SNEAPA 2015 Program

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CONNECTICUT MASSACHUSETTS RHODE ISLAND
September 24th & 25th
CT Convention Center
100 Columbus Blvd #400
HARTFORD, CT
www.sneapa.org
#SNEAPA2015

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Table of Contents
Welcome from the Chairs!
Welcome to the 2015 Southern New England American
Planning Association (SNEAPA) regional conference. It seems
like just yesterday (although it’s been three years!) since
we were last here, at the Connecticut Convention Center in
Hartford. We hope you’ll take the time to get outside and
explore our capital city on foot. We think you’ll be impressed
with the changes since 2012, including the opening of
restaurants across the street on Front Street and the completed
Riverfront Plaza, connected to the Convention Center.
We will be featuring our keynote speaker, Peter Kageyama,
in a special opening session. Peter is a nationally-renowned
author with a focus on how to better engage the public in the
planning process.
In the spirit of change, we are trying a few new things at
the conference this year. Planners asked for more hands-on
activities, so a hard-working group of volunteers partnered with
the City of Hartford to conduct an all-day charrette during the
conference. The charrette focuses on a Hartford neighborhood
undergoing a transformation and will explore economic factors
and place-making. You can spend the whole day helping out or
drop in based on your schedule and interests (see page 15 for
details).
We also added a closing session to the conference this year,
where we will reconvene as a group and talk about what we’ve
learned. Are we as planners diverse and dynamic? Are we
helping to build diverse and dynamic places? We hope you’ll
ponder these questions and share your thoughts.
Lastly, we are having our first ever floating reception.
Attendees will partake in an early fall evening cruise on the
Connecticut River while enjoying appetizers, drinks, live music,
impressive sunset views and maybe a surprise. If you haven’t
already purchased your ticket, stop by the registration table to
see if extra tickets remain.
We hope you enjoy the 2015 SNEAPA conference and the City
of Hartford.
Heidi Samokar, Demian Sorrentino and Dan Tuba
2015 SNEAPA Co-Chairs
Inside this Program...
Conference Floor Plan | 4
Exhibitors + Sponsors | 5
Program at a Glance| 7
Conference Keynote | 9
Evening Reception | 11
Mobile Workshops | 13
SNEAPA Charrette | 15
Thursday Sessions | 16
Friday Sessions | 25
Student Activities | 31
Conference Committee | 34

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Conference Floor Plan
Registration, Breaks,
Exhibitor Space
Student
Poster
Displays
Sessions
Lunch
Program,
Keynote
Closing
Session
Mobile Workshop attendees will meet at ground floor lobby.

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2015 Sponsors, Exhibitors + Advertisers
We greatly appreciate the support provided by SNEAPA sponsors, exhibitors, and advertisers. Many of the firms
listed here have been long-time supporters, while others are joining us for the first time. Please be sure to visit
the exhibitor area and to thank these firms when you run into them!
2015 Exhibitors
Agrosci, Inc.
Applied Geographics, Inc.
Beals Thomas, Inc.
BETA Group
BL Companies
Border Concepts, Inc.
BSC Group
Camoin Associates, Inc.
CDM Smith
Citilabs
CT Chapter of the American Planning Association
City of Hartford, CT
ESS Group, Inc.
Fitzgerald Halliday, Inc.
Fuss O’Neill
Goman + York
Green International Affiliates, Inc.
GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.
Horsely Witten Group
Howard Stein Hudson
McMahon Associates
Parsons Brinckerhoff
River Street Planning Development, LLC
STV | DPM
Tighe Bond
Tri-State Flexi-Pave
VHB
Woodard Curran
2015 Sponsors
Premier
Freeman Companies
Nitsch Engineering
Robinson + Cole
DiPrete Engineering
PCA Prellwitz Chilinski Associates
Platinum
Beals Thomas, Inc.
Milone MacBroom
Murtha Cullina LLP
VHB
Gold
BL Companies
Fay, Spofford Thorndike
Goody Clancy
Shipman Goodwin
Stantec
Weston Sampson
Advertisers
BFJ Planning
Boundaries LLC

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Program at a Glance
Thursday, September 24th
8:00
9:00 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:15
10:15 - 11:15
11:30 - 12:45
12:45 - 2:15
2:15 - 3:45
3:45 - 4:00
4:00 - 5:15
6:00 - 8:00
2:15 - 5:00
Registration Opens
Morning Sessions
Break
Opening Keynote: Peter Kageyama
Morning Sessions
Lunch Program | Student Mentor Lunch
Afternoon Sessions
Break
Afternoon Sessions
Evening Reception
Mobile Workshop 2: Coltsville - A National Park in
the Making
Friday, September 25th
8:00
8:30 - 9:30
9:45 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:15
11:15 - 12:30
12:30 - 1:45
1:45 - 3:15
3:15 - 3:30
3:30 - 4:30
9:45 - 12:15
Registration Opens
Chapter Meetings
Morning Sessions
Break
Morning Sessions
Lunch Program
Afternoon Sessions
Break
Closing Session | Planner’s Happy Hour
Mobile Workshop 3: Get on the CTfastrak - the New
Britain/Hartford Busway
Wednesday, September 23rd
6:00 - 7:00pm Mobile Workshop 1: Walking Tour - Trek the Triangle

