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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]

WALK: King William Historic Neighborhood Tour

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Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 | 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 | 3:30 – 4:45 pm

This neighborhood of stately houses shaded by enormous trees is located just south of downtown along the San Antonio River . Many Germans immigrants began to settle in this area by the 1870s and it became known [...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]

KEYNOTE: Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis

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Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 | 12:00 – 2:00pm
• AICP CM’s applied for

Bringing Racial and Socio-Economic Diversity to Cycling

Senator Rodney Ellis is an African American state legislator from Houston, Texas, the fourth largest city in the United States where he represents one of the most racially and socio-economically diverse senatorial districts [...read more]

WALK: Museum Reach Riverwalk Extension & Pearl Redevelopment

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

This walking tour will begin on the patio of the El Tropicano Hotel and tour the new Museum Reach, Urban Segment of the San Antonio River Walk north of downtown. The project is the first milestone [...read more]

KEYNOTE: Keith Laughlin, President of Rails-to-Trails Conservancy

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Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 | 7:30 – 9:00am

Keith Laughlin is the president of Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC), the nation’s largest trails organization with more than 100,000 members and supporters. With an extensive network of partners in the recreation, health promotion, transportation and conservation communities, RTC works to create a national environment that promotes, [...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]

RIDE: Bike Tour of the San Antonio River Improvements Project - Mission Reach

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Jim Doersam PE, Matthew Driffill
Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 | 2:00 – 4:45pm
• AICP CM’s applied for

The Mission Reach Ecosystem Restoration and Recreation Project is transforming an eight mile stretch of the San Antonio River into a quality riparian woodland ecosystem. This unique project restores riverine features and riparian woodlands, reintroduces [...read more]