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Walk Audit Workshops on May 21 and 22 with Dan Burden |
Friends of Midcoast Maine and the Towns of Thomaston and Camden will be hosting Dan Burden, the "walkability guru" on May 21 and 22, 2012. The workshops will include Walk Audits, led by Dan Burden of the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute (www.walklive.org). Since 1996, Dan has personally helped 3,500 communities throughout the world become more livable and walkable.
In Thomaston, "A Community Workshop - Sidewalks, Streets, and Stores: Ideas for a Thriving Downtown" will be held on Monday, May 21 at 3:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., beginning at Watts Hall in downtown Thomaston. Please join us in this workshop to share your ideas and explore potential improvements to Thomaston's downtown to improve retail life, downtown walkability, traffic flow and social interaction.
In Camden, "Making it Happen: A Walkable Downtown that Creates Economic Vitality" will be held at the Washington Street Conference Room in The Town Hall. This interactive, hands-on workshop is designed to turn recommendations into action. A walkable downtown enhances job creation, social interaction, and the economic vitality of a community. Building upon the goals and recommendations in Camden's Downtown Master Plan, workshop leader Dan Burden of the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute will take participants on a "walk audit" of Camden, and explore ways to improve existing conditions.
Participants will leave with specific ideas to put into action and tools to take back to their own communities. The fee is free for Camden and Thomaston residents, business owners and tax payers and $10/day for everyone else and includes a light dinner on Monday and a light lunch on Tuesday. Call 236-1077 to reserve a spot. On-line registration available soon. |
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Midcoast Maine Featured at National Planning Conference in LA |
Building Community through Collaborations, Public Engagement, Place-Making and Policy
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Friends of Midcoast Maine Director Jane Lafleur joined the Ariana McBride of Orton Family Foundation, Paul Dreher of dreherdesign and Gary Toth of the Project for Public Spaces to present the work of their collaborative efforts in Lincolnville and Belfast Maine. Their talk was attended by over 250 planners from throughout the US and the world. The cutting edge approach of community engagement, heart and soul visioning, quantitative and qualitative measurements and policy changes merged to present a powerful package for use by community members and planners everywhere. For more information, or to bring these tools to your community, contact Friends of Midcoast Maine at info@friendsmidcoast.org.
Paul Dreher of dreherdesign works with workshop participants in Belfast Maine.
Shown here are Gary Toth of PPS, Jane Lafleur of FMM and Ariana McBride of the Orton Family Foundation. |
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Friends of Midcoast Maine continues it work in the midcoast because of members and donors like you. We rely on your generosity to run our workshops and programs and to provide tools to our citizens to strengthen our communities so they become vibrant prosperous places.
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Midcoast Maine featured in
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Publication |
Getting Community Input: A Better Way to Plan and Grow | What do the towns of Newport in Vermont and Damariscotta and Camden in Maine
have in common besides a waterfront? If you looked only at their economic profiles, |
| Community Building Videos Available on Line | 3 Videos Available On-Line
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Did you watch the three videos produced by Friends of Midcoast Maine this past winter? They focus on the workshops held this past October in Belfast and Lincolnville Center, Maine and feature tools you can use in your town to build better communities. From Values Based Planning to Place-Making and Form Based Codes, these tools combine into a robust assessment of community and place, and work
The Dollars and Sense of Preserving Community Character" with Ed McMahon is also available. Enjoy! |
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Jane Lafleur, Executive Director
Friends of Midcoast Maine
5 Free Street, Camden, Maine 04843
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