Geotechnical
Environmental
Ecological
Water
Construction Management
Air Quality | Aquatic Toxicity Laboratory
Buildings Services | Contractor Support
Dam Engineering | Water Resources
Flood Hazard Assessment Mitigation
Environmental Investigations Remediation
Environmental Regulatory Compliance
Environmental Studies Permitting
Infrastructure | Litigation Support
Marine Waterfront | Master Planning
Occupational Health Safety
Oil Gas Industry Support Services
Solid Waste
9 offices in Southern New England
27 Offices Nationwide
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Keynote Speaker: Peter Kageyama | CM 1.0
Peter Kageyama is the author of For the Love of Cities: The Love
Affair Between People and Their Places and the follow up, Love
Where You Live: Creating Emotionally Engaging Places. He is an
internationally sought-after community development consultant
and grassroots engagement strategist who speaks all over the
world about bottom-up community development and the amazing
people who are making change happen.
A 2009 Gallup study that looked at the levels of emotional
engagement people have with their communities found that just
24% of people were “engaged” with their community. Gallup
also found a significant relationship between how passionate
and loyal people are to their communities and local economic
growth. The most “attached” communities had the highest local
GDP growth. Despite this, it feels as though our places and our
leadership have forgotten how to connect with us emotionally and
our cities have suffered because of it.
This mutual love affair between people and their place is one of
the most powerful influences in our lives, yet we rarely think of it
in terms of a relationship. If cities begin thinking of themselves as
engaged in a relationship with their citizens, and if we as citizens
begin to consider our emotional connections with our places,
we open up new possibilities in community, social and economic
development by including the most powerful of motivators—the
human heart—in our toolkit of city-making.
Learn from Peter Kageyama:
• How to create more engaged citizens without major resources.
• The role of technology, particularly social media in our
relationship with our city and each other, and how it actually
builds social capital.
• Which cities are the “Most Lovable” and how we can learn
from them.
• How we fall in love with our cities.
• What works and what we don’t respond to.
• How a small number of people who are “in love” with their
city can have major impacts.
• What little things matter in the relationship with place making.
Peter Kageyama’s books will be available for purchase following
the session.
Conference Keynote
Keynote Speaker:
Peter Kageyama

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Evening Reception
Sunset River Cruise on the Connecticut River!
6:00pm - 8:00pm
All aboard for a one-of-a-kind experience down the Connecticut River! We’ll be taking the “Mystique” cruise
ship down the Connecticut River, leaving from Hartford. This cruise is a unique opportunity to access the
Connecticut River and enjoy historic landmarks and picturesque sites along the river banks. Join us for great
food, live music (featuring Hot Cat Jazz Band) and what is sure to be a memorable experience!
When: Thursday, September 24, 6:00 pm-8:00
pm (boarding begins at 6:00 for a prompt 6:30
departure)
Board at Riverfront Plaza, located just steps
from the Convention Center!
Sponsored By:
Ask at Registration if
additional tickets are
available | $40
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Convention Center Riverfront
Plaza

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MobileWorkshops
Wednesday, September 23rd:
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Tour Guide:
Jeff Cormier, East Hartford, CT
(formerly City of Hartford, CT)
MW 1: Walking Tour - Trek the Triangle
Kick-off your 2015 conference experience early by joining your
colleagues on a walking tour of the TIGER-funded Intermodal
Triangle Project in beautiful downtown Hartford. See first-hand
how this Project will strengthen the Capital Region’s economic
and employment core by improving downtown intermodal
connections within the Union Station-to-Main Street triangle
through creating transit hubs, transit priority streets, complete
green streets and streetscape improvements, “road diets”, and
the innovative iQuilt pedestrian network. Meet at the Marriott
Hotel lobby at 5:45PM. This one hour, one and one-half mile
walking tour starts promptly at 6:00 pm and will end at 7:00
pm on Front Street near the Convention Center/Marriott where
several restaurants are located. CM: 1, FREE!
Thursday, September 24th:
2:15pm - 5:00pm
Tour Guides:
Joanne Gangi-Wellman, Springfield
Armory National Historic Site, MA
Caitlin Palmer, City of Hartford, CT
MW 2: Coltsville - A National Park in the Making
Join planning colleagues, representatives from the U.S. National
Park Service and the City of Hartford for an interpretive
bus tour of Hartford’s Coltsville neighborhood, a designated
National Register Historic District, designated National Historic
Landmark, and soon to be National Historical Park. This mobile
workshop will explore this urban industrial community which
supported the Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company,
once the largest private armory in the world and the site of
unparalleled industrial innovation in precision manufacturing
and the utilization of assembly line production.
Workshop attendees will get a first-hand view of what remains
of this iconic neighborhood, and will be introduced to planned
improvements and identified opportunities for future economic
growth. Your tour guides will provide an inside look at the
planning process(es) involved in transforming this Historic
District into a National Historical Park, and an explanation of
the dynamic public/private partnerships that are turning the
collective Coltsville NHP vision into reality. Tour departs from
the Convention Center Atrium Lobby on the Ground Floor at
2:00pm and will return approximately 5:00 pm. CM: 2.5, ask
at registration if tickets are available, $20.

