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EVENTS
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·
Pittsburgh
Interfaith Impact Network's (PIIN) Third Annual Fundraising Banquet
·
Pittsburgh
Community Information System
·
3rd Annual
PenTrans Members Meeting and Luncheon
·
Second annual Ohio
rail/transit legislative summit
·
6th
Annual Southwestern Pennsylvania Smart Growth Conference
LAND
USE NEWS AROUND THE REGION
·
Fayette
residents question zoning
TRANSPORTATION
FOR LIVABLE COMMUNITIES
·
Briefings
on transit alternatives from Downtown to Westmoreland County
·
Who's
in charge? Coordinating Puget Sound transportation
·
New
book offers analysis of US surface transportation system
·
Study
touts toll roads to ease congestion
·
Briefings
on transit alternatives from Downtown to Westmoreland County
·
High
bids may not derail 'T' extension
LEGISLATIVE
ALERTS
·
Proposed
Bill Offers $1 Billion for Housing
RESOURCES
·
Job Opportunity:
Environmental Program Specialist
·
Great opportunity / Five
lakes have neighbors in the same boat
·
Shareholders push more
US utilities to disclose carbon
·
Facility Managers,
Industry Leaders Partner on Sustainability Education
Tuesday,
March 7
8
am – 4 pm
Cost
$60; $50 for each additional member from your organization
www.pittsburghnonprofitsummit.org
Participate in a 21st Century community technology
decision-making process that is being used in
Advanced
Registration Only!
Unlike last year, attendees must register for the Non-profit Summit in
advance. We especially encourage
trustees, government officials, and business people to participate in the
America Speaks special segment. Are you one of the 400 people that have already
registered? If not, please do so
today, seating is limited.
Omni
William Penn Hotel,
Downtown
March
11, 2006, 6 -
9 pm
Cost:
$45 (Last day to buy is March 7th; tickets not sold at the door)
Contact:
412-621-9230 or piin2001@aol.com
Speakers:
Professor Joe W. Trotter, Ph.D., Chair, Department of History and Director
of the Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy, Carnegie
Mellon University
Reverend Dr. William J. Carl, III, President
of
Wednesday,
March 15
11:30
am – 1 pm
425
O’Neill
Room, 23rd Floor
Downtown
No
fee to attend
RSVP
info@sustainablepittsburgh.org
subject “Brown Bag” or 412-258-6642
Developed for the city by an academic and nonprofit partnership, the Community
Information System (CIS) is an easy to use web-based property information
system that connects data related to neighborhoods and individual properties.
Participants will learn how to use the over 50 key indicators in real-time
conditions on any property, related to land use, investment, vacancy, and
disinvestment collected from over 10,000 properties in the City of Pittsburgh.
CIS users can click from a map of the city to a neighborhood, then to one
property. Which ones are vacant? Which are vacant with tax liens? Which are
vacant with liens and condemned? Which have environmental citations plus
building code violations plus liens? Which are owner-occupied? And how does all
this compare with a decade ago?
Bring
your own brown bag lunch, refreshments will be provided.
Thursday,
March 16
11:30
am – 2:30 pm
Philadelphia’s
Enterprise Center
Member
Admission: $25
Non-member
Admission: $40
RSVP
Tuesday, March 7 to javsicas@pentrans.org or
sign up on line at http://www.pentrans.org/events.shtml
More
Information: http://www.pentrans.org/members.shtml,
215-205-8157, javsicas@pentrans.org
You're invited to discuss community development, urban transit oriented
development, air quality, highways, and bridges
Thursday
March 23
Turtle
Creek,
6-8
pm
Hosted
by Human Services Center, home of Mon Valley Providers Council
Friday
March 31
9-11:30
am
Community
College of
Monaca,
Hosted
by
Monday
April 10
6-8
pm
Hill
House
Hosted
by Hill House Association
Thursday
April 20
6-8
pm
Delmont,
Hosted
by Blairsville Improvement Group and Vandergrift Improvement Project
No
Fee to Attend
Register:
info@sustainablepittsburgh.org
subject “Regional Forums” or phone 412-258-6644
Building toward the May 19, 2006 Smart Growth Conference, a series of
regional forums will be held to identify a focused set of broadly supported
policies to revitalize the region's core communities as regional economic
assets.
These forums are designed to do the following:
·
Serve as an opportunity for public input
to the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission's updating of the long range
transportation and development plan "Project Region."
·
Consider community needs and identify
common barriers as well as opportunities for sustainable redevelopment.
·
Build on existing efforts to provide
technical assistance to develop a resource network for sustainable
redevelopment. Attending each
forum will be resource/technical assistance partners who will be ready to
follow-up.
·
Review a set of currently emerging state
and regional policy options and assess their match to local needs.
·
Enhance understanding of our
communities’ interdependence.
