Lake Merritt BART Station Charrette CM 9

Jeffrey Tumlin, Principal, Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates, San Francisco, California
Dena Belzer, President, Strategic Economics, Berkeley, California
Tim Rood, Principal, Community Design + Architecture, Oakland, California

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High Speed Rail TOD in the Heart of Silicon Valley Charrette CM 9

GB Arrington, Vice President, PB PlaceMaking, Portland, Oregon
Bruce Fukuji, Urban Design Practice Leader, PB PlaceMaking, San Francisco, CA

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#1 Dublin Transit Center/Castro Valley BART (8:00 am-12:30 pm) CM 3.5

#2 Fruitvale Village/Hayward BART (8:00 am-1:00 pm) CM 3.75

#3 San Mateo County TOD — Heavy Rail (8:00 am-1:00 pm) CM 4

#4 East Bay Bike Tour: Comparing Present and Past (8:00 am-1:00 pm) CM 4

#5 Embarcadero & Market / Octavia — Former Freeway Neighborhoods (9:00 am-12:30 pm) CM 3

#6 East Bay / San Pablo Avenue Rapid Bus (9:00 am-12:30 pm) CM 2.75

#7 Downtown Berkeley / Richmond (9:00 am-1:00 pm) CM 3

#8 San Francisco Bike Tour (shorter tour 9:00 am-12:30 pm; longer tour 9:00 am-2:00 pm) CM 3 or 4.5

#9 Larkspur Landing (8:30 am-1:00 pm) CM 3

#10 Mission Bay / T-Third Light Rail Line (12:00 pm-4:00 pm) CM 3.5

#11 Mission District / Glen Park (1:00 pm-4:00 pm) CM 2.5

#12 Oakland HOPE VI TOD (1:00 pm-4:00 pm) CM 2.5

#13 Pleasant Hill BART Transit Village and Contra Costa Centre (1:00 pm-4:30 pm) CM 2.5

#14 Downtown Oakland BART Stations — 19th Street and City Center (1:00 pm-5:00 pm) CM 3.25

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Welcome Reception

National Alliance of Public Transportation Advocates Meeting

Facilitators: Thomas R. Shrout, Jr., Executive Director, Citizens for Modern Transit, St. Louis, Missouri
Rich Weaver, Senior Project Manager, Planning and Programs, American Public Transportation Association, Washington, D.C.

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Emcee: Judith Bell, President, PolicyLink, Oakland, California
Gail Murray, President, Bay Area Rapid Transit Authority Board of Directors, Oakland, California


Video Welcome: United States Senator Barbara Boxer, California
William W. Millar, President, American Public Transportation Association, Washington, DC
Steve Heminger, Executive Director, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, San Francisco Bay Area, California
Stuart Cohen, Executive Director, TransForm (formerly TALC, the Transportation and Land Use Coalition), Oakland, California

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State of the Rail~Volution
Congressman Earl Blumenauer, 3rd District, Oregon, United States Congress


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Moderators: Shelley Poticha, President and CEO, Reconnecting America and the Center for Transit Oriented Development, Oakland, California
Tim Baldwin, Senior Associate, URS, Denver, Colorado

Speakers: GB Arrington, Vice President, PB PlaceMaking, Portland, Oregon
Ann Cheng, Senior Planner, TransForm (formerly TALC, the Transportation and Land Use Coalition), Oakland, California
Theresa O’Donnell, Planning Director, City of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Grace Crunican, Director, Seattle Department of Transportation, Seattle, Washington
James Richards, Principal, Townscape, Inc., Arlington, Texas
Will Fleissig, President, Communitas Development Inc., San Francisco, California
Art Guzzetti, Vice President, Policy, American Public Transportation Association, Washington DC
Jack Wierzenski, Director, Economic Development and Planning, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Dallas, Texas
Bill Sirois, TOD Manager, Regional Transportation District — FasTracks Team, Denver, Colorado


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Mastering Multi-Modal Projects: The Good, the Bad and the Greater Good!