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MobileWorkshops
Friday, September 25th:
9:45am - 12:15pm
Tour Guides:
Tom Maziarz, CT Department of
Transportation
Michael Sanders, CT Department of
Transportation
Lyle Wray, Capitol Region Council of
Governments, CT
Todd Dumais, Town of West Hartford,
CT
Mark Moriarty, City of New Britain, CT
MW 3: Get on the CTfastrak - the New Britain/
Hartford Busway
Board a diesel hybrid CTfastrak bus and take a tour of the
recently operational New Britain/Hartford Bus Rapid Transit
(BRT) line. In 1997, the Capitol Region Council of Governments
(CRCOG), the Central Connecticut Regional Planning Agency
(CCRPA), and the Connecticut Department of Transportation
(CTDOT) conducted a multimodal study that examined a variety
of highway and transit improvements to provide improved
mobility and congestion relief as traffic increased along the
I-84 corridor. After detailed analysis and a comprehensive
public outreach program, the study recommended creation of
a bus transit system. The system is centered around an exclusive
9.4-mile long guideway dedicated to the BRT system that links
Central Connecticut communities including Bristol, Cheshire,
Hartford, New Britain, Manchester (Buckland Hills), Newington,
Southington, Waterbury and West Hartford. Project construction
began in 2012, CTfastrak opened for service in March, 2015
and is already exceeding ridership expectations.
The bus tour will make at least one stop at a West Hartford
station to learn about a transit-oriented, mixed-use, mixed-
income project proposal that includes 52 units of ground floor
retail and residential space. Participants will also learn about
the New Park Avenue Transit Area Complete Streets Study
which will focus on implementing a complete streets analysis and
redesign of infrastructure around the Flatbush and Elmwood
CTfastrak station areas to improve inter- and intra-town
pedestrian and bicycle access and connectivity. Tour departs
from the Convention Center Atrium Lobby on the Ground Floor
at 9:45 am and will return approximately 12:15 pm. CM: 2.5,
ask at registration if tickets are available, $20.

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SNEAPA Charrette
We’re trying something new and exciting at SNEAPA 2015! The SNEAPA Committee will be running a charrette
focused on a site in Hartford. The Charrette Program is intended to educate conference attendees on how to
conduct a charrette, share its benefits, and provide an opportunity to observe a working example. Additionally,
the real-world subject site provides an opportunity for conference attendees to give back to the community.
The charrette will focus on the northeast corner of Hartford, in an area referred to as Terry Square, located at
the intersection of Main Street and Windsor Avenue. Main Street includes a wide mix of retail establishments,
with an industrial/warehouse area to the east and residential single-family neighborhoods and apartments to the
west. Less than two miles to the south is downtown Hartford, with the new Yard Goat baseball stadium located
between the focus area and downtown. The area fits directly with the conference’s theme of Diverse Dynamic:
Planners Places. The area is described by ESRI Tapestry as City Commons: “This segment is one of Tapestry’s
youngest and largest markets, primarily comprised of single-parent and single-person households living within
large, metro cities. While more than a third have a college degree or spent some time in college, nearly a third
have not finished high school, which has a profound effect on their economic circumstance. However, that has not
dampened their aspiration to strive for the best for themselves and their children.”
Join one or more of the following charrette sessions:
So how do you pronounce it, spell and what is it? Charrettes 101 will kick off our special conference charrette
program with a panel presentation on charrettes with case studies. CM: 1
Thursday, 9:00-10:00am | A6:Charrettes 101
Wondering how you can participate in the SNEAPA charrette? Learn where are we going and what are we
doing during our charrette track at SNEAPA and how can you be involved. We will review the charrette focus
and have an initial discussion of issues and ideas.
Thursday, 11:30am - 12:45pm | B6: Overview of SNEAPA Charrette
We will begin our charrette on the subject area by discussing economic issues related to the site including
development opportunities, real estate issues, and demographics. CM: 1.5
Thursday, 2:15 - 3:45pm | C6: Focus on Economic Development
Next we explore how to design a place, zoning, urban design and planning issues related to the charrette
site. CM: 1.25
Thursday, 4:00 - 5:15pm | D6: Focus on Placemaking
Participants will take the work from Thursday’s ongoing charrette and learn how to create value from all of
the pieces.
Friday, 9:45 - 11:00am | E6: Putting the Pieces Together
Whether you participated in some, all or even none of the charrette track, come see the results of the
SNEAPA charrette!
Friday, 1:45 - 3:15pm | G6: Show and Tell

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Thursday Sessions
9:00 - 10:00am
Autonomous vehicles are on the way, but do we understand
what that means for our roadways, our public transit systems,
and our communities? This session will provide deeper exposure
to the implications of driverless vehicles, with a particular focus
on transit systems. CM: 1
Price Armstrong, AICP, MA Department
of Transportation
Shannon Greenwell, MA Department
of Transportation
Anna Gartsman, MA Department of
Transportation
A1: An Autonomous World: Planning the Future of Transit
This session will introduce the i-Tree software suite of tools
developed by the US Forest Service for inventory, analysis
and planning of green infrastructure in cities and towns. This
interactive session will demonstrate use of the tool during ‘live’
examples, using New England cities and towns. CM: 1
David V. Bloniarz, Ph.D., US Forest
Service
A2: A New Approach to Green Infrastructure Analysis Planning
First Impressions is a public participation and community
assessment tool used by hundreds of communities across the
US and Canada. Learn how you can integrate this innovative
program into existing planning processes to engage new
leaders, provide unique perspectives on community assessment
and encourage collaboration with other communities. CM: 1
Laura Brown, CED, University of
Connecticut
Daniel Eades, West Virginia University
A3: The First Impressions Program: Engaging New Audiences in
Community Assessment Improvement
There’s a growing urgency to plan for communities that
are undergoing a permanent and historic demographic
transformation: they are aging. This session discusses new tools,
data and models that planners and their partners can use to
shape communities that support residents across the lifespan.
CM: 1
Alyssa Norwood, JD, MPH, CT’s
Legislative Commission on Aging
Tia Murphy, AARP CT Livability
Volunteer
Erica Michalowski, MSW, AARP
A4: Shaping Livable Communities and Promoting Aging in Place: Is
Your Town Ready?

