Agenda

8:00 a.m.           Registration

8:30                  Welcome & Overview - Moe Coleman, Director Emeritus, Advisor University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics

8:45                  Keynote Address - Don Chen, Executive Director Smart Growth America

                        "Focusing Growth for Regional Prosperity"

9:15                  Q & A

9:35                  Public Presentation and Comment on:

Draft Long Range Transportation and Development Plan for Southwestern Pennsylvania (Project Region)

Jim Hassinger, Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission  

10:40                Break

11:00                Smart Growth Community Committees

Leveling the Field for Redevelopment - Diane Sheets, Community Development Corporation of Butler County   & Laura Zinski, Mon Valley Initiative

Report, Discussion & Input

12:00 p.m.         Lunch

1:00                  Promoting Regionalism - Commissioner Tom Ceraso, Westmoreland County & David Miller, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

Report, Discussion & Input

1:45                  Funding Public Transportation - Steve Bland, Port Authority Allegheny County & Mary Jo Morandini, Beaver County Transit

Report, Discussion & Input

2:30                  State, Regional, Local Panel Response to Project Region & Smart Growth Community Committees

                        Moderator - Dusty Kirk, Pepper Hamilton LLP

Honorable Steve Craig, Commissioner Lawrence County

Honorable Dan Frankel, 23^rd Legislative District

Honorable Brenda Frazier, Allegheny County Council

Jack Maycheck, PA Department of Community and Economic Development

3:10                 Closing Remarks - Moe Coleman, Director Emeritus, Advisor University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics .   

3:30                 Adjourn

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