Moderator: Sharon Pugh, Senior Policy Analyst, Federal Transit Administration, U.S. DOT, Washington, DC
Gregory Walker, Policy and Planning Officer, Sound Transit, Seattle, Washington
Robert Beck, Senior Program Manager, TransBay Joint Powers Authority, San Francisco, California
Al Raine, Vice President / Practice Leader, AECOM, Boston, Massachusetts
Liz Telford, Manager of Corridor Planning, Environment, Regional Transportation District — FasTracks Team, Denver, Colorado


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Partnerships for Complete Streets CM 1.5

Moderator: Ron Kilcoyne, General Manager / CEO, Greater Bridgeport Transit Authority, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Martha Roskowski, Program Manager, GO Boulder, City of Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
Mukul Malhotra, Urban Designer/Project Manager, MIG, Inc., Berkeley, California
Ron Stewart, Principal, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, Portland, Oregon


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Authorization: A Call to Action

Moderator: Jeffrey Boothe, Partner/Chair, Holland & Knight/New Starts Working Group, Washington, DC
Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation, New York, New York
Rex Burkholder, Councilor, Metro, Portland, Oregon
Shelley Poticha, President and CEO, Reconnecting America and the Center for Transit Oriented Development, Oakland, California
Stephanie Negriff, Director, Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus, Santa Monica, California


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Talking Smart to Go Green

Moderator: Bruce Riordan, Executive Director, Bay Area Climate Solutions, Berkeley, California
Susanne Moser, Director, Susanne Moser Research and Consulting, Santa Cruz, California
Morrow Cater, President and Founding Principal, Cater Communications, San Francisco, California


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Building Community Support for Density Near Transit

Moderator: Allison Brooks, Managing Director, Reconnecting America, Oakland, California
Jessica Diaz, Director, Accountable Development Coalition, Santa Rosa, California
Jeff Hobson, Policy Director, TransForm (formerly the Transportation and Land Use Coalition), Oakland, California
Daisy Pistey-Lyhne, Sonoma-Marin Field Representative, Greenbelt Alliance Field Office, Santa Rosa, California
Heather Hood, Program Coordinator, San Francisco Environment Foundation, San Francisco, California


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Retail Shopping List for TODs

Moderator: Robert Apodaca, Director of Business Development, McLarand Vasquez Emsiek & Partners, Oakland, California Glenn Isaacson, Principal, Conversion Management Associates, Inc., San Francisco, California
Randol Mackley, Partner, Retail Real Estate Group, Santa Clara, California
Keith Ray, Principal, McLarand Vasquez Emsiek & Partners, Irvine, California


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Joint Development and PPPs CM 1.5

Moderator: Jay Levin, Partner, Powell Goldstein LLP, Atlanta, Georgia Omari Patterson, Assistant Development Director, Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland
Christopher Patusky, Director, Office of Real Estate, Maryland Department of Transportation, Hanover, Maryland
Eric Heffner, Senior Vice President, Windstar Communities, La Jolla, California
John Rennels, Principal Property Development Officer, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, California


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Retrofitting Today’s Stations for Tomorrow CM 1.5

Moderator: Gary Thomas, President/Executive Director, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Dallas, Texas
Rosalyn Doggett, Senior Development Staff, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Washington, DC
Eric Anderson, Senior Project Manager, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Denver, Colorado
Kenya Wheeler, Senior Planner, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, California


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University Research and Livable Communities CM 1.5

Moderator: Karen Frick, Assistant Director, University of California Transportation Center, Policy Research Leader, PATH, University of California, Berkeley, California
Elizabeth Deakin, Director, Transportation Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Asha Agrawal, Director, MTI National Transportation Finance Center, Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, San Jose State University, San Jose, California
Jennifer Dill, Associate Professor, Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning; Director, Center for Transportation Studies, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon


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New Starts Gathering

Facilitator: Jeffrey Boothe, Partner/Chair, Holland & Knight/New Starts Working Group, Washington, DC

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Creating the Inclusive City: Challenges and Opportunities

Facilitator: Daniel Iacofano, Principle in Charge, MIG Inc., Berkeley, California

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Addressing the Public’s Willingness to Pay

Facilitator: Ian Druce, Principal Consultant, Steer Davies Gleave, London, UK

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TOD Managers Forum

Facilitator: Jeff Ordway, Manager of Property Development, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, California

