[Ohio_LT] Register for the Ohio Land Use Conference by November 10

[Peggy Hall]

Dear Friends,

We invite you to join OSU Extension for the Ohio Land Use Conference on November 17, 2008.  The theme of this year's program is Land Use Policy in Turbulent Times.

The conference will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the new Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center at OSU in Columbus, Ohio.  Registration is $55 and includes all meals and materials.  The registration deadline is November 10.

The program includes:

*         Sean Logan, Director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to speak on "Regional Approaches to Resource Protection"

*         Marvin Hayes, Governor Strickland's Director of Urban Development and Infrastructure, on "The Prosperity Agenda"

*         "Energy and Land Use in Ohio:  Prospects, Promises and Problems," featuring Kimberly Gibson of Ohio's Air Quality Development Authority, Dr. Matt Roberts of OSU's Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics;  Larry Long,  Executive Director of the County Commissioners Association of Ohio, and Bill Spratley, Executive Director of Green Energy Ohio.  

*         Breakout sessions taught by planners, government officials and attorneys on:

o   Multi-jurisdictional agreements for land use

o   Mortgage crisis impacts for rural lands

o   Successful brown field redevelopment projects

o   Zoning issues: farmland protection, livestock, wind turbines and oil and gas development

o   Protecting community water supplies through land use

Visit  <http://comdev.osu.edu/landuse_conf08.html> http://comdev.osu.edu/landuse_conf08.html for information and registration.

 

 

Peggy Kirk Hall

Director, Agricultural & Resource Law Program

The Ohio State University Extension

345 Agricultural Administration

2120 Fyffe Road

Columbus, OH  43210

614.247.7898

 

 

 

 

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