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Growth & Development Issues

David Goldberg: Communication Director of Smart Growth America and a growth-issues journalist. dgoldberg@smartgrowthamerica.org or 202-412-7930

Harriet Tregoning: Executive Director of the Smart Growth Land Institute. htregoning@smartgrowthamerica.org

Myron Orfield: former Minn. state representative (Minneapolis) - 612-926-9205. Author of "Metropolitics," deals with the political and economic interplay among inner city, suburbs and fringe.

Bruce Katz: Director of the Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy at the Brookings Institution (D.C.) - 202-797-6139. Concerned with sprawl's effects on central cities.

Richard Moe: President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation (D.C.) - 202-588-6000. Advocate of curbing sprawl and revitalizing traditional downtowns and neighborhoods.

Transit-Oriented Development & Redevelopment
Mariia Zimmerman, Reconnecting America: (202) 244-5065, mzimmerman@reconnectingamerica.org
Reid Ewing, Research Professor, Rutgers University (New Jersey): (732) 932-3133, ext. 552. Expert on growth management and author of “Best Development Practices”.

New Urbanist/Design Issues
Steve Filmanowicz, Congress for the New Urbanism: (312) 551-7300 ext. 12 or sfilmanowicz@cnu.org
Geoff Ferrell, Form Based Codes: (202) 547-7141, geoff@geoffreyferrell.com http://www.geoffreyferrell.com
James Howard Kunstler: author of Geography of Nowhere (Sarasota Springs, NY) - 518-581-1876. Outspoken critic of sprawl and supporter of new urbanism.

Smart Growth Policies
John Frece, Univ. of MD Smart Growth Center: (301) 405-6799, jfrece@umd.edu
Harriet Tregoning, Smart Growth Leadership Institute: (202) 207-3355 htregoning@smartgrowthamerica.org

Green Building
Taryn Holowka, U.S. Green Building Council:  202.828.1144 or tholowka@usgbc.org

National Growth Management Policies
David Goldberg, Smart Growth America: dgoldberg@smartgrowthamerica.org

Environmental & Health Benefits
Kaid Benfield, Natural Resources Defense Council: (202) 289-6868 kbenfield@nrdc.org
Howard Frumkin, M.D.: Chair, department of environmental and occupational health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University -- 404-727-3697.

Affordable Housing

Linda Couch, National Low Income Housing Coalition: 202-662-1530 x228 or linda@nlihc.org

Finance & Policy
Leslie Steen (202) 887-8050 steen@housingpartnership.net
Kalima Rose and Radhika Fox at Policy Link: (510) 663-2333

David Rusk, Urban Policy Consultant: (202) 364-2455 drusk@starpower.net

 

Transportation

Transit
Stephanie Vance or Jason Jordan, Center for Transportation Excellence: Tel: (202) 244-2405, www.cfte.org
Rich Weaver, American Public Transit Association: (202) 496-4809 rweaver@apta.com

Finance, State funding & federal legislation
Kevin McCarty, STPP (202) 974-5138 kmccarty@transact.org
Ann Canby, STPP (302) 984-2882 acanby@transact.org

Bike Facilities
Eric Gilliland, Washington Area Bicyclist Association: 202-628-2500 gill@waba.org Jim Sebastian, DC Dept of Transportation: (202) 671-2331 jim.sebastian@dc.gov
Rich Reis, Sierra Club (301) 236-1565 rreis@bellatlantic.net

Pedestrian Issues
Bill Wilkinson, National Center for Bicycling & Walking: (301) 656-4220 bikefed@aol.com
Charlie Denney, Arlington County Department of Public Works (703) 228-3633 chazden@aol.com
Rich Reis, Sierra Club (301) 236-1565 rreis@bellatlantic.net


Carsharing
Gabe Klein, Zipcar: (202) 737-4970  gklein@zipcar.com
Ralph Burns, Flexcar: (202) 296-1FLX (1359)

Legal Issues, Transportation studies
Trip Pollard, Southern Environmental Law Center: (931) 598-0808 tpollard@selcva.org

Parking Policies
Jeff Tumlin, expert in multimodal transportation planning, with an emphasis in minimizing the impacts of growth: (415) 284-1544

Techway

Andrea Arnold, CSG: (202) 244-4408 andrea@ruralmontgomery.org
Dolores Milmoe, Audubon Naturalist Society: (301) 652-9188 dmilmoe@audubonnaturalist.org



Inter-County Connector (ICC)

Brian Henry: bhenry@audubonnaturalist.org

 

 

 
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