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Bay Area General Managers Forum

Facilitator: William Millar, President, American Public Transportation Association, Washington, DC
Dorothy Dugger, General Manager, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, California
John Ristow, Deputy Director Programming and Highway Administration, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, San Jose, California
Michael Scanlon, General Manager / Chief Executive Officer, San Mateo County Transit District, San Carlos, California
Carter Rohan, Senior Director of Transportation Planning and Development, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, San Francisco, California


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FOCUS — A Blueprint for Conservation Development Areas

Facilitator: Kenneth Kirkey, Planning Director, Association of Bay Area Governments, Oakland, California
James Corless, Senior Planner, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Oakland, California
Kathleen Livermore, Interim Planning Manager, Community Development Department, Planning Services Division, City of San Leandro, California


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Greenhouse Gases

Facilitator: Zach Baumer, Sustainability Consultant, Sustainable Solutions Group, URS Corporation, Oakland, California

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Open Space Technology

Facilitator: Evelyn Baker, Consultant, Denver, Colorado

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New England Gathering

Facilitators: Kristina Egan, South Coast Rail Manager, Executive Office of Transportation, Boston, Massachusetts
David Dixon, Principal-in-Charge of Planning and Urban Design, Goody, Clancy and Associates, Boston, Massachusetts
Todd Fontanella, Manager of Alternative Transportation, Executive Office of Transportation and Public Works, Boston, Massachusetts


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#15 San Mateo County TOD — Commuter Rail (1:00 pm-6:00 pm) CM 4

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Using Transit and TOD to Build Healthy Communities

Moderator: Carli Paine, Transportation Program Director, TransForm (formerly TALC, the Transportation and Land Use Coalition), Oakland, California
Victoria Eisen, Principal, Eisen & Letunic, Berkeley, California
Rochelle Wheeler, Countrywide Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator, Alameda County Transportation Implementation Authority, Oakland, California
John Knox White, Program Director-TravelChoice, TransForm (formerly TALC, the Transportation and Land Use Coalition, Oakland, California


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SAFETEA-LU: The Program and Its Challenges and Opportunities

Moderator: David Vozzolo, Senior Vice President, HDR, Alexandria, Virginia
Elizabeth Day, Director, Office of Project Planning in the Office of Planning and Environment, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC
Richard Steinmann, Senior Advisor to the Administrator, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC
Michael Allegra, Chief Capital Development Officer, Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City, Utah
Gregory Walker, Policy and Planning Officer, Sound Transit, Seattle, Washington


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Transportation and Land Use Strategies for Reducing Greenhouse Gas (Part 1): Policy CM 1.5

Moderator: Bruce Riordan, Executive Director, Bay Area Climate Solutions, Berkeley, California
Rex Burkholder, Councilor, Metro, Portland, Oregon
Projjal Dutta, Director, Sustainability Initiatives, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York, New York
Ann Notthoff, California Advocacy Director, National Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, California


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Implementing Sustainability Programs and Systems at the Agency Level CM 1.5

Moderator: Joni Earl, General Manager, Sound Transit, Seattle, Washington
Carolyn Young, Executive Director, Communications and Technology, TriMet, Portland, Oregon
Jerry Benson, Chief Operating Officer, Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake City, Utah
Diana Mendes, Senior Vice President, National Director of Transit Planning, AECOM, Arlington, Virginia


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What Getting Sustainability Means: Lessons from the Field CM 1.5

Moderator: Petra Mollet, Vice President — Strategy, American Public Transportation Association, Washington, DC
Fred Hansen, General Manager, TriMet, Portland, Oregon
Trip Pollard, Director, Land and Community Program; Senior Attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center, Charlottesville, Virginia

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Developing BRT to Meet Community Visions CM 1.5

Moderator: Andrew Brennan, Director of Environmental Affairs, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Boston, Massachusetts
Maribeth Feke, Director of Programming & Planning, Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Cleveland, Ohio
Joel Ramos, Community Planning Associate, TransForm (formerly TALC, the Transportation and Land Use Coalition), Oakland, California
David Mepham, Coordinator Transport Futures, Gold Coast City Council, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Nathan Landau, Senior Transportation Planner, AC Transit, Oakland, California

