Fall Planning Workshops

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Presentations

 How do you include equity in planning and engagement?

• DeVon Douglass, Harris County

• Marissa Aho, City of Houston

How do you measure equity in planning?

• Jonathan Brooks, LINK Houston

• Aimee Schultze, Harris County Public Health

What does equity in planning look like?

• Frances Valdez, Houston in Action

• Bakeyah Nelson, Air Alliance Houston

• Veronica Chapa Gorczynski, East End District

• Shannon Buggs, City of Houston

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How Do You Keep a Plan Off the Shelf?
Rebecca Leonard, Lionheart Places, LLC
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How Do You Pay for It?
Kimberley Mickelson, City of Houston Legal Department

How Do You Do It?
John Lettelleir, City of Frisco, and Randy Haynes, City of Bryan
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Does it have to be so hard? Developing effective public engagement plans step by step.
Gary Mitchell, Kendig Keast Collaborative; Kathy Janhsen, H-GAC
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Is there another way? Rethinking the public meeting.
Shad Comeaux, Freese & Nichols; Geoff Carleton, Traffic Engineers; Rebecca Leonard, Design Workshop; Zakcq Lockrem, Asakura Robinson
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Did we include everyone? Engaging all of our community.
Amanda Timm, Local Initiative Support Corporation
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Can I get some help? Getting the community to engage their community.
Eileen Egan and Wayne L. Norden, Near Northwest Management District
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Fay Watson, Keep Pearland Beautiful
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Is there an app for that? A toolkit for engagement.
Allie Danziger, Integrate Agency
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Social Media Revolution (YouTube Video)

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How Do We Tell Our Story with Data?
Jeff Taebel - Houston-Galveston Area Council
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How Do We Engage the Community?
Jessica Pugil - Working Partner
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How Do We Get the Ball Rolling?
Kinder Baumgartner - SWA
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How Can Communities Market Themselves as a Destination?
Adena Lewis, Bastrop County Tourism and Economic Development
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How Can Communities Realize Their Potential?
Gary Mitchell, Kendig Keast Collaborative
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What is Low Impact Development (LID)?
Chris Browne, Edminster, Hinshaw, Russ and Associiates
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What does it look like on the ground?
Steve Sams, Johnson Development Corporation
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How do we make it work?
Chris Steubing, City Engineer, Sugar Land
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Nick Russo, Public Infrastructure, Harris County
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What's Hot?
Bob Adair, Convergent Water Technologies
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Planning for an Aging Tomorrow
Jeff Taebel, Houston-Galveston Area Council
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Transportation and an Aging Population
Jim Webb, The Goodman Corporation
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Planning for Seniors and Families
Denis D'Amico, Brookdale Senior Living
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Affordable Senior Living
Stephan Fairfield, Orchard Communities
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People of Faith Helping People in Need Achieve Self-Sufficiency
Ernest Lewis III, Mamie George Community Center of Catholic Charities
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What Does "Healthy Communities" Really Mean?
Dr. Herminia Palacio, Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services
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Planning for an Active Lifestyle: Pedestrian/Bicycle Planning
Zakcq Lockrem, Asakura Robinson
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Are your codes and policies helping or hindering your healthy communities planning efforts?
Rebecca Leonard, Design Workshop
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Using Livability to Create a Healthy Community
The Honorable Carl Pickett, Mayor, City of Liberty
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Houston Bike Share – A Building Block to a Better Future
Will Rub, Houston Bike Share/Houston B-Cycle
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Planning Smart Greenspaces that Result in Measurable Health Benefits for Communities
Roksan Okan-Vick, Houston Parks Board
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How Can Your Community Capitalize on its Existing Assets?
Sue Darcy and John Havenstrite, Marsh Darcy Partners
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Resources

Cracking the Code: Getting to Greener Outcomes through Local Ordinances
Gary Mitchell, Kendig Keast Associates
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The Dollars and Sense of Brownfield Redevelopment: Exploring the Economic Benefits
Sue Darcy, Marsh Darcy Partners
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Wildfire at the Edge of Town: Understanding Risk Along the Wildland Urban Interface
Chuck Wemple, Houston-Galvston Area Council
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Planning to Survive in the Wildland Urban Interface
Mike Montgomery, Harris County Fire Marshal
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Revitalization as an Economic Engine
Steve Spillette, CDS Market Research/Spillette Consulting
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Economic Development and Sustainable Planning
Mayor Tommy Kuykendall, City of Fulshear Texas

Dealing with Density
James D. Hill, Civic Design Associates
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Dealing with Density, Reality Check
Lata Krishnarao, Planning Director, City of Pearland
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Successful Strategies for Designing with Nature
Gary Mitchell, Kendig Keast Associates
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Establishing the Framework: Why Plan for Livability?
Jeff Taebel, FAICP, Houston-Galveston Area Council
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Livability Planning Overview
Craig Farmer, FAICP, Freese and Nichols
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How Does Livability Affect the Bottom Line? - A Case Study of Economic Development Aspects of Livability Planning
Mickey Deison, President, Conroe Industrial Development Corporation
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Lone Star Executive Airport
Roger Galatas, President & C.E.O, Roger Galatas Interests
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How Will We Implement this? Solutions for Getting it Done
Scott Polikov, AICP, Gateway Planning
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H-GAC Tools and Concluding Remarks
Jeff Taebel, FAICP, H-GAC
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