Only a few spaces remain....Register Today! Space is Limited!
Learn a set of new tools for making great places and building community.
From Place Making to Policy Changes through Public Engagement and New Partnerships
October 11 in Lincolnville Center and
October 12 in Downtown Belfast, Maine
8:30 am registration. Workshop 9 am to 3 pm. Lunch included.
Many planning initiatives either never get implemented or lead to erosion of local identity. How can focusing on placemaking facilitate implementation of plans and policy that reinforce and build strong, vibrant communities?
Register today for this free workshop focusing on placemaking, streets as places, and
using codes and a robust public process to build community.
You will learn...
- new ways to engage the people in planning discussions and initiatives
- a proven approach to making great places
- new policy initiatives to build community while identifying community priorities.
Using the small village of Lincolnville Center on Day One
and the City of Belfast on Day Two as the laboratory, workshop leaders from the Project for Public Spaces, The Orton Family Foundation and Friends of Midcoast Maine will conduct a hands-on set of field exercises and interactive discussions to help communities evaluate places and spaces and learn how places shape behaviors.
A form based code is one tool that can help a community enhance their existing assets to create the "bones" for a walkable, healthy community and set the table for livability and sustainability. Placemaking can help put the "meat" on the bones, activating well framed spaces and turning them into places of social and economic exchange. By adding the notion of "upside down planning" and building "the community as the expert", this workshop will begin the discussions so communities can figure out what behaviors they want to encourage, promote and facilitate and allow for that to happen.
This workshop is open to everyone, from all midcoast communities...young and older, planners, code enforcement officers, town managers, selectmen, comprehensive plan committee members, conservation commission members, developers, business owners, downtown organizations, regional planners, designers, and community members who care about the future of their communities and the midcoast and want to create vibrant, great places
Sponsored by Friends of Midcoast Maine and the Orton Family Foundation. Free to all participants. Pre-registration is required.
Register for one or both days! Register On-Line Today!
