PEARLS
Symposium and Ideas Exchange
Presented by Save Our Shotguns Apalachicola Inc
April 14, 2018
Center for History, Culture and Art, 86 Water St, Apalachicola
9:00 Doors open
9:15 – 10:15 Community Land Trusts to Promote Affordable Housing in Apalachicola
Ashon Nesbitt
Ashon Nesbitt serves as a lead Technical Advisor for the Florida Community Land Trust Institute, a program of the Florida Housing Coalition that supports the establishment and capacity-building of community land trusts, including training, facilitating public meetings, and technical assistance in the development of community-specific implementation plans. The Coalition also promotes permanent affordability accomplished through shared equity models, to which Ashon conducts research on shared equity models with emphasis on community land trusts, inclusionary zoning, and linkage fees; and further works on special projects, including drafting inclusionary housing ordinances, and other strategies for the production and preservation of affordable housing.
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10:30 – 11:45 In the Cross-Heirs: How to Deal with Heirs’ Property
Ann Carpenter, Leslie Powell-Boudreaux and Edward Grunewald
Ann Carpenter is a senior community and economic development adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, specializing in housing and neighborhood revitalization. Her recent work includes studies on land contracts, heirs’ property, and strategies to increase the production of mixed-income housing. Carpenter earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Michigan and master’s and doctorate degrees in city and regional planning from Georgia Tech.
Leslie Powell-Boudreaux, the Executive Director of Legal Services of North Florida, Inc, LSNF provides representation to low-income and vulnerable individuals in civil matters only. LSNF serves the legal needs of children, elderly, victims of abuse, veterans, and people with disabilities. LSNF’s priority areas include supporting families; preserving the home; maintaining economic stability; safety, stability and health; and serving populations with special vulnerabilities. Ed Grunewald is the Executive Director of the North Florida Center for Equal Justice, Inc.
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11:45 – 12:45 Lunch at any of Apalachicola's fine restaurants
12:45– 2:00 The Path to a Zoning Solution
John Marshall and Richard Dagenhart
John Travis Marshall is an assistant professor at the Georgia State University College of Law, where he teaches Environmental Law, Land Use Law, and Property Law and serves as associate director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth.
Educated in anthropology, city planning and architecture at the Universities of Arkansas and Pennsylvania.
Richard Dagenhart is now Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Dagenhart’s current teaching focuses on urban design, urban history and environmental issues with studios ranging from urban design strategies for sea level rise on the Georgia Coast to neighborhood preservation and redevelopment in Savannah and small towns across Georgia.
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John Marshall -- Power Point presentation
Richard Dagenhart -- Power Point presentation
2:15 – 4:30 The Hill and Its Future
Moderated by Mayor Van Johnson, there will be one break within.
Community Panel: Yvonne Tolliver, Rose Griffin, Harold Banks, Willie Mary Daniels, Richard Dagenhart, and Creighton Brown.
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