Events

FALL MEETING OF THE

LAKE WALES RIDGE ECOSYSTEM WORKING GROUP

15 November 2006

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Avon Park Air Force Range

Entry Gate on – Rte. 64, Building 29

Avon Park, FL

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TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ON THE RIDGE

AND THE CONSERVATION CONSEQUENCES

Greetings fellow LWREWG members:

Central Florida is facing many challenges and the effects of transportation planning will

have significant conservation consequences on the Lake Wales Ridge.

This is an important meeting and we encourage all members to attend.

We have very interesting talks and discussions scheduled.

Please notice the attached map to the meeting site.

The following URL is to the recent Florida's Future Corridors Statewide Workshop:

http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/corridor/workshop100406/default.htm

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AGENDA

0800 – 0830hrs – Registration

0830 – 0845hrs – Welcome (slides on roads, heartland_article.pdf)

0845 – 0930hrs – Agency Updates

 0930 – 1000hrs – Don Hanna (Highlands County Planning Department)

                            Highlands County Long Range Transportation Planning

 1000 – 1045hrs – Ben Walker (FDOT District 1) and Pamela Richmond (Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise)

                            FDOT’s Statewide Corridors Plans and Heartland Projects

 1045 – 1100hrs – Break (cookies! - I’m not going to even try to be reasonable this time)

 1100 - 1200hrs -  Margaret Carr (Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Florida)

                            Land Use Conflict Identification Strategy”

 1200 – 1245hrs – Lunch – (Please bring your lunch)

 1245 – 1330hrs – Rick Dantzler (attorney for Heartland Economic and Agricultural Rural Taskforce, Inc. – HEART, Inc.) and Richard Woodruff (engineer with Wilson Miller)

                            “Can We Get It Right This Time?”

 1330 – 1400hrs – Jennifer McMurtray (author)

                             “The Conservation-minded Citizen’s Guide to Transportation Planning – How to get Involved in the

                                    Transportation Planning Process”

 1400 – 1445hrs – Keith Schue (Central Florida Conservation Project Coordinator, The Nature Conservancy)

                               The Wekiva Parkway Project, a case study

 1445 – 1500hrs – New Chairperson Introduction and Meeting Conclusion 

Please put the meeting on your calendar.

We look forward to seeing you all in November.

LWREWG STEERING COMMITTEE

M A P B E L O W

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