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Thursday Sessions
This session will look at form based codes in Hartford and
Simsbury, Connecticut. The codes differ in scale, timeline, and who
championed them. Planners will hear the different approaches
taken by the respective entities to develop, draft, and adopt the
form based code. CM: 1
Thomas Deller, AICP, City of
Hartford, CT
Leslie Oberholtzer, AICP, RLA,
LEED AP, Codametrics
Hiram Peck III, AICP, Town of
Avon, CT
A5: Diverse Places, Dynamic Solutions: Determing the Right Form-Based
Code Solution for Your Community
The word “charrette” is French for “cart” or “chariot”. At the École
des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the 19th century, it was not unusual for
student architects to work furiously up until a deadline, when a
charrette would be wheeled among the students to pick up their
work for review as the students, scrambling to complete their work
while loading it on the cart, were said to be working en charrette,
in the cart. This session will present an overview of the charrette
process for community planners. Learn how to organize a charrette,
what is accomplished during a charrette, and various applications
of the charrette process. Recent charrette examples will be
included. CM: 1
Francisco Gomes, AICP, Fitzgerald
Halliday, Inc.
A6: Charrette Track: Charrettes 101
The Metropolitan Area Planning Council offers new and changing
approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation. This fun,
interactive session will feature a talk-show format, guest interviews,
and games to express the value of addressing climate impacts on
vulnerable populations. CM: 1.25
Julie Conroy, AICP, Metropolitan Area
Planning Council, MA
Cameron Peterson, Metropolitan Area
Robert Stevens, City of Quincy, MA
Elizabeth Manning, City of Quincy, MA
B1: Climate Change Resiliency Today! Show
11:30am - 12:45pm
10:15am - 11:15am
Opening Keynote:
Peter Kageyama

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Thursday Sessions
Learn municipal use site selection skills in a charrette-style
format. Explore a current and complex problem in Brookline,
Massachusetts: identify a new elementary school site for a
municipality with significantly changing demographics. Topics
include GIS and assessors’ database analysis, concept planning,
construction cost estimating, permitting, and decision matrices.
CM: 1.25
Kara Brewton, Town of Brookline, MA
Susan Silberberg, Civic Moxie and MIT
B3: ExpandYour Land: Municipal Site Selection for Changing Demographics
This panel brings together professionals in architecture, planning
and public art who take a holistic approach to the design of
public places. They will synthesize new scientific research about
human behavior and explore atypical development practices
to create a new paradigm for more human-centered place-
making. CM: 1.25
Ann Sussman, AIA, Artscape
Dr. Christina Lanzl, Urban Culture
Institute
Robert Tullis, AIA, GID Urban
Development Group
Justin B. Hollander, PhD, AICP, Tufts
University
B4: Exploring New Paradigms for 21st Century-Placemaking
Learn how a threatened and beloved historical landmark, the
Ames Shovel Works, was saved and revitalized. See how a
consensus approach was utilized to leverage private and public
funding and community support. Learn about creative design
and engineering solutions used to overcome the many challenges
presented by this large-scale redevelopment project. CM: 1.25
Jason Cohen, LEED AP, Prellwitz
Chilinski Associates
Josh Cohen, Beacon Communities LLC
Monique Hall, LEED AP, BD+C,
Halvorson Design Partnership
David LaPointe, RLA, Beals and
Thomas, Inc.
B5: Industrial Strength - A Miraculous Transformation at Ames Shovel Works
Wondering how you can participate in the SNEAPA charrette?
Learn where are we going and what are we doing during our
charrette track at SNEAPA and how can you be involved. We
will review the charrette focus area – Terry Square in Hartford
– and have an initial discussion of issues and ideas surrounding
this neighborhood.
John Simone, Connecticut Main Street
Center
Caitlin Palmer, City of Hartford
B6: Charrette Track: Overview of SNEAPA Charrette
Learn from panelists how local and national transportation
planning has begun to shift away from “how to move” towards
“how to support the economy, equity, and the environment.”
Learn about Boston’s major mobility plan and Amherst’s small
transportation strategy – both models for future planning in
New England. CM: 1.25
Jason Schrieber, AICP, Nelson/Nygaard
Associates
Alice Brown, Go Boston 2030
Christine Gray-Mullen, Town of
Amherst, MA
B2: Making Multimodal Matter: Successes from Bottom-Up Inspired
Transportation Plans

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Thursday Sessions
Student Mentor Lunch, 12:45 - 2:00pm
Regular Lunch Program, 1:00 - 2:15pm
Thomas E. Deller, Director of Development Services, will
give an update on the many new and exciting developments
occuring in Connecticut’s Capital City since our last visit.
For most planners their first exposure to planning happens
in an introductory course in college. Are we shortchanging
the profession by not involving students at the grade or high
school level? Should planners make a greater effort to involve
school-aged children in planning? What’s in it for the planners?
What’s in it for the students? This session will look at efforts to
get students at high school and grade school levels involved in
planning. Learn what it takes to get a project off the ground
from the perspective of the municipality, school, designer and
developer and what works and what to watch out for. CM: 1.5
Bruce Hyde, Center for Land Use Education
and Research, University of Connecticut
Richard Correia, RM Bradley President
of the Simsbury Main Street Partnership,
CT
Robert Jeffers, Simsbury High School, CT
William Voelker, AICP, Town of Cheshire,
CT
Mike Goman, Goman + York Property
Advisors
Gary McNaughton, McMahon Associates
C1: SPECIAL SESSION: Planning with Kids
Everyone has faced a situation where a commissioner or your
commission goes rogue – behaving unethically to illegally. You
are the only one that knows. You have a spouse and two kids,
big personal financial commitments, and just started paying on
a bimmer. You need your job. You cannot put yourself at risk.
Failure to do something puts yourself in conflict with the AICP
Ethics Code. Where do you go from here? Explore this and
other scenarios in this year’s Ethics Workshop featuring not only
legal and ethics experts, but you the planner in this interactive
session that is guaranteed to get you thinking and leave you
talking with your colleagues long after the conference ends.
CM: 1.5 Ethics
Dwight H. Merriam, Esq. FAICP, Robinson
Cole LLP
Nancy E. Letendre, Esq., AICP, Mason
Associates Inc.
Evan J. Seeman, Esq., Robinson Cole
LLP
Bob Mitchell, FAICP, Planning Consultant
Eric Barz, AICP, Town of Windsor, CT
C2: Ethics at Risk - A Commissioner (or Commission) Goes Rogue - What’s Next?
2:15 - 3:45pm
12:45 - 2:15pm
Lunch Programs
Thank you to our
lunchtime sponsor!

