[CSSD] March 19 Lewis Seminar Series - Creating Partnerships to Improve School Site Design

Rick Burnham rick.burnham at ucr.edu
Thu Mar 5 12:18:24 PST 2009


CSSD Newsletter


      March 2009
      Creating Partnerships to Improve School Site Design

      Providing safer routes to school while encouraging exercise and social skills was 
the focus of a two-year research project recently completed in Riverside County’s 
Coachella Valley.

      Schools By Design was a collaborative project that brought together local school 
district and government officials, county health specialists, parents, teachers, urban 
planners and engineers to develop a model that could be used by other communities for 
establishing safer routes to school.

      A panel of participants in the Schools By Design project will provide an overview 
and discuss its findings, recommendations and outcomes at the March 19 Randall Lewis 
Seminar Series. The seminar will be held beginning at 5:30 p.m. in Conference Room E, UCR 
Extension Building, 1200 University Ave., Riverside. (See MAP)

      The Schools By Design project was conducted by the Coachella Valley Association of 
Governments and UCR’s Center for Sustainable Suburban Development, with funding provided 
by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and additional collaboration 
from the Riverside County Department of Public Health Injury Prevention Services.

      The project gathered data on traffic around the region’s schools; surveyed student 
and parent attitudes on walking or biking to school and related issues; and successfully 
built relationships between local governments, school districts and public health to 
identify how cities and school districts can work together to improve safety and promote 
walking and biking to school.

      Seminar presentations will be made by Jacob Alvarez, Management Analyst with the 
Coachella Valley Association of Governments; Juliann Emmons Allison, Assistant Professor 
of Political Science at UCR, CSSD Associate Director and the project’s Principal 
Investigator; Lorraine Becker, Assistant Superintendent of Schools for the Palm Springs 
Unified School District; and Sandy Wales-Jackson, Program Coordinator with the Riverside 
County Department of Public Health Injury Prevention Services.

      About
      Randall
      Lewis
      Randall Lewis is well known for his innovative approaches to planning, designing, 
and marketing residential communities as Executive Vice President of the Upland-based 
Lewis Group of Companies.

      He has been Secretary of the Los Angeles County Citizens Planning Council, Director 
of the Home Builder's Council, National Director of the National Association of Home 
Builders, and President of the Inland Empire Arts Foundation.

      He was inducted into the California Building Industry Association Hall of Fame and 
was the recipient of the Sales and Marketing Council's MAME Awards Marketing Person of the 
Year. He is a long time ULI member as well as a Governor of the ULI Foundation.

      He serves on several executive boards, including the USC School of Policy, Planning 
and Development and the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research.He received his 
B.A. from Claremont McKenna College.
     The seminars are free of charge.

      If you plan to attend, please RSVP to: judy.swineford at ucr.edu or (951) 827-7945 to 
ensure adequate space and refreshments.



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      For further information regarding this or any CSSD-sponsored event, please contact:
      Rick Burnham,
      Assistant Director, CSSD
      University of California, Riverside
      B101 Highlander Hall
      Riverside, CA 92521
      Phone: 951.827.4103
      Email: rick.burnham at ucr.edu



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