Current Issues in Compact Development: Is It Really the Antidote to Energy Addiction, Climate Disruption and Economic Ruin?

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The new normal may look a lot like the very old normal. Our traditional, compact patterns of being some 50 to 100 years ago may be our path to energy security, climate protection, life-style quality, public health and fitness, municipal and state fiscal viability, and economic recovery from the free-lending, spending, sprawling last half century. Compact development is considered by many to be essential to a sustainable built environment. Hundreds of communities boast new examples of vibrant redevelopment and infill projects that enliven previously derelict areas and accommodate a new small-footprint living and business formats. However, impediments abound. Obstacles include NIMBY opposition; regressive building codes, and traffic and parking standards; concerns about sufficient market demand; complex new federal, state and local policies; performance standards; and pro-formas that remain inverted without substantial densities, regulatory flexibility and incentives. You will gain insights into momentum shifts and game-changing solutions to all of these issues that are dramatically improving the odds of creating viable and appealing compact development.

Attend this teleconference and learn about the 8 Ds of effective planning for compact development, specific examples of innovative land use and mobility concepts, trends that are improving the real-estate market for compact development, shifting policies and approval criteria that are making entitlements easier to obtain for the more sustainable forms of compact development, and the benefits and co-benefits that accrue to the public and private sectors.

Learning Objectives:

• You will be able to discuss infrastructure funding criteria.
• You will be able to explain fiscal and economic forces.
• You will be able to recognize benefits and co-benefits.
• You will be able to identify obstacles to obtaining entitlements.

Faculty

Jerry Walters, Fehr & Peers

Registration

To register for this live audio conference please dial 1-866-411-6211.