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Who Who Must Be Involved to Achieve a Smart Growth Transportation System and What Are the Institutional Obstacles?
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1 1 9 Introduction John Horsley, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Let me introduce your panel and give a briefbackground on each of our four speakers andask them to kick off the discussion. First is Maryland Transportation Secretary John Porcari, our host.
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heavily populated Dane County, through a rural county just north of Dane County, and then through the Baraboo Hills, a sensitive geologic area that the Department of Interior has been trying to protect. The concern was that if they four-laned that route, instant sprawl would occur in the outer reaches of Dane, the next county, and then threaten that sensitive Baraboo Hills area.
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1 2 1 Incentives for Smart Growth in Maryland John Porcari, Maryland Department of Transportation I am with the Maryland Department ofTransportation, which includes a number of sepa-rate authorities. We have tried to use the entire department and the transportation authority as tools to implement smart growth.
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work, brick pavers, street furniture, bus stops, and pedestrian-level lighting. It is important to understand when you interact with elected officials that if you do it right, smart growth programs could be one of the most politically popular things that elected officials do.
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1 2 3 Selling "Quality of Life" in Kentucky Jim Codell, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Kentucky had several bills dealing with smartgrowth legislation with the words "smartgrowth" in them, and none of them even got to a vote. With two or three exceptions, we are, for the most part, a rural state.
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ect in northern Kentucky right now where doing it the right way and the responsible way will cost millions of dollars. Doing it the economic way, or the way the developers and a minority of people in the community want to do it, costs less, but the majority of the people would rather do it the responsible way, $10 million to do a complete urban renewal.
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1 2 5 Smart Transportation and Land Use The New American Dream Robert Dunphy, Urban Land Institute If you are in the transportation business, thenyou're in the real estate business, and you ought tosupport smart growth. Regardless of what terminology you use, you know what it is, and there are good reasons to support it.
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decisions seem to be the province of local developers and local planning officials. As a result, you have the situation in which state departments of transportation have a huge stake in transportation investments that have been highly suspect, and they are very nervous about getting involved in land development.
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1 2 7 Metropolitan Planning Organization Perspective on Smart Growth, Land Use, and Transportation Ron Kirby, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Our involvement with smart growth as an MPOreally came most recently out of a visioningprocess we went through in the mid-1990s to try to reestablish the policy component of our transportation plan, which was long outdated -- it was developed in the 1970s. One of our overriding concerns was that every major transportation project that came through our process was questioned in terms of how it fit into the big picture.
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about how we would define centers and whether the right things got in as centers. Is this what we expect to be a center, or is this the criterion that we want?
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What the map did for the first time was graphically illustrate data that we had been using for many years. But we had never put the data on a map, defined activity centers by using employment criteria, and then illustrated them graphically.
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1 3 0 Discussion Audience question: Over the past decade, we have really seen a dramatic change in state transportation planning in terms of MPOs and their incorporation of land use issues in their planning, which I think has been driven at least in part by federal legislation [the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) and the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21)
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tion and present it to our board during our meeting in Alaska. Audience question: To follow this discussion, financing for transportation increased about 40 percent as we went from ISTEA to TEA-21.
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is private development, there is infill housing, and there is even a big box on the perimeter of the property. Nobody wants to admit it is there, but in fact it provides a very valuable financial component to the project and to the city for taxes.
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