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Overview: Expressways cut through communities and stand as barriers to connectivity, economic development, equity and neighborhoods in our downtowns. Learn how a partnership between ODOT, Columbus and the community developed and implemented a nationally recognized infrastructure model using freeway caps and enhanced bridges to stitch neighborhoods together and address the critical topics of quality of life, mobility, economics and opportunity.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the many types of enhanced bridges, caps, and connectivity improvements that can be considered to better connect neighborhoods divided by freeways.
- Gain insight from a template shared for building partnerships between DOTs, MPOs and city officials to enhance transportation projects to create vastly improved neighborhood connectivity.
- Understand how to leverage transportation projects to improve connectivity, complete streets, economic development opportunities, sustainability, social justice, placemaking, quality of life, and neighborhood identity and pride.
Friday, September 24, 2021 | 11:15am ET (8:15am PT)
Domain: Planning, Design and Infrastructure
Pricing: IDA Members: Free | Nonmembers: $40
CM | 1
AICP members can earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits for this webinar. More information about AICP’s CM program can be found here.
Advancing Places is an online series aimed at empowering IDA members with the solutions needed to address the most critical urban issues of the day. This session will include a moderated Q&A and will be recorded for member and nonmember use in the future.
Speakers:
- Chris Hermann, ACIP, Principal, MKSK (Columbus, OH)
- Marie Keister, ARP, AICP, President, Murphy Epson (Columbus, OH)
- Kelly Scocco, Deputy Director, City of Columbus Department of Public Service (OH)
Moderator:
- Carolyn Dellutri, Director of Professional Development, International Downtown Association (IDA)
Speakers
Chris Hermann, AICP
Principal, MKSK
Chris Hermann, AICP, is a principal with MKSK, a planning, urban design, and landscape architecture firm with eight offices across the Midwest and Southeast. Chris is a certified city planner with more than 27 years of planning experience. Chris has managed a wide variety of projects including comprehensive plans, downtown and focus area plans, economic development, transportation planning, and public engagement and facilitation. Building on his prior planning experience in city, county, and regional government, Chris is significantly involved with many transformative, place-making projects. He has led MKSK project teams for several award-winning downtown, district, and transportation plans. Chris authored the I-70/71 Design Enhancement Manual and continues to be project manager for the urban design portions of most of the phases of the Columbus Crossroads innerbelt reconstruction project. Chris has also served as an adjunct faculty member of the Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture and on his community's Planning Commission and Architecture Review Board.
Marie Keister, ARP, AICP
President, Murphy Epson
Over her 30+ year career, Marie Keister has successfully managed award-winning public relations efforts for both popular and controversial initiatives, built community consensus for complex projects, mobilized grassroots support and secured funding for major infrastructure improvements. Her recent work with DriveOhio and ODOT includes providing strategic communication and engagement counsel and facilitating advisory committees/stakeholder/public meetings for the Automated Driving Systems (ADS) demonstration, Access Ohio 2045, Mobility Ohio, statewide transit and aviation plans. She has also led and developed a communication strategy for Drive Ohio, Ohio’s CV/AV Systems Engineering Playbook, Connected Marysville, Connected Dublin, Beta District, Smart Columbus, and 71/670.
Kelly Scocco
Deputy Director, City of Columbus Department of Public Service
Kelly serves as the Deputy Director for the City of Columbus Department of Public Service, where she oversees transportation planning, design, construction, and maintenance operations. She has over 17 years of planning experience with both the public and private sectors. Previously Kelly was the Assistant Director at the City’s Department of Building and Zoning Services managing private development projects through Columbus’ building and zoning processes. Prior to working for the city, Kelly served as Transportation and Planning Manager with CHA Consulting, Inc.; as Deputy Director of Transportation System Development with the Ohio Department of Transportation; and as a land use and transportation planner with two private consulting firms.
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