Regional Livability Workshop

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Workshop Overview
3. Workshop Results
   • 3.1 Challenges
     • 3.1.a Interagency Barriers
     • 3.1.b Perceptions About Livability
     • 3.1.c Financial Resources and Leveraging Funding
     • 3.1.d Transportation Planning and Project Implementation
     • 3.1.e Rural Issues
   • 3.2 Solutions
     • 3.2.a Building Capacity
     • 3.2.b Communicating and Marketing Livability
     • 3.2.c Implementing Projects That Achieve Livable Community Outcomes
     • 3.2.d Funding Livability Projects
     • 3.2.e Demonstrating Benefits (Livability Metrics)
   • 3.3 Creating a Livability Primer
   • 3.4 Communications and Marketing
4. Next Steps

Two separate documents accompany this report. Appendix A includes the detailed meeting notes from each individual workshop and Appendix B is a separate PDF file of all workshop presentations. Information on accessing these documents is available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/livability/.