Coffee and Greeting

Lunch on the Rural-to-Urban Transect

9:00—9:25

11:30—12:45

Opening Greeting from CNU Colorado

LEED ND Group Discussion

9:25—9:30

12:45—1:30

What Really is Smart Growth?

Agricultural Urbanism

9:30—10:00

1:30—2:00

Form-Based Codes and the Rural-to-Urban Transect

Context-Sensitive Landscapes

2:00—2:30

10:00—10:30

Break & Networking

Architecture of Place (Form-based, Transect-based Architecture)

2:30—3:00

10:30—11:00

Panel Discussion with Presenters

3:00—4:00

Transportation Planning for Rural and Small Towns

11:00—11:30

What really is Smart Growth?

Paul Crabtree and Joe DeLuca

The Ten Principles of Smart Growth, the differences between Smart Growth and New Urbanism, the past and future of Smart Growth.

Form-based Codes and the Rural-to-Urban Transect

Paul Crabtree and Joe DeLuca

A brief history of zoning codes and form-based codes. Why the pedestrian shed and Rural-to-Urban Transect are key tools for form-based codes. What’s so special about the SmartCode?

Architecture of Place

Hoyt Cousins

The presentation shall identify design contributions to social and economic resilience, at the local scale, of small towns at the edge of metropolitan areas. An array of techniques for diminished resources in planning and development can be organized in a hierarchy: from region and sector to conditions of settlement types, neighborhood and transect zone, block and street, building and lot. The primary focus will be on building types and architectural configuration – in response to current challenges of lower incomes, changing employment opportunity, unpredictable market demand, restricted financing, the loss of personal and public equity, and shrinking municipal budgets and services.

Transportation Planning for Rural and Small Towns

James Charlier

This session will provide baseline information about transportation and energy trends as they affect rural Colorado and Chaffee County.  If rural places far from major cities are to thrive and be sustainable over the next two decades, significant innovation and strategic investments will be required.  Given limited financial resources and an ongoing recession, what can small cities and towns do to prepare for the post-petroleum era?  Jim will summarize findings and results from recent national studies of the mobility and access needs of rural America.

LEED-ND: Group Discussion

Stella Hodgkins

As a group, or potentially as multiple groups, we will analyze the applicability of LEED-ND (or LEED for Neighborhood Development) as it relates to a small town or neighborhoods within the small town. Case study towns of Salida, Buena Vista and/or Poncha Springs are potential towns to be analyzed.

Agricultural Urbanism

Korkut Onaran

The Agricultural Urbanism session will review some of the recent form-based coding practices the presenter has participated and discuss the challenges and opportunities in integrating food production in urban areas without compromising walkability. The presentation will particularly focus on Transect 3, usually called “suburban,” or “garden district,” a name the author likes better.

Context-Sensitive Landscapes

Korkut Onaran

Presentation will be based on the dynamics of landscape as they relate to the urban-to-rural transect. Topics regarding landscape will include productive or edible landscapes, streetscape design and specific landscape issues and opportunities in the Mountain West region.

James F. Charlier, AICP

Jim Charlier is a transportation planner based in Boulder, Colorado. His firm, Charlier Associates, provides services to federal, state, local and private sector clients throughout North America. Jim is an expert in smart mobility and sustainable transportation and teaches Sustainable Urbanism at University of Colorado.

Hoyt Cousins

Hoyt Cousins has conducted an architectural and town planning practice for over thirty years, and is principal of Cousins Architects in Denver. Previous professional locations have included Boston, Park City, Salt Lake City, and the southwest desert of Utah. Design work has ranged from rehab and retrofit commissions, buildings of various types and uses, up to town and resort projects and regional plans—with other practice areas incorporating entitlements and fiscal impact analysis, code writing and pattern books, marketing and investment documents, and town design monographs. From the ‘70’s through ‘90’s teaching architectural history at Boston College, Harvard, and the Boston Architectural Center was combined with roles of mountain resort executive, elected public official, and developer.

Paul Crabtree, PE, CNU-a

Paul Crabtree is President of Crabtree Group, Inc – a Civil Engineering and Town Planning firm formed in 1999 with offices in Salida, CO and Ventura, CA. Paul holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Washington University and a B.A in Physics from Hamline University and holds Registration as a Professional Engineer (Civil) in several states. Paul is a member of NSPE, ASCE, LGC, APA, ULI, and Congress for the New Urbanism (where he heads the CNU Rainwater Initiative, authored the SmartCode Regional Watersheds Module, and is a member of the Transect Codes Council). Paul is a contributing author for the Sustainable and Resilient Communities Guidebook. Crabtree Group, Inc orchestrated the 1st SmartCode adoption in Colorado in 2009, and won a CNU Charter Award in 2010.

Joe De Luca

Joe has a B.S./M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. He has also completed advanced management and leadership training from Cornell University and MIT. Mr. De Luca is a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism and the Colorado Rural Water Association. He has served as the Board Chairman of the Chaffee County Board of Commissioners, President of the Salida Merchants Association and a member of the Board of Chamber of Commerce. Mr. De Luca was the Program Manager for the NASA Chandra X-Ray telescope and numerous other aerospace projects. He joined the Crabtree Group Inc. in 2005.

Stella Hodgkins, LEED AP ID+C, Assoc AIA

Stella is a Sustainable Design Specialist with Ambient Energy. Her background in architecture has allowed her to work on a wide variety of project types. At Ambient Energy she coordinates LEED and other sustainability requirements for projects, prepares and facilitates design charrettes, performs construction administration, assists with operation and maintenance programs and the development of sustainable management systems. Ms. Hodgkins is a member of the USGBC Southern and Metro Colorado Chapters, the Green Cities Coalition Transportation Working Group, Dream City 2020 Built/Planned Environment Committee, CO USGBC LEED-ND Committee, AIA South Chapter, and the Pikes Peak Quality of Life Indicators Built Environment Committee.

Korkut Onaran, AIA, CNU-a

Korkut Onaran, Ph.D., the principal founder of  Pel-Ona Architects and Urbanists, is an urban architect with a broad knowledge of development codes and regulation cultures, a subject he explored extensively through his doctorate studies. He has been teaching as an Assistant Professor Adjunct, in the College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado at Denver, since 1997. He is the president of CNU Colorado.

John W. Olson, RLA, LEED AP, CNU-a

John is a landscape architect/ urban designer in Colorado Springs where he is the owner of a landscape architecture and planning company, Olson Planning & Urban Landscapes. His company is a strong proponent of smart growth, new urbanism and holistic sustainability. In Colorado Springs, John holds board positions for the Urban Renewal Authority, Downtown Review Board and as the Treasurer of CNU Colorado.

The Colorado Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism invites you for a day with local developers, architects, civil engineers, planners, and landscape architects to discuss how Smart Growth is incorporated or could be incorporated into our small towns and rural communities.