Citizens Planning Academy: Fall 2023 Presentations and Resources

The 2023 Citizens Planning Academy cohort can find the presentations and resources from all six sessions below. We will update this page each week following the session.

session 1: Wednesday, September 20

Presentations:

• The Big Picture: Introduction to Local Community Planning, Rashida Jeffers-Campbell, Planning Director, Greenville County

session 2: Wednesday, September 27

Presentations:

• Principles of Smart Growth: An Introduction to Urban Design, Community Character, and Equity in Planning, Patrea St. John, RLA, Leed-AP, AICP
• Bike Walk Greenville Introduction to Walk Audit Exercise, Mary McGowan, Chair, Board of Directors, Bike Walk Greenville

Additional resources:

• Missing Middle Housing Study for Greenville City and County
• Congress for the New Urbanism
• Smart Growth America: Improving lives by improving communities 
• Bike Walk Greenville 
• Simple Civics: Greenville County
• Design with Nature by Ian McHarg
• Walkable City Rules by Jeff Speck

Session 3: Wednesday, October 4

Presentations:

• Zoning: A Story of Bad Neighbors, Incompatibility, Separation, and Eventual Reunion, City of Greenville Planning Staff

Additional resources:

• The City of Greenville's e-mail lists
• The City of Greenville's Boards and Commissions 

Session 4: Wednesday, October 11

Panel Discussion and Q&A: Roles and Perspectives in Local Planning Processes

• Pam Adams, Planning Commissioner, City of Greenville
• Inez Morris, Neighborhood Leader/Public-Citizens Representative, West Greenville
• Jeff Randolph, The Randolph Group (TRG), Developer, Greenville County
• Richard Wright, 2023 Citizens Planning Academy Cohort Member, Bruce Heights Citizen Stakeholder
• Sherry Barrett, Land Policy Director, UF, Environmental Organization Stakeholder

Additional resources:

• Sign up for Upstate Forever's Geenville County Land Planning Issues Newsletter

Session 5: Wednesday, October 18

Presentations:

• Greenville County Unified Development Ordinance, Rashida Jeffers-Campbell, Planning Director 
• Zoning Tools for Greenville Development Code, Shannon Lavrin, Greenville City Manager

Additional resources:

• Greenville County Planning
• Greenville County Unified Development Ordinance
• City of Greenville Planning and Development website & Greenville Development Code
• Sign up for Upstate Forever's Geenville County Land Planning Issues Newsletter

session 6: Wednesday, October 25

Presentations:

• Part 1: Documentary Film Screening: Segregated by Design 
• Part 2: Facilitated Discussion, Gail Peay, VP of Strategic Initiatives, Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County

Additional Resources:

•  Webinar Recording & Transcript "2023 Schul Conversation - Our Connecting Spaces: Mixed-Income Communities & Placed-Based Initiatives" hosted by Urban Institute, University of North Carolina - Charlotte, 10/26/2023
• Racial displacement in Greenville, SC: historic and current population shifts in the city of Greenville and surrounding Greenville county, 2023 Simple Civics podcast 
• Story Map: Racial Displacement in Greenville, SC, Shi Institute at Furman prepared by Dr. Ken Kolb, Mike Winiski, Sam Hayes, and Catherine Lippert, 1/8/2023
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein