CDG presents at APA's Regional Planning Conference

Community Design Group made two presentations at this year's American Planning Association's Upper Midwest Regional Planning Conference, held on September 22-24 in Mankato, Minnesota.

CDG Director Antonio M. Rosell, P.E., AICP presented "Best Practices for Encouraging Year-Round Non-Motorized Transportation in Minnesota" while CDG Project Engineer Colin Harris, P.E., CDG Designer Carrie Christensen MLA, and Sustology Designer Mark Apfelbacher jointly presented "Green Complete Streets: A New Concept," an overview of the initiative developed by CDG, Alta Planning + Design and Sustology.

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Green Complete Streets: A New Concept

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Walking and Biking Through Minnesota Winters

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Additional resources

Here you can find links to documents and other resources mentioned during the presentation:

• The Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP)
• The New York City DOT Street Design Manual (download as PDF or purchase a hardcopy)
• The Dutch Design Manual for Bicycle Traffic, published by CROW, the Netherlands' National Information and Technology Platform for Instrastructure, Traffic, Transport and Public Space. Can be purchased from the link provided.
• Minnesota DOT Bikeway Facility Design Guide
• PEDSAFE: Pedestrian Safety Guide and Countermeasure Selection System
• Minneapolis Pedestrian Master Plan
• Pedestrian and Bicycle Count Results: Bike Walk Twin Cities 2009 - Annual report providing a detailed view of bicycling and walking at numerous locations across the Twin Cities
• IBPI Bicycle Boulevard Planning and Design Guidebook
• The City of Copenhagen 2006 Bicycle Account
• City of Copenhagen's official "City of Cyclists" resources (in English)
• National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) Cities for Cycling initiative
• 2008 Montreal Transportation Plan
• Pucher & Dijkstra: Making Walking and Cycling Safer: Lessons from Europe
• Pucher & Buehler: Why Canadians Cycle More
• FHWA Report: Walking and Cycling in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland (1994)
• 2005 Bicycling in Québec
• Victoria Transport Policy Institute (VTPI)
• Video: Cycletrack rush hour in snow conditions in Utrecht, Netherlands

The theme for this year's conference was "Planning in a New Decade." We are pleased to have participated in this important opportunity for learning and professional growth.

More details about the conference can be found at the conference's website (link >) or at the site for the Minnesota Chapter of the American Planning Association (link >).