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"Innovative solutions and collaborative partnerships are essential for accelerating environmental progress and building healthy, sustainable communities. EPA is proud to sponsor this annual smart growth conference - a forward-looking approach for achieving common-sense
growth."
--Administrator Stephen L. Johnson. U.S. EPA
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About the Event
The New Partners for Smart Growth Conference has grown significantly since it began several years ago--increasing in scope, attendance, and prestige--and is now considered to be the "premier" smart growth conference held each year. The strength of this conference comes from the variety of participants and speakers who cross disciplines to share experiences and insights, and valuable tools and strategies to encourage smart growth implementation and "get it done."
The 2006 conference continues this exciting trend and includes more new partners than ever. They recognize smart growth as a viable solution to the many challenges posed by growth; they may see it as a smart investment, an opportunity to spur economic development, and/or a way to improve the public health. With the challenges our nation is currently facing--at home and abroad--there are more reasons than ever to join hands with new partners and work toward our common goal of creating safe, healthy, and livable communities for all.
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Who Will Benefit
The conference will draw a multidisciplinary audience of local elected officials, city and county staff, landscape architects, developers and builders, planners, transportation professionals and traffic engineers, public health professionals, architects, bankers, crime prevention professionals, realtors, urban designers, parks and recreation professionals, environmentalists, advocates for older adults and youth, bicycle and pedestrian advocates, advocates for social equity and affordable housing, labor representatives, and all others committed to building safer, healthier, and more livable communities everywhere.
The Program
The program will include a dynamic mix of plenaries, interactive breakouts, "hands-on" workshops, preconference trainings, and evening salon sessions. It will also feature the latest on cutting-edge smart growth issues, implementation tools and strategies, best practices, interactive learning experiences, new partners, new projects, and new policies.
"Community design decisions can have a strong influence on public health outcomes and are a growing concern of local public health professionals. Focusing just on the health impacts at the point of development, such as air, water, and sewage impacts, is not sufficient to protect and promote the health of people in the community. Attention also needs to be directed to the longer term health consequences of living, recreating, and working in the built out environment. The New Partners for Smart Growth Conference provides a wonderful opportunity for professionals from many disciplines, including public health, to come together to learn from each other and strategize ways to build healthier communities across the nation."
--Pat Libbey, Executive Director,
National Association of City and County Health Officials
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