A landmark forum presented by The Carnegie Group Cherberg Building, Washington State Capitol, Olympia Saturday, August 28, 1999, 8:30am - 3:30 pm
The keynote speaker for The Carnegie Group s August 28 forum Challenging the Myths of Growth will be Jennifer Belcher, Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands.
Belcher recently described our growth dilemma in these words: The state s population is projected to double in the next 50 years, and our natural resources and the type of life we re used to are at risk. (From the 1998 DNR publication Our Changing Nature.)
The Forum s morning session will feature three outstanding Northwest leaders who have confronted first-hand the challenges that unbridled growth have brought to our region:
Rosemarie Ives, Mayor of Redmond, Washington, where the arrival of several major high-tech firms turned a livable Northwest town into the center of Cyberworld.
Brian Derdowski, outspoken maverick member of King County Council who dares to take on the region s movers and shakers and tell them the growth emperor wears no clothes.
Eben Fodor, the Northwest s premier consultant on the myths of growth. Fodor s definitive 1999 book Better NOT Bigger: How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community explains the impacts and economic realities of growth and provides a blueprint for citizen activism.
Commissioner Belcher s keynote address will follow an on-site smorgasbord lunch. The afternoon session will be a roundtable dialog featuring Commissioner Belcher, Mayor Ives, Councilmember Derdowski, Mr. Fodor as well as Patrick Mazza, expert on growth issues and global warming.
Audience participation will be encouraged.
All sessions will be in Hearing Room One in the Cherberg Senate Office Building located south of the Capitol Dome. Your early reservation is encouraged; seating is limited. Admission: $15.00, lunch included.
Some of the Myths of Growth (adapted from Better NOT Bigger by Eben Fodor, forum panelist...)
How many of the following myths have you heard lately--from politicians, land developers, or people who accept them as the truth?
___Urban growth means lower taxes; we need to bring in business to bring down taxes.
___Environmental protection will hurt the economy; growth is good for us.
___Growth provides needed tax revenues.
___We have to grow to provide jobs.
___We must stimulate and subsidize business growth to have good jobs.
___If we try to limit growth, housing prices will shoot up.
___Growth is inevitable.
___If you don t like growth you are a NIMBY (Not in My Backyard)
___We have to Grow or Die.
___Vacant land is just going to waste. Beauty is no basis for policy.
Attend the Carnegie Forum to learn the facts about growth and why these truisms are self-serving myths for those who profit from growth.
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REGISTRATION
To register, mail Name, Address, Phone and Fax/Email along with $15, to:
The Carnegie Group 209 5th Avenue S.E.
Olympia WA, 98501
Seating is limited. Register early!
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