Let s Get Rolling on SAFE STREETS

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1 Let s Get Rolling on SAFE STREETS 2015 Active Transportation Forum Friday, October 16, :00 a.m. - 6:30p.m. The University Club, University of California, Irvine Registration HERE 7:00-8:30 a.m. Pre- Conference City Walk Audit with Mark Fenton Meet in Santa Ana (Warner and Main St.) to experience a walk audit with Mark Fenton, morning plenary keynote speaker. You ll learn observe the built environment, as well as how to plan and facilitate a walk audit for community safety, engagement, education, planning, and inspiration. Sign Up HERE: Registration is limited! 9:00-9:30 a.m. Forum Check-In and Continental Breakfast 9: 30-9:50 a.m. Welcome to UC Irvine & Forum Overview: Barry Ross, Chair, Alliance for a Healthy Orange County (AHOC) & Oladele A. Ogunseitan, PhD, MPH, Professor of Public Health, UC Irvine 9:50 11:10 a.m. Opening Keynote: Transforming OC Streets into Complete Streets: What s needed to make this a reality? Following our morning walk audit, keynote Mark Fenton will engage elected officials and the complete streets consultant to illuminate issues observed during the walk, identify common challenges faced by every community, and inspire us all to begin the process of systemic change necessary to a healthy, happy, prosperous, and sustainable urban environment. With Mark as our guide, we'll come away with the big picture and collaborative spirit for a new millennium Orange County. Keynote Speaker: Mark Fenton, public health, planning, and transportation consultant, and adjunct associate professor at Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

2 Local Orange County Examples Speakers Panel 11:10-11:25 a.m. Break Steve Jones, City of Garden Grove Mayor Pro Tem and open streets events advocate Lisa Buchanan and Leslie Scott, project consultants for the Orange County Council of Governments Orange County Complete Streets Initiative, under development as a resource for cities interested in complete streets policies and implementation. 11:25-12:25 p.m. Session 1: The Role and Responsibility of key policy-making agencies in active transportation implementation. We welcome SCAG, OCTA, CalTrans, and OCCOG to the table. Who are those agencies and how do they affect complete streets implementation regionally? Learn directly from each organization about its role in bike/ped plans, safe routes to school, congestion management plans, OC s Master Plan of Arterial Highways, and the upcoming Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy. Moderator: Bill Sadler, Safe Routes to School National Partnership Panelists: Hasan Ikhrata from SCAG, Darrell Johnson from OCTA, Marnie Primmer, Interim Exec Director, OCCOG, and Lan Zhou, Deputy Director of Planning and Local Assistance, CalTrans District 12 12:25 1:25 p.m. Buffet Lunch Provided

3 1:25 2:25 p.m. Session 2: Business Benefits of Active Transportation and Creative Funding to make it Happen More and more studies connect economic development with active transportation, documenting the necessity of urban infrastructure to create, enhance, and sustain local economies. 2:25-2:35 p.m. Break This session showcases increasing evidence of the economic impact created by active transportation. Emphasis is on important creative partnerships that unite sources of revenue without Congressional commitment to long-term transportation funding. In this session, speakers will address how cities are: leveraging impact fees, ballot initiatives, user fees, and developer agreements to enable walk/bike/transit modes using MAP-21 via partnership with state and federal governments Moderator: Rock Miller, P.E. Panelists: Chad Spoon, MPR, Communications Manager, Active Living Research, Huasha Liu, Planning Director from SCAG, Mike Balsamo, Building Industry Association of Orange County

4 2:35-3:35 p.m. Session 3: Integrating Health Equity and Environmental Justice into the Active Transportation implementation process! 3:35-3:50 p.m. Break Panelists countywide discuss the benefits of unifying policies from transportation, equity, health, & environmental justice. We ll highlight performance measures, ATP Cycle 2 s definition of disadvantaged communities, and the role of the Federal government in funding, partnerships, and new tools measuring transportation impacts on the built environment. Moderator: Amy Buch, Orange County Health Care Agency Panelists: Tony Dang, California Walks, Barry Ross, N. Orange County Coalition/OC-PICH, Dolores Barrett, OC-PICH, Alex Green, Santa Ana Active Streets (SAAS) 3:50-4:05 p.m. Stitching It All Together: Mark Fenton and AHOC Call-To- Action 4:05-5:15 p.m. Afternoon Keynote: Roadway Safety Action Plan Vision Zero Leah Shahum, Founder & Director, Vision Zero Network, discusses the national campaign to bring pedestrians and bicyclists injuries and fatalities to zero through comprehensive safety action planning. Safe road design is a necessity for cities to be livable, sustainable communities. Vision Zero Network founder/director Leah Shahum discusses how to move forward safely and equitably with a roadway culture of empathy via best practices, education, and law enforcement. Santa Ana will be highlighted as the first OC city to create a Vision Zero Roadway Safety Action Plan and SCAG will explain its Safety and Encouragement regional campaign.

5 Intro: Stephen Patchen, Sr. Regional Planner, SCAG Local Example Speakers: Santa Ana, Councilwoman Michele Martinez 5:15-6:00 p.m. Networking Reception 6:00-6:30 p.m. Awards Policymaker: O.C. Supervisor Shawn Nelson, Bikeway Advocate Public Agency: Orange County Council of Governments (OCCOG) Private Sector: David Hanson, Owner, JAX Bicycles Community/Grassroots Organization: Santa Ana Active Streets