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The Parking Place: The City Managing a Scarce Resource CM 1.5

Moderator: Susan Keil, Director, Office of Transportation, City of Portland, Oregon
Charles Perkins, Director of Planning and Community Development, Village of Arlington Heights, Illinois
Dan Zack, Downtown Development Coordinator, Community Development Services Department, City of Redwood City, California
Sarah Stott, Arlington County Parking Manager, Arlington County Transportation Division, Arlington, Virginia

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Private Investment in Public Infrastructure that Leverages Development CM 1.5

Moderator: Nadine Fogarty, Principal, Strategic Economics, Berkeley, California
Jason Tundermann, Associate, Cherokee Investment Partners, Raleigh, North Carolina
Jeff Ordway, Manager of Property Development, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, California
Rick Rybeck, Deputy Associate Director, Transportation Policy & Planning Administration, District Department of Transportation, Washington, DC
Lori Mason Curran, Market Research Manager and Real Estate Spokesperson, Vulcan, Inc., Seattle, Washington
Christopher Patusky, Director, Office of Real Estate, Maryland Department of Transportation, Hanover, Maryland

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Increasing Transit’s Share of the Commute Trip

Moderator: Gloria Ohland, Vice President for Communications, Reconnecting America, Los Angeles, California
Ellen Greenberg, AICP, Piedmont, California
Dena Belzer, Principal, Strategic Economics, Berkeley, California
Trent Lethco, Associate Principal, ARUP, New York, New York
GB Arrington, Vice President, PB PlaceMaking, Portland, Oregon

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Building Livable Cities, Communities, and Regions CM 1.5

Moderator: Daniel Meyers, Senior Transportation Planner, URS Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Scott Bernstein, President, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Clarence Eng, Principal, Renaissance Planning Group, Tampa, Florida
Elana Horowitz, Senior Associate, Partnerships and Consultation, Ontario Growth Secretariat, Ontario Ministry of Public Infrastructure Renewal, Toronto, Ontario
Stephanie Reyes, Senior Policy Advocate, Greenbelt Alliance, San Francisco, California

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Community Benefits Agreements

Moderator: Kathy Albert, Deputy Director, Executive Administration, Sound Transit, Seattle, Washington
Larissa Brown, Chief Planner, Goody, Clancy and Associates, Boston, Massachusetts
Jennifer Lin, Research Director, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, Oakland, California
Beverly Conerton, Community Member, Longfellow Community Council, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Using New Media to Build Support for Transit

Moderator: Carolyn Young, Executive Director, Communications and Technology, TriMet, Portland, Oregon
Julie Gertler, Founder and CEO of Consensus Planning Group, Inc., Los Angeles, California
Jeff Wood, Program Associate And GIS Specialist, Reconnecting America, Oakland, California
Evelyn Baker, Consultant, Denver, Colorado

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New Starts: Opportunities for Change and Reform CM 1.5

Moderator: Jeffrey Boothe, Partner/Chair, Holland & Knight/New Starts Working Group, Washington, DC
Richard Brandman, Columbia River Crossing Project Manager, Metro, Portland, Oregon
Wulf Grote, Director of Project Development, Valley Metro, Phoenix, Arizona

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Green Design at Any Size CM 1.5

Moderator: Diana Mendes, Senior Vice President, National Director of Transit Planning, AECOM, Arlington, Virginia
Sally Barros, Senior Planner, City of San Leandro, California
Richard Coffin, Associate, ARUP, San Francisco, California
Kevin Gardiner, Principal, Kevin Gardiner & Associates, San Francisco, California
Sophie Lambert, Director, LEED for Neighborhood Development, U.S. Green Building Council, Washington, DC

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Gentrification and Making the Case for Mixed-Income Housing

Moderator: Sam Zimbabwe, Technical Assistance Director, Reconnecting America, Washington, DC
Robin Kniech, Program Director and Staff Attorney, Front Range Executive Service Corps, Denver, Colorado
Mary Regan, Community Organizer, Somerville Community Corporation, Somerville, Massachusetts
Lindsay Imai, Transportation Program Associate, Urban Habitat, Oakland, California
Dan Martinez, Local Organizing Committee Member, Congregations Organizing for Renewal, San Leandro, California

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Must I Tear Down Paradise and Build a Parking Lot?

