News 2007

Final Slate of Presenters Announced

The planning committee for Plain Talk on Quality Growth has announced the complete slate of panelists and moderators for the conference panel discussions on March 30 at the Knoxville Convention Center.

These expert panelists will address how communities can work together to achieve smart growth in their communities. Their goal is to help participants understand how local circumstances can and must be taken into consideration in making development and policy decisions and to share successful strategies.

Markets, Economy and Development Panel
Moderator: Rick Meredith, Assistant Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development

Daniel Carter, Principal Investigator, Cumberland Plateau Land-Use Policy Project, Tennessee Wildlife Federation
John Gumpert, President, Camden Management Partners
Keith Schneider, Editor and Director of Program Development, Michigan Land Use Institute
Paul S. Williams, Director, Marketplace Institute, Regent College, Vancouver, Canada

Community, Environment, and Health Panel
Moderator: Paul Sloan, Deputy Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation

Roy Arthur, Knox County Watershed Coordinator
Wayne Davis, Associate Dean, College of Engineering, University of Tennessee; Chair, Knox County Air Pollution Control Board; Member, Tennessee State Air Quality Board
Lawrence Frank, J. Armand Bombardier Chairholder in Sustainable Transportation Systems, Centre for Human Settlements, School of Community and Regional Planning and Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia.
Ron Townley, Senior Planner and Solid Waste/Brownfields Team Leader, Land-of-Sky Regional Council, Western North Carolina

Transportation and Land Use Panel
Moderator: Ed Cole, Chief of Environment and Planning, Tennessee Department of Transportation

Geoff Anderson, Director, EPA Development, Community, and Environment Division; Leader of EPA’s Smart Growth Network initiative
Anne Canby, President, Surface Transportation Policy Project
John Inglish, General Manager, Utah Transit
Todd Litman, Founder and Executive Director, Victoria Transport Policy Institute, Canada

Sustainable and Healthy Buildings Panel
Moderator: Mack Caldwell, AIA, LEED AP, Professor, College of Architecture, University of Oklahoma

Claire Barnett, Executive Director, Healthy Schools Network
Zaida Basora, AIA, Assistant Director of Administration and Architectural Services, City of Dallas; President of Dallas/Fort Worth Electric Consumer Coalition; Board Member U.S. Green Building Council
Jeff Christian, Director, Buildings Technology Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mark DeKay, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee School of Architecture