Pretend you have the lead in a project to design a new hangout downtown for yourself and your friends. What will it look like? How will it fit into the design of downtown and attract kids to go there? Come to this workshop and create your own plan!

Leader - Lois Fisher

Lois Fisher is the president of Fisher Town Design Inc. of Santa Rosa, California. She is a graduate of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Her firm designs walk able neighborhoods and towns. They make new planning rules for those cities and developers that want a walk able alternative to suburban sprawl’s conventional car- and use-based planning codes. Lois was director of design for the team that designed the Central Petaluma Specific Plan and SmartCode; the first adopted Smart Code in the U.S. She is completing SmartCodes for downtown Sebastopol and Ukiah. She is also working for Codding Enterprises on a SmartCode for the 200 acre mixed-use, walk able reuse design of the former Agilent campus in Rohnert Park. She served on the Windsor Planning Commission for 7 years.

Co-Leader - April Owens

April Owens is a graduate of the U.C. Berkeley Extension Certificate in Landscape Architecture program. She owns April Owens Design, a landscape design company that creates gardens using California native plants and sustainable materials and methods.