MSU to hold land-use strategy session
Media Contact: Gisgie
Dávila Gendreau or Amy
J. Baumer
Release Date: December 3, 2003
EAST LANSING, Mich – More than 100 government officials,
industry leaders and faculty from across the state will converge
Sunday and Monday, Dec. 7-8, at a land-use retreat sponsored by
Michigan State University.
The conference will build on the Aug. 15 release of the Michigan
Land Use Leadership Council’s recommendations and shape the
university’s land-use research and outreach efforts. MSU president
emeritus Gordon Guyer will deliver the keynote address at 6 p.m.
Sunday at the Kellogg Center event.
The retreat is organized by the office of the MSU John A. Hannah
Distinguished Professor in Land Use Policy and the Kellogg Land
Policy Group (KLPG), and funded by a grant from the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation.
“MSU faculty members have labored to translate the LULC’s
recommendations into specific research and outreach projects in
twelve programmatic areas,” said Soji Adelaja, the new Hannah
Professor, who was recruited this year from Rutgers University to
lead MSU's land-use policy program. “This retreat will provide
an opportunity for us to prioritize and evaluate these efforts.”
Participants will engage in prioritization exercises on critical
issues such as city and community revitalization; agricultural and
land-based industry viability; planning, coordination, and decision
making; natural resource and land-based industry opportunities;
Michigan citizen empowerment; market-based solution application;
and data maximization.
“Land-use management is perhaps the most significant challenge
facing the state,” added Adelaja. “At the MSU retreat,
key stakeholders will navigate critical hurdles that threaten the
high quality of life that we enjoy in Michigan.”
“Bridging academia, business and government is a role that
IPPSR takes seriously,” said Douglas Roberts, interim director
of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research (IPPSR) and
co-principal investigator of the W.K. Kellogg grant. “In land
use, these partnerships are especially important for the development
of effective public policy.”
The group plans a follow-up summit in February.
The Kellogg Land Policy Group (KLPG) is a two-year effort funded
by a 2002 development grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of
Battle Creek, Mich. A core group of MSU faculty members working
in concert with the Lansing-based policy analysis firm Public Sector
Consultants carry out the grant’s mission to bring together
the university’s wide range of land-use related research,
outreach and educational efforts to better serve citizens, local
officials and municipalities.
For more information, visit www.ippsr.msu.edu/PPIE/LandUse/
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