Is your city interested in smart growth, but not sure how to make it happen? Bring in the development experts with one of Smart Growth America’s 2017 free technical assistance workshops.
Applications are now being accepted for our 2017 workshop series. Now in its sixth year, our free technical assistance program has helped more than 50 communities grow in ways that benefit residents and businesses while protecting the environment and preserving a sense of place.
Join us this Wednesday to learn how to apply
If you are interested in learning more about these workshops or the application process, join us for a free webinar on Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 1:00 PM EDT. Hear details about each workshop, and what we look for in successful applications.
We look forward to answering your questions on Wednesday.
Sincerely,John Robert Smith,
Senior Policy Advisor
Smart Growth America
Applications are now being accepted for our 2017 workshop series. Applicants can apply for one of the nine free standardized technical assistance tools listed below. Click to learn more about each tool.
Tool: (Re)Building Downtown
Provider: Smart Growth America
Summary: SGA’s (Re)Building Downtown workshops help communities create walkable development quickly and efficiently. We help local public officials clarify local challenges and identify strategies to do this; including improving regulations for land use, establishing clear public investment practices, and reforming administrative processes. We also work collaboratively to develop data-driven policy arguments to demonstrate the benefits of walkable downtown development.
Description: Recipients will receive one workshop that brings together elected officials (executive and legislative) and their senior staff, community leaders, downtown business owners developers, agency officials, planners, engineers, and legal experts in order to facilitate a dialogue on how to create a thriving downtown. Invitations to the workshop are sent to as wide of a cross-section of the community to ensure a diversity of perspectives and strong buy in for the action plan. As millennials seek out thriving, busy downtown spaces, communities across the country are working to create more exciting, inclusive spaces for their residents. This workshop will work with and create momentum among residents for a thriving downtown center. Over the course of the workshop, we will emphasize how a thriving downtown provides increased accessibility to resources, job opportunities, and boosts a community’s bottom line. The workshop will produce a discussion and next steps memo detailing development and redevelopment strategies and priorities, the pipeline of public works and capital projects, public engagement and outreach efforts, and the resources available and needed to support the downtown revitalization. SGA staff will assess critical success factors such as the mix of land uses, and will use these factors as well as input from the workshop to create recommendations for the recipient such as a target mix of housing, commercial and other uses that advance the goals for downtown revitalization
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