Moderator: Effie Stallsmith, Community Planner, Office of Planning and Environment, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC
Robert Cervero, Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning; Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Gerard Walters, Principal, Fehr and Peers Associates, Walnut Creek, California
James Daisa, Senior Project Manager, Kimley Horn & Associates, San Ramon, California

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Eminent Domain and TOD CM 1.5

Moderator: William Christopher, Board of Directors, District J Representative, Regional Transportation District, Westminster, Colorado
Benjamin Limmer, Planner II, METRO, Phoenix, Arizona
Bill Sirois, TOD Manager, Regional Transportation District — FasTracks Team, Denver, Colorado
John Shirey, Executive Director, California Redevelopment Association, Sacramento, California

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Establishing Expectations for TOD in Station Area Planning CM 1.5

Moderator: Chek Tang, Principal, McLarand Vasquez Emsiek & Partners, Oakland, California
Bill Lennertz, Director, National Charrette Institute, Portland, Oregon
Darin Smith, Principal, Economic & Planning Systems, Inc., Berkeley, California
Kim McCormick, Vice President, Trammell Crow Company, Dallas, Texas

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Transit Commuter Town: Capturing the Opportunity

Moderator: Marsha Kaiser, Urban Policy and Public Policy Practice Leader, PB PlaceMaking, Washington, DC
Doug Allen, Executive Vice President, Capital Metro Transit, Austin, Texas
Tawny Olore, Rail Transit Project Manager, Florida DOT, Orlando, Florida
Mike Elms, Community Development Director, City of Arvada, Colorado

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Growing Better, Greener and Denser: Suburban to Urban

Moderator: Thomas Bennett, Senior Urban Designer, PB PlaceMaking, Portland, Oregon
Nancy Bragado, Principle Planner, City Planning & Community Investment, City of San Diego, California
Kimi Iboshi-Sloop, Senior Planner and Policy Analyst, PB PlaceMaking, Portland, Oregon
Clark Tyler, Chairman, Tysons Land Use Task Force, Fairfax County, Virginia
Ernesto Vasquez, Partner/Project Principal, McLarand Vasquez Emsiek & Partners, Irvine, California

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Elected Officials Gathering

Facilitator/Host: Sam Adams, Mayor Elect, Portland, Oregon

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Trade Show Reception

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Community Streetcar Coalition

Facilitator: Jeffrey Boothe, Partner/Chair, Holland & Knight/New Starts Working Group, Washington, DC

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Opening Remarks Emcee: Will Fleissig, President, Communitas Development, Inc., San Francisco, California

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Invitation to Rail~Volution in Boston 2009: Kristina Egan, South Coast Rail Manager, Executive Office of Transportation, Boston, Massachusetts
David Dixon, Principal-in-Charge of Planning and Urban Design, Goody Clancy and Associates, Boston, Massachusetts


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A New Vision of Place

Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation, New York, New York
Christopher B. Leinberger, Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution/University of Michigan, Washington, DC

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#16 Market Street — F-Line Historic Streetcars along San Francisco’s Transit Spine (9:00 am-1:00 pm) CM 3.5

#17 Trails to Rails: Tour of Bike Facilities along Caltrain (12:00 pm-5:00 pm) CM 4

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Advancing Equity in TOD: A Solutions Session

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Principles of Transit-Oriented Development: Just the Basics CM 1.5

Moderator: Al Raine, Vice President, Practice Leader, AECOM, Boston, Massachusetts
Cynthia Nikitin, Vice President, Project for Public Spaces, Inc., New York, New York
GB Arrington, Vice President, PB PlaceMaking, Portland, Oregon
Ann Cheng, Senior Planner, TransForm (formerly TALC, the Transportation and Land Use Coalition), Oakland, California

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Building Community Partnerships for Transit CM 1.5

Moderator: Effie Stallsmith, Community Planner, Office of Planning and Environment, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC
Ellen Vanderslice, Project Manager, City of Portland, Oregon
Maribeth Feke, Director of Programming and Planning, Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Cleveland, Ohio
Cynthia Hoyle, Transportation Planning Consultant, Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District, Urbana, Illinois

