:40

Welcome – Sue Merrow, Co-Chair, 1000 Friends of Connecticut Board of Trustees

9:00

Our Economy – Jeffrey Blodgett, Director of Research, Connecticut Economic Resource Center

9:40

Plenary Panel – Representative Brendan Sharkey, Senator John McKinney, OPM Under-Secretary David LeVasseur, Deborah Borero, Governor’s Legislative Staff (panel members subject to change)

10:40

Moving the Smart Growth  Agenda  -- Heidi Green, President 1000 Friends of Connecticut

11:00

The Tragedy of the Prairie Dogs – A case study of Storrs center, sponsored by BL Companies & Leyland Alliance

MUMI, sponsored by Nelson Nygaard

The Smart Code -- Density and Design

Smart Growth & Public Health , sponsored by the Connecticut Health Foundation

Face of Connecticut

HomeConnecticut

Promoting Smarter  Rural Communities

12:30

Lunch  -- Keynote Speaker,  Lee Sobel, Real Estate Development and Finance Analyst, USEPA

2:30

Smart Growth & Global Warming

Harbor Point – a case study, sponsored by Antares

Connecticut the Dots

Bringing Back Brownfields

Measuring Sprawl

Reforming Economic Development Incentives to Promote Smart Growth

Bike Routes and Greenways

4:00

Adjourn – please don’t forget your evaluation!!


A special thanks to our Co-Sponsoring Organizations: Central Connecticut Bicycle Alliance,
Connecticut Association for Human Services, Connecticut Chapter of the Sierra Club,
Connecticut Conference of Municipalities,  Connecticut Housing Coalition, Connecticut Main Street Center,
Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation,  Futurists of Southern Connecticut State University,
Green Valley Institute, Regional Institute for the 21st Century.