Transportation and Land Development (ADD30) Committee Meeting Agenda and Update
John Renne
Dear Transportation and Land Development Committee (ADD30):
Tomorrow is our Committee meeting from 10:15 pm – Noon in Marriott Marquis, Independence Salon B (M4).
I held off on sending this email until I was able to catch up with our TRB Staff Rep. Bill Anderson. He has been really busy but I was able to connect with him until today upon arriving in DC.
I have some good news. Bill has assured and proven that our committee is not sun-setting, but we are merging with ADD10 – Transportation and Economic Development. I successful made the case that if this is a real merger, why not drop the name “Transportation” before “Economic Development” and replace it with “Land Use.” Bill agreed this makes a lot of sense so our newly merged Committee will be called “Land Use and Economic Development.” Below is an email from our Section Chair, Steve Cliff, that summarizes the changes in our section (before this name change update). I will be co-chairing this new committee along with a yet to be appointed member of ADD10. Our new committee number will be AMS50. Our new committee will be part Transportation and Sustainability Section within the new Sustainability and Resilience Group.
I can tell you the following:
· All committee members of both ADD10 and ADD30 will remain appointed until the end of the current term (ending in 2022). After 2022, the new committee then have to be reduced from 72 committee members to 36 members
· A benefit of this merger is the ADD10 is the organizer of the International Transportation and Economic Development Conference (see: http://www.cvent.com/events/6th-international-transportation-and-economic-development-i-ted-conference/event-summary-9dc676032a274ef381b948bf29d4c0f4.aspx). In the past ADD30 has had a minor role in helping to organize this but moving forward, Bill wants land use to have a much more prominent role in this conference. Thus, the merger of the committees means that we will now have a role in organizing this conference, which is very exciting.
· We can create new subcommittees in order to ensure we have more focused topics for collaboration
· Bill wants use to elevate land use issues across the entire Sustainability and Resilience Group. TRB is very committed to land use issues and wants us to work hard to elevate these issues nationally and within local communities
· We will need to write a new scope for the Land Use and Economic Development Committee (AMS50) due later this spring.
Much of this transition will be fall into place over the next 6 – 12 months. Tomorrow we will spend most of our committee time talking about ideas for this merger and brainstorming how we can make it a successful transition.
Please note that ADD10 is meeting tomorrow morning before our committee from 8 am – 9:45 am in Marriott Marquis, Independence Salon C (M4). I am planning on attending this meeting and encourage you to go as well, if you are able. I am cc’ing the co-chairs of that committee on this email.
We also have our Research Subcommittee timeslot on Tuesday from 10:15 am – Noon in Marriott Marquis, Independence Salon C (M4). We can use that time to have more time for committee transition planning and beginning to craft ideas for the scope of new committee.
I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
Sincerely,
John
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John L. Renne, Ph.D., AICP
https://johnrenne.wordpress.com/
Director and Associate Professor
Center for Urban & Environmental Solutions (CUES)
Coordinator, Undergraduate Programs
School of Urban and Regional Planning
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida
Hello Social, Economic, and Cultural Section Members!
I’ve done my best to provide California weather for this year’s TRB annual meeting so you can leave your heavy coat at home!
As a reminder, we have our Section lunch meeting on Monday, January 13 at 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm in Farragut North room of the Marquis Marriott Hotel. Given the realignment of the TRB committee structure, our agenda is to provide a forum for you all to ask questions about this, since the Section will sunset and committees will be moving. You can find the new structure and other resources, included updated Frequently Asked Questions, on our strategic alignment website at (http://www.trb.org/AboutTRB/TADStrategicAlignment.aspx ). Please feel free to share this link with your committee members. I encourage you to read the introductory letter and FAQs on this site to prepare for the questions you may get during the Annual Meeting.
Here is what will be happening with the committees in our current Section:
- The Section (ADD00) is essentially splitting into two new Section of the moving to the new Sustainability and Resilience Group (AM000). The new Section are:
- Transportation and Society Section (AME00)
- Transportation and Sustainability Section (AMS00)
- The Transportation and Society Section (AME00) will house elements of ADD50 and ADD20. The Transportation and Sustainability Section (AMS00) will house elements of ADD10, ADD30, and ADD40, and the Special Task Force on Climate Change.
- ADD20 will sunset. The subjects of social and economic factors has been address a number of different committee is different ways. We can advance this dialogue with this wide network to develop solutions. Therefore, a new committee will be formed – Community Resources and Impacts (AME80) in the new Transportation and Society Section (AME00).
- ADD10 and ADD30 are being combined to be the new Transportation and Economic Development committee (AMS50).
- ADD40 grows into the new Transportation and Sustainability Section (AMS00).
- ADD50 is renamed and it scope is to expand as the committee on Equity in Transportation (AME10) of the new Transportation and Society Section (AME00).
- The Subcommittee on Health and Transportation becomes a committee on Transportation and Public Health (AME70) of the new Transportation and Society Section (AME00).
The new Sustainability and Resilience Group (AM000) represents a departure from our traditional approach to organizing committees. In the current structure, groups are focused either on a related set of disciplines or on a particular transportation mode. The Sustainability and Resilience Group (SRG) is designed to be a multimodal, multidisciplinary group focused on addressing two large, complex, and interrelated challenges facing transportation: the relationship between transportation and sustainability and the need for greater resilience in the face of threats from natural and human sources. Consequently, SRG will need to take an outcome‐ or objective‐oriented approach; rather than a modal or disciplinary approach. It will be most successful if it reaches out to committees in other groups and promotes integration of sustainability and resilience throughout transportation. As such, this new and “experimental” group will have the opportunity to model effective approaches to cross‐group collaboration leading to more effective transportation solutions. The ultimate success of SRG would be to make itself obsolete, having mainstreamed sustainable and resilient approaches. But then there would certainly be another large, complex problem to build a new group around.