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Best Practices in Station Area Planning CM 1.5

Moderator: David Knowles, Vice President, Planning and Development, David Evans and Associates, Inc., Portland, Oregon
Chris Augenstein, Deputy Director, Planning, Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), San Jose, California
Maria Koengeter, Senior Planner, City of Bellevue, Washington

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Design Guidelines for Livable Communities CM 1.5

Moderator: Steve Dotterrer, Principal Planner, Bureau of Planning, City of Portland, Oregon
Stephen Antupit, Senior Associate for Urban Strategies Design, Mithun, Inc., Seattle, Washington
Thomas Bennett, Senior Urban Designer, PB PlaceMaking, Portland, Oregon
Phil Erickson, President, Community Design & Architecture, Oakland, California

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Financing Livable Communities

Moderator: Bob Ruzzo, Deputy Director, MassHousing, Boston, Massachusetts
Eva Hage, Associate, Steer Davies Gleave, Vancouver, British Columbia
Peggy Jen, Senior Program Officer, Bay Area Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), San Francisco, California

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Starting Out in New Starts/Small Starts: For Better for Worse, for Richer for Poorer

Moderator: James de la Loza, Senior Vice President, AECOM, Los Angeles, California
Peter Varga, Executive Director/CEO, The Rapid, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Stephen Del Guidice, Transit Bureau Chief, Arlington County Department of Environmental Services, Arlington, Virginia
Doug Moore, Vice President, Planning and Development, Central Ohio Transit Authority, Columbus, Ohio
Jay Duncan, Vice President, AECOM, Boston, Massachusetts

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Broadening the Federal Focus: Climate and Energy Issues

Moderator: Jeffrey Boothe, Partner/Chair, Holland & Knight/New Starts Working Group, Washington, DC
Kate Rube, Policy Director, Smart Growth America, Washington, DC
Colin Peppard, Federal Transportation Program Manager, Friends of the Earth, Washington, DC
Janine Benner, Legislative Director, Office of Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Washington, DC

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Creating Communities in the Era of Climate Change

Moderator: Fred Hansen, General Manager, TriMet, Portland, Oregon
Joni Earl, Chief Executive Officer, Sound Transit, Seattle, Washington
Felicia Marcus, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Trust for Public Lands, Emeryville, California
Shelley Poticha, President and Chief Executive Officer, Reconnecting America and The Center for Transit Oriented Development

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TOD at the Corridor Level CM 1.5

Moderator: Sam Zimbabwe, Technical Assistance Director, Reconnecting America, Washington, DC
Trent Lethco, Associate Principal, ARUP, New York, New York
James Constantine, Principal, Looney Ricks Kiss Architects, Princeton, New Jersey
Dena Belzer, Principal, Strategic Economics, Berkeley, California


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The City Perspective: Using Transit to Enhance Affordability

Moderator: Sam Adams, Mayor Elect, City of Portland, Portland, Oregon
Adrienne Quinn, Director, City of Seattle Office of Housing, Seattle, Washington
Mercedes Marquez, General Manager, Los Angeles Housing Department, Los Angeles, California
Diana McIver., President and Chief Executive Officer, DMA Development Company, LLC, Austin, Texas
Karen O’Connell, Esq., Economic Development Director, Town of Dedham, Massachusetts
Doug Shoemaker, Director, San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing, San Francisco, California

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Moderator: Shelley Poticha, President and CEO, Reconnecting America and The Center for Transit Oriented Development, Oakland, California
Jeffrey Tumlin, Principal, Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates, San Francisco, California
Harold Dawson, President and CEO, The Dawson Company, Atlanta, Georgia
Will Fleissig, President, Communitas Development Inc., San Francisco, California
Fred Harris, Senior Vice President, AvalonBay Communities, Inc., New York, New York
Lydia Tan, Executive Vice President, Bridge Housing, San Francisco, California
Jeff Ordway, Manager of Property Development, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, California
Jason Tundermann, Associate, Cherokee, Raleigh, North Carolina

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The Rail~Volution Will Not Be Televised: Blogging—The Next Generation of Media

