Training Workshop Focus: Reclaiming The Waterfront

From Mayor Finch:

City to Host Land Use Training Workshop Series

Mayor Finch joins Experts, Federal, City Officials for Bridgeport Environmental Justice Showcase

WHAT: On Friday, the Bridgeport Environmental Justice Showcase will kick off a series of land use training workshops called, “100 Days to Success.” The workshop will include a day full of panel discussions featuring experts and officials representing the United States and Connecticut Departments of Environmental Protection and the City of Bridgeport. The first workshop will include roundtable discussions regarding planning and zoning, sustainability, clean air, clean water and clean neighborhoods. The workshop will also include a session dedicated to Riverfront Recapture progress and projects undertaken by the City during the “100 Days to Success.” The day’s events will conclude with a boat tour which leaves at 2 p.m.

WHERE: 305 Knowlton Street \, Bridgeport, CT
WHEN: 8 a.m. – 2 p.m., Friday, June 3, 2011

(Attached: Workshop Agenda)

Bridgeport Harbor & Riverfront Recapture
Legal and Land Use Training Workshop
Series Day I … 100 Days to Success

June 3, 2011, 8:30 am to 4 pm
305 Knowlton Street, Along the Pequonnock River
With a Boat Tour of Bridgeport’s Rivers and Harbor

8:00 – 8:40 Registration

8:30 – 8:40 Invocation & Introductions
Ted Meekins, East End Community Council
Regina Winters, AIA, Zared Architects

8:40 – 9:00 Work Shop Series Overview & EPA Goals:
Deborah Brown, Special Assistant, EPA Region 1

9:00 – 9:15 Welcoming Remarks
Honorable Mayor Bill Finch

9:15 – 10:30 Session 1: Tools for Reclaiming the Riverfront
Planning, Zoning, Sustainability and Environmental Justice
Ted Meekins, East End Community Council — Moderator
Don Watson, Yale School of Architecture Emeritus;
Ted Grabarz, Director of Sustainability, City of Bridgeport
Mike Nidoh, Director of Planning, City of Bridgeport
Cynthia Jennings, Esq.

10:30 – 10:40 Morning Break

10:40 -12:40 Session 2: Regulation and Enforcement
Edith Pestana, CT DEP Environmental Justice Manager — Moderator

Part 1 — Clean Air – Fugitive Dust, Emissions
Abdi Mohamoud, EPA Air Inspector;
Nicole Lugli, CT DEP Enforcement Manager
Bill Quinn, City of Bridgeport Health Department

Part 2 – Clean Water — Storm-Water Management
Denny Dart, Chief Water Enforcement, EPA
Leah Lopez-Schmalz, CT Fund for the Environment
Nicole Lugli, CT DEP Enforcement Manager
Mary Dever Putnam, EPA
Bill Robinson, City of Bridgeport, WPCA

Part 3 – Clean Neighborhoods — Zoning, Anti-Blight, Enforcement
Edmund Schmidt, Esq., Assistant City Attorney, City of Bridgeport
Neil Bonney, Zoning Enforcement Officer, City of Bridgeport
Tom Coble, Director of Anti Blight, City of Bridgeport
Deputy Chief Adam Radzmirski, City of Bridgeport Police Department
Mike Hubbard, EPA Criminal Investigation Division

12:40 – 2:00 Session III – Riverfront Recapture – Progress & Projects – 100 days
Bill Coleman, City of Bridgeport, Office of Economic Development,
Steve Hladun, City of Bridgeport, Department of Parks & Public Facilities
Mark Tillinger, MP Development Associates, 305 Knowlton Street
Pedro Wasmer, MP Development Associates, 305 Knowlton Street

2:00 – 4:00 Boat Tour

To register for the June 3rd Workshop please call or e-mail Regina Winters at (203) 773-0747 or regina@zaredarchitecture.com