Sheri: Hello. First we’d like to start by finding out more about you. I’m going to ask a few questions now. Please just raise your hands in response. How many people here live in cities or towns with fewer than 10,000 people? How many with fewer than 50,000? fewer than 100,000? More than 300,000? How many people here work for a not-for-profit? For a government agency? As a design or construction professional? Thanks –It’s good for us to know who we are talking with. Justin, Jim and I are on the steering committee of the Seattle chapter of the NW Ecobuilding Guild. The Guild is an all volunteer-run not-for-profit that promotes leadership in education to transform the built environment and build a sustainable society. Now we will quickly and briefly introduce ourselves. Justin, Jim, I am a residential architect in Seattle practicing green design, and am the owner of my own firm—live-work-play. We really love the energy of an urban area, and believe it would be beautiful for Seattle to become more urban, and for the single family neighborhoods especially to have more kinds of housing to contribute to the energy of the city. We are passionate about this, which turned into the Walkable Livable Communities charrette, which the Guild held last autumn, and our October 2007 education event was a presentation and discussion of the outcome of that charrette. Today, our talk is the next phase of this exploration. The ideas we are discussing today were generated for Seattle, but we believe that they apply most anywhere that single family neighborhoods can change. We are glad to be here today to have this conversation with you.
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