Moderator: Kathy Albert, Deputy Director, Executive Administration, Sound Transit, Seattle, Washington
Jeff Wood, Program Associate And GIS Specialist, Reconnecting America, Oakland, California
Aaron Naparstek, Editor in Chief, Streetsblog, New York, New York
Clarence Eckerson, Director of Video Production, www.streetfilms.org, New York, New York

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Good Community by Careful Design: Form-Based Codes and Context-Sensitive Street Design CM 1.5

Moderator: Steve Dotterrer, Principal Planner, Bureau of Planning, City of Portland, Oregon
Laura Hall, Principal, Hall Alminana, San Francisco, California
Lee Einsweiler, Principal, Code Studio, Austin, Texas
Phil Erickson, President, Community Design & Architecture, Oakland, California

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A Comfortable Fit: Strategies for Weaving Transit into Existing Communities CM 1.5

Moderator: Henry Kay, Deputy Administrator of Planning and Engineering, Maryland Transit Administration, Baltimore, Maryland
Paul Pattison, Senior Transit Engineer, URS Corporation, Charlotte, North Carolina
Rob Smetana, Principal Planner, City of Lakewood, Colorado
Michael Madden, Chief, Project Development Division-Office of Planning, Maryland Transit Administration, Baltimore, Maryland

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Access for All: Design in Today’s Modern Transit Communities CM 1.5

Moderator: Dorene Giacopini, Commissioner, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Oakland, California
Ellen Dektar, Coordinator, LINCC/Alameda County Child Care Planning Council, Oakland, California
James Corless, Senior Planner, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Oakland, California
Valerie Fletcher, Executive Director, Institute for Human-Centered Design, Boston, Massachusetts

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Integrating Urban Design, Architecture and Engineering CM 1.5

Moderator: Tom Markgraf, Owner, Markgraf & Associates, Portland, Oregon
George Crandall, FAIA, Principal, Crandall Arambula PC, Portland, Oregon
John Lackey, Senior Vice President and Director of Transit, David Evans and Associates, Inc., Portland, Oregon
Dave Unsworth, Senior Project Manager, TriMet, Portland, Oregon

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Growing Cooler: Addressing Climate Change through Demand/VMT Reduction CM 1.5

Moderator: Gerard Walters, Principal, Fehr and Peers Associates, Walnut Creek, California
Paul Kearsley, General Manager-City Development, City of Whitehorse, Melbourne, Australia
Matt Nichols, Principal Transportation Planner, City of Berkeley, California
Tracy Winfree, Director of Public Works for Transportation, City of Boulder, Colorado

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The Nuts and Bolts of Using TOD to Create Mixed-Income Housing CM 1.5

Moderator: David Dixon, Principal-in-Charge of Planning and Urban Design, Goody, Clancy and Associates, Boston, Massachusetts
Bob Ruzzo, Deputy Director, MassHousing, Boston, Massachusetts

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Streetcars and Market Dynamics CM 1.5

Moderator: Sam Adams, Mayor Elect, City of Portland, Oregon
Tiffany Sweitzer, President, Hoyt Street Properties, LLC, Portland, Oregon
Michael Mann, Acting Director of the Office of Sustainability, City of Seattle, Washington
Scott Bernstein, President, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago, Illinois
Lori Mason Curran, Market Research Manager and Real Estate Spokesperson, Vulcan, Inc., Seattle, Washington
Keith Jones, Regional Transit Director-West Central Region, URS Corporation, Fort Worth, Texas
Rick Gustafson, Vice President, Shiels Obletz Johnson, Portland, Oregon

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New Tools for Planning TOD CM 1.5

Moderator: John Danish, Board of Directors, City of Irving Representative, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Irving, Texas
CJ Gabbe, Project Manager, Fregonese Associates, Portland, Oregon
Mark Bachels, National Leader-Sustainable Community Development Manager, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Kawana Waters, Queensland, Australia

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Building Support for Transit through Community Activism CM 1.5

Moderator: Lea Schuster, Executive Director, Transit for Livable Communities, Twin Cities, Minnesota
Kathleen Osher, Executive Director, Transit Alliance, Denver, Colorado
Jan Wells, Associate Director, Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA, New York, New Jersey
Becky Schlenvogt, Principal Planner, Region of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Parking Toolkit CM 1.5