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Thursday Sessions
This session will provide planners with technical skills useful
for the internal and external communications associated
transportation projects. The focus will be on New Haven’s
Downtown Crossing project (the removal of Route 34) and the
extensive community outreach during construction of Phase1.
CM: 1.5
Michael Piscitelli, AICP, City of New
Haven, CT
Doug Hausladen, City of New Haven,
CT
Kristen Ashby, Parsons Brinckerhoff
Kelly Bigelow Becerra, Freelance Art
Director, Designer and Photographer
C3: Improving Project Delivery through Effective Communications
People are attracted to places that are fun and engaging.
Learn how four communities in Connecticut and Boston
are observing the way people engage with a space, then
responding with policies and regulations that meet demand
and enable great neighborhoods with an irresistible variety of
housing, development and programming. CM: 1.5
Delpha Very, Town of Putnam, CT
Mark McGovern, Town of West
Hartford, CT
Chris Ortwein, Town Green District,
New Haven, CT
Stephen Gilman, Boston Main Streets,
MA
David Sousa, AICP, RLA, CDM Smith
C4: Form Follows Fun: How Planners Can Enable Vibrant Communities
that People Love
AICP Exam Candidates will learn how to apply for, study for,
take, and pass the AICP Certification Exam.
Susan Westa, AICP, PDO, CCAPA
Al Ranaldi, AICP, PDO, APA-RI
Kristin Kassner, AICP, PDO, APA-MA
C5: AICP Exam Review Sessions
We will focus on understanding the economics and market
needs of placemaking. Looking beyond pretty pictures and
the ubiquitous transit-oriented development, mixed-use,
affordable housing, idealized vision of redevelopment, this
interactive session will provide a deeper understanding of the
fundamentals of market assessment for a place. Leave with
a better understanding of both public and proprietary data
available to planners to better understand demographics,
financial issues and market opportunities. CM: 1.5
Kevin Hively, Ninigret Partners
Glenn Geathers, City of Hartford
Local business owners from the charrette
focus area
C6: Charrette Track: Focus on Economic Development

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Thursday Sessions
Join an open discussion on the planning profession, as seen
from the perspectives of new and experienced planners. This
will be a lively talk show format with audience participation.
No stone will be left unturned on how to develop your career,
including tips and tricks from those who have reached amazing
heights in their careers. Topics for discussion may include what
my academic education did not teach me, how do I ask for a
promotion, why doesn’t anyone respect me, why don’t these
“old-timers” understand technology, a PowerPoint presentation is
not a nap session, and much more. CM: 1.25
Carla Tillery, Fitzgerald Halliday
Alison LeFlore, The Cecil Group
Jeremy DeCarli, Lower CT River Valley
Council of Governments
Khara C. Dodds, AICP, Town of
Glastonbury, CT
Chris Rembold, AICP, Great Barrington,
MA
Peter Lowitt, FACIP, Devens Enterprise
Commission, Devens, MA
Steve Sadwick, AICP, Town of Tewksbury,
MA
D1: SPECIAL SESSION: From Boomers to X,Y, Z. What to Know and
How to Grow
4:00 - 5:15pm
When manufacturing leaves, artists and makers can fill the void,
putting cheap vacant space into active use, infusing disinvested
neighborhoods with new energy, and drawing people and
investment. Hear what progressive cities and arts organizations
are doing to grow and sustain “makerhoods” – and preserve
the funk when gentrification looms. CM: 1.25
George Proakis, AICP, City of Somerville,
MA
David White, AICP, City of Burlington, VT
Umberto “Bert” Crenca, AS220,
Providence, RI
Amy Kaiser, Goody Clancy
D2: Makerhoods: The Power of Funky - Growing and Sustaining Artist
Maker Neighborhoods
Planners universally agree on the benefits of planning
regionally, yet we continue to struggle with getting communities
to think beyond their municipal borders. Come engage in
an interactive charrette-style exercise and learn how two
projects—the Route 1 Corridor Plan and the Stoughton Square
Project—successfully applied scenario planning to develop
regional actions respectful of community identity. CM: 1.25
Keri Pyke, P.E., PTOE, Howard Stein
Hudson
Emily Keys Innes, LEED Green Associate,
The Cecil Group
Susan Van Benschoten, P.E., Fitzgerald
Halliday, Inc.
Jean Davies, AICP, Lower CT River Valley
Council of Governments
D3: Overcoming Provincialism: How to Plan Regionally without
Sacrificing Local Identity

