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Choose or Lose, Sustainable Communitees vs. Sprawl
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 96 19:29:41 From: kenneth.ryan@sfsierra.sierraclub.org Subject: Choose or Lose, Sustainable Communitees vs. Sprawl
** CHOOSE OR LOSE **
Choose or Lose: Sustainable Communities vs. Sprawl
Hosted by the Sierra Club's California Nevada Region
Rancho El Chorro, San Luis Obispo Friday night through Sunday noon September 6 through 8, 1996
"Choose or Lose" is a major event hosted by the California/Nevada Region designed to provide skills training for activists while focusing on one of our major environmental problems, the sprawling growth that is now displacing farmland and open space throughout the country. Though there will be an emphasis on working under the governmental structures of this region, many of the skills and ideas we'll be focusing on are applicable anywhere. We do have a few participants coming from as far away as Maryland. If there are others interested in coming from afar, we would welcome them with open arms.
What to expect--
You will:- Learn activist's skills while focusing special attention on taming sprawl.- Meet activists from all sorts of communities working to tame sprawl.- Revel in the bucolic setting nestled amongst the Morros near San Luis Obispo.
Enclosed here you will find the agenda followed by a catalog of trainers and finally by a registration form. An attached memo describes in somewhat more detail the workshops specifically focused on sprawl.
AGENDA:
Friday evening the Regional Gathering folks arrive and join in dinner and informal socializing. Hiking under the stars is choice.
Saturday:
8:00-10:30 Organizing strategy, strategic planning, media-- everyone together Presenters: Mike Paparian, Barbara Boyle
10:30-11:30 Basic training concurrent workshops a. Lobbying political, Linda Barr and Randy Levine b. Conservation outings, Vicky Hoover c. Navigating the Club. d. Tell it with Print: graphic artist and editor John Barry shares his expertise on producing effective print materials, from brochures to newsletters.
11:30-12:30 Sprawl concurrent workshops (see separate memo for more details) a. Local land use initiative campaigns b. Using the general plan process to protect your community c. Beating an individual development
12:30- 1:30 Lunch
1:30- 2:30 Concurrent workshops (RCC members have their own meeting) a. Lobbying political b. Conservation outings c. Navigating the Club d. Tell it with Print
2:30- 4:30 Media. Presenters: Elysa Rosen
5:00- 5:45 Happy hour (RCC and Regional Gathering join to become everyone)
5:45- 7:15 Dinner (everyone)
7:30- 8:45 Panel discussion: Building Liveable Communities, the Alternative to Sprawl. Panelists: Jim Sayer, Terry Watt, Bob Schneider, John Hopkins
Sunday (RCC members do their own thing)
8:00- 9:00 Sprawl, repeat of the three concurrent workshops.
9:00-10:30 Under organizers' guidance, break-out groups work on action plans.
10:30-12:00 View the CCC in action or go hiking.
12:00- 1:00 Buffet lunch, departure
Monday Begin implementing action plans.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TRAINERS:- Julia Bott is Conservation Director of the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club where she has done yeoman work to qualify several initiatives for this year's ballot.- Marcia Hanscom is the organizer and Debbie Cook the attorney leading the fight against a massive development threatening the Bolsa Chica wetlands in Orange County.- Rachael Hooper & Rich Taylor are legal eagles with Shute, Mihaley & Weinberger, the public interest law firm that has represented the Sierra Club in more cases than any other firm save for Sierra Club Legal Defense. Their work has included drafting and or defending a number of land use initiatives throughout California. Rachel gave the oral arguments in the successful Supreme Court defense of the Napa growth control measure.- Terry Watt is a professional planner based in San Francisco who has done extensive work with citizens' groups. She was one of the charter members of the Club's Sustainable Communities Committee.- Pat Veesart is a member of the San Luis Obispo Planning Commission and is chair of the Club's Santa Lucia chapter.- John Holtzclaw is another member of the Club's Sustainable Communities Committee and one of the Sierra Club's preeminent transportation and land use experts.- Vicky Hoover must have inherited John Muir's genes. She is the Club's leading advocate (an appointed role) and exemplar of blending outings with environmental action.- Linda Kropp is another legal eagle. She represents the Environmental Defense Center in Santa Barbara, guarding against all manner of environmental insult along California's Central Coast.- Elyssa Rosen now runs the Club's Salmon Forever campaign, but she has a degree in journalism and has served as a newspaper assignment desk editor. Since turning to activism, she has shown a considerable knack for eliciting good coverage in even the toughest media markets.- John Barry is the editor of the Planet, the Club's activist newspaper. His expertise is in coupling text with graphic arts tools to create compelling publications from action alerts to newsletters.- Mike Paparian and Barbara Boyle are respectively the Political Director and the Staff Director for the National Club's California/Nevada/Hawaii Field Staff. Both have oodles of experience as political and conservation campaign organizers.- Linda Barr is a legislative representative in the Club's Sacramento office. She preceded Julia Bott as the Conservation Coordinator for the Loma Prieta Chapter.- Bob Schneider is a member of the Sierra Club California California Executive Committee. He is one of the driving forces behind California Duck Days. He's also a member of Building Industry Professionals for Environmental Responsibility which is working to promote acceptance (if not embrace) of environmental concerns by the building industry.- John Hopkins is a former academic and biodiversity activist who now runs the Institute for Ecological Health, which promotes land use solutions to growth pressures, seeking to provide for people and nature.- Randy Levine is the campaign manager for the independant expenditure campaign that the Club is running in the 22nd Congressional District.