·
Demonstrate that the needs of individual
communities are often mutually shared across the region.
·
Grow consensus on a focused set of public
policy solutions and collaborations for their implementation to renew SWPA.
Hosted by
To register for this and/or other upcoming forums, either email info@sustainablepittsburgh.org
or telephone 412-258-6644.
Please continue to check your 3E Weekly e-newsletter for forums scheduled
in your region.
Thursday, April 20 – Friday, April 21
www.gbapgh.org/Green$ense2006.asp
The Green Building Alliance (GBA) and National Association of Industrial
& Office Properties (NAIOP) have teamed up to host Green$ense 2006. This
third annual conference, which is geared towards decision-makers, strongly
supports its theme:
Wednesday,
April 26th
9:30
am – 4 pm
Registration
deadline is Wednesday, April 19th
For
more information please call 614-228-6005 www.allaboardohio.org
Members
$50 Nonmembers $75
Program consists of a series of invited speakers and candidates.
Coming Together to Revitalize Our Communities:
RenewSWPA Cross-Community and
Friday, May 19
7:30 am – 4:30 pm
Omni William Penn Hotel,
Keynote: David
Soule, Associate Director
Center for
Urban & Regional Policy, Northeastern University
Cost: Early
Registration: $30. Registration
after May 12: $40 (free to elected officials)
Call (412)
258-6642 for early registration
http://www.sustainablepittsburgh.org/2006_Conference/main.htm
The 2006 SWPA Smart Growth Conference will address
strategies to revitalize the region's core communities and seek to identify a
set of policy opportunities around which there is consensus for collaboration.
Leading up to the conference, a series of
community forums will be orchestrated around the region to identify common barriers
and opportunities to redevelopment. Common needs and policy options identified
through the forums will be presented at the annual conference toward
developing consensus on policies to renew
Please mark your calendars for May 19 and
register today.
The annual Smart Growth conference and regional
forums are hosted by, Pennsylvania Department of County and Economic
Development, Regional Coalition of Community Builders, Southwestern
Pennsylvania Commission,
LAND USE NEWS AROUND THE
REGION
More than 60 area
residents attended a zoning meeting Sunday at the
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/dailycourier/news/tritown/s_425736.html
TRANSPORTATION FOR LIVABLE
COMMUNITIES
The five corridors are
along the Allegheny River to Arnold; along the Norfolk Southern Railway mainline
to Greensburg; along the former "spine line" light-rail corridor to
Oakland; Downtown to Etna and McKeesport along CSX railroad rights of way; and
extension of the Martin Luther King Jr. Busway east to Monroeville.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06055/660692.stm
The importance of a strong regional force in
transportation was emphasized by the December 2000 report of the Blue Ribbon
Commission on Transportation. That report recommended that the Legislature
"provide regions with the ability to plan, select, fund and implement ...
projects identified to meet the region's transportation and land-use goals ...
With the principle of no new bureaucracy, however, the intention is to simplify
and minimize structural redundancy rather than add new layers of
government."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002805907_slade15.html
The Hudson Institute today released a book
detailing the challenges of managing and financing the
http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/mobility_release.pdf
"We looked at other states to see how they
are using the revenue generated by tolls," state Rep. Richard Geist,
R-Altoona, said in a statement. "Tolling has been very successful in these
states, and it could work in
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06060/662757.stm
The briefings are at noon to 1:30 p.m. Thursday
at the Oakmont Municipal Building; 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Norwin Public
Library; and 12:30 to 2 p.m. next Friday at the University of Pittsburgh Alumni
Hall, 4227 Fifth Ave., Oakland.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06055/660692.stm
"The Federal Transit Administration is
optimistic, as we are, about being able to complete the project," authority
engineering-construction manager Henry Nutbrown said yesterday in the first
board meeting since bids were opened Feb. 2.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06053/659122.stm
Congress is currently
considering regulatory reform for the "GSE's" (Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac) that could provide significant new funding for affordable housing. Included
in the reform legislation is a provision that would mandate about 5% of the
GSE's profits for homes within reach of the lowest income Americans. That could
mean up to $1 billion in new funds, without a tax increase.
But it will only happen
if the
Tell him that we need
him to write a letter to Senator Shelby supporting the affordable housing fund
in the GSE bill.
To send a letter or
call:
Senator Rick Santorum
511 Dirksen Senate
Office Building
Tel: 202-224-6324
FOR MORE DETAILS, see
the NLIHC's website at www.nlihc.org
The Pennsylvania Resources Council, Inc. is
seeking a highly motivated, energetic, outgoing, self-starter capable of working
independently for a 40 hour/week program specialist position in its
Please submit a cover letter and resume to:
David Mazza, Regional Director
Pennsylvania Resources Council, Inc.
No phone calls please!
The need in the
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06055/660359.stm