Transportation + Land Use Strategies in Climate Action Planning
The 2009 Leon Hoffman Urban Technology Symposium

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
8:15 am to 12:45 pm (continental breakfast begins at 7:30 am)
Japanese American National Museum
Little Tokyo, downtown Los Angeles, California

Sponsored by
The UCLA Urban Planning Alumni Council
The Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
The Department of Urban Planning
The Department of Architecture and Urban Design

Global climate change will be perhaps our greatest challenge in the 21st Century. California is a leader in the U.S. in prompting state, regional, and local government climate action planning. But such leadership entails significant uncertainties for planners and local government officials.

Just what is a "Climate Action Plan?" How do local and regional planners implement one? State legislation – particularly Assembly Bill 32 and Senate Bill 375 – mandate action, but in many ways raises more questions than they answer. Now that guidelines for climate action planning are emerging from state agencies, how do environmental, land use, and transportation planners incorporate these guidelines into practice? What are the requirements? What transportation and land use planning strategies are most promising?

In the 2009 Leon Hoffman Urban Technology Symposium on Climate Action Planning we will bring together leading practitioners and researchers to address the questions facing those tasked with climate action planning, focusing on effective, meaningful compliance with a still-evolving set of state legislation and regulations. The program will emphasize practical ideas and practice grounded in the best available research.