Ohio Land Bank Conference Schedule 2014 – Western Reserve Land Conservancy

This is the final conference schedule

Last update: 9/2/2014

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
8:30	Registration & Continental Breakfast
10:00	Welcome & Introductions Ballroom (10:00 – 10:20)
	Seneca	Neil House	Thurber	Park Parlor
10:30	Renovate or Demolish? Innovative Approaches to Answering This Question (CLE)	Land Banks 101 (CLE)	Turning the Rust Belt and Brownfields Green
12:00	Lunch & Keynote Address – Ballroom
1:15	Revitalization Utilizing Tax Credit Financing	The Economic Value of Greenspace	Vacant Housing Inventories – Quantifying the Need for Demolition and Rehabilitation	Alternative Demolition Financing Methods (CLE)
2:30	Vacant Land Management: Lessons from the Field	The Challenges of Redeveloping Landfill Sites (CLE)	Metro West – Moving a Market through a Strategic Intervention	Discussion Session: EPA Requirements for Scrap Tire Haulers
3:30	Snack Break – First Floor Lobby			Discussion Session at 3:15 Legislative Changes
4:00	How Trees Bring Land Vitality	Leveraging Landbank and Port Authority Tools to Revitalize Communities: REACH	NIP – Ohio Housing Finance Agency’s Vacant Property Initiative (CLE)	Discussion Session: Records Retention
5:30	Networking Reception (5:30 – 7:00) – Ballroom
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
7:30	Registration – First Floor Lobby & Continental Breakfast – Ballroom
8:45	Land Banks & Historic Preservation: An Oxymoron? (CLE)	“VAPAC” – A Model for Collaboration (CLE)	The Basics of Demolition
10:30	Slavic Village Restoration Project: Year 2 (CLE)	Bank REO Panel (CLE)	Blight to Bright: Act 2 (CLE)
11:45	Lunch & Keynote Speaker: Senator Sherrod Brown
1:00	It Takes a Village to Raise a Neighborhood	Land Protection 101: Greenspace and Landbanks (CLE)	Land Bank Property Management Systems
2:15	Wrap Up – Ballroom

(CLE) indicates this course has been approved by the Supreme Court of Ohio Commission on Continuing Legal Education.
The 2014 Land Bank Conference has been approved for 6.0 total CLE hours instruction.