City of Raleigh Holding Urban Design Education Forums

Jayne Kirkpatrick, Director, Public Affairs
Prepared by: John Boyette, Senior Public Affairs Specialist

For more information: Trisha Hasch, Urban Design Center, 919-996-4641

Oct. 4, 2013

City of Raleigh Holding Urban Design Education Forums

Want to learn about and discuss issues affecting Raleigh today as the City plans for its future? The public is invited to attend the City of Raleigh’s next round of Urban Design Education Forums, sponsored by the City’s Urban Design Center, an office of the City’s Planning and Development section. The overall theme of these forums is “Raleigh 2025 ---What’s Downtown Got to Do With It?”

The forums will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Urban Design Center, located at 220 Fayetteville St. (same location as the Raleigh City Museum). All the forums are free.

The following is the schedule for the Urban Design Education Forums with the topic and guest speaker for that day’s session. Each session also will include a question-and-answer session:

• Oct. 23 --- “The Great American Downtown-2025.” Presenter will be Mitchell Silver, chief planning and development officer for the City of Raleigh;
• Oct. 30 --- “Urban Forestry-Sustainable Street Tree Requirements for New Development.” Presenters will be Sally Thigpen and Zac Manor, both with the City of Raleigh Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department;
• Nov. 13 --- “Future Food Raleigh: Feeding the Metropolis.” Presenter will be Erin White, founder of Community Food Lab and lecturer in architecture at North Carolina State University;
• Dec. 4 --- “Jobs + Talent 2025.” Presenters will be James Sauls, director of economic development for the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, and Derrick Minor, the City’s innovation and entrepreneurship manager;
• Jan. 15 --- “Raleigh’s Hidden Water: Piped Creeks Revealed.” Presenter will be Carla Radoslovich Delcambre, assistant professor at N.C. State University’s College of Design;
• Jan. 22 --- “Is Housing a Choice.” Presenters will be Gregg Warren, president and executive director of DHIC Inc., which provides affordable housing in the area; and Roland Gammon, founder of White Oak Properties and a DHIC board member;
• Feb. 5 --- “Stormwater in Raleigh: Time for an Upgrade?” Presenter will be Kevin Boyer, engineer in the City of Raleigh Stormwater Utility Division;
• Feb. 12 --- “Back to the Future in Raleigh.” Presenter will be Eric Lamb, manager of the City of Raleigh Transportation Planning Office;
• March 19 --- “Ten Years Out: How Shall Downtown Living Be for Children, Families and Elders?” Presenter will be Anne Franklin with Downtown Living Advocates, a citizens group focused on issues of interest to Downtown Raleigh residents;
• April 23 --- “Population Growth, Sustainability and the Need for Urban Greenspace.” Presenter will be Danesha Seth Carley, assistant professor in the Department of Crop Science at N.C. State University;
• May 21 --- “Downtown: An Engine for Wake County’s Tourism Strategy.” Presenters will be David Diaz, president and CEO of Downtown Raleigh Alliance, and Julie Brakenbury, director of services at the Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau; and,
• June 18 --- “The Future of Solid Waste Management in Raleigh.” Presenter will be Bianca Howard, community education specialist for the City of Raleigh Solid Waste Services Department.

Architects, landscape architects and planners may earn education credits for attending any of the Urban Design Education Forums. For more information about the forums, visit the City of Raleigh’s website at www.raleighnc.gov/urbandesign or contact Trisha Hasch at the City’s Urban Design Center, 919-996-4641, or email trisha.hasch@raleighnc.gov.