Third Annual
Leonard Transportation Center Forum
Friday, May 22, 2009
Greener California: Impacts of Senate Bill 375 and Winning Strategies for Southern California
The Leonard Transportation Center invites you to a regional dialogue to discuss the transportation, land use and city planning, and policy impacts and winning adaptive strategies of California’s newly adopted climate change legislation, SB 375.
The newly adopted legislation requires regional government planning groups to integrate global warming their ongoing planning work. The bill alters decades of practice in land use planning, transportation funding, and CEQA law, all in an effort to get Californians to drive fewer miles in order to prevent commuters from overshadowing other greenhouse gas reduction programs.
This conference focuses on how SB 375 will alter regional planning and transportation programs and how municipalities can adapt to the new law and emerge as winners in meeting and exceeding the goals set forth in SB 375.
Who should attend?
The forum is an informative opportunity for city-planners and public works directors; traffic, transit, land use and environmental consultants; transportation planners; TMA’s, Ride share, and other alternative mode specialists; developers and land owners; and employers responsible for shifting commute patterns.
Logistical Information:
Friday, May 22, 2009
7:30 - 5:30
Doubletree Hotel Ontario Airport
222 North Vineyard Avenue, Ontario, CA 91764
(I-10 Vineyard Exit south)
Cost: $65.00 Free
Sponsored in part with grant funding from:
U.S. Department of Transportation/Research and Innovative Technology Administration (USDOT/RITA), and California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)
Please select the registration link: Registration
or visit http://ltc375forum.eventbrite.com
Agenda:
7:30 Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:30 Opening Remarks
9:00 William Fulton, Principal at Design, Community & Environment (DCE) and publisher of California Planning and Development Report (CP&RD), and Deputy Mayor of Ventura, Ca.,
(Opening Keynote)
Break
10:15 Planning Panel:
- Lindell Marsh, Attorney at Law/Facilitator
- Hasan Ikhrata, Executive Director, Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG)
- Rick Willson, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Cal Poly Pomona
- Rick Bishop, Director, Western Riverside Council of Governments (WRCOG)
- Ty Schuiling, Director of Planning & Programming, San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG)
12:00 Lunch
12:20 Bob Wolf, President Emeritus, Germania, (Lunch Keynote)
1:30 Tools for Compliance Session (Using GIS):
- Jon Harrison, Mayor of Redlands,Senior Consultant for Business Development with Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
- Boykin Witherspoon III, Center for Geographic Information Science Research, Cal Poly Pomona
- Mike Reibel, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Cal Poly Pomona
- Kelly Chan, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Cal Poly Pomona
Break
3:00 William Hudnut, Joseph C. Canizaro Fellow for Public Policy at the Urban Land Institute in Washington, DC, (Closing Keynote)
4:00 Appetizers/Networking/Book Signing
Keynote Speakers:
William Fulton
A journalist, urban planner, researcher, pundit, and best-selling author and now a practicing elected official as deputy mayor of the Ventura (Calif.) City Council William Fulton has played a key role in re-shaping the way urban and metropolitan growth issues are debated in the post-suburban era. He is a principal in the California-based urban planning firm of Design, Community & Environment (www.dceplanning.com), and a senior scholar at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California. He is the author of three books considered classics in their field. The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles, an L.A. Times best-seller, uses novelistic storytelling techniques to trace the way a leading metropolis grew and developed. The Regional City : Planning for the End of Sprawl, co-authored with architect Peter Calthorpe, is a pathbreaking work that has reshaped understanding of how metropolitan regions should be planned and designed. More than a decade after its original publication, Guide to California Planning remains the standard textbook for urban planning classes.
Fulton is also founder and publisher of the monthly periodical California Planning & Development Report (www.cp-dr.com). Since founding Solimar in 1999, Fulton has participated in a wide range of projects documenting changing trends in metropolitan growth and assisting government agencies, land conservation organizations, and developers respond to those changing trends. He was the principal author of a series of papers for the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program on changing growth trends, including Who Sprawls Most? How Growth Patterns Differ Across the U.S. In his consulting practice with DC&E and his previous firm, Solimar Research Group (www.solimar.org), Fulton has led a team of experts who have created innovative methods to identify suitable sites for infill development and test the economic feasibility of infill development policies.
In partnership with the Smart Growth Leadership Institute, Fulton has assisted communities from Florida to Alaska in implementing “smart growth policies” and as an elected official he has taken a leadership role in doing the same in Ventura.
Fulton has also been active in the economic development arena as well. He is the economic development columnist for Governing magazine and has worked on a series of economic development strategies for communities across the country, focusing on Arizona and Upstate New York.
Robert A. Wolf
Robert A. Wolf has been a driving force in business, government and politics in Riverside County and Inland Southern California for more than 35 years. As Germania Corporation’s president emeritus, Mr. Wolf continues to use the knowledge and experience gained through the decades to help many of the company’s client’s work through their most complicated development and transportation challenges. Mr. Wolf is a recognized expert in the fields of property development, transportation planning, and infrastructure development. Starting at Germania Construction in 1970, he has helped to develop the Inland area’s economy and raise the region’s profile around Southern California and the state. Robert A. Wolf is an Advisory Board Member for the Leonard Transportation Center
William Hudnut
Former four-term Mayor of Indianapolis and Congressman, author, public speaker, TV commentator, think tank fellow, elected official, and clergyman, Bill Hudnut currently occupies the Urban Land Institute/Joseph C. Canizaro Chair for Public Policy at the Urban Land Institute in Washington, DC, a non-profit Washington-based organization dedicated to promoting quality land use and influencing public policy through research and education.
Hudnut is probably best known for his sixteen-year tenure as Mayor of Indianapolis, 1976-1991, during which he advanced the city’s new “Unigov” form of merged governance with Marion County. His stated goal was to build a “cooperative, compassionate and competitive” city. He established “a national reputation for revitalizing his Midwestern city,” (The Washington Post) and came to be regarded as “an entrepreneurial leader willing to take prudent risks” (The Toledo Blade). He spearheaded the formation of a public-private sector partnership that led to Indianapolis’ emergence during the 1980s as a major American city. A past president of the National League of Cities, Hudnut helped Indianapolis record spectacular growth during his sixteen years in office
Hudnut has recently served as Vice-Mayor of Chevy Chase, Maryland, and a member of the board of the National League of Cities. He was a member of the Millennial Housing Commission appointed by Congress during 2001-2002. Prior to his entry into public life, as a clergyman he served churches in Buffalo, N.Y., Annapolis, Md., and Indianapolis, Ind. After stepping down as Mayor, Hudnut held posts at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, the Hudson Institute in Indianapolis, and the Civic Federation in Chicago, before assuming his current position with ULI in 1996.
A much sought-after speaker, “spirited…with high energy eloquence,” (The Toledo Blade) Hudnut “gives life to the word charismatic” (The Cincinnati Enquirer). He is the author of Minister Mayor (1987), a book reflecting on his experience in politics and religion; The Hudnut Years in Indianapolis, 1976-1991 (1995), a case study in urban management and leadership; Cities on the Rebound (1998), an analysis of clues to the successful city of the future; and Halfway to Everywhere (2003), a portrait of America‘s first tier suburbs. His latest book, published in 2008: Changing Metropolitan America: Planning for A Sustainable Future (ULI Press, 2008).
His list of awards includes Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service in 1986, City and State magazine’s Outstanding Mayor of 1988, and the Rosa Parks Award from the American Association for Affirmative Action in 1992.
William Hudnut will be signing copies of his new book, Changing Metropolitan America: Planning for A Sustainable Future (PDF Format) which will be available for purchase at a reduced price.