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Smart Growth Listserv

The Office of Smart Growth maintains a listserv to help keep Colorado communities up to date on the latest conferences, workshops, grant programs, position vacancies, RFQs and RFPs, and more. Join the listserv to receive this information via e-mail. See the most recent listserv message below.

Listserv Message for July 2, 2009

 
Included in this message:

1) CWCB Survey on Land Use Planning and Water Demand (complete by July 10)
2) Downtown Institute Training and Other DCI Events (various dates, including "Social Media" Workshop July 10th and Governor's Awards Nominations due July 27th)
3) GEO's High Performance Building Workshop (various dates and locations starting in July)
4) Lt. Governor's Kids and Outdoors Forums (various dates and locations)
5) Co. Redevelopment Network's "Redevelopment Workshop," July 15 (Cañon City)
6) DRCOG/DOLA/APA Co Planning Commission Training, Saturday, Aug. 8 (Denver)
7) 2009 Annual COSA Conference, Sept. 21-23 (Breckenridge)
8) ASDWA Water Availability, Variability, and Sustainability Workshop, Sept. 29-Oct. 1 (Denver)
9) Water Smart Innovations Conference, Oct. 7-9 (Las Vegas)
10) APA Colorado's Annual Conference, Oct. 7-10 (Estes Park)
11) CRDC's Colorado Entrepreneurship MarketPlace, Oct. 9 (Grand Junction)
12) Housing Colorado NOW! Conference, Oct. 13-16 (Breckenridge)
13) 20th Annual Headwaters Conference, Nov. 7-8 (Gunnison)
14) Community Matters 2009, Nov. 10-12, 2009 (Denver) Postponed until 2010
15) Brownfields 2009: Sustainable Communities Start Here, Nov. 16-18 (New Orleans)
16) DOLA website for Census 2010 Information for Local Governments

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Colorado Water Conservation Board's Survey on Land Use Planning and Water Demand (complete by July 8)

In preparation for the Western States Water Council’s September 28th – 30th Symposium in Denver on “Scaling and Integrating Water and Land Use Planning,” the Colorado Water Conservation Board is conducting a survey. The primary purpose is to determine what current land use planning practices within the state of Colorado are reducing future per capita water demands. Because many of you are familiar with this topic, we would like to learn about your experiences and opinions. The survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. No identifying information will be attached to your
responses.

The Center for Systems Integration is the consultant for the project. If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail Lyn Kathlene.

Take the Survey

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Downtown Institute Training and Other Downtown Colorado Inc Events

The 2009 Downtown Institute is shaping up to be an excellent series, which started with "Designing Downtown," Castle Rock, January 30, 2009.  

July 10:   Downtown Institute, Promotion - Social Media, Berthoud
July 27: Governor’s Awards for Downtown Excellence Nominations Due
Sept 23-25: 2009 DCI Annual Conference, Colorado Springs
Sept 24: Governor’s Awards for Downtown Excellence, Colorado Springs
Nov 13:  Downtown Institute, Building Business Downtown, Loveland

Visit the DCI website, e-mail or call 303 282 0625.

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Planning Commissioner's Workshop

Denver Regional Council of Governments and the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, together with Colorado APA, are offering a full-day workshop for planning commisisoners. This workshop is dedicated to improving the knowledge base of both newly appointed and veteran local government planning commissioners.

Saturday, August 8th (830am to 3pm)
Held at DRCOG, 1290 Broadway (info coming about parking)
$75 registration fee (includes breakfast and lunch)

The workshop targets planning commissioners, but other appointed and elected officials and staff are also welcome. Space is limited to the first 70 registrants - so please register soon!

This conference will include three tracks:
1) Planning Commissioner Fundamentals
2) Regional Planning
3) Public Health and Planning

More information/Register

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Recovery Money Links

DOLA
State of Colorado
GEO
CML



 EPA
CDOT
Federal site

Rocky Mountain Climate Org.'s summary of federal ARRA for local govts. operating climate and energy programs

Help make this useful- send more sites to add

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Check these event calendars for what we missed:

Smart Growth Network's Smart Growth Online calendar
Colorado Chapter, American Planning Association calendar
Colorado Municipal League's events calendar (CML's summer conf. June 16-19 in Vail)
and Healthy Mountain Communities has regional information (news and events)
AWARE Colorado (statewide program focused on impacts of land use choices on water quality)
Colo. Alliance of Sustainable Business Associations (posts events of associations supporting sustainable business practices)
Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) training calendar
Colorado WaterWise Council - see calendar of events at the bottom of the page

Other local government workshops and training opportunities can be found on the Division of Local Government's website, which has links to training calendars of other agencies which serve local governments.

Did we miss something? E-mail us to add your event to our listserv. Please send the information with the date, title and contact information or web address.
We try to send the listserv message once per month, on average.