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 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. : High Real Estate Group
Lancaster Area Sewer Authority : Lancaster County
PPL Corporation :
RGS Associates Inc. : The Charlan Group
Additional contributors:
The Crest at Elm Tree : Building Industry Association of
Lancaster County
HomeTowne Heritage Bank : Housing Development Corporation
Lancaster Laboratories Inc. : Nikolaus & Hohenadel, LLP
PA Agricultural Ombudsman
Program
Rettew Associates, Inc. : Rubbersidewalks, Inc.
Russell, Krafft & Gruber LLP : TeamAG : 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.
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.
Special
Recognition and Thanks
to the Walkable Communities Summit Sponsors.
The Summit is possible only
through the generosity & support of our sponsors.
Additional
contributors:
The Crest at Elm Tree : Building Industry Association of Lancaster County
: HomeTowne Heritage Bank
Housing Development Corporation : Lancaster Laboratories Inc. : Nikolaus & Hohenadel,
LLP
PA Agricultural Ombudsman Program : Rettew
Associates, Inc. : Rubbersidewalks, Inc.
Russell, Krafft & Gruber LLP : TeamAG : Thomas Comitta Associates, Inc.
: Trout, Ebersole & Groff, LLP
Coalition for Smart Growth Farm and Home Center
1383 Arcadia Road, Room 001
Lancaster, PA 17601
(717) 509-4711 (Phone/Fax)
E-Mail Us At: info@coalitionforsmartgrowth.org
