Smart Growth Summit
Workshops

MORNING SESSION

__ Managing & Revitalizing Towns & Cities
__ Protecting the Rural & Natural Landscape
__ Getting to Regionalism
__ Dunstan Crossing “Not Getting to Yes”

AFTERNOON SESSION I

__ Big Boxes’ and Their Effects on Local Businesses
__ Build It & They Will Come
__ Sustaining Farming in the Face of Sprawl
__ Open-Space Subdivisions
__ Getting to Regionalism
__ Five-minute Soapbox
__ “Watch Your Language”
__ Tools for Community Design & Decision Making

AFTERNOON SESSION II

__ Sprawl’s Role in the Rise of Obesity, Asthma & Lyme Disease
__ Managing Stormwater
__ Forest Landowners’ Responses
__ Beginning with Habitat
__ Transportation Land Use Planning
__ To the Movies
__ Preparing the Ground for Building Smart Growth
__ Policy Forum

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Managing & Revitalizing Towns & Cities Protecting Rural Character & Economy Moving Toward
Regionalism
Engaging
the Public
Session
Managing & Revitalizing
Towns & Cities

John Melrose
Maine Tomorrow

Michael Finnegan
Maine State Housing Authority

Bill King
Maine Downtown Center

Dana Totman
Avesta Housing

Protecting the Rural &
Natural Landscape

Deb Burd
Western Mountains Alliance

Mark Lapping
Muskie School of Public Service

Matt Hancock
Hancock Land Company

Warren Knight
Smiling Hill Farm

Cathy Johnson
Natural Resources Council of Maine

Getting to Regionalism:
Success May Start with the Natural Landscape

Evan Richert
Chair, GrowSmart Maine

Roger Cole
Mt. Agementicus to the Sea

Diane Brandon
Healthy Maine Communities
& KEYS Project

Paul Schumacher Southern Maine
Regional Planning Commission

Dunstan Crossing:
“Not Getting to Yes”
The Role of the Public in
Smart Growth Planning

Jack Kartez
Muskie School of Public Service

Ron Owens
Scarborough Town Manager

Elliott Chamberlain
ALC Construction

Sylvia Most
Scarborough Town Councilor

Dennis Netto
Scarborough citizen

Morning Session
Big Boxes’ and Their Effect on Local Businesses

Stacy Mitchell Institute for Local Self-Reliance

Mary Kate Reny Reny’s Department Stores

Beth Humstone Vermont Forum on Sprawl

Build It & They Will Come:

Smart Development Models

Richard Berman
Great American Neighborhood

Rich Cromwell
Topsham Crossing Great American Neighborhood

George Lawrence
Mill Stream Conservation Subdivision

Peter Bass    Saco Park Street Lofts

Sustaining Farming in theFace of Sprawl

Frank Miles
Maine Farmland Trust

John Piotti
Unity Barn Raisers

Evan McDougal
McDougal Orchards, Springvale

Bob Fogler
Stonyvale Farm, Bangor

Joyce Benson Diversified farmer,
Troy, Maine;
Senior Planner, State Planning Office

Open-Space Subdivisions:
Balancing Preservation
and Development

Donna Larson
Planner, Town of Freeport

Steve Searle
Developer

Bob Santomenna
Freeport Conservation Trust

Getting to Regionalism:
How Some Towns are Finding Their Way

Dick Barringer
Muskie School of Public Service

Nat Tupper
Town Manager, Yarmouth

Dale Olmstead
Town Manager, Freeport

Cathy Goodwin
Greater York Region Chamber of Commerce

Five-minute Soapbox:

What is going on in your town that others should know about?

Moderated by Craig Freshley

“Watch Your Language”
When Communicating Complex Issues Like Sprawl

Alan Caron    President,    GrowSmart Maine

David Goldberg
Communications Director,
Smart Growth America

Tools for Community Design andDecision Making:

GIS & Community Viz

Terry DeWan     DeWan & Associates

Judy Colby-George Spatial Alternatives

 

Afternoon I

Sprawl’s Role in the Rise of Obesity, Asthma & Lyme Disease

Dora Anne Mills Director, Bureau of Health

Anne Lusk Harvard School of Public Health

Jim Fisher    Maine Association of Planners

Theo Holtwijk Planner, Town of Brunswick

Managing Stormwater:
Regulations and Innovative Solutions

Dawn Gallagher
Commissioner, Maine
Department of Environmental Protection

Don Witherill
Watershed Management,
Department of Environmental Protection

Jeff Edelstein
Casco Bay Interlocal Stormwater
Working Group

Jeff Austin
Maine Municipal Association

Forest Landowners’ Responses to Fragmentation & Parcelization
Wrought by Sprawl

Tom Doak
Small Woodland Owners Association of Maine

Marc Johnson Landowner, South China

Roger Monthey US Forest Service

Beginning with Habitat:
Local Strategies for Conservation

Barbara Charry Maine Audubon Society

Steve Walker Natural Resources Planner,
Town of Brunswick

Liz Hertz State Planning Office

Transportation and Land Use Planning: Who’s Driving?

Kathy Fuller      Maine Department of Transportation
Bruce Hyman
Wilbur Smith Associates

To the Movies: A Viewing of “SaveOur Land, Save Our Community”

Produced by Tom Hylton
Directed by Dirk Eitzen
Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Hylton’s film explores how America can save its cities and towns.

Preparing the Ground for Building Smart Growth: Approaches to Community Participation

Jonathan Reitman Gosline & Reitman
Dispute Resolution Services

Jack Kartez
Muskie School of Public Service

Richard Remsen
Ingraham Corner, Rockport

Richard Berman
Brickhill, South Portland

Ron Beard
MDI Tomorrow, Mt. Desert

Policy Forum: What Can the State Do?

Sen. Lynn Bromley
Co-Chair, Community
Preservation Advisory Committee (C-PAC*)

Sue Inches
Deputy Director, State Planning Office

Rep. Ted Koffman
C-PAC* and Eco-Eco

Scott Wolf
GrowSmart Rhode Island

Kristina Egan
Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance

Beth Humstone
Vermont Forum on Sprawl

Afternoon II