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For more information, contact Bonnie Sharpe (714) 528-9596, Lorraine Unger (805) 323-5569, Ladd Seekins (909) 825-4427, Tim Frank (818) 799-6744, or Vicky Hoover (415) 977-5527.
REGISTRATION
The $75 registration fee includes the training workshops, six meals and two nights accommodation at Rancho El Chorro (rustic, the cabins have bunk beds with mattresses only, you need to bring a sleeping bag. There is also pleanty of open space in which to pitch a tent.) Register and pay by August 30 to avoid a $10 late registration fee.
Send your check for $75 payable to "Sierra Club California" together with the information below to "Stop Sprawl," Ives Community Office, 112 Harvard Ave., Claremont, CA 91711-4716.
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Name: ____________________________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________________ Telephones: ______________________________________________________________ Affiliation: _____________________________________________________________ Do you want help with car pooling? _______________________________________ Time of arrival__________ (Registration starts at 5 PM Friday, but you may arrive later) Time of departure __________ (Lunch ends at 1 PM, but you may leave earlier.) Vegetarian meals? Yes or no? _____________ (May include dairy products.)
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Stop Sprawl! Regional Gathering of the Calitornia/Nevada Sierra Club San Luis Obispo, September 6 - 8, 1996
Outline for Urban Sprawl Concurrent Workshops
Central Theme: Implementing a grass-roots vision for sustainable communities by containing urban sprawl.
Workshop 1: The General Plan
Moderator (Terry Watt): Introduces topic, speakers, creates context, directs questions
Panelist 1 (Rich Taylor): The General Plan as a Tool for Defining the Vision
-- Legal aspects of General Plans that make them a central tool for implementing an Urban Sprawl program. -- Planning techniques to combat sprawl: UGBs, Infill policies, commercial/residential designations etc.
Panelist 2 (Pat Veesart): Participating in the General Plan Process
-- How activists can monitor and influence general plan policies. -- Typical developer tricks and how to avoid them. -- "Takings" -- The importance of potential litigation/exhasution of remedies.
Panelist 3 (John Holtzclaw): Regional Transportation Plans (RTPs) -- Linking transit and land-use planning. -- How RTPs controll state and federal road expenditures. -- The importance of promoting transit and infil analysis, and transit alternatives analysis in RTPs. -- How activists can help shape regional transportation plans.
Workshop 2: The Local Land Use Initiative
Moderator: (Linda Kropp) Introduces topic, speakers, creates context, directs questions
Panelist 1 (Rachel Hooper): Initiatives as a Tool for Defining the Vision
-- Legal aspects of Initiatives that make them a central tool for implementing an Urban Sprawl program (e.g., voter approval requirement to avoid future backpedaling on anti-sprawl commitments).
-- Overview of Legal Requirements for Initiatives
-- Effective initiative drafting
Panelist 2 (Julia Bott): The Initiative Campaign -- How to organize an initiative campaign: Coalition building, press relations, anticipating the opposition, fundraising, FPPC requirements.
Workshop 3: Beating an Individual Project (Marcia Hanscom & Debbie Cook)
-- Avoiding the crisis alltogether -- Using the local political process -- Using the courts -- Waging a multi-dimensional campaign ```
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