Healthy Communities • Livability • Sustainability

Opportunity • Equity • A Sense of Place • Safety

Strong Neighborhoods • San Antonio • Now

Registration:

• Register at http://bit.ly/1Kd5hb0

• Conference Rate:

• Earlybird $45 before 10/13

• Regular $55 after 10/13

• Breakfast included

• Professional credits for architects, planners, and health educators

• Questions? Call David Clear at (210)207-2002 or

david.clear@sanantonio.gov

Friday, NOVEMBER 13th, 2015

7:30 am – 4:00 pm

Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

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Detailed Agenda:

7:15 – 7:45 AM – Registration & Breakfast (Room 103) 7:45 – 8:00 – Opening Remarks Dr. Vincent Nathan, Director, San Antonio Metropolitan Health District (Room 103) 8:00 – 9:00 AM – Vision Zero: A Resident’s Perspective: Cathy Tuttle, Executive Director, Seattle Greenways (Room 103) The healthiest, most livable communities in the country are those with a history of strong resident advocacy and connectedness between residents and government agencies. This session explores how San Antonio can take the Vision Zero campaign seriously through all stakeholders in the city, and create a lasting impact for future generations to enjoy a built environment that is conducive to health. 9:10 – 10:10 AM - Breakout Session I: Planning for a Healthy Tomorrow: This session will explore SA Tomorrow: San Antonio’s comprehensive, multi-modal

transportation, and sustainability plan for the future, specifically focusing on the aspects that are critical in improving public health. (Room 103) Dr. Vincent Nathan, Moderator; John Dugan; Terry Bellamy; Doug Melnick

Food and the Built Environment: Inspiring Change at All Levels: This session explores best practices from around the country pertaining to leveraging an affordable, healthy, stable supply of locally grown food. (Room 102) Julie LaBarba

10:20 – 11:20 AM - Breakout Session II: Affordable Neighborhoods: This session looks beyond affordable housing strategies in order to address the root challenge:

affordable living for all residents in livable neighborhoods. (Room 103) Judit Vega, Moderator; Carol Rodriguez; Christopher Lazaro

The New Urban Techover: How urban environments are being transformed by technology, and what this means for the future. (Room 102) Peter French, Moderator; John Simmerman

Bats, Birds, Bees & Trees: Biophilia and leveraging biological systems to improve our physical, mental and emotional health. (Room 101) Carol Warkoczewski, Moderator; David Mahler; Mark Bird

11:20 AM – 12:50 PM – Lunch on Your Own 12:50 – 1:50 PM – Livable and Affordable Neighborhoods: A Real Estate Developer’s Perspective – Robert Chapman, Founding and Managing Director, Traditional Neighborhood Development Partners, LLC. (Room 103) The majority of the built environment is formed through the private sector. This session looks at the realities of the built environment from a holistic perspective to ask a simple question: how can we leverage a more livable and affordable city. 2:00 – 3:00 PM – Breakout Session III:

Real Estate Development in San Antonio: Where do we go from here?: In this session, local land developers and real estate agents uncover strategies to promote healthy communities. (Room 103) Speakers to be confirmed

Mental Health & the Built Environment: Were you looking for the elephant in the room? I think we may have found it…. (Room 102) Bryan Bales, Moderator; Terry Maulden

The Economics of Health: This session explores the emerging evidence linking health as the critical component to a more prosperous, equitable and sustainable San Antonio. (Room 101) Speakers to be confirmed

3:10 – 4:00 PM Grand Finale: Roadmapping Success in the Built Environment (Room 103) Participants: Cathy Tuttle; Robert Chapman; John Dugan; Peter French

Health & The Built Environment Conference:

Key Speakers:

Cathy Tuttle, Executive Director, Seattle Greenways Cathy builds relationships between city government officials, nonprofits, and Seattle Neighborhood Greenway’s extensive coalition of volunteers in order to plan, advocate, and activate a safe and comfortable street network for all. She is a thought leader in safe streets and has published papers on bicycle and pedestrian design and safety issues. Cathy has a Ph.D. in Urban Design and Planning from the University of Washington and a certificate from Portland State University in Bicycle Facilities Planning and Design. Cathy received the highest individual award from Sustainable Seattle in 2011 and the Sustainable PATH Foundation Pathbreaker Award in 2012. Since 2012, Cathy has served on the Seattle Mayor’s School Road Safety Task Force and Seattle Public Schools Traffic Safety

Committee. In 2007, Cathy started Cascade Bicycle Club’s first “easy” ride series, Spokespeople Rides. Cathy is a ride leader, and since 2007 has trained over 20 ride leaders who develop monthly, “easy”, all ages and abilities bicycle rides. Robert L. Chapman, III, Founder of Traditional Neighborhood Development Partners, LLC Robert L. Chapman, III is founder and managing director of Traditional Neighborhood Development Partners, LLC, of Durham, NC, which develops walkable mixed-use neighborhoods. He is the founder of Cygnex, LLC, a Winter Haven, FL private investment fund. He is also the founder of TND Capital Management, LLC, which acquires/redevelops downtown properties. He also founded the Southlake Development Group and Southlake Utilities, Inc., Clermont, FL. Southlake is a walkable new-urbanist development approved for 8,000 housing units, located three miles west of Walt Disney World. Bob has served as chair of the North Carolina Smart Growth Alliance; and, chair and founding member, National Town Builders Association. He received a B.A. from Duke University in 1971. He has been a guest lecturer at the Fuqua School of Business and the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke and at the Kenan-Flagler Business School and the Department of City and Regional Planning at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a founding member of the advisory board for the program in Real Estate Development and Urbanism at the University of Miami and a member of the city advisory board of Mechanics and Farmers Bank, Durham, NC.

John D. Simmerman, MS - President & CEO, Advocates for Healthy Communities, Inc. John has over 25 years of experience in disease prevention and health promotion. For the first 15 years in his career Mr. Simmerman worked primarily with larger, self insured companies by helping them to decrease employee health care costs and utilization rates through the implementation of effective health promotion programs. Then Mr. Simmerman turned his attention and efforts to the community level, specifically the built environment and its impact on quality of life and public health. He

co-founded Advocates for Healthy Communities, Inc. a nationally focused 501(c)(3). It’s mission is to help create communities with inviting and invigorating environments which encourage healthy, active lifestyles. He has a Master’s of Science from the University of Michigan - a joint degree program between Kinesiology, Public Health & Business Schools, and a Bachelors of Science - Exercise Science (Kinesiology) from the University of Southern California.