The Lane County Moving Forward Together “smart growth” conference is now over. See below for the program and click the links for slide presentations, videos of sessions, and more information about the speakers.

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Lane County
Moving Forward Together
Expanding Housing, Economic and Transportation Choices

A “smart growth” conference for
REALTORS®, business people, environmentalists,
neighborhood leaders, public officials and staff, and
all other interested people in and around Lane County

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Hilton Eugene & Conference Center
66 East 6th Avenue, Eugene, Oregon

8:00–8:30 Coffee
8:30–8:45 Welcome

  • Jeremy Starr, Past President, Oregon Association of REALTORS®
  • Richard Whitman, Director, Oregon Department of Land Conservation & Development
8:45–9:30 Introduction: “Vision without action is hallucination: Charting a course for Lane County”

  • John Fregonese, Principal, Fregonese Associates
  • Moderator: Kitty Piercy, Mayor of Eugene

John Fregonese presentation: 100 slides, 15.1 MB PDF
Slide #44—Libertyville video: 53 seconds, 28.4 MB WMV
Slide #52—Utah transit ads video: 62 seconds, 5.7 MB WMV
Slide #56—bus rapid transit video: 78 seconds, 8.1 MB WMV
© 2008 John Fregonese

Welcome & Introduction video: 65 minutes, 202 MB WMV
9:30–10:45 Panel 1: “The future ain’t what it used to be: The changing nature of development”

  • Bob McNamara, Senior Policy Representative, National Association of REALTORS®
  • Robert “Skip” Rotticci, Senior Vice-President, Costa Pacific Communities
  • Moderator: John VanLandingham, Chair, Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission

Bob McNamara presentation: 40 slides, 5.4 MB PDF
© 2008 Bob McNamara

Robert “Skip” Rotticci presentation: 17 slides, 1.3 MB PDF
© 2008 Robert “Skip” Rotticci

Panel 1 video: 80 minutes, 270 MB WMV
10:45–11:00 Break
11:00–12:15 Panel 2: “What do high gas prices mean for housing markets?”

  • Joe Cortright, Vice-President, Impresa
  • Terry Moore, Vice-President and Senior Planner, ECONorthwest
  • Moderator: Jack Roberts, Executive Director, Lane Metro Partnership

Joe Cortright presentation: 35 slides, 1.3 MB PDF
© 2008 Joe Cortright

(no slide presentation by Terry Moore)

Panel 2 video: 70 minutes, 254 MB WMV
12:15–1:00 Lunch
1:00–1:45 Panel 3: “Collaboration: Why bother?”

Dennis Donald & John Huyler presentation: 23 slides, 4.0 MB PDF
© 2008 The Osprey Group

Panel 3 video: 41 minutes, 146 MB WMV
1:45–3:00 Panel 4: “Piecing together the puzzle: Land use, transportation, climate change and everything else”

  • Reid Ewing, author of Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change
  • Steve Clark, Chair of Oregon Governor Kulogoski’s Transportation Governance Subcommittee, Member of the Oregon “Big Look” Task Force
  • Moderator: Gerry Gaydos, Board President of Lane Transit District

Reid Ewing presentation: 59 slides, 5.0 MB PDF
© 2008 Reid Ewing

(no slide presentation by Steve Clark)

Panel 4 video: 76 minutes, 261 MB WMV
3:00–3:45 Keynote: “Smart growth and sustainability: Forces of change”

  • Parris Glendening, former Governor of Maryland (1995–2003), President of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute, Co-Chair of the Governors’ Institute on Community Design
  • Moderator: Sid Leiken. Mayor of Springfield

Parris Glendening presentation: 21 slides, 2.7 MB PDF
© 2008 Parris Glendening
3:45–4:00 Conclusion: “What have we heard? Where do we go from here?”

  • Sid Leiken, Mayor of Springfield
  • Faye Stewart, Chair of Lane County Board of Commissioners
  • Kitty Piercy, Mayor of Eugene

Keynote & Conclusion video: 65 minutes, 249 MB WMV

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