National League of Cities Transportation Infrastructure and Services Steering Committee Meeting

1. National League of Cities Transportation Infrastructure and Services Steering Committee Meeting Developing a framework for communicating livability Friday, July, 20, 2012

2. Agenda Welcome and Introductions Project Overview Question Session/Message Testing Questions/Discussion

3. Welcome & Introductions Erika Young, Transportation Director, National Association of Regional Councils Valerie Hermanson, Research Fellow, National Association of Regional Councils

4. Project Overview • 2-yr project led by NARC with support from partners • APWA • NLC • NACo • ICMA • US FHWA • US FTA • Translate federal livability principles into tactics and mechanisms to plan, create and implement local and regional solutions • Extensive documentation review • Refining content with advisory group, workshop & focus group feedback • Final product: Guidebook “how-to” implement livability on a local level Practitioners Planners Local Elected Officials Audiences

5. Workshop Goals Feedback! Information from this session will help to inform our final product and frame our communication of livability messages • How do you communicate certain messages to your constituents? • Are there particular hot button issues or words that you encounter? • What livability related language do you agree or disagree with?

6. US DOT, EPA and HUD Partnership for Sustainable Communities Partnership for Sustainable Communities (PSC) Livability Definition: “Livable communities are places where transportation, housing and commercial development investments have been coordinated so that people have access to adequate, affordable and environmentally sustainable travel options.” Sec. LaHood: “Being able to take your kids to school, go to work, see a doctor, drop by the grocery or post office, go out to dinner and a movie, and play with your kids in a park, all without having to get in your car.” (US DOT Strategic Plan http://www.dot.gov/stratplan/)

7. The Partnership's Livability Principles:

8. Livability Principle 1 Providing more transportation choicesoften means • Developing safe, reliable, and economical transportation choices to decrease household transportation costs • Reducing our nation’s dependence on foreign oil • Improving air quality • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions • Promoting public health

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12. Livability Principle 1 Provide more transportation choices

13. Livability Principle 2 Promote equitable, affordable housingoften means • Expanding location and energy efficient housing choices for people of all ages, incomes, races and ethnicities • Increasing mobility • Lowering the combined cost of housing and transportation

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18. Livability Principle 3 Enhance economic competitivenessoften means • Improving economic competitiveness through reliable and timely access to • Employment centers • Educational opportunities • Services • Other basic needs by workers • Expanded businesses access to markets

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23. Livability Principle 4 Support existing communitiesoften means • Targeting federal funding toward existing communities through strategies like • Transit oriented, mixed-use development • Land recycling • Increasing community revitalization • Efficiency of public works investments • Safe guard rural landscapes

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28. Livability Principle 5 Coordinate and leverage federal policies and investmentoften means • Aligning federal policies and funding to remove barriers to collaboration • Leveraging funding • Increasing the accountability and effectiveness of all levels of government to plan for future growth • Making smart energy choices such as locally generated renewable energy

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32. Livability Principle 5 Coordinate and leverage federal policies and investment

33. Livability Principle 6 Value communities and neighborhoods often means • Enhancing the unique characteristics of all communities by investing in healthy, safe and walkable neighborhoods – rural, urban or suburban

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38. Final Questions Is there anything about today’s session that we have not asked but you would like to share with us?

39. THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING! For more information, please contact NARC staff: Erika Young Transportation Director erika@narc.org 202.986.1032, x 212