Who are we? What are we doing?

1. Who are we? What are we doing? • US EPA/Office of Research and Development • Verle Hansen, PhD – architect, planner • Research how to develop the built environment so as to leave natural systems intact. • Allison Roy, PhD – ecologist • Kelly Black, Neptune and Company – SMARTe consultant • Sabine Martin, KSU – SMARTe liaison • EPA’s Mission “To protect the environment and human health. “ • One of our tools ‘to protect’ is SMARTe* * Sustainable Management Approaches and Revitalization Tools – electronic 6

2. Why are we here? • Stella has agreed to try (beta test) SMARTe* • To locate info/resources (tools) that will revitalize Cardwell site • EPA must protect environment for this and future generations • Environment must remain intact • Institutions must serve society • Economic system must be a tool for better life • The most effective application of these tools is in planning. • But, tools for ‘sustainable’ development are un-tried. • Stella has agreed to help us apply tools in the planning process, and benefit from our learning. 6 ‘Sustainable’

3. What’s in it for Stella? • Create Vision – an image of what could be • Create a Plan – A product that will integrate your values with science so that they complement & are relevant to each other. • Determine a base for efficient roads, waterlines, schools • Participate in a new future • Create a viable community for Stella citizens and future generations • Involve professionals to help you determine an economically viable, socially acceptable, and environmentally sound plan for a community. 6

4. What’s in it for EPA? • Understanding what is involved in sustaining the environment, society, and economy. • Through a process of doing • Through follow-up comparative studies • Determine a predictable way to ‘protect’ environment and human health • Save potentially $billions of public money and time lost - if we don’t ‘protect’. • Define a strategy and tools that collaboratively will breathe new life into thousands of communities like yours. 6

5. Why Your Input is Critical How can development create “livable, inspiring, enduring, and equitable places…where the quality of life and the long-term quality of human existence will be enhanced rather than depleted?” (Timothy Beatley and Kristy Manning, The Ecology of Place (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, p. 2 6

6. Why Your Input is Critical • Only you can answer • 7 questions are intended to give you a voice in your community. • Decisions will be yours. • Implementation of the plan will be yours. • Alterations to the plan will be by the community. • Planner’s responsibility is to empower you! 6

7. Our Challenge • To identify areas for development • Out of harms way • Keeping natural systems intact • To plan these areas to reflect your • Needs • Values • To integrate your Needs/Values with requirements of intact natural systems • To develop and provide tools for you and future generations to make land-use decisions that protect the environment and human health.

8. Your Challenge • To use the plan to guide your community so you get the community you want. • Achieve efficient community infrastructures • Develop the regulatory framework that guides growth • Develop incentives to encourage movement toward your desired outcomes. • To guide the evolution of your plan • To accommodate incremental development that must still give you a viable community at every step. • To adjust to changing values and needs.

9. 21 August 16-17 November March ’07 April/May ‘07 EPA will listen to you and remain open Boston workshop to explore planning options A preliminary plan will be presented that: Reflects your input Seeks your response A final plan will be presented that will integrate your values and needs with concepts of: * Intact natural systems * Quality social institutions * Sound economic expansion A Long-term Vision for Stella What You Can Expect