July 29, 2019
Let me extend a warm invitation to you to attend the CNU Florida Statewide Meeting in Downtown Tampa, October 3-4, 2019. This is the premier New Urbanist event in the State of Florida, the birthplace of our movement. If you have not yet attended a Statewide Meeting, I can promise you captivating speakers, innovative ideas, and welcoming colleagues who, like you, are dedicated to making Florida a better place. A “Who’s Who” of New Urbanists from the fields of planning, engineering, academics, architecture, as well as developers, investors, governmental officials, and citizen advocates will attend. Join us. And please share this with your colleagues. Click here to register today.
Our new board of directors—including vice chair Billy Hattaway, treasurer Eliza Harris Juliano, secretary Michelle Zehnder, and at-large director Debra Hempel—took the organization’s helm last fall. We are prioritizing improved communications to and among our members. You may be viewing this blog on our new website or in an email newsletter, the first of what we aim to provide to CNU Florida members every other month.
If you have not kept your membership current, please do so promptly at this link. Your membership in the CNU automatically makes you a member of CNU Florida and financially supports our mission. We need your help to make Florida more beautiful, economically vibrant, environmentally sustainable, and healthier for its citizens and visitors.
In our newsletters, we would like you and other CNU members to present wonderful projects from around the State of Florida furthering the Charter of the New Urbanism. Please email us your submissions—photographs, renderings, and a description of up to 250 words—to [email protected]. We welcome all such projects, whether yours, another’s, or your community’s.
Last fall, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk extended the prior board’s request that we succeed them. Lizz and Andres and their firm, DPZ, have given us an amazing legacy of New Urbanism—and their work continues. The towns they planned in the Panhandle—Seaside, Rosemary Beach, and Alys Beach—all so remarkably different, outshine Florida’s ubiquitous sprawl. Here in Winter Park, I can visit quaint New England Avenue at Hannibal Square, planned by Andres years ago. Through their groundbreaking work and intellect, Lizz and Andres have changed the conversation about land planning in the State of Florida, in the nation, and beyond.
Join me in honoring and building upon their legacy. Register now for the Statewide Meeting, October 3-4, in Downtown Tampa.
Rick Geller
CNU Florida Chair
Winter Park, Florida
August 15, 2019
Ybor City, Tampa