[CPEO-BIF] ICMA Seeks Participants for LUC Peer Exchange

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ICMA Seeks Participants for LUC Peer Exchange

The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) is seeking
local government representatives to participate in a peer exchange to
discuss land use controls (LUCs), in April or May 2003.

ICMA's peer exchanges are very popular among brownfields practitioners
as opportunities to meet and establish relationships with their
colleagues from other communities, to learn from their peers facing
similar situations, and to share their strategies, successes, and
challenges. The emphasis of this type of exchange allows participants to
provide lessons for each other and for other communities.

Peer exchanges also serve as research venues for ICMA researchers who
make information gathered during the peer exchanges available to other
brownfields practitioners around the country. In this way, the
beneficiaries of the peer exchanges extend beyond the direct
participants to other brownfields practitioners.

Building on several years of research and collaboration with local,
state, and federal government partners, ICMA is studying several
different aspects of local government management of LUCs. Specifically,
ICMA is researching applications for a model Land Use
Control Implementation Plan (LUCIP). ICMA is also researching data
management tools that can be used to track LUCs over the long term. In
the peer exchange, ICMA will work with a mentor and protege community to
examine strategies and challenges to local government implementation,
monitoring, and financing of LUCs.

The Land Use Control Peer Exchange is an opportunity for representatives
with certain LUC interests or problems to learn    directly from peers
that are addressing similar issues and may have developed innovative
strategies to overcome those challenges:

      ·       Participants from mentor communities can use peer
exchanges to develop their management and outreach skills, bring
together local government and community stakeholders to collectively
share their experiences and strategies, and gain recognition for their
achievements.

      ·       Participants from protege communities can acquire
valuable technical assistance from mentor communities, learn about
approaches that have succeeded as well as those that have failed, and
develop their own professional expertise.

      ·       All participating communities learn about innovative
approaches to LUCs and form working relationships with other
      brownfields and LUC practitioners.

ICMA plans to create an informal network of LUC practitioners from
numerous fields of expertise, including local and state government
officials, and will relay project updates and other related information
through a series conference calls or email bulletins.

If you are interested in participating in the Land Use Control Peer
Exchange with other local government practitioners, please complete the
questionnaire (accessible at
http://www.brownfieldsource.org/files/LUC%20Questionnaire.pdf) and
return it to Tom Groeneveld via email at tgroeneveld@icma.org, or fax at
(202) 962-3605, by January 31, 2003.

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