Dinner Forums for local Decision-makers: Growing Your Local Economy and Enhancing Your Community

2013 – 2015 Dinner Forums

The Growing Your Local Economy series of dinner forums provide an opportunity for local decision-makers in the San Joaquin Valley to discuss challenges and hear about innovative solutions related to transportation, community design, and land use planning to advance economic growth, fiscal strength and public health. Participants hear from expert speakers and exchange ideas, examples, and resources with each other to promote local growth on a sound fiscal footing.

Below you will find agendas and presentations from the dinner meetings in addition to resources that help make the connection between land use decisions and  resilient communities.

February 18 – 19, 2015 – Complete and Green Streets in the San Joaquin Valley

• Agenda – Fresno, February 18 PDF
• Paul Zykofsky
  Presentation PDF
• Eric Zickler
  Presentation PDF
• Agenda – Modesto, February 19 PDF
• Paul Zykofsky
  Presentation PDF
• Kevin Robert Perry
  Presentation PDF

Additional Resources

• Complete Streets Big and Small: A San Joaquin Valley Economic Development Tool PDF

September 10, 2014 – Living Well in the San Joaquin Valley: New Directions for Healthy Places

• Agenda PDF
• Lynne Ashbeck
  Presentation PDF
• Bill Mueller
  Presentation PDF
• Elizabeth Baca
  Presentation PDF

May 10, 2014 – Boosting Infill Development in the San Joaquin Valley

• Agenda PDF
• Curt Johansen
  Presentation PDF

October 16, 2013 – Growing Supporting Downtown Revitalization In Our Communities

• Agenda PDF
• Deb Nankivell
  Presentation PDF

Additional Resources

• A Landscape of Choice: Strategies for Improving Patterns of Community Growth PDF

September 4, 2013 – The Dollars and Sense of Development: The Economics of Land Patterns

• Agenda PDF
• Joe Minicozzi
  Presentation PDF

Additional Resources

• Fact Sheet: The Economic Impacts of Development Patterns in the San Joaquin Region PDF
• Fact Sheet: Valuing Downtowns: Upward Not Outward is a Smart Revenue Strategy for Local Governments PDF
• Book: In City, Town, and Country PDF

June 26, 2013 – Protecting our Public Infrastructure Investments

• Agenda PDF
• Jerry Walters
  Presentation PDF

Additional Resources

• Fact Sheet: California Statewide Needs Assessment Project
• Fact Sheet: Protecting Our Transportation Investment

March 19, 2013 – The Missing Metric: An Economic Development Strategy for the New Normal

• Agenda PDF
• Peter Katz
  Presentation PDF