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University of Idaho
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Moscow, ID
83844-0901
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Workshop Track 4. Land Use and Sustainable Development (Whitewater Room)

Facilitators:
Jean Brittingham, Vice-President, CH2M-Hill, Chicago, Illinois
Don Forbes, Vice-President, HNTB Corporation, Chicago, Illinois

How can we use sustainability concepts in land use and transportation decisions within the Moscow community and region? This workshop will focus how local decision makers and agency staff can consider sustainability and environmental issues as they assess one concept now being discussed in the region: the ring road.  How can this project meet the future transportation needs of the region and what issues must local decision makers consider as this project begins to take shape.  How does the concept of context sensitive solutions help support the development of this concept?  What information is needed to support the discussion of this concept?

Schedule for Workshop Track 4

September 22, 2005 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm Workshop Goals and Process Overview
Don Forbes and Jean Brittingham
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm

A process for defining values for transportation development in a community context.

  • Small group exercise

  • Build consensus list and engage sustainable transportation principles

  • Discuss application of process in different settings
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm Report outs and dialogue:
Create a shared value set within sustainable transportation principles
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Defining the attributes of a transportation system that supports shared values:
quality, characteristic, feature, benefit

  • Small group process

  • Define qualities, characteristics & features

  • Consider the needs of different users

  • Layering a system based on attributes and user views

  • Consider the inter-relatedness of seemingly closed systems

  • Consider larger system implications
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Report outs and dialogue
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Overview of tomorrow’s process and thought for the evening:  “How does a ring road help to build a beneficial system in terms of what we have discussed?”
Don Forbes
September 23, 2005 9:00 am - 9:30 am
 
Overnight thoughts and insights
Jean Brittingham
9:30 am - 10:00 am Presentations of ring road concept
Walter Steed, Chair, Moscow Transportation Commission
10:00 am - 11:00 am

Examining specifics in terms of a community values model: How would you assure that a ring road would add value in the context of the framework that you developed yesterday?

  • What would you do to add or assure benefits of this option?

  • What would you do to mitigate harm from this option?

  • What “tests” would you create to assure present and future compatibility with the desired system?
11:00 am - 11:30 am Report outs and dialogue
11:30 am - 11:55 am Developing a workable approach for community values guided transportation and land-use planning.
  • Storyboard the process

  • Who are the decision-makers, policy guiders, and other stakeholders that need to engage with each other for this process?
11:55 am - 12:00 noon Happy Trails