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Thursday, June 12th, 2003
Baruch College, Newman Conference Center
151 East 25th Street, 7th Floor
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Watered Down: A Planner's Role in Protecting the Region's Water Supply
Towards A New Social Contract
Freight: Regional Investments for Global Competitiveness
Within Our Lifetimes: Sustainable Energy Systems and Emerging Energy Challenges
Boon, Bane or Bust: Balancing Community and Facility Needs
Moving the World Around: Transportation + the 2012 Olympics
Environment + Sustainability
Planners In Society
Movement Through The Region
Metropolitan New York: A Region In Transformation
Overview
Taking a broader view of what constitutes our environment, New York Metro APA's 2003 Conference stepped back to see beyond the 16 acres of the World Trade Center that were the focus of our last effort. This year, we looked toward the issues that will shape our region in the coming decades. The day's topical sessions focused on the many ways that environmental, social and transportation concerns spill across the boundaries of our many jurisdictions to bind us together. Concentrating on these three topics in tracks entitled Environment and Sustainability, Planners in Society and Movement Through the Region, the conference explored the challenges faced by the diverse areas of our region and the responses taken to address them. Following a day of considering each of these issues, the Conference concluded with an Interactive Session on each topic. This final session aimed to synthesize the day's events, and turn the floor back to you as New York Metro area planners, to begin crafting regional solutions to the concerns that affect us all.
Goals
- To promote an integrated approach to the Environmental, Transportation and Social issues tying the diverse regions of the NY Metro Chapter together
- To give the members of the New York Chapter the chance to tell the Chapter about their interests in these topics and how they hoped the Chapter would respond.
Agenda
8:30am - 9:15am OPENING SESSION
Opening Remarks:
Ethel Sheffer, AICP; President, APA NY Metro Chapter/ Principal, Insight Associates
Keynote Speakers:
Adolfo Carrion, Jr., Bronx Borough President
Dr. Susan Fainstein, Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
Introduction:
Kimberly Miller, Vice President for Programs, NY Metro Chapter APA; Director of Planning Issues, Municipal Art Society
11:00am - 12:20 CONCURRENT SESSION 1
Environment + Sustainability - Watered Down: A Planner's Role in Protecting the Region's Water Supply
Speakers:
Valerie Scopaz, Town Planner, Southold, Long Island
Ira Stern, Director, Division of Watershed Lands & Community Planning, New York City Department of Environmental Protection
Sabrina Charney, Deputy Watermaster, Westchester Co. Department of Planning
Moderator:
Marc Yaggi, Senior Project Attorney, Riverkeeper
Planners In Society - Towards A New Social Contract
Speakers:
Lance Freeman, Assistant Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Patrick Duggan, Executive Director, Sustainable Long Island
Marvin Markus, Vice President, Goldman Sachs & Co.; Chair, Rent Guidelines Board
Karen Philips, New York City Planning Commissioner
Moderator:
Jeffrey Stern, Professor of Real Estate, CUNY- Baruch College
Movement Through the Region - Freight: Regional Investments for Global Competitiveness
Speakers:
Lance Freeman, Assistant Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Patrick Duggan, Executive Director, Sustainable Long Island
Marvin Markus, Vice President, Goldman Sachs & Co.; Chair, Rent Guidelines Board
Karen Philips, New York City Planning Commissioner
Enhancing Planning Skills - How to Market Yourself in a Competitive Planning World
Speakers:
Roberta Washington, Principal, Roberta Washington Architects PC
Victor Body Lawson, Principal, Body Lawson Associates
Moderator:
Ed Nickens, Civil Engineer I, New York City Transportation Coordinating Committee
12:30 - 12:45 NATIONAL APA SPEAKER - Daniel Lauber, President of AICP
2:00 - 3:20 CONCURRENT SESSION 2
Environment + Sustainability - Within Our Lifetimes: Sustainable Energy Systems and Emerging Energy Challenges
Speakers:
Majora Carter, Executive Director, Sustainable South Bronx
Jeff Peterson, New York State Energy Research & Development Authority
Seth Leitman, Coordinator for Electric Transportation, New York Power Authority
Ira Rubenstein, President, Environmental Business Association of New York State, Inc.
Moderator:
Gerry Bogacz, Planning Group Director, NYMTC
Planners In Society - Boon, Bane or Bust: Balancing Community and Facility Needs
Speakers:
Elise Wagner, Esq., of Counsel, Real Estate Department, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker
Paul Elston, New York League of Conservation Voters
Andrew Berman, Executive Director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
Moderator:
Carol Rosenthal, Esq., Real Estate + Land Use Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips; Chair of the APA Metro Chapter Zoning Subcommittee
Movement Through The Region - Moving the World Around: Transportation + the 2012 Olympics
Speakers:
David Wyss, Chief Economist, Standard and Poors
Donald Schneck, Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
Nicholaas Peterson, Facilities Manager, NYC2012
Moderator:
Jonathan Bowles, Center For An Urban Future
Enhancing Planning Skills
Negotiation and Conflict: Creating Win-Win Solutions
Instructor: Amy Kates, Management Consultant, Downey Associates International
3:30 - 4:50 INTERACTIVE WRAP-UP SESSIONS
Environment + Sustainability
Planners In Society
Movement Through The Region
5:00 - 6:30 ANNUAL MEETING + AWARDS PRESENTATION
6:30 - 7:30 CLOSING RECEPTION
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