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The dialog continues
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For the past 2 ½ years, the ONE BAY: Livable Communities initiative has drawn upon thousands of citizens to create a shared regional vision to plan for where future population and employment growth shall go through responsible land use, mobility, and environmental sustainability. Over 300 business, civic and elected leaders participated in the Congress of Regional Leaders at the Tampa Convention Center to voice their ideas on how to collaborate and implement the ONE BAY vision.
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Keynote Speaker:
Robert Grow, Envision Utah
Biography
Mr. Grow holds degrees in engineering and law and has had a diverse career, including practicing law, being president of a large manufacturing company, chairing a national trade association, and being recognized as Utah’s entrepreneur of the year.
Mr. Grow is founding chair emeritus of Envision Utah, a private/public quality growth partnership founded in 1997. Envision Utah is widely recognized as one of the country’s most successful public involvement efforts for the development of a broad-based, long-term growth strategy for a major metropolitan area. As a model for regional visioning efforts nationwide, Envision Utah has been recognized with the Urban Land Institute’s Award for Excellence, the Alliance for Regional Stewardship’s Gold Recognition Award, and the American Planning Association’s Daniel Burnham Award.
For his role in helping shape the strategy for the Salt Lake region’s future transportation system, Grow received the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) Distinguished Service Award in October 2003. Recently, Don Chen, executive director of Smart Growth America, a national coalition with goals similar to those of Envision Utah, said that Grow “[is] the father of one of the greatest stories in the smart growth movement.
Agenda...
The goal of this summit was to:
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Celebrate and recognize the community input received in developing the vision
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Share the
ONE BAY Vision & recommendations and identify current best practices fulfilling on recommendations in vision.
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Through facilitated, small group discussion, participants will foster collaboration and “buy in” of the One Bay Vision by i
dentifying where they see change happening in their communities and where it could happen by developing short and long-term strategies regional leaders can consider as they make important decisions about the built environment, natural environment and mobility in the region.