1:45 – 2:30

What’s Driving Land Use in the Dry Sunbelt? Robert Lang, Director of Brookings Mountain West and Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada – Las Vegas

8:00 am                        Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 9:15 am             Opening Remarks

Governor Bill Ritter, State of Colorado

9:30 am – 11:00 am State Efforts

●     Coordination of Land Use Planning and Water Supply Planning: The
California Experience. Roderick Walston, Best Best & Krieger, LLP 

●     Arizona Ground Water Management/Assured Water Supply Subdivision Requirements. Sandy Fabritz-Whitney, Assistant Director, Water Management, Arizona Department of Water Resources 

●     Water and Land Use Planning in Washington State. Brian Walsh, Department of Ecology, State of Washington 

11:00 – 11:15 am        Break

11:15 am – 12:30 pm Local and County Efforts

●     City of Boulder’s Land Use Policies: Local and Regional Impact. Peter Pollock, Ronald Smith Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 

●     Land Use and Water Connection in Oregon: Past Practices and Innovations. Lorna Stickel, Portland Water Bureau 

●    Water in Douglas County, Colorado: Past, Present & Future. Mark Shively, Executive Director, Douglas County Water Resource Authority 

12:45 – 1:45                 Luncheon Panel: Two Sides Talking

●     Chips Barry, Denver Water and Mayor Hickenlooper, City of Denver 

●     Mark Pifher, Aurora Water and Mayor Ed Tauer, City of Aurora 

●     Eric Kuhn, Colorado River Water Conservation District & Greg Trainor, Utilities Manager, City of Grand Junction 

2:00 – 3:30pm             Private and NGO Efforts

●     Plnning Water-wise Communities. Clark Anderson, Director, Western Colorado Legacy Program at the Sonoran Institute. 

●     LEED Standards. Patti Mason, Director of Advocacy, U.S. Green Building Council, Colorado Chapter 

●     Case Studies in Water-Smart Development. Drew Beckwith, Water Policy Analyst, Western Resource Advocates 

●     A Developer’s Perspective. Doug Scott, Shea Properties 

3:30 – 3:45 pm            Break

3:45 – 5:15 pm             Cooperating Across the Scales: Local, County, Region, and State

●     Harris Sherman, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Natural Resources (moderator) 

●     Local Land Use Planners’Role in Assuring Sustainable Water Supply, Graham Billingsley, Principal, Billingsley Consultants; and Commissioner on the American Institute of Certified Planners 

●     Sustainable Community Development in Colorado. Andy Hill, Colorado Department of Local Affairs 

●     HB08-1141: Development Permits, Representative Kathleen Curry 

●     Special Districts, Tom Grimshaw, of Counsel, Grimshaw & Harring 

7:45 am                        Continental Breakfast

8:00 -8:30 am               Keynote Address

8:30 – 9:45 am             Federal Roles, Regulations and Planning Functions

●     Army Corps of Engineers ’“Water Needs in the 404 Permitting Arena and Shared Vision Planning” – Chandler Peter, Denver Regulatory Office, Omaha District 

●     Environmental Protection Agency 

●     U.S. Forest Service – Randy Karstaedt, Director, Physical Resources 

●     Bureau of Land Management – Maryanne Kurtinaitis, Renewable Energy Program Manager 

●     U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Meg Estep, Mountain-Prairie Region, Chief, Water Resources Division 

9:45 – 10:00 am           Summary of Table Discussions

10:00 – 10:45 am        Issues and Opportunities (facilitated discussion)

10:45 – 11:00 am        Break

11:00 – 11:45 am        Prioritizing Next Steps (facilitated discussion)

11:45 am – 12:45 pm Partnerships with other Colorado Efforts

●     Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG), Jennifer Schaufele, Executive Director (invited) 

●     Colorado State Legislature. Colorado State Representative Claire Levy (District 13) 

●     Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA), Susan Kirkpatrick, Executive Director