2005 Accomplishments "Framing
the agenda and staking out a seat at the policy making table"
· Strengthen existing communities, reduce sprawl, and close the
disparities gap through Fix-It-First and advocating for policies and
actions that support Equitable Development.
· Integrate Smart land use planning with targeted investments for
infrastructure, economic development and transportation for livable
communities.
· Encourage civic engagement of diverse citizenry in local planning and
regional vision.
· Held 5th annual Smart Growth
Conference in partnership with
· Regional
Policy Guidance Document developed
with partners as a comprehensive set of best practices and policies to
focus investments on the region's existing communities as Fix-It-First
strategy to revitalize the region's economy. The policies continue to be advocated to planning processes at the
state, county, and regional levels.
· Planning
Technical Assistance Project continued with partners as a valued pro bono service to municipalities
around the region aiding multi-municipal land use planning and zoning for
sustainable development. Highlights
include:
- Conducted workshops and technical assistance to: N.
Central Beaver County Multi-Municipal Comprehensive Plan (4 communities);
N.
- Provided additional technical review around the
region on transportation and land use planning including:
- Convened developers/municipal planners leaders to
plan a series of forums for private developers and public planners to
share perspectives and identify barriers and solutions for sustainable
development.
· Regional
Visioning Public Participation -
SP released this inventory of best practice in regional planning/visioning
around the nation to inform the region's public engagement.
· Green
Streets partnership with Vandergrift resulted in the municipality formally
adopting sustainability principles to guide the city's redevelopment
strategy as featured in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
· Hosted five Smart Growth Forums featuring speakers who presented
innovations for advancing sustainability.
· Partnered to host mini-conference to plan 2006 Coming
Together to Revitalize Our Communities regional
forums.
Regional Equitable Development · Presented 2nd Regional Equitable
Development Summit in partnership with the Johnson Institute at the
University of Pittsburgh to release, Shared
Prosperity, Stronger Regions: An Agenda for Rebuilding America's Older
Core Cities developed (with SP partnering) by PolicyLink, a national
organization.
· Represented smart growth interests on Equity and Diversity committee of
Allegheny County Land Use Plan.
Transportation
for Livable Communities (TLC)
· Continued TLC partnership with the national Surface Transportation Policy Project to
advance regional transportation reform and develop statewide
transportation reform effort.
· Continued efforts on behalf of PA Alliance of Public Transportation
Advocates (PAPTA) with local and statewide partners to call for a
permanent and reliable funding source for public transportation including
a letter writing campaign, letters to the editor, and meetings with
legislators and the Governor's office.
· Hosted a policy forum to provide updates on reauthorization of the
federal transportation bill (TEA-21), status of the region's
Transportation Improvement Program, public transportation funding crisis.
· Prepared testimony and participated in public meetings around the region
for development and review of the region's Transportation Improvement
Program. Provided assistance
to Allegheny County Access to Work Task Force and other community groups
in development of testimony and to identify resources to finance projects.
· Aided coordination among Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board, and
· Participated in presentation to state department staffs on the
implementation and review of the Transit Revitalization Investment
District (TRID) guidelines
· Completed Sustainability Assessment for the
Sustainable
Business Solutions
· Engaged a major Mall to conduct a Sustainability Assessment. Assembled evaluation team: stormwater, energy, habitat, systems
engineering, sustainability training, transportation, communications,
green purchasing, solar & wind power, green building, waste &
recycling opportunities - niche is sustainability framework for systems
integration.
Amenities
& Lifestyle Team
· Collaborated with Venture Outdoors, 501(c)(3)², R.K. Mellon Foundation
and
· Facilitated partnerships to raise funds to implement: VO
Outdoor Recreation Festival; Youth
Outdoor Recreation Partnership among
· Facilitated partnership to roll out annual Great Outdoors Week and Bike
To Work Week campaigns.
· Assisted Port Authority of Allegheny County to further develop and
promote Rack n' Roll bike racks
on buses.
· Presented a workshop on SP's publication, Planning an Outdoor Recreation Festival with LGA.
· Placed Experience
Pittsburgh Outdoors video on Comcast On Demand and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
website.
Education, Communications, and Policy · Assisted in development of Civic Design Coalition benchmarking visit to
· Co-hosted conferences: PA
· Conducted 2-day SP strategic planning retreat with SP Board, staff, and
funders.
· Advised WQED OnQ Back To
Prosperity series.
· Continued dissemination of 2004 update of SP's SWPA Regional Sustainability Indicators Report.
· Offered policy testimony: Eminent Domain, Tax Increment Financing;
suburban housing density; Fair Representation
· Made available 33 SP Champions of Sustainability keynote presentations
as audio on the SP website.
· Received 29 media coverages of SP policy work including articles, radio,
television features and interviews.
· Gave 26 presentations to leadership groups at conferences, civic forums,
etc.
· SP website draws an average of 9,000 individual visits and 2,200
downloads per month. High
ranking SP publication downloads
include averages of: Indicators Report 427 downloads/month; Citizen’s
Vision 339 downloads/month.
Community
Foundation for the Alleghenies, Dollar Bank,
The
Benedum Foundation, The Forbes Funds, The Heinz Endowments,
Mellon
Financial Corporation, The
Richard
King Mellon Foundation
Special thanks to the SP Members
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