Revitalize your community with lessons from Detroit. This session will spotlight three efforts that are reviving this Rust Belt city. Find out how Detroit Works is charting a course for the city’s future and addressing the problems of vacancy and a limited tax base. Hear how Detroit Revitalization Fellows has provided leadership in economic development. And learn how a grassroots urban agriculture movement has provided a viable commercial use for the city’s vast tracts of vacant land.
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Marja Winters
Deputy Director
City of Detroit
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Bio: Deputy Director, Planning & Development Department, City of Detroit
Education: BA, Political Science, University of Michigan MUP, University of Michigan
Past Assignments: Presented at the APA Conference in Detroit, MI, the Greenbuild Conference in 2011 (Toronto), and the UM-ULI Real Estate Forum. I also have the privilege of being invited frequently to participate in local and regional panels on a range of topics (planning, neighborhood revitalization, community development, etc.).
Kathryn L. Underwood
City Planner
City of Detroit Planning Commission
Laura Buhl, AICP
Land Use and Transportation Planner
State of Oregon
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Bio: Laura Buhl, AICP, is a City Planner with the Detroit City Planning Commission (CPC), where she works on a range of land use planning projects, with a particular focus on zoning and transportation. She has worked on transportation initiatives such as implementation of Detroit’s Non-motorized Urban Transportation Master Plan, a complete streets ordinance, and the Woodward Light Rail line and associated transit-oriented development; as well as numerous amendments to the Detroit Zoning Ordinance, including Detroit’s urban agriculture ordinance. Prior to joining Detroit’s CPC, Ms. Buhl lectured in planning and geography at Eastern Michigan University and was a land use planner for the Wasco County Planning Department in Oregon.
Education: Bachelor of Arts in American Studies, Mills College (Oakland, Calif.) Master of Community and Regional Planning, University of Oregon (Eugene, Ore.)
Dara O'Byrne, AICP
Planner
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Bio: Detroit Revitalization Fellow at the City of Detroit Planning and Development Department (August 2011 - present) Planner & Urban Designer at MAKERS Architecture & Urban Design in Seattle, WA (October 2006 - July 2011)
Education: University of Washington, Master of Urban Planning University of Michigan, Bachelor of Science
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