FACULTY: Richard Krier, C. John Uban

May 7 - St. Paul
9:00 am - 4:30 pm (check-in 8:30 am)

Audience: For those from communities large and small throughout the state facing development pressure; of interest to real estate professionals, lenders and bankers as well.

This workshop is a comprehensive look at designs and elements key to creating sustainable communities, issues surrounding review and approval of subdivisions, steps to working with developers in order to achieve community goals.

Topics include:

• What creates a great sustainable community—visual examples from New York, Wisconsin, North Carolina, etc., with expert commentary
  
• Creative approaches to arranging land uses, open space, streets and home sites
  
• Low impact development
  
• Learning to read plans and hands-on workshop in planned community design
  
• Developing a vision for community sustainability
  
• Elements in a subdivision proposal – glossary of terms
  
• Creating and enforcing subdivision regulations
  
• Considerations in providing street rights of way, utility easements, building pads, lot access, roadway design, grading and drainage, relationships between different land uses, wetlands, park dedication and related issues (with illustrations and explanations)
  
• When to break old rules—from lots and roads to health and affordability
  
• Case studies of effective subdivision design—simple and more complicated
  
• Responding to market forces and desires
  
• Meeting community goals through cooperative solutions
  

Note: This full-day workshop combines the content from two previous half-day programs “Spotlight on Subdivisions” and “Subdivisions: Beyond the Basics.”

Application in process for Continuing Real Estate Education Credit.

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