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SUMMARY:Strong Towns Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Summary\nThe Strong Towns Workshop covers Strong Towns Thinking\, the predicament of funding\, the finance of places\, and understanding transportation and mobility. \nStrong Towns is a non-profit\, non-partisan organization that helps America’s towns achieve financial strength and resiliency. \nThey travel the nation to promote a complete understanding of the costs that are associated with our communities’ methods of growth\, and they advocate to address those costs via productive changes in our pattern of development. \nAgenda\n\n8:00 am-8:30am Registration\n8:30 AM – Workshop Opening and Introductions\n8:45 AM – Introduction to Strong Towns Thinking\n9:00 AM – The Predicament of Funding\n\nFinancing Growth\nFunding Transportation\nQ&A\n\n\n10:30 AM – Break\n10:45 AM – The Finance of our Places Overview:\n Local government decisions are dominated by our desire to experience growth and create jobs\, but what if these short term objectives are undermining the long term health of our cities? This session explains how the way we currently build and finance cities provides an “illusion of wealth” but creates enormous long term liabilities. Participants will learn how local governments can make high return investments and update methods for evaluating the financial viability of a project.Topics Covered: \n\nHow horizontal growth creates an illusion of wealth for local governments\, providing nominal\, near-term\, financial gains in exchange for enormous\, long-term financial obligations.\nHow to identify a financially productive place\, one that produces more wealth for the community than it requires in services and subsidies.\nHow to calculate the public’s return on investment\, the actual dollars that the local government will have returned to it for the dollars that it commits to a project.\nDeveloping an understanding of salvage value and how it is properly applied in the context of a local government project.\nHow grants\, low interest loans and public/private partnerships impact the long term viability of a project.\nHow to build a strong tax base using an incremental public investment strategy that blends low risk / stable return investments with low risk / high return speculation.\n\n\n12:15 PM – Lunch\n1:00 PM – Shared Values: Understanding Transportation and Mobility\n\nOverview: \nInvestments in transportation have long been synonymous with economic growth and job creation. While this was often the case in the early days of highway building\, that correlation is no longer guaranteed\, especially at the local level. With road maintenance liabilities overwhelming federal\, state and local budgets\, a more strategic approach is needed. By understanding the difference between a road and a street\, local governments can spend less money and attain better results\, improving their financial health.Topics Covered: \n\nA brief history of highway engineering\, particularly as it applies to construction of local projects.\nAn introduction to the concept of a stroad\, a street/road hybrid\, and why a stroad is expensive to build\, unsafe to use and financially low yielding.\nHow to build high performance roads.\nHow to build streets that create significant financial value for a community.\nAn understanding of congestion and how it signals different things for roads and streets.\nHow cities can respond to congestion on a limited budget.\nUnderstanding how the concept of a “Complete Street” fits into a financially productive road/street strategy.\n\n\n3:15 PM – Wrap Up\n4:00 PM – Workshop End Time\n\nCM/CAPZO Credits\n6.0 CM credits are available for this event. \nRegistration / More Information\nTo register\, visit RPCGB’s website. \nRegistration is $25\, which includes lunch.  Registration is $225 if seeking CAPZO credits. \nPayment must be received by April 10.
URL:https://alabamaplanning.org/event/strong-towns-workshop/
LOCATION:The EDT Loft\, 215 19th Street North\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35203\, United States
CATEGORIES:AICP CM Opportunities,Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham":MAILTO:cedwards@rpcgb.org
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SUMMARY:Strong Towns: Curbside Chat
DESCRIPTION:Summary\nThe Curbside Chat program covers the causes and impacts of the current economic crisis\, examines case studies on the finances of America’s development pattern\, reviews ideas of the suburban era we need to shed and proposes strategies for adjusting to the new realities we face. \n  \nCM Credits\n1.5 credits are available for this event. \n  \nRegistration / More Information\nVisit RPCGB’s website to register.
URL:https://alabamaplanning.org/event/strong-towns-curbside-chat/
LOCATION:The EDT Loft\, 215 19th Street North\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35203\, United States
CATEGORIES:AICP CM Opportunities,Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham":MAILTO:cedwards@rpcgb.org
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