Subject: Livable Communities Workshop
This Spring and Summer
The
Florida Department of Transportation and the Florida
State University Department of Urban and Regional Planning will once again
be hosting a series of FREE, one-day Livable Communities Workshops.
The
workshops will discuss sustainable, livable communities and explore
Transportations Role
in Building Livable Communities framed through the Florida Context
Sensitive Design Approach. There are currently eight workshops scheduled to
be taught by walkability expert Dan Burden of Glatting-Jackson in Orlando,
and Billy Hattaway, P.E. Vice President of Hall Planning & Engineering
in Tallahassee.
These FREE Workshops are geared
toward design, planning and engineering professionals, elected officials,
developers, law enforcement, health-related professionals, advocates, and
anyone else with a stake in our built environment.
Fort Walton
Beach: January 20
Sarasota: February 3
Orlando: February 10
Marco
Island: June 26
Ft.
Myers: June 27
Tampa: June 28
Jacksonville: August 8
Milton: August 10
The
workshops will offer technical knowledge, principles, practices and
strategies, and Florida-based case studies that will provide the
information necessary to create visionary, workable and practical plans
leading to safer, more sustainable neighborhoods, villages, towns, cities
and transportation projects and systems.
Additionally, certified planners and engineers are eligible for
Continuing Education Credits, and the opportunity for certified landscape
architects to receive credits is currently under review.
If these workshops sound like a
training opportunity your membership might be interested in, please let us
know as soon as possible. It is our hope that you might be able to provide
assistance with spreading the word about the Livable Communities Workshops
either through inclusion in an on-line newsletter, an announcement on your
listserv or to your membership, or with a brief mention on your websites
calendar page.
The
response to last year?s workshops was good, and we feel we can
do even better this year if we can reach an even wider audience.
We have a
general agenda and course outline, as well as a flyer available to share
with your membership. These can be emailed as attachments if your
organization is amenable to this request for assistance. The members are
able to register for the workshops at www.fsu.edu/~durp/. We look forward
to hearing from you, and appreciate any assistance you might be able to
provide by sharing this information with your membership.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Diana Fields
Graduate Research Assistant
Florida
State
University
Department of Urban and Regional
Planning