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April, 2011 Event Calendar For updates and more event details, visit MnAPA.com and click on Member Events. Tuesday, April 5 Sustainable Community Forum: Greening the Building Code (see p. 9) 12:00 noon to 1:30pm. Where: Roseville City Council Chambers (map), 2660 Civic Center Drive, Roseville. Cost: Free; please feel free to bring a bag lunch if you would like. The Minnesota Chapter of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) hosts quarterly Sustainable Communities Forum to support commu- nities in their sustainability efforts. The greening of the building code has arrived with the creation of the Inter- national Green Building Code and National Green Building Standards. Join Nick Carver, Assistant Building Official for the City of Maplewood, for an overview of both codes and learn how they work in tandem with other green rating systems like LEED. Find out how jurisdictions can customize a green building program through the use of the minimum standards, special jurisdictional requirements and project electives. Minne- sota examples of implementation will highlight cost-effective strategies for implementation. Speaker: Nick Carver has been the Assistant Building Official for the City of Maplewood since 1987. He has been active in the development of green building codes through his role as the Chairmain for the Green Build- ing/Energy Code Development Committee and as Secretary for the Regional III International Code Develop- ment Committee. In addition to being a State of Minnesota certified Building Official, he is international certi- fied as a Commercial Building Official and Plans Examiner, as well as in Green Building Standards. Registra- tion is taken by the USGBC at http://www.usgbcmn.om/event-detail/?id=402. For more information or questions, please contact Rita Trapp from HKGi at either rita aahkai.com or 612-252-7135. Applied for 1.5 APA CM credits Thursday, April 7 Advanced Planning and Zoning Workshop for Professional Planners 8:30am to 12:30pm (check -in 8:00 am). Minnesota Counties Intergovernmental Trust (MCIT) Building 100 Empire Drive, St. Paul. To Register: www.m ats.ora. Download pdf for more details here. Thursday, April 14 Brown Bag Lunch: Access to Destinations Study 12:00 noon to 1:30pm. Presented by Dr. David Levinson at University of Minnesota, Room 1130 of the Me- chanical Engineering Building. http://wwwl.umn.edu/twincities/maps/MechE/ Access to Destinations is an interdisciplinary research and outreach effort coordinated by the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota, with support from sponsors including the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Hennepin County, the Metropolitan Council and the McKnight Foundation. The Access to Destinations Study takes a new approach to understanding how people use the transportation system, and how transportation and land use interact. At the heart of this approach is the concept of accessibility: the ability of people to reach the destinations that they need to visit in order to meet their needs. By focusing on "accessibility," rather than simple congestion measures, the Access to Destinations Study aims to produce a more complete and meaningful picture of transportation and its role in our lives. This presentation will discuss the research and results of this five year study, along with a newly created online mapping tool to help those who make transportation and land -use decisions in the Twin Cities region capture variations in accessibility to different types of destinations for trav- elers who drive, bike, walk, or use transit. To learn more about accessibility and its role in the Access to Des- tinations Study, visit http://www.cts.umn.edu/access-studv/. About Dr. David Levinson: David Levinson's current research focuses on understanding the process of net- work growth, evaluating transportation technology and policy and modeling travel behavior. He teaches courses in Transportation Policy, Planning, and Deployment, Transportation Systems Analysis, Transporta- tion and Land Use, Transportation Economics and Transportation Engineering. He is the director of the Nexus research group, exploring issues related to networks, economics, and urban systems, and is a co - leader of the interdisciplinary Access to Destinations Study. Attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch to this event. Please RSVP to Matthew Parent at matthew.oarentaco.anoka.mn.us by Tuesday, April 12th. planning minnesota April, 2011 14