Presentations
This section contains slide presentations of content that would benefit our membership.
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Workshop Materials: Rural Poverty and Equitable Development
These materials are from the “Rural Poverty and Equitable Development” session held at the Prosperous Places workshop in Salt Lake City, March 25-26. Organized by NADO... and Envision Utah (http://www NULL.envisionutah NULL.org/), this workshop brought together around 50 HUD Sustainable
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Workshop Materials: Scenarios Planning 101 and Part 2
These materials are from the “Scenarios Planning 101” and “Scenarios Planning Part 2” breakout sessions held at the Prosperous Places workshop in Salt Lake City, March 25-26, 2013. Organized by NADO... and Envision Utah (http://www NULL.envisionutah NULL.org/), this workshop brought
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Workshop Materials: Finding and Leveraging Competitive Advantage
These materials are from the breakout session “Finding and Leveraging Competitive Advantage,” held at the Prosperous Places workshop in Salt Lake City, March 25-26, 2013. Organized by NADO... and Envision Utah (http://www NULL.envisionutah NULL.org/), this workshop brought together around 50
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Workshop Materials: Regional Visioning Based on Shared Values
These materials are from Robert Grow’s (Envision Utah) opening plenary address “Regional Visioning Based on Shared Values,” given at the Prosperous Places workshop in Salt Lake City, March 25-26, 2013. Organized by NADO... and Envision Utah (http://www NULL.envisionutah NULL.org/), this
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Livable Regions and Communities in Appalachia: Kingsport Workshop
On July 12, 2012, the Appalachian Regional Commission (http://www NULL.arc NULL.gov/index NULL.asp) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Sustainable Communities (http://www NULL.epa NULL.gov/smartgrowth/index NULL.htm), in partnership with the NADO Research Foundation, the Development District Association of Appalachia (http://www...
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The Alabama Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy
The final presenter on the second panel was Jeff Pruitt from the Top of Alabama Regional Council of Governments. Pruitt spoke about preparing Alabama’s statewide Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and its relationship to transportation planning. The 12 regional councils...
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The Northern Maine Rail Initiative
The next presenter was Alain Ouellette from the Northern Maine Development Commission (NMDC), who spoke about saving a significant 233-mile rail corridor in his region. Aroostook County has an extensive history of industrial rail, dating back to 1891. Today, large...
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Sustainable Eastern Connecticut
...The second panel, focused on integrating transportation planning and economic development, began with a presentation by Ken Livingston, of Fitzgerald & Halliday, and Mark Paquette, of the Windham Regional Council of Governments, on creating a regional sustainability plan for eastern
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Highway Department Timesheet Program
The final speaker on the first panel was Rita Seto from the Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Planning Commission in Vermont. She developed a highway department timesheet program to help oversee the way that road foremen manage their daily activities and provide...
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RPC Involvement in the Recovery of Vermont’s Transportation Network After Tropical Storm Irene
The next presenter was Katharine Otto from the Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commission in Vermont who spoke about recovery of the state’s transportation network after Hurricane Irene in August 2011. She first detailed the damage caused by the storm,...