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Livable Neighborhoods Program Training Sessions

With New York City experiencing its biggest boom in construction in more than 35 years â€“ and with the city poised to gain a million more residents over the next 25 years â€“ there's never been a greater need for New Yorkers to have a voice on how their communities develop and grow.

By Aaron Donovan

11:35 PM EDT on May 1, 2007

With New York City experiencing its biggest boom in construction in more than 35 years â€“ and with the city poised to gain a million more residents over the next 25 years â€“ there’s never been a greater need for New Yorkers to have a voice on how their communities develop and grow.

Would you like to have a greater role in creating a vision for your neighborhoodâ€™s future?

The Municipal Art Society believes that people who care about the destiny of their own neighborhood are in the best position to identify its needs and plan for its future. It’s a simple concept. It’s called “Community-Based Planning,” and they’ve championed it for over 18 years.

Now, with the generous support of the Altman Foundation and Mizuho Foundation, the MAS is proud to announce its long-awaited Livable Neighborhoods Program.

The Municipal Art Societyâ€™s Livable Neighborhoods Program: Resources and Training for Community-Based Planners covering the fundamentals of planning â€“ from public participation to land use basics to 197-a planning to implementation. This is the first of two identical training sessions, the second of which is on Saturday, May 19.

Instructors include:

Betty Mackintosh, Department of City Planning
Preston Niblack, Independent Budget Office
Marci Reaven, Place Matters
Gretchen Maneval, Fifth Avenue Committee
Tom Angotti, Director, Hunter College Center for Community Planning and Development
Ken Fisher, former NYC Council Member, Environmental & Land Use lawyer with WolfBlock LLC
Miquela Craytor, Deputy Director, Sustainable South Bronx
Eve Baron, Director of the Municipal Art Societyâ€™s Planning Center

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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