"This conference will provide a forum for traffic engineers, bicycle and pedestrian advocates, and other transportation and safety professionals to promote safer, healthier, more livable environments. We will work with many other disciplines represented at this conference that are dedicated to achieving these goals and improving communities across this nation."
    —Dr. Jeffrey Runge, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


Special Features

Networking Reception
The main program will start on Thursday evening with an opening keynote session. In keeping with the conference theme of collaboration, a "hosted" networking reception will immediately follow this session. This social event is designed to get our multidisciplinary audience talking and networking with each other early in the conference.

Smart Growth Stand
Is your community ready for smart growth but you just aren't sure where to start? Are you moving in the right direction but faced with some hurdle that you just aren't sure how to address? Do you have a smart-growth project in place, but not sure how to proceed?

Well, come by the Smart Growth stand for some one-on-one brainstorming with our smart-growth experts. Partners from the Smart Growth Network and conference speakers will be on hand to talk with community leaders about how to advance smart growth in your community. Once at the conference, come by the Smart Growth Network booth in the exhibition area and register for 15 minutes or a half an hour at the stand to work with these experts on the best ways to gain momentum and create successful steps in smart growth in your local community.

[Advice will be based on information provided at the time of the appointment and is intended to help identify possible best next steps for the community. This is not intended to replace more in-depth analysis of the needs of the community.]


Mastering Plans
Bring Your Plans, Maps, and Drawings to the Conference for the Ultimate Smart-Growth Peer Review
In addition to the Smart Growth stand, on Friday, January 28, from 7:00-9:00 p.m., the Miami Chapter of the Students for New Urbanism and the Smart Growth Network will host a forum for exchanging views and information on plans and drawings. This session is intended to help developers, local governments, and smart-growth advocates learn how lines and shapes on a map might work once residents, workers, and visitors begin to interact with the built or rebuilt environment. Is the village square too big? Is the housing component too separated? Is the parking in the right place? Come trade stories with seasoned experts, planners, and scholars in an informal and relaxed setting.

To best match experts and maps, please register for the salon. We are looking for several types of maps and plans, including

  1. Greenfields housing and communities
    (can include conservation subdivisions, senior housing, new urbanist projects, and/or master planned communities)
  2. Mixed use, infill projects
  3. Brownfields and greyfields redevelopment projects
  4. Main street revitalization efforts
  5. Plans to add housing to commercial corridors and office parks
  6. Transit-oriented development plans and projects
  7. School siting maps
  8. Fitting big box retail into an established commercial or mixed use district
Respond by January 10, 2005, to Lisa Nisenson at nisenson.lisa@epa.gov with the following information: your name, organization, telephone number and e-mail, and the type of plan (site plan, comprehensive plan, development project, planned community).

Optional Pre-and Post-Conference Tours of Local Model Projects
All tours will carry a nominal fee to cover some costs associated with refreshments and transportation. The bus transportation for tours 3 through 9 is sponsored by Miami-Dade Transit. It is possible to sign up for more than one Thursday tour. Space on each tour is limited, and preregistration is required.
Thursday, January 27, 2005

Tour 1: Come See Florida's Best!
A Bus and Walking Tour with Dan Burden and Ramon Trias
The tour will start in Orlando the morning of January 26 and will end in Miami Beach the afternoon of January 27.
Cost: $375
(The fee will cover two nights of lodging, bus transportation, and meals.)

Tour 2: North Beach--A Neighborhood in Transition
 9:00 a.m.-noon
Cost: $10

Tour 3: A Visit to the Everglades
 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Cost: $25

Tour 4: Miami Sabor--Development and Redevelopment in Miami's Diverse Neighborhoods
11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Cost: $20

Tour 5: Coastal Development--Downtowns and Near Downtowns, Part 1
11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Cost: $20

Tour 6: New Towns in Greater Miami
 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Cost: $15

Tour 7: Historic Coral Gables
 1:00-4:30 p.m.
Cost: $20

Tour 8: Tour 8: Unlocking Public Access to the Waterfront--Boat Tour
 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Cost: $30
Sunday, January 30

Tour 9: Coastal Development-- Downtowns and Near Downtowns, Part 2
 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Cost: $20

Tour 10: Walking Tour of Miami Beach's Art Deco District
9:00-11:30 a.m.
Cost: $25

"As a former local health official, I believe that we need a seat at the land-use planning table to ensure a better quality of life by promoting decisions that increase physical activity, address injury prevention, and improve air and water quality. NACCHO encourages collaborative efforts between health officials, planners, and other disciplines to integrate the public health perspective into the land-use planning process."
    —Pat Libbey, Executive Director, National Association of County and City Health Officials