LIHUE — Smart Growth America announced that the County of Kauai was selected to receive free smart growth technical assistance through a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities program. The county is one of
LIHUE — Smart Growth America announced that the County of Kauai was selected to receive free smart growth technical assistance through a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities program.
The county is one of 18 communities out of 100 applicants and the only Hawaii community that will receive a one- or two-day training session with an expert from Smart Growth America.
Kauai’s two-day training will focus on parking audits, which will assist the county with assessing current and future parking demands as well as parking supply.
The workshop will also provide best practices on how to efficiently manage parking resources.
Once the date is set, county staff and community members will be invited to participate in the workshop. It will center on the Lihue Town Core as the county has several initiatives in the area that will benefit from a better understanding of parking tools and solutions including, the Rice Street revitalization and streetscape plan and the greening of the Lihue Civic Center.
“Get Fit Kauai is thrilled to participate in the parking audits training in order to further build capacity to partner with the county in implementing smart growth principles,” said Bev Brody, director of Get Fit Kauai, who led the charge for the county’s Complete Streets ordinance.
Recently, Brody and several county employees were invited to participate in a panel discussion of Kauai’s complete streets journey at the New Partners for Smart Growth national conference in Denver.
