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The Coalition for Smart Growth

 

The Coalition for Smart Growth is a unique and diverse group of community organizations and individuals drawn together by a shared interest in the future direction of Lancaster County…interested enough to craft a roadmap for Smart Growth. The Coalition’s intent is twofold: (1) to provide a framework within which discussions about Lancaster County’s future can take place and (2) to incorporate public policy recommendations into practical applications.


 

The Coalition for Smart Growth
Presents its
3rd Annual Smart Growth Summit

 
 

WALKABLE COMMUNITIES:
GROWING STRONGER, GROWING SMARTER

May 28, 2008, Millersville, Pennsylvania

 
(Download Walkable Communities brochure and registration form (pdf))
 

The Coalition for Smart Growth will hold its third annual Smart Growth Summit entitled Walkable Communities: Growing Stronger, Growing Smarter, on May 28, 2008, at the Bolger Conference Center on the campus of Millersville University.

This year’s Smart Growth Summit is a series of events addressing the challenge of creating walkable communities in Lancaster County.

 
     

Everyone is a pedestrian. Communities need safe and accessible places for people to walk. Communities that are more physically active will be healthier. If walking reduces vehicle trips, air quality will improve, traffic congestion and associated costs will diminish, streets will be safer, and local economies will benefit from local foot and bike traffic. If we can begin to sew together the fabric of our built environment by designing our neighborhoods for people, as well as for cars, we should be able to improve the quality of life for everyone in Lancaster County.

Mark Fenton, host of the former PBS television series “America’s Walking” and five-time member of the U.S. National Race Walking team, will be the featured speaker at all Summit events. Called “America’s reigning guru of walking” by the Washington Post, Mark Fenton is an MIT-trained engineer, author and nationally recognized authority on exercise science, community design and the need for community, environmental, and public-policy initiatives to encourage physical activity and walking. He was a charter member of the Partnership for a Walkable America, an informal coalition of health, safety and transportation organizations that launched Walk to School Day in 1998 and serves as a national Safe Routes to School training course consultant.

 

Special Recognition and Thanks
to the Walkable Communities Summit Sponsors.

The Summit is possible only
through the generosity & support of our sponsors.

Lancaster General Hospital is underwriting Mark Fenton’s appearances as part of its Healthy Weight Management initiative, to promote physical activity and walking in Lancaster’s 60 municipalities.

Gold Sponsor: Keystone Custom Homes

Silver Sponsor: Fulton Bank

Safe Routes to School Sponsor: Susquehanna Bank

Bronze Sponsors:
B.R. Kreider & Son, Inc. Excavating & Paving
Bank of Lancaster County : David Miller/Associates, Inc.
ELA Group, Inc. : Herbert, Rowland & Grubic, Inc.
Hess Home Builders, Inc. : Lancaster Area Sewer Authority
County of Lancaster : PPL Corporation
RGS Associates Inc. : The Charlan Group

Additional contributors:
B&F Partners : Building Industry Association of Lancaster County
HomeTowne Heritage Bank : Housing Development Corporation
Lancaster Laboratories Inc. : PA Agricultural Ombudsman Program
Rettew Associates, Inc. : Rubbersidewalks, Inc.
Russell, Krafft & Gruber LLP : Thomas Comitta Associates, Inc.
Trout, Ebersole & Groff, LLP

     
 
Walkable Communities: Growing Stronger, Growing Smarter, an all-day conference on May 28 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. will take up the challenge of building and retrofitting Lancaster’s communities to make walking easy and safe and encourage physical activity. Mr. Fenton will be the keynote speaker and will conduct two walking workshops or walkabouts (held rain or shine) with the Millersville campus and Millersville Borough as a case study. Other workshops include: Pedestrianizing Neighborhoods in Lancaster County and Connecting the Dots: Pedestrian and Trail Networks. (Download Walkable Communities brochure and registration form (pdf)).
 
Call the Coalition office 717.509.4711 for updated and additional information about Summit workshops.
 
Join the Coalition for Smart Growth. (Download Coalition membership form (pdf))
 
The Power of Walking to School: For our Children, for their Health, Happiness & Safety. A community forum event focusing on Walkable Communities and Safe Routes to School, will be held on May 28 from 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. at the Bolger Conference Center, Millersville University. Fenton will address the importance of physical activity and encouraging children, share success stories from around the country and show what Lancaster communities can do to create long-term, permanent improvements for the health, happiness and safety of our children. The community forum is free and open to the public. (download the Power of Walking flyer (pdf))
 
Both events will be held at Bolger Conference Center on the campus of Millersville University in the heart of Millersville Borough, Pennsylvania. The Bolger Conference Center is located at 1 South George Street, Millersville, PA 17551.
 
Questions? Call Metta Barbour, Executive Director, 717.509.4711 (office) : 717.368.2266 (cell)
email: mbarbour@coalitionforsmartgrowth.org
     
     
     

 



Coalition for Smart Growth
Metta Barbour, Executive Director
mbarbour@coalitionforsmartgrowth.org
1383 Arcadia Road, Room 223-W
Lancaster, PA  17601
(717) 509-4711
(717) 509-4713 (fax)

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