Radisson, Lansing

8:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.

6.25-8 AICP Certificate Maintenance (CM) credits

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Current thinking in the fields of health, transportation, and planning are transforming decades-old community practices and policies that have shaped the way and look of daily life. Community engagement and a strong focus on walkable/bikeable/mass transit alternatives to automobile travel are common elements of emerging strategies to build healthy, vital communities.

MAP is bringing together national programs and state and national experts to show how Safe Routes to School, Context Sensitive Solutions, and Complete Streets are pieces of the same puzzle to link health, land use, and innovative transportation solutions for successful programs.

Michigan Safe Routes to School (SR2S), SR2S's program goal is to enable and encourage students to walk and roll (i.e., bicycle, wheel, etc.) to school when the distance is reasonable and routes are safe;

Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS), MDOT's evolving model for engaging local government in the road planning process; and

Complete Streets (CS), an approach to design that ensures that transportation planners and engineers consistently design and operate the entire roadway with all users in mind - including bicyclists, public transportation vehicles and riders, and pedestrians of all ages and abilities. 

Together, these three programs provide engagement and design solutions that are an integral piece of your municipality's challenges. Make your community a leader in reducing reliance on automobiles, improving traffic congestion, promoting healthy exercise options to children, and developing a community-friendly transportation plan built on community connection and public engagement. 

Michigan Association of Planning (MAP) provides solutions in this integrated, one day, two track program funded by the Michigan Department of Transportation Context Sensitive Solutions program and Michigan Safe Routes to School program.  This workshop seeks to engage those professions and disciplines that can reshape the planning and design of transportation networks and streets to promote and support economic prosperity, community participation, health, and sustainability while enhancing mobility for all.

Who should attend?

• Professional planners
• Citizen planners and elected officials
• School officials from principals, to administrators, to teachers
• Community health professionals
• Transportation planners and engineers
• State agency employees with a stake in transforming the built environment (DEQ, MDOT, DELEG, MSHDA, MDA, MDE, and others)
• Design professionals like landscape architects and architects
• Representatives from the development community