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Placemaking capitalizes on a local community’s assets,
inspiration, and potential, with the intention of creating public
spaces that promote people’s health, happiness, and well
being. This interactive session will focus on the role of “place”
in planning for development. The session will present a brief
overview the concept of place as a critical component of
redevelopment planning. CM: 1.25
Val Ferro, Weston Sampson, Inc.
Don Chapman, City of Hartford, CT
Peter Kageyama (conference keynote)
Neighborhood residents
D6: Charrette Track: Focus on Placemaking
Thursday Sessions
Connecticut’s bold and far-reaching transportation plan has
engaged planners of all types - transportation, land use,
health, environmental, economic. Learn how the CT Department
of Transportation is translating that input into action. Get a
behind-the-scenes look at new tools to engage the public, collect
and analyze data, and measure the performance of various
transportation investments. CM: 1.25
David Elder, AICP, GISP, CT
Department of Transportation
Donald Vary, CDM Smith
David V. Sousa, ASLA, AICP, CDM
Smith
D4: Let’s GO CT! A Bold Plan for Connecticut’s Diverse Places Dynamic
Transportation Needs
Social equity is an economic and moral imperative that touches
all community planning. Given continued access disparities,
planners need to learn what policies support social equity and
how to meet challenges that arise. Learn what’s being done
on the ground and participate in small-group discussions of
coalition-building and communication approaches. CM: 1.25
Scott Wolf, Grow Smart Rhode Island
Erin Boggs, Esq., Open Communities
Alliance
Jennifer Raitt, Metropolitan Area
Jeff Davis, AICP, RI Division of Planning
D5: Planning for Social Equity:Tools for Change Meeting Challenges

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Friday Sessions
8:30 - 9:30am Chapter Meetings
CCAPA Members – you are invited to the Chapter Meeting Breakfast. Enjoy a hot buffet breakfast in the
meeting, hear about recent Chapter activities, learn how you can get involved, share your ideas and celebrate
planning in our great state!
Connecticut
Plan4Health projects across the country are working to combat
two major determinants of chronic disease – lack of physical
activity and suboptimal access to nutritious foods. Plan4Health
grantees in Connecticut and Massachusetts will share their
experiences. Planners participating in these projects are active
partners and serve as built environment experts within these
local cross-sectoral coalitions. CM: 1.25
Linda Painter, AICP, Town of Mansfield,
CT
Robert Miller, Eastern Highlands Health
District, CT
Barry Keppard, AICP, Metropolitan
Area Planning Council, MA
Lola Omolodun, MSPH, Metropolitan
Area Planning Council, MA
E1: Healthy by Design: Improving Public Health through Community Design
There’s a revolution going on in the design of streets. Complete
Streets, walkability, bicycle lanes, and now Vision Zero—they’re
all about changing the way we use our public realm. The co-
authors of Street Design (Wiley, 2014), explain and illustrate
important new developments. CM: 1.25
John Massengale, AIA, Massengale
Co., LLC
Norman Garrick, University of
Connecticut
E2: A Street Is A Terrible Thing To Waste - Vision Zero Complete
Streets
Start your day with APA-MA over breakfast and listen to what’s going on with the chapter. The APA-MA
Board is excited to see you in Hartford, and looks forward to another year of wonderful collaboration
between us all.
Massachusetts
Our chapter breakfast meeting will include a workshop focusing on strategic planning over the next five years
and how chapter members can include their own ideas in the plan. Specifically we’ll conduct a “café” workshop
designed to help us examine ideas about how to work together, openly discuss ideas, leverage collective
knowledge in a way that leads to innovation and good decision making.
Rhode Island
9:45 - 11:00am

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Friday Sessions
This session will focus on experience with inclusionary zoning in
Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with speakers representing
urban, suburban, and state planning perspectives. It will also
provide a look at inclusionary zoning as a fair housing tool,
considering soon-to-be-issued new HUD regulations under the
federal Fair Housing Act. CM: 1.25
Judi Barrett, RKG Associates
Nathan Kelly, AICP, Horsley Witten
Group, Inc.
Linda Prosnitz, City of Cambridge, MA
George Proakis, AICP, City of
Somerville, MA
E3: Inclusionary Zoning: Lessons Learned Looking Forward - Fair
Housing Challenges and Opportunities
Tax Increment Financing (TIF) - or District Increment Financing
(DIF) in MA - is a powerful tool for redeveloping blighted
properties, but can be difficult to implement. This session will
walk planners through real-world projects where a developer
and planners worked together to rehabilitate two vacant mills.
Opportunities related to new TIF legislation in Connecticut will
be presented as well. CM: 1.25
John Simone, CT Main Street Center
Kent Schwendy, Corporation for
Independent Living
Jim Burke, AICP, Town of Windsor, CT
Chris Edge, Town of Berlin, CT
E4: Development and the Art of Tax Increment Financing
Agriculture is a diverse, dynamic and vital land use in
southern New England. This session will provide planners with
an introduction to the various state programs and services
available to municipalities related to agriculture and an
opportunity to meet and ask questions of top state agriculture
officials. CM: 1.25
Philip Chester, AICP, Town of
Lebanon, CT
Steven Reviczky, Commissioner, CT
Department of Agriculture
John Lebeaux, Commissioner, MA
Department of Agricultural Resources
Kenneth Ayars, Chief, RI Division of
Agriculture
E5:The Changing Face of Agriculture in Southern New England:
Diverse Dynamic
Participants will take all of the work from Thursday’s ongoing charrette and learn how to create value from the
pieces.
E6: Charrette Track: Putting the Pieces Together