I wanted to follow up with some more specific information for your committee for the Annual Meeting. This is my current understanding of things:
- Staff has not made recommendation for the chairs of AME00 and AMS00. Conversations continue.
- Staff has recommended Gloria Jeff and Tracee Strum-Gillum co-chair AME10
- Staff has recommended someone to chair AME70, but am not certain who it is. Bill needs to verify the nomination with Tom Palmerlee.
- Staff has recommended Veronica Murphy chair AME80.
- Staff has recommend John Renne to co-chair AMS50. The second co-chair will be nominated shortly. Bill is work with the Nadia and Sharada to make such a nomination.
The effect on committee membership and rotation:
- The original period of the chair term remain in effect. Chairs with a remaining year or two, still have that amount of time in their current term.
- Merging committees do not rotate until late 2020 or 2021 – per the next scheduled rotation.
- AME70 and AME*0 will nominate a complete slate of members in accordance with the process in the Committee Leadership Handbook.
- TRB-wide, TRB staff officers will work with committee chairs to bring the membership of committees back to standard numbers (i.e. 36) by April 2022.
Next step for committees:
- Committees should plan to submit a new title (if needed) and scope for the committee by the end of May 2020. This includes all committees. Remember that your committees are moving or merging.
- Along with the new titles/scopes, committees that are merging should plan to submit a plan by the end of May 2020 to bring committee membership numbers back to standard numbers (exact date TBD).
- Staffing for the new Group, Section, and committee is not yet determined. Bill and I will be here to help with things either way.
I hope this helps somewhat. Please let me or Bill know if you have any questions and I look forward to seeing all of you next week!
Best,
Steve
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Steven S. Cliff, PhD Deputy Executive Officer (916) 322-2892 Office (916) 606-0726 Work Cell |
John Renne
Hi All,
As promised this morning, in preparation for our meeting tomorrow at 10:15 am – Noon at the Marriott, Independence, Salon C (M4) attached is a comparison of our vision and mission statements between ADD10 and ADD30. You can see there is a lot of common ground here.
I hope we can work tomorrow to craft some ideas for a new mission statement for the new Committee on Land Use and Economic Development (AMS50).
Sharada and Nadia – can you share this with ADD10?
Best, John
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John L. Renne, Ph.D., AICP
https://johnrenne.wordpress.com/
Director and Associate Professor
Center for Urban & Environmental Solutions (CUES)
Coordinator, Undergraduate Programs
School of Urban and Regional Planning
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida
Nelson, Arthur Christian - (acnelson)
Hi John,
Thanks for preparing and sharing this with us. As I have been active in both ADD10 and ADD30, I have first hand experience with their differences which in my view far exceed their commonalities. Both meet important needs but they are very different nonetheless. Notably, with respect to their purposes, ADD10 focuses on:
"the impacts of transportation investments on national, regional and local economic development"
while ADD30's focuses on
"the effect (of) transportation infrastructure...on urban form...travel behavior...energy efficiency, sustainability and resilience of our cities and regions."
I do not see any commonality with respect to their purposes.
With respect to missions, I think you overstate the degree of common ground though this may be a difference in interpretation. While I see some commonalities:
ADD10: "resilience of existing infrastructure and regions" -- ADD30: "Infrastructure resilience"
and
ADD10: "transportation infrastructure and ED (economic development)" -- ADD30: "Economic analysis"
they are tenuous at best.
In contrast, the differences in their missions are numerous and telling. While
ADD30 addresses land development, planning processes, collaboration, stakeholders, safety, equity and property rights,
ADD10 addresses transportation technologies and internal and external (dis)investment (though it does address sustainability across generations in a way that seems non sequitur given the context).
This is a shotgun wedding without the usual precedent behaviors. Our individual choices are to quit, devoting our energies to the numerous alternative venues you identified, or fashion the purpose and mission of this new critter in ways that minimize damage
to our collective research productivity mindful that in this case it may be that our individual units are more productive separately than as a whole. Put differently, I worry that the reorganization waters down productivity of both ADD10 and ADD30 to TRB's
and the nation's detriment. More bluntly, I do not see where the TRB engaged in the kind of thoughtful, engaging, and transparent decision making process it espouses.
Finally, let me add some context. The nation's "net worth" is about $100 billion with public, private and non-profit real estate accounting for about $60 trillion. No organization on the planet is devoted more to maximizing the nation's real estate investment
through the transportation/land use connection than ADD30.
With so much at stake, TRB is making a grave mistake by watering down ADD10's and ADD30's contribution to America's next 100 years. I am surprised by its shortsightedness.
Chris
Hi All,
As promised this morning, in preparation for our meeting tomorrow at 10:15 am – Noon at the Marriott, Independence, Salon C (M4) attached is a comparison of our vision and mission statements between ADD10 and ADD30. You can see there is a lot of common ground here.
I hope we can work tomorrow to craft some ideas for a new mission statement for the new Committee on Land Use and Economic Development (AMS50).
Sharada and Nadia – can you share this with ADD10?
Best, John
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John L. Renne, Ph.D., AICP
https://johnrenne.wordpress.com/
Director and Associate Professor
Center for Urban & Environmental Solutions (CUES)
Coordinator, Undergraduate Programs
School of Urban and Regional Planning
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida
Steven S. Cliff, PhD
Deputy Executive Officer
(916) 322-2892 Office
(916) 606-0726 Work Cell
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