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| #e.21824 | Friday 8:30AM to 12:00PM November 2,
2012 | CM | 3.50 |
Livable Transportation WorkshopAPA Florida Chapter, Heart of Florida SectionBartow, FL Free event There is a definite trend in community planning toward the incorporation of healthy design and infrastructure investments that improve the quality of life a serve as a foundation for better interaction better residents, a reduction in the reliance on the automobile as the primary mode of travel, and the resulting improvement in the health and quality of life for the citizens we serve. On this note, your Heart of Florida Section has organized an outstanding workshop that will focus on Livable Transportation Design and the steps that State, County and Local governments are taking to advance the implementation of policy and construction standards that will assist in these goals.
Speakers will include representatives from Polk County, the City of Lakeland, Consultants preparing the Context Sensitive Design Manual for Polk County and District Secretary Billy Hattaway.
Instructors: Billy Hattaway Billy Hattaway, P.E. is the newly appointed District Secretary for District One of the Florida Department of Transportation. He has over 33 years of transportation and program management experience with the Florida Department of Transportation and private sector.
He is the author of the new Traditional Neighborhood Development Chapter for the Florida Green Book. Billy was on the AASHTO Subcommittee on Design and the AASHTO Roadside Safety Task Force, where he actively participated in development of the AASHTO Roadside Design Guide. During his 23 year career at FDOT, Billy served in a number of leadership roles including Director, Office of Design, State Roadway Design Engineer, District Five Design Engineer and District Five Structures Design Engineer.
His recent experience includes transportation planning, street design, safety and traffic analysis for a wide variety of transportation projects including redevelopment, transit oriented development and master plan charrette projects to create walkable, bike and transit friendly communities. He taught a transportation planning course in a graduate program at Rollins College and numerous Livable Community workshops for the Florida Department of Transportation and Florida Department of Community Affairs. He has also presented on the subject in Illinois, Texas and throughout Florida.
Chuck Barmby AICP Chuck Barmby, AICP CTP – City of Lakeland
Chuck Barmby has over 19 years of transportation planning experience, nine of those with the City of Lakeland as its Transportation Planner in the Community Development Department. His experience with the City includes long- and short-range transportation planning, development review, concurrency review (including multi-modal requirements, development agreements, etc.), corridor transportation planning and coordination with the Polk TPO and Lakeland Area Mass Transit District regarding multi-modal transportation projects and funding requests within the City. Chuck’s career has also included work with Metropolitan Planning Organizations in central and southwestern Florida, including Polk, Lee, Collier and Hillsborough Counties. Chuck received his BA in Political Science from the University of Tampa in 1992, has been a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) since 1999 and became a Certified Transportation Planner (CTP) during the first year this advanced specialty certification was offered in 2011.
Key Project Involvement
o Polk County 2020 Long-Range Transportation Plan (adopted in 1995)
o Lee County 2020 Long-Range Transportation Plan Update (1996)
o Polk County 2025 Long-Range Transportation Plan (adopted in 2000)
o Collier County Pathways Plan (adopted 2006)
o Collier County 2030 Long-Range Transportation Plan (adopted in 2006)
o City of Lakeland Citywide Pathways Plan (adopted 2009)
o City of Lakeland Comprehensive Plan Transportation Element (adopted 2010)
Ryan Kordek 15+ years as a transportation planner
Polk County Transportation Planning Organization Fredrick Schwartz Fred Schwartz is a Senior Vice President with Kimley-Horn and Associates in downtown Chicago. He is a registered professional engineer in Florida, Wisconsin and Illinois and serves as project manager on a variety of traffic engineering, transportation planning, transit and redevelopment projects.
Fred holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in civil engineering from Purdue University with a focus on traffic engineering and urban planning and a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of Miami. He was a contributing author to Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach. Fred helped lead a project just completed for Polk TPO to write a Complete Streets Handbook and perform three complete streets corridor evaluations.
Fred spent over 25 years in Florida before he relocated to Chicago in 2008. Fred serves clients across the country performing transit oriented station area planning and typology planning, context sensitive design and complete streets.
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