1000 Friends of Wisconsin

Smart Growth@10
Positioning Communities for the Future
- connecting planning and economic growth -

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Exhibition Hall - Alliant Energy Center, Madison, WI
8:30 am – 5:30 pm

8:30 – 9 am: Registration (muffins and coffee) - Exhibitors

9:00 – 10:15 Steve Hiniker – welcome and introduction

Mark Eppli: Next Generation Housing: A Changing Preference in Housing
(Mark Eppli, Professor of Finance and Robert B. Bell Sr., Chair in Real Estate,
Marquette University)

Break: 10:15-10:30

10:30 – 11:30 Breakout sessions: 3 sessions run concurrently

Innovations in Implementations:
Legal Challenges:
Keeping Plans Alive:
Break: 11:30- 12 Noon - Exhibitors
Mike Slavney, FAICP – Vandewalle & Associates
George Hall – Conflict Resolution Mediator
Bill White – Michael, Best & Friedrich LLP
John Lichtenheld, PE, AICP - Schreiber-
Anderson Associates as moderator for panel:
Charlie Handy AICP, Planner, Lacrosse County
Kris Krause P.E., Plan Com. Chair, Town of Lodi
Eileen Kelley AICP, Plan. Dir., City of Middleton

Noon – 1:00 pm: Lunch Plenary Session

Mayor Dave Cieslewicz welcome and introduction
John Torinus: Smart Communities, Smart Businesses, Smart Jobs
(John Torinus, Chairman, Serigraph Inc.)

Break 1:00 – 1:30 pm Exhibitors

1:30 – 2:45 pm: 2 workshops run concurrently

Emerging Trends in Planning
1. Reducing costs for taxpayers & municipalities through Smart Growth:
John Clancy – Godfrey & Kahn
2. Working Lands Initiative and Farmland Preservation:
Vicki Elkin - DATCP

Break 2:45 -3:00 pm

3:00 - 4:00 pm: Original Smart Growth Coalition: “Reflections” on Smart Growth@10
Panel: Dave Cieslewicz, Tom Larsen, Rick Stadelman, Brian Ohm, Ed Huck
and Jerry Deschane.

4:00 – 4:15 pm: Wrap-up

4:30 – 5:30 pm: Reception

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