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Friday Sessions
In updating the Cape Cod Regional Policy Plan, story
maps guide stakeholders along a path of understanding
their communities’ past development patterns and current
development relationships. Lessons of the past and present,
together with scenario planning tools, help formulate the policy
plan for the future. CM: 1.25
Sharon Rooney, AICP, RLA, Cape Cod
Commission, MA
Phil Dascombe, AICP, Cape Cod
Commission, MA
Jennifer Clinton, Cape Cod
Commission, MA
Jo Anne Miller Buntich, Town of
Barnstable, MA
F1:Yesterday,Today Tomorrow: A Story of Regional Planning
Highways carved physical, economic and social gaps between
downtowns, their neighborhoods and regions. Learn how
Providence has worked to replace a highway corridor with high-
value investment, how Hartford is grappling with how to overlap
both, and the lessons each city offers each other – and your
community. CM: 1.25
David Spillane, AICP, RIBA, Goody
Clancy
Michael Morehouse, P.E., Fitzgerald
Halliday
Jan Brodie, I-195 Redevelopment
Commission, RI
Ben Carlson, LEED AP, Goody Clancy
F2: Restoring Vibrant Downtowns through Highway Transformation
in Providence Hartford
Recent studies show that village development can be successful
in the market place and have a positive fiscal impact on town
finances. Learn how market and fiscal analyses can contribute to
the village planning process in your community. Case studies will
be presented. CM: 1.25
Jeff Davis, AICP, RI Division of Planning
Peter Flinker, AICP, Dodson and Flinker,
Inc.
Linda Painter, AICP, Town of Mansfield, CT
Jonathan Reiner, AICP, Town of Groton,
CT
Lori Massa, AICP, City of Somerville, MA
F3:Village Development: Market Trends Fiscal Impact
11:15am - 12:30pm

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Friday Sessions
What makes a town or city center a truly great place to
walk? This session will show how to create pedestrian-friendly
centers through innovative planning and design. The session will
establish key ingredients of successful walkability, including new
ideas for adding arts and cultural resources into the mix.
CM: 1.25
Steven Cecil, AIA, ASLA, The Cecil
Group
Wendy Landman, WalkBoston
Meri Jenkins, MA Cultural Council
Jason Schrieber, AICP, Nelson
Nygaard Associates
F4: Pedestrian Friendly Centers: Artful Placemaking
Planners have to balance economic development, equity and
predictability. But these efforts are often at odds. Is there
a way to achieve common goals and maintain a predictable
permitting process? In this session, a planner, developer and
a consultant will each tell their side of the story and suggest
common ground. CM: 1.25
George Proakis AICP, City of
Somerville, MA
Sarah Lewis, AIA, CNU, LEED-AP, Fuss
and O’Neill
Seth Zeren, RCG, LLC
F5: Linking Economic Development Social Equity Through Better Zoning
12:30 - 1:45pm Lunch Program
Planners kibitz online all the time – with rumors, solutions or
pleas for help. Our interactive lunch presentation replicates
planners listservs with a live panel. The audience can respond to
and discuss the issues of the day and solve those facing us on a
regular basis, whether unique and unusual, or simply mundane.
Planners Listserv Live – and SNEAPA Style
Alan Weiner, AICP
Craig Minor, AICP

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Friday Sessions
This session will present case studies of solar energy projects
in Southern New England. It will include a discussion of site
selection and associated resource impact evaluations, permitting
and regulatory agency coordination, and public engagement.
A solar energy project at Bridgeport, Connecticut’s Seaside
Landfill will be explored. CM: 1.5
John Figurelli, PG, LEEP, Weston
Sampson
Laurel Stegina, AICP, Fitzgerald
Halliday, Inc.
Thomas Judge, United Illuminating
Company
G1: Here Comes the Sun! What’s Involved With Siting Solar Energy Projects in
Southern New England
Leading land use lawyers from each of the three southern
New England states will address national developments in the
law over the last year, including court decisions, legislation,
administrative regulations and interpretations of existing law.
CM: 1.5 Law
John M. Boehnert, Esq.
Pamela J. Brown, Esq., FAICP, Brown
Brown PC
Dwight H. Merriam, Esq., FAICP,
Robinson Cole LLP
Gregor I. McGregor, Esq.
Kathleen M. O’Donnell, Esq.
Marjorie Shansky, Esq.
G2: Land Use Law Development of the Last Year
This session will discuss recent developments in urban agriculture
in southern New England, including urban agriculture
ordinances in Boston and Hartford, and Providence’s urban
agriculture initiative, “Lots of Hope.” The program will analyze
opportunities to use urban agriculture to grow economies and
support diverse communities in the region. CM: 1.5
Sorell E. Negro, Robinson Cole LLP
Sara C. Bronin, University of Connecticut
Marie Mercurio, AICP, Boston
Redevelopment Authority, MA
Ellen Cynar, City of Providence, RI
Laurie Beyranevand, Vermont Law School
G3: Using Urban Agriculture to Grow Southern New England
1:45 - 3:15pm

