This webinar will provide attendees with ideas and solutions for getting projects implemented through creative coalitions and engagement activities.
Presented by:
June 11, 2020
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Pacific Time) {more time zones}
Cost:
FREE for membersNote:
Closed Captioning is available for this webinar.
The California Trails and Greenways webinar series is offered in coordination with California State Parks and the California Trails Conference Foundation, with content selected from the California Trails and Greenways 2020 program.
The webinar series is offered FREE to the trails community THANKS TO the generous support of:
About this webinar:
Because of their broad appeal, tangible benefits, and capacity for direct and immediate impacts, trails provide unique opportunities to tap into community passion to contribute to and shape civic decisions. In developing the Mariposa Creek Parkway Master Plan, the planning team leveraged this potential, applying innovative stakeholder engagement techniques and building a diverse partnership of local organizations to ensure an inclusive, holistic, and implementable trail master plan.
This partnership approach, highlighted by nonprofit organizations and government agencies committed to economic development, public health, environmental conservation, and public art, both shaped the project’s goals, and enabled the planning process to reach a broad array of stakeholders. Using community outreach strategies that encouraged hands-on participation and place-based engagement, the project team collected substantive feedback from a diverse cross-section of the community, including stakeholders who have historically been marginalized by similar planning efforts.
This compelling process produced valuable insights into the community’s vision and preferences for the trail. Perhaps more importantly, it generated widespread ownership of and momentum for project implementation. The interactive, partnership-driven approach will ultimately result in a public space that addresses a range of community priorities and objectives, and has a deeper impact on the community and region.
Mikey Goralnik, AICP, PLA, Community Design and Development Planner, Mariposa County Planning Department
Mikey Goralnik, AICP, PLA is the Community Design and Development Planner at the Mariposa (CA) County Planning Department. In this role, he manages interdisciplinary community planning and design initiatives, including parks, recreation, and creative placemaking programs, and projects that blend economic development, ecological design, and public health. He has a BA in American Studies from Tufts University, a MA in City and Regional Planning from UNC-Chapel Hill, and a MA in Landscape Architecture from North Carolina State University.
Contact: Email: [email protected]
Andrew Dawson, PLA, ASLA, Associate, WRT, LLC
With a background in physical geography, Andy has an MCP and MLA from the University of Pennsylvania, and his work revolves around navigating the scale shifts between these complementary disciplines. Andy works with the landscape architecture group in both of WRT’s offices, guiding strategic approaches to projects and teams. He is currently managing the implementation of a 3-acre public park in Pittsburgh, a 4-acre institutional landscape outside Philadelphia, and a 4-mile trail master plan the Sierra Nevada, along with numerous projects in the Bay Area. His project interests span from urban to rural, coast to interior, always with an attention to local context and place.
Contact: [email protected]
We are offering closed captioning for our webinars, thanks to a partnership with VZP Digital. If you are in need of this service, please email us prior to the webinar. An unedited transcript will be sent to all attendees following the webinar.
American Trails is proud to be a certified provider of the following learning credits and continuing education opportunities:
Learning credits are included in the registration fee, free for our sponsored webinars, or a $15 fee for our free webinars without a sponsor.
Our typical 90-minute webinars earn the following credits: AICP (1.5 CM), LA CES (1.5 PDH), and NRPA CEU equivalency petition (0.10).
While we may individually agree (or disagree) in whole or in part with any or all of the participants, the views expressed in these webinars are not necessarily representative of the views of American Trails as an organization or its board and staff.