Moderator: Patrick Siegman, Principal, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates, San Francisco, California
Terri O’Connor, Transportation Planning Manager, Wilbur Smith Associates, San Francisco, California
Dan Zack, Downtown Development Coordinator, Community Development Services Department, City of Redwood City, California
Kenya Wheeler, Senior Planner, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, Oakland, California

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The Last Green Mile: Bike Rentals, Car-Sharing and Other Sustainable Ways to Get to Transit

Moderator: Tom Miller, Chief of Staff to Major Elect Sam Adams, City of Portland, Oregon
Susan Shaheen, Co-Director, Transportation Sustainability Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, Richmond, California
Andy Thornley, Program Director, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, San Francisco, California
Nate Kvamme, Freewheelin’ Program Manager, Humana, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky

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Streetcar System Planning CM 1.5

Moderator: David Knowles, Vice President, Planning and Development, David Evans and Associates, Inc., Portland, Oregon
Toni Bates, Senior Planning Manager, Parsons Brinckerhoff, San Diego, California
Patrick Sweeney, Senior Transit Planner, Portland Office of Transportation, Portland, Oregon
Terry Nash, Project Manager, HDR, Phoenix, Arizona

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Transportation and Land Use Strategies for Reducing Greenhouse Gas (Part 2): Implementation CM 1.5

Moderator: Gary Prince, Senior Project Manager, King County Metro Transit, Seattle, Washington
Adam Millard-Ball, Ph.D. Student, Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (IPER), Stanford University, Stanford, California
Jeff Tumlin, Principal, Nelson\Nygaard, San Francisco, California
Stephen Antupit, Senior Associate for Urban Strategies Design, Mithun, Inc., Seattle, Washington
Tina Hodges, Program Analyst, Office of Budget and Policy, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC

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Partnering to Further Awareness and Support

Moderator: Judy Corbett, Executive Director, Local Government Commission, Sacramento, California
Autumn Bernstein, ClimatePlan Coordinator, ClimatePlan/Transportation and Land Use Coalition, South Lake Tahoe, California
Bonnie Holmes-Gen, Senior Policy Director, American Lung Association, Sacramento, California

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How To Balance Development Needs and Transit In Station Design CM 1.5

Moderator: Peter Albert, Manager, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Planning Initiatives Program, San Francisco, California
Don Arambula, ASLA, Principal, Crandall Arambula, Portland, Oregon
Ralph Petty, Community Development and Parks Director, Millbrae, California
Troy Russ, Principal, Glatting Jackson, Orlando, Florida

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Funding for TOD CM 1.5

Moderator: Cheri Bush, Senior Transportation Planner, Wilbur Smith Associates, Dallas, Texas
Paul Marx, Director of Planning, Sacramento Regional Transit District, Sacramento, California
Megan Gibb, Manager, Transit Oriented Development, Metro, Portland, Oregon
Jack Wierzenski, Director, Economic Development and Planning, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Dallas, Texas
Doug Johnson, TLC Program Manager, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Oakland, California

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Green TOD CM 1.5

Moderator: Bruce Fukuji, Urban Design Practice Leader, PB PlaceMaking, San Francisco, California
Paul Morris, Vice President, Sustainable Planning and Development, Cherokee, Raleigh, North Carolina
Bailey Pope, Vice President of Design and Construction, The Dawson Company, Atlanta, Georgia
Heather Lowe, Assistant Vice President of Development, EBL&S Development, Berkeley, California

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TransForm (formerly TALC, the Transportation and Land Use Coalition) Reception
Transforming the Bay Area & Beyond

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American Planning Association — Transportation Division Meeting

Facilitator: Todd Ashby, Project Manager, Snyder and Associates, Ankeny, Iowa

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#18 Monterey County Rail Vision: On the Beautiful Central Coast (7:30 am-6:00 pm) CM 8.5

#19 Capitol Corridor / Sacramento (8:30 am-6:45 pm) CM 8.25

#20 Downtown San Jose (10:15 am-6:00 pm) CM 6.25

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The Techniques and Metrics of Sustainable Urbanism CM 8

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