Road Ecology Center

When: October 19th at 6pm, TONIGHT!!!

Where: UC Davis, MU II room (2nd Floor)

What: Students, faculty, professionals and community members are invited to attend a discussion on sustainability with local professionals and professors. Refreshments will be provided! Topics will include, but are not limited to:

-Transportation in the Sacramento region
-Sustainable urban growth
-Linking land-use and transportation planning

If you have any questions, please email Kyle Atwell at kratwell@ucdavis.edu

Meet the panel members:

Jeff Loux, Ph.D.
Director, Land Use and Natural Resource Program,
UC Davis Extension
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture
Community Development Director, City of Davis, 1992-1998

Susan Handy, Ph.D.
Susan is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California at Davis, where she teaches in the Environmental Policy and Planning major and in the Transportation Technology and Policy Program. Her research focuses on the relationships between transportation and land use, including the impact of land use on travel behavior and the impact of transportation investments on land development patterns.

Representative, Sacramento Area Council of Governments
The Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) is an association of local governments in the six-county Sacramento Region. Its members include the counties of El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba as well as 22 cities. SACOG provides transportation planning and funding for the region, and serves as a forum for the study and resolution of regional issues. In addition to preparing the region’s long-range transportation plan, SACOG approves the distribution of affordable housing in the region and assists in planning for transit, bicycle networks, clean air and airport land uses.

Ivor Benci-Woodward
Principle Planner, Yolo County Planning, Resources and Public Works Department

Here is a bit of background information on our organization:

The Roosevelt Institution is a national network of student think tanks providing the organizational infrastructure to get student ideas into the public discourse. Our goal as a non-profit, non-partisan think tank is to push for progressive, pragmatic policy reform. On the UC Davis campus, sixty students have become involved in our policy centers, which gather student expertise, recruit faculty and expert advisors, build student networks, track influential outlets within that issue area, guide the selection of pertinent research topics, and provide a first filter in the process of finding an appropriate audience for students’ work. In the end this outlet might be a campus publication, a specialized journal, a staff member in a state policymaker’s office, or a Congressional committee.