Local Government Commission (Sacramento, California)
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The Local Government Commission is a private, non-profit organization in Sacramento, California
. Its website says it: "provides inspiration, technical assistance, and networking to local elected officials and other dedicated community leaders who are working to create healthy, walkable, and resource-efficient communities."
The LGC's Mission statement says:
"The Local Government Commission assists local governments in establishing and nurturing the key elements of livable communities: a healthier human and natural environment, a more sustainable economy, an actively engaged populace, and an equitable society."
The LGC takes credit for bringing together in 1991 architects Peter Calthorpe, Michael Corbett, Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Moule, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Stefanos Polyzoides, and Daniel Solomon, to develop a set of community principles for land use planning. Called the Ahwahnee Principles (after Yosemite National Park's Ahwanee Lodge), the LGC presented them to about 100 government officials in the fall of 1991, at its first Yosemite Conference for Local Elected Officials. Calthorpe, Duany, Moule, Plater-Zyberk, Polyzoides, and Solomon later founded the Chicago-based Congress for the New Urbanism in 1993.
The LGC is scheduled to hold its 16th annual Conference for Local Elected Officials March 15–18, 2007, at Yosemite National Park. This year's topic is Building Livable Communities: Moving the Smart Growth/Water Sustainability Agenda Forward.
The LGC also promotes the Ahwahnee Principles for Economic Development: Smart Growth: Economic Development for the 21st Century; A Set of Principles for Building Prosperous and Livable Communities, and The Ahwahnee Water Principles for Resource Efficient Land Use.
Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
. Its website says it: "provides inspiration, technical assistance, and networking to local elected officials and other dedicated community leaders who are working to create healthy, walkable, and resource-efficient communities."
The LGC's Mission statement says:
"The Local Government Commission assists local governments in establishing and nurturing the key elements of livable communities: a healthier human and natural environment, a more sustainable economy, an actively engaged populace, and an equitable society."
The LGC takes credit for bringing together in 1991 architects Peter Calthorpe, Michael Corbett, Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Moule, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Stefanos Polyzoides, and Daniel Solomon, to develop a set of community principles for land use planning. Called the Ahwahnee Principles (after Yosemite National Park's Ahwanee Lodge), the LGC presented them to about 100 government officials in the fall of 1991, at its first Yosemite Conference for Local Elected Officials. Calthorpe, Duany, Moule, Plater-Zyberk, Polyzoides, and Solomon later founded the Chicago-based Congress for the New Urbanism in 1993.
The LGC is scheduled to hold its 16th annual Conference for Local Elected Officials March 15–18, 2007, at Yosemite National Park. This year's topic is Building Livable Communities: Moving the Smart Growth/Water Sustainability Agenda Forward.
The LGC also promotes the Ahwahnee Principles for Economic Development: Smart Growth: Economic Development for the 21st Century; A Set of Principles for Building Prosperous and Livable Communities, and The Ahwahnee Water Principles for Resource Efficient Land Use.