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Safe Routes to School Event Training

Safe Routes to School Event
Brenda Chuleewah
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 | 1:00 – 2:30pm (Part 1) and 3:00 – 4:30pm (Part 2)
• AICP CM’s applied for

Given the need to foster more active lifestyles, encouraging youth and their families to become more physically active both through education and by providing real life practice through events, is a [...read more]

Trail Builders and Equipment Workshop (off-site)

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Alan Markert MBA
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 | 1:00-2:30pm (Part 1) and 3:00-4:30pm (Part 2)

San Antonio Parks and Recreation Partnership with South Texas Off Road Mountain Bikers (STORM) to Develop Natural Surface Trails

This off-site workshop is a case study is important to planners who are looking for ways to partner with citizen [...read more]

A Trail Plan for 4 Million

West Houston Trails Master Plan Map
Robert L. Rayburn
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 | 9:15 – 10:45am
• AICP CM’s applied for • CEPH Eligible

This session will be a case study of how stakeholders, led by the Houston Energy Corridor District, came together with the help of the National Park Service in a charrette that successfully identified gaps in community [...read more]

San Antonio Síclovía: Promoting Active Transportation from a Public Health Platform

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Pedro T. Garcia, Katherine Velasquez
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 | 10:45am – 12:00pm
• AICP CM’s applied for • CEPH Eligible

In partnership with the YMCA of Greater San Antonio and the assistance of many volunteers and the community, the City of San Antonio held its first ciclovía on October 2, 2011 as an [...read more]

San Antonio Greenway Trails Past, Present and Future

Leon Greenway Trail - Near OP Schnabel Park

Brandon Ross AICP
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 | 2:00 – 3:15pm
• AICP CM’s applied for

This session will include a PowerPoint presentation and detailed discussion of the following topics related to San Antonio’s Greenway Trails system:

History of the formative development of the concept of developing trails along San Antonio’s creekways Funding [...read more]

Scalable Efforts to Integrate Youth Bicycle Safety Education and Enforcement into Underserved Populations for Public School Physical Activity Classes and Municipal Summer Camps

Bike Sense

Rolf Eisinger MPH LCI
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 | 3:30 – 4:45pm
• AICP CM’s applied for • CEPH Eligible

Based on public input from Louisville’s Bike Summit and Metro Council Public Bike Master Plan Forums, the public wanted an increase in youth bicycle education and enforcement. Therefore, Bike Louisville used a [...read more]

CRIS, GPS, and BLOS: Data Collection Tools for Effective Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning

Cecilio Martinez, Stephanie Velasquez, Lydia Kelly
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 | 3:30 – 4:45pm
• AICP CM’s applied for • CEPH Eligible

In this case study session San Antonio-Bexar County MPO staff will discuss:

The San Antonio-Bexar County Metropolitan Planning Organization’s (MPO) recent active transportation studies and public outreach How the MPO collects data [...read more]

RUN: Hays St. Bridge & East Side Cemeteries 3 Mile Run

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Anna Glover
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 | 3:30 – 4:45pm
• AICP CM’s applied for

This field session will be a running tour of the Dignowity Hill Historic District, the Hays Street Bridge and Eastside Cemeteries, burial sites of some of San Antonio’s early movers and shakers.

Participants will begin at the Sunset [...read more]

Barton Creek Trail Rehabilitation

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Charlie McCabe, Glee Ingram, Paul Stuffel
Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 | 9:15 – 10:45am
• AICP CM’s applied for • CEPH Eligible

The Austin Parks Foundation, City of Austin Parks Department, American Youthworks E-Corps and a host of non-profit partners and volunteer groups will have completed over 1 year of focused effort to rehabilitate [...read more]

Better Block Initiatives

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Andrew Howard AICP
Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 | 9:15 – 10:45am
• AICP CM’s applied for • CEPH Eligible

The “Better Block” project is a demonstration tool that temporarily builds-out a street to show the potential to create a great walkable, vibrant neighborhood center. The project acts as a living charrette so that communities [...read more]

Master Bike Plans: Dallas and San Antonio

Max Kalhammer, Jim Carillo
Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 | 10:45am – 12:00pm
• AICP CM’s applied for

Come learn about how to plan for the future of bicycle systems in Texas, with a review of two of the newest bicycle plans in Texas.

The 2011 Dallas Bike Plan is a 10-year comprehensive planning guide which [...read more]

Big Bend Ranch State Park, an Epic Ride

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Barrett Durst, Jeff Renfrow, Hill Abell
Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 | 10:45am – 12:00pm
• AICP CM’s applied for

The acquisition of Big Bend Ranch State Park in 1988 nearly doubled the land holdings of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. For much of the 90’s public access was limited while TPWD undertook the daunting [...read more]

Learning from the Nonmotorized Pilot Program: Lessons in Active Transportation Implementation from Minneapolis

Billy Fields
Friday, Feb, 3, 2012 | 2:00 – 3:15pm
• AICP CM’s applied forThis presentation will provide an overview of the $100 million federal Nonmotorized Pilot program. The emphasis is on lessons learned.

Specifically, planners will learn

the results of qualitative study of the impacts of the program in Minneapolis the key lessons [...read more]