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Day 2 – Case Studies: Green Streets for Sustainable Communities Symposium (Online)
September 25, 2020 @ 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Update: This event has been rescheduled to 3 on-line sessions, all from 9 am – 12 noon with optional networking at 8:30 am
Day 1 – Vision and Economics (Thursday, September 10, 2020)
Day 2 – Case Studies (Friday, September 25, 2020)
Day 3 – Funding Strategies (Thursday, October 8, 2020)
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Green Streets for Sustainable Communities Symposium
In memory of Joseph “Joe” Kott, Ph.D.
Our public roads and their rights-of way are a huge public asset that must be better managed in an imaginative and integrated way. This symposium will bring together diverse stakeholders to explore how to better design, fund, build, and maintain streets to optimize performance on many dimensions.
Who Should Attend:
This symposium is for city council members and local elected officials, city staff leaders, sustainability coordinators, stormwater experts, complete street/transportation experts, citizen and environmental activists, public and private utilities, arborists and tree experts, groundwater and urban ecology experts; and sustainability and real estate leaders for companies and other institutions.
Vision: Urban areas of the Bay Area are fully integrated into a “no net impact” system with the larger natural environment. This includes an integrated water system that follows the call to “slow it, spread it, sink it” and brings together the planning for storm water drainage, drought concerns, and flood prevention. No net climate change emissions means we reduce single occupancy vehicle use and promote walking, biking, transit or other shared low- or zero emission vehicles. Human-caused emissions are offset by a rich canopy of trees, grasslands, and chaparral in our open spaces surrounding the urban area and integrated throughout our urban areas – parks and gardens but also greening our infrastructure especially our street grids. Air flows are slowed and softened by trees canopies, our soil systems are protected by and enriched with natural compost.
Desired Outcomes: Participants will (a) learn from experts and peers, (b) be empowered by a community of peers and citizens who support this vision, (c) bring this vision and set of practices to standard policies and design guidelines for their cities and organizations and, of course (d) this will lead to change “on the ground” through both plans, specifications and implementation.
Agenda – Detailed Agenda will be provided soon
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Scholarships are available by request.
Organizing Committee Leads: Councilmember Alison Hicks, City of Mountain ViewMatt Fabry, C/CAG, San Mateo CountyPamela Boyle Rodriguez, City of Palo AltoSylvia Star-Lack, City of Palo AltoYoriko Kishimoto, Transportation Choices for Sustainable Communities BoardMarianna Grossman, Transportation Choices for Sustainable Communities BoardGita Dev, Sierra Club – Loma Prieta ChapterJill Bicknell – SCVURPPP, Santa Clara CountyKIt Gordon – Grassroots EcologyTess Byler – San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers AuthorityJessica Alba – Stanford University transportation policyAmanda Brown-Stevens – Greenbelt AllianceCatherine Martineau and Kammy Lo – CanopyVignesh Swaminathan – Crossroad LabJulianna Martin – City of San José
Co-Sponsors
City of Mountain View
City of Palo Alto
SCVURPPP
Sierra Club – Loma Prieta Chapter
Valley Water
Supporters
Acterra
Canopy
Cool Block Santa Clara County
County of San Mateo
C/CAG
County of Santa Clara
Friends of CalTrain
Grassroots Ecology
Greenbelt Alliance
Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network (JVSVN)
Minerva Ventures
Mountain View Chamber of Commerce
National Safe Routes to School
Palo Alto Forward
Palo Alto Transportation Management Association
Prospect Silicon Valley
Santa Clara University
SF Bay Estuary Institute
Save the Bay
Sustainable Silicon Valley
Sustainable Stanford
San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority
