11:30 – 11:55 am
Events
Green Streets for Sustainable Communities
Honoring the vision and work of the late Dr. Joseph Kott
Artist: Linda Gass
Links to videos and presentations next to each agenda item below.
Day 1 – Vision and Economics (Thursday, September 10, 2020). (video posted to this website soon)
Day 2 – Case Studies (Friday, September 25, 2020)
Day 3 – Funding Strategies (Thursday, October 8, 2020)
Green streets provide a “roadmap” to our community, ecosystem, and economic future. It’s time to apply a holistic, creative design approach to our street system, our most important public assets and land, located right under our feet in the middle of our cities. Public streets and their right of way convey and distribute to each home and destination:
● people in cars, transit, bikes, scooters and shoes
● goods and emergency services via truck and other vehicles
● energy and data: electricity, gas, fiber optics
● water – wastewater, stormwater, drinking water
● soil, tree canopy, nature-based infrastructure
The intended audience for this Green Streets Symposium is for a mix of city council members and other local elected officials, city staff leaders, stormwater experts, complete street/transportation experts, citizen and environmental activists, public and private utility staff, arborists and tree experts, groundwater and urban ecology experts; and sustainability and real estate leaders for companies and other institutions.
Organizer: Transportation Choices for Sustainable Communities or TCSC (http://transportchoice.org).
Sponsoring Organizations Include: City of Mountain View, City of Palo Alto, Valley Water, Google, Valley Water, Santa Clara Valley Urban Runoff Pollution Prevention Program (SCVURPPP), and County of Santa Clara
Vision: Urban areas of the San Francisco Bay Area (Bay Area) are fully integrated into a “no net impact” system with the larger natural environment. This includes an integrated water system that follows the call to “slow it, spread it, sink it” and brings together the planning for stormwater management, water conservation, and flood prevention. No net climate change emissions means we reduce single occupancy vehicle use and promotion of walking, biking, transit or other shared low- or zero emission vehicles. Human-caused emissions are offset by a rich canopy of trees, grasslands, and chaparral in our open spaces surrounding the urban area and integrated throughout our urban areas – gardens but also greening our infrastructure especially our street grids. Air flows are slowed and softened by trees canopies, our soil systems are protected by and enriched with natural compost.
Desired Outcomes: Participants will (a) learn from experts and peers, (b) be empowered by a community of peers and citizens who support this vision, (c) bring this vision and set of practices to standard policies and design guidelines for their cities and organizations and, of course (d) this will lead to change “on the ground” through both plans, specifications and implementation.
Desired Audience: A minimum of 100-150 participants made up of Bay Area community of policy leaders (city council, county, Valley Water, and others), technical experts (e.g., consultants and agency staff folk), neighborhood and environmental advocates (non-profits, neighborhood associations).
Agenda
Day 1
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Day 2
Friday, September 25, 2020
Day 3
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Green Streets for Sustainable Communities : Sustainable Water, Transportation, Ecology and Human Habitat
Where the (Green) Rubber Hits the Road: Case Studies
Funding Strategies
Day 1 Thursday, September 10, 2020 Green Streets for Sustainable Communities : Sustainable Water, Sustainable Transportation, Ecology and Human Habitat
Green Streets for Sustainable Communities
Symposium in the Memory of Joseph "Joe" Kott, Ph.D
Artist: Linda Gass
9:00 am
9:10 am
9:20 am
9:40 – 9:50 am
9:50 – 11:50 am
11:30-11:50
11:50 – 12:00
9:10 – 9:30 am
9:30 – 9:40 am
9:40 – 11:30 am
9:00 am
9:10 am
9:30 am
9:45 – 10:30 am
10:40 – 11:30 am
Welcome
Introduction and Honoring Dr. Joseph Kott
~ Yoriko Kishimoto, Former Mayor of Palo Alto, and
President, Transportation Choices for Sustainable Communities
Ohlone Welcome
~ Kanyon “Coyote Woman” Sayers-Roods,
Keynote Speaker
Re-imagining Streets During Pandemic Response and Recovery
~ Zabe Bent, Director of Design, National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)
Q&A
From Vision to Policy to Practice: Transforming Our Public Street Networks to Integrate Multiple Purposes
Moderator ~ Gita Dev, Sierra Club, Co-chair, Sustainable Land Use Committee and Green Corridors/Linkages Project
Vision of Green Streets for Sustainable Communities and Translation into Practice and Policy
~ Robin Grossinger Scientist and Co-Director of Resilient Landscapes program, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Sustainable Human Habitat: Designing Streets for People
~ Honorable Alison Hicks, Mountain View City Council Member
Social Justice and Community Engagement for Sustainable Streets: Oakland Story
~ Marquita “Keta” Price, East Oakland Collective
BREAK
Sustainable Ecology: How Urban Greening Efforts can Contribute to Regional Biodiversity and Ecological Resilience
~ Erica Spotswood, Ph.D., SFEI Applied Ecologist
Sustainable Water: Green Infrastructure Planning
~ Jill Bicknell, Managing Engineer, EOA, and Santa Clara Valley Urban Runoff Pollution Prevention Program (SCVURPPP)
Sustainable Transportation
~ Jessica Zenk, Deputy Director, Transportation Planning & Project Delivery for the City of San Jose
Bringing it together: Complete, Green, Sustainable Slow Streets
~ Gita Dev, Sierra Club, Co-chair, Sustainable Land Use Committee and Green Corridors/Linkages Project
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Wrap Up and Next Steps
~ Yoriko Kishimoto
Day 2 Friday, September 25, 2020
Putting the Vision into Practice: Overcoming Obstacles and Bridging Boundaries
Implementation Case Studies
Green Streets for Sustainable Communities
Symposium in the Memory of Joseph "Joe" Kott, Ph.D
9:00 am
Introduction. Review Three Part Series
~ Yoriko Kishimoto
Keynote Speaker
Public Life, Public Health and Post Covid19 Streets for People
~ John Bela, Partner, Gehl San Francisco
Public Space Designer, Urbanist, Sculptor
Q&A
Implementation:
Working Together to Bring the Vision to Fruition
Moderator ~ Marianna Grossman, Minerva Ventures and
Vice President,
Transportation Choices for Sustainable Communities
Oakland:
Oakland’s Slow Streets and Essential Places: Implementing and Adapting a Covid-19 Transportation Agency Response to Advance Health and Equity
~ Megan Wier, Safe Streets Division Manager, City of Oakland
Palo Alto:
Improving Collaboration and Community Engagement
~ Holly Boyd and Sylvia Star-Lack, City of Palo Alto
San Jose:
Multi-benefit Green Street Projects: Optimizing Solutions
for Community Needs and Cost Effectiveness
~ Jeff Sinclair, City of San Jose
BREAK
Visionary Green Streets Master Plans
San Mateo Sustainable Streets Master Plan:
Prioritization of Projects, Community Outreach, Climate Modeling, Project Concepts and Illustrations
~ Matt Fabry, Manager,
San Mateo Countywide Water Pollution Prevention Program (C/CAG)
Stanford University:
Holistic Campus Management Supporting Integrated Design
for Traffic Calming, Stormwater Management, Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety
~ Cathy Deino Blake, Chief Landscape Architect, Stanford
Mountain View North Bayshore Specific Plan:
A New Paradigm for a Whole Area, Using a Specific Plan,
Green Complete Streets, Incentives for Ecology Improvements, Storm Water, Transportation Management Association
~ Josh Mello, District Transportation Lead for Mountain View Google
~ Martin Alkire, Principal Planner, City of Mountain View
Panel Discussion and Q&A
11:55 – 12:00
Next Steps and Closing Remarks
~ Marianna Grossman
Welcome and Summary of First and Second Sessions,
Introduction of Day 3
~ Marianna Grossman
Keynote Speaker
Vision for Transforming California’s Transportation Future
~ Toks Omishakin,
Director of CA Dept. of Transportation
Q&A
Moderater ~ Yoriko Kishimoto
How to Pay for It
Caltrans Sustainable Transportation Planning Grant Program
~ Theresa Romell,
Metropolitan Transportation Commission, One Bay Area Grants Program
~ Peter Skinner, Director, Grants and Fund Management
San Mateo County Transportation Authority
BREAK
Investing for Sustainability: Funders’ View
Moderator ~ Josh Bradt, San Francisco Estuary Partnership
~ Becky Frank,
Bringing it All Together: Local Perspectives on Advancing and Funding a New Vision for Streets
Investing for Sustainability : Applicants Point of View
Moderator ~ Matt Fabry, C/CAG
Re-thinking City Budgets in Post-COVID World
~ Kimbra McCarthy,
Mountain View City Manager
~ Aaron Aknin,
Co-Principal Good City Company, Former Assistant City Manager Redwood City, Former Planning and Community Development Director
11:30 – 12:00
Galvanizing Transformational Change for Sustainable Communities: Dialogue for Next Steps ~ moderated by Yoriko Kishimoto and Marianna Grossman
Presentation
Presentation by Robin Grossinger
Presentation by Alison Hicks
Presentation by Erica Spotswood
Presentation by Jill Bicknell
Presentation by Jessica Zenk
Presentation by Gita Dev
Video Presentation
Presentation by Holly Boyd and Sylvia Star-Lack
Presentation by Megan Wier
Video
Presentation by Jeff Sinclair
Presentation by Matt Fabry
Presentation by Cathy Deino Blake
Presentation by Josh Mello
Day 3 Thursday, October 8, 2020
Where the (Green) Rubber Hits the Road: Funding Sustainable Green Streets
Presentation by Toks Omishakin
Presentation by Caltrans
Presentation by Theresa Romell
Presentation by Peter Skinner