Absolutely! Learn about initiatives cities are using to attract families with children to downtown housing. Despite the “common wisdom” that once young families have children they will move to outlying locations, several cities have found ways to attract and retain families with children downtown. This session draws upon a national study and explores the initiatives cities like Vancouver, Toronto, Minneapolis, and Portland have used to accommodate kids in an urban environment.
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Elizabeth R. Wampler
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Bio: Elizabeth works out of Reconnecting America’s Oakland office, and has been deeply engaged in transit and TOD-focused technical assistance projects at the regional and the corridor scale in the Bay Area, Denver, Los Angeles and the Twin Cities, among other regions. She was a team leader on the 2012 report Are We There Yet? Creating Complete Communities for 21st Century America and lead the analysis on The Los Angeles TOD Typology: Creating Successful Transit-Oriented Districts in Los Angeles and the TOD Implementation Strategy for Denver’s West Corridor. She co-authored three of the TOD 200 series booklets including, TOD 203: Transit Corridors and TOD, TOD 205: Families and TOD, and the upcoming TOD 206: Intercity Rail and TOD. Elizabeth specializes in spatial and data analysis and has led CTOD efforts on typologies as a tool to implement TOD and using equitable approaches to creating communities around transit, including strategies for housing preservation and production. Most recently, Elizabeth has been working with teams in the Bay Area and Denver regions exploring the connection between jobs, workforce development and transit.
Education: BA from the University of Chicago MCP from the University of California at Berkeley
Key Publications: TOD 205: TOD and Families Are We There Yet?: Creating Complete Communities for 21st Century America
Sarah Snider Komppa
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Bio: Sarah Snider is an urban and architectural designer at LMN Architects in Seattle. She was the 2012 recipient of the Emerging Professionals Travel Scholarship from the Seattle Chapter of the American Institute of Architects to research what makes a family-friendly city, and traveled to eight cities across North America to document her findings. In Seattle, she serves on the Planning Commission and is involved with the Urban Land Institute. Prior to working at LMN, she worked at JG Johnson Architects and Sink Combs Dethlefs Architects in Denver, and interned with the Boston Redevelopment Authority.
Education: Bachelor of Science in Architecture, UVA Bachelor of Urban and Environmental Planning, UVA Master of City Planning and Urban Design Certificate, MIT
Other Publications: www.downtownfamilies.com
Beth Elliott, AICP
Principal City Planner
City of Minneapolis
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Bio: I am currently a Principal City Planner in the Department of Community Planning and Economic Development [CPED] for the City of Minneapolis. My main focus is to provide coordination of a wide variety of Downtown planning initiatives to maintain consistency with the city’s long-range planning policies. My work includes partnering with community and inter-agency stakeholders addressing land use issues, redevelopment, and public improvements as well as to develop small area plans for specific parts of the Downtown sector. I am a member of the American Planning Association and the Urban Land Institute as well as certified through the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Education: Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Master of Urban and Regional Planning, May 2002 The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, May 2000
Mark Hinshaw, FAICP
Director, Urban Design
LMN Architects
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