Updated at 8:38 a.m., Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Honolulu plans conference on transit development
Advertiser Staff
The city will discuss possible community and business outcomes tied to Honolulu's fixed guideway program at its Transit-Oriented Development Conference, set for July 14 at Leeward Community College.Conference topics include a presentation of possible public benefits of transit-oriented development, an outline of Honolulu's plans for development as compared to Oregon's current development based upon its transit system.
"With a new transit system, many opportunities will arise to improve our quality of life, particularly in those neighborhoods surrounding the transit stations," Mayor Mufi Hannemann said in a news release issued today.
"With final planning under way for the transit system, we now need to prepare for its effects on our neighborhoods, not react to them," he said.
The conference will feature two speakers with experience in transit-oriented development: Marilee Utter, president of Denver-based real estate advisory firm Citiventure Associates, LLC; and Debbie Bischoff, senior planner of Portland Bureau of Planning.
The event will be held 8:30 a.m. to noon in the LCC's theater area. Residents, landowners, developers, community organizations and other interested groups are encouraged to attend.
To register, contact Waynette Tamashiro of Pacific Rim Concepts at 429-3313 or PacificRimConceptsRegistrar@hawaiiantel.net.
