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Traffic Woes? Urban Planning Expert to Present Vancouver’s Experience in Growing, Yet Lessening Congestion

Silver Spring, MD – At a 7 p.m. Thursday, July 12 presentation to the
Montgomery County Planning Board, an international planning expert will detail
how Vancouver, British Columbia, reduced vehicle use even while building a
denser and more vibrant city.

The
presentation by Gordon Price, director of the City Program at Simon Fraser
University in Vancouver, the latest expert in the Board’s Growth
Management Speaker Series, will help inform the Planning Board as it
grapples with how to shape the future of Montgomery County. Vancouver’s success
in reducing vehicle use is particularly relevant as the Board looks for ways to
alleviate road congestion and plan for more mass transit use by its current and
future residents.

Gordon Price, adjunct professor in the School of Community and Regional
Planning at the University of British Columbia and recent winner of a
provincial smart growth “Smarty” award, will describe how Vancouver
accommodated more residences – increasing development in its urban core more
than any other North American city – but at the same time, experienced a drop
in vehicle use.

Price’s presentation, “The Vancouver Recipe: How To Increase Density and
Reduce Fat,” will illustrate Vancouver’s process and lessons learned and pose
ideas for urban and suburban settings.

WHO:
Gordon Price, director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University in
Vancouver, B.C.

WHAT:
Presentation
on Growth Management Strategies –
The Vancouver Recipe: How To
Increase Density and Reduce Fat

WHEN:

Thursday,
July 12, 2007 – 7 p.m.

WHERE:
Park
and Planning Headquarters
8787
Georgia Avenue
Silver
Spring, MD