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Friday Sessions
Learn about successful efforts in one New England town that is
boosting its economic development efforts by auditing zoning
and subdivision regulations and implementing innovative land
use strategies based on economic analysis and targeted
industry attraction strategies. CM: 1.5
Ken Schwartz, AICP, VHB
Jonathan Reiner, AICP, Town of
Groton, CT
Jim Damicis, Camion Associates
G4: Bridging the Gap Between Land Use Policy Economic Development
Initiatives
Join us for a roundtable discussion on the progress and
possibilities of the new Transformative Development Initiative
(TDI). This innovative, integrated and highly targeted, place-
based economic development program seeks to stimulate an
improved quality of life for local residents and spur increased
investment and economic activity in Massachusetts’ Gateway
Cities. CM: 1.5
Tania Hartford, AICP,
MassDevelopment
Anne Gatling Haynes, AIA, LEED, AP,
MBA, MassDevelopment
Ben Forman, MassINC Gateway Cities
Innovation Institute
Brian Connors, City of Springfield, MA
Laura Masulis, MassDevelopment
G5:Transformative Development: An Integrated Place-Based
Economic Development Strategy
Whether you participated in some, all or even none of the charrette track, come see the results of the SNEAPA
charrette!
G6: Charrette Track: Show and Tell
3:30 - 4:30pm Closing Session
Join your colleagues in this evocative closing discussion. Attendees and panelists will explore the major theme
of SNEAPA 2015 (Diverse Dynamic) and the relevance and inter-relationship to topics covered during the
conference. Unwind with a beer or glass of wine at the cash bar we’ll have set up for you!
This discussion will include insights from presenters from the conference who will share perspectives and
impressions of their sessions. Attendees will reflect and consider diversity within the context of these topics and
identify approaches to move concepts into dynamic actions.
Moderated by: Valarie Ferro, AICP, Weston Sampson, Inc. | CM: 1
Lessons from SNEAPA 2015: Diverse Dynamic: Planners Places
HAPPY
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Student Activities
The SNEAPA Conference seeks to provide students within the field of planning with valuable opportunities to
learn and network. This year we are offering several student activities such as professional mentoring for both
students and young/emerging professionals, a student display competition, and student volunteering.
Student Volunteers
This year we again have a number of student volunteers in our midst helping the conference run smoothly. These
students are also invited to attend sessions to broaden their planning experience and seeking to network. Please
welcome our next wave of planning professionals and share your experience!
Student Mentoring Lunch (Thursday, 12:45-2:00 PM)
Students will have the opportunity to sit down with seasoned professionals to hear about the nuances of their
field. This session will feature mentors representing various expertise and sectors of planning. The format of the
session will be an informal “round table” group discussion. Free pizza and other light fare will be provided.
Student Lunch Mentors
One-on-One Mentoring with aYoung/Emerging Planner
We recognize that young planners that are still new in the profession need mentorship opportunities as well. This
program provides an informal way to pair up with experienced professionals with one or two young planners
to meet over the course of the day (such as at registration or during breaks) to introduce themselves, chat, and
make new contacts. Mentors and mentees were matched before the conference based on interest and field of
specialization.
Student Displays, Open All Day Thursday
In an effort to highlight student work and stimulate discussion, the SNEAPA Conference will again be showcasing
outstanding student projects. This year the audience is invited to cast a vote for their favorite student display.
Each name badge will have a ticket that will act as your ballot. Students are competing to win a cash prize for
the most popular display.
Rebecca Augur, AICP, Milone and MacBrooom, Inc.
Philip Chester, AICP, Town of Lebanon, CT
Martin J. Connor, AICP, Town of Torrington, CT
Mary Ellen Kowaleski, AICP, Capitol Region Council
of Governments (CRCOG)
Alison LeFlore, The Cecil Group
Douglas McLean, AICP, Town of South Kingston, RI
Carly Myers, AICP, Milone and MacBroom, Inc.
John D. Pagini, AICP Life Member
Emily Vander Does, Somos Solutions, LLC
William S. Voelker, AICP, Town of Cheshire, CT

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SNEAPA Conference Committee
Thank you to all the SNEAPA Conferece Committe Volunteers!
Interested in participating in the planning of next year’s conference, email news@sneapa.org for more
information.
Conference Chairs
Heidi Samokar, AICP, Town of Tolland, CT
(Connecticut APA Chapter)
Demian Sorrentino, AICP, Boundaries LLC
Dan Tuba (Connecticut APA Chapter)
Committee Members
Judi Barrett, RKG Associates (Massachusetts APA
Chapter)
Ted Brovitz, Brovitz/Community Planning and
Design LLC, (Massachusetts APA Chapter)
Philip Chester, AICP, Town of Lebanon (Connecticut
APA Chapter)
L. Jean Davies, AICP, Lower CT River Valley COG
Jeremy DeCarli, Lower CT River Valley COG
Ashley Hahn (Rhode Island APA Chapter)
Emily Hultquist, AICP, Capitol Region Council of
Governors (Connecticut APA Chapter)
Bruce Hyde, AICP, University of Connecticut, CT
Marek Kozikowski, Town of Greenwich (Connecticut
APA Chapter)
Nicole LaFontaine, AICP, Town of North Kingstown,
RI (Rhode Island APA Chapter)
Alison LeFlore, (Massachusetts APA Chapter)
Nancy Letendre, AICP, Esq., Mason Associates
(Rhode Island APA Chapter)
Michele Lipe, AICP, Town of South Windsor, CT
Ken Livingston, AICP, Fitzgerald Halliday, Inc.
Craig Minor, AICP, Town of Newington, CT
Carly Myers, AICP, Milone and MacBroom
John D. Pagini, AICP, Land Use Planner (Connecticut
APA Chapter)
Caitlin Palmer, City of Hartford (Connecticut APA
Chapter)
Robert Phillips, AICP, Town of Southington
Albert Ranaldi, AICP, Town of Lincoln (Rhode Island
APA Chapter)
James Riordan, AICP, LEED AP, ESS Group, Inc.
(Rhode Island APA Chapter)
Steven Sadlowski, AICP, Town of New Hartford
Felipe Schwarz, AICP, Merrimack College
(Massachusetts APA Chapter)
Chelsea Siefert, RI Statewide Planning (Rhode
Island Chapter)
Chris Smith, Esq., Shipman Goodwin (Connecticut
APA Chapter)
Emily Vander Does (Rhode Island APA Chapter)
Susan Westa, AICP, Connecticut Main Street Center
Darlene Wynne, AICP, City of Beverly, MA
(Massachusetts APA Chapter)

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