An April 15, 2003 Handling Density in Public Meetings seminar looks at density issues in the Chicago region and strategies for discussing density with a public audience.
How can you guarantee a big, angry crowd to a public
meeting? Suggest increasing residential density. Density
often
causes thorny conflict in communities, regardless
of whether the proposed development is a small townhouse expansion in
the suburbs or a 20-story high rise in downtown Chicago. While planners
and public officials face community backlash
over density issues daily, they have not discovered a way to mitigate these
conflicts in their communities. On April
15, 2003, the University of Illinois at
Chicago College of Urban Planning and Public
Affairs (CUPPA)
and
the Metropolitan
Planning Council will host a session on density issues in the Chicago
region and offer strategies for building consensus and enabling creative and
efficient development.
Speakers include Peter Skosey, Metropolitan Planning
Council, on the Importance of Being Dense; Carolee Kokola,
Farr Associates Architecture and Urban Design, on Using Visual
Preference Surveys to Talk About Density; Ben Ranney, Prairie
Holding Corporation, on Getting Density Done — A Developer's
Perspective, and CUPPA Graduate Students Heather
Donoghue, Cynthia Hallin, Roseann O'Laughlin, Rita Walter and Audrey
Wennick presenting data on density.
For more information or to register, click here.