LAW AND POLICY FOR NEIGHBORHOODS

November 5^th and 6^th, 2009

Santa Fe Community Convention Center  

November 5^th, 2009

8:00 a.m. - Registration and Continental Breakfast (Coronado-De Vargas Room)

8:30 a.m. – Opening Remarks, Santa Fe Mayor David R. Coss

8:35 a.m. - Program Overview, Peter A. Dwyer, Esq., Program Chair

8:45 a.m. - Case Law and Legislative Update: Law and Policies Impacting Neighborhoods

Frank D. Katz, Esq., Santa Fe City Attorney; Stephen C. Ross, Esq., Santa Fe County Attorney

9:45 a.m. - Morning Break

10:00 a.m. – Revision of the Land Use Code:  Development Review Reforms?

Kelley A. Brennan, Esq., Assistant City Attorney; Gregory T. Smith, A.I.C.P., City Current Planning Director; Christopher Graeser, Esq.

11:00 a.m. - Roundtable Discussion: Legal Change Impacting Neighborhoods

Daniel Yohalem, Esq.; Anita P. Miller, Esq.; Rosanna Vazquez, Esq.; Bruce C. Throne, Esq.

Noon - Lunchtime Speaker – New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Bosson – Administrative Due Process By Municipalities

1:45 p.m. – State, County and City Land Use Controls:  Split Regulatory Accommodations Nancy R. Long, Esq., Former EZC Chair; City Councilor Miguel M. Chavez; Stephen C. Ross, Esq., Santa Fe County Attorney

2: 45 p.m. – St. Michaels’s Boulevard Plan/College of Santa Fe: Property Rights, Condemnation, Takings Issues

Roy Wroth, Urbanist; City Councilor Matthew E. Ortiz, Esq.; City Councilor Rebecca Wurzburger

3:45 p.m. - Afternoon Break

4:00 p.m. – The Neighborhood Stabilization Program: Distress Sales, Foreclosures, and Financing for Affordable and Homeless Housing

Kathy McCormick, City Housing and Development Director; Sharron Welsh, Santa Fe Housing Trust Director; Angelica F. Anaya-Allen, Esq.

5:00 p.m. - Adjournment

November 6^th, 2009

8:00 a.m. - Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. – Opening Remarks – Santa Fe Mayor Pro Tem Rebecca Wurzburger

8:35 a.m. - Program Overview, Peter A. Dwyer, Esq., Program Chair

8:45 a.m. – The Neighborhood Conservation Overlay District Ordinance: Criteria and Implementation - Marilyn Bane, President, Old Santa Fe Association; City Councilor Rosemary Romero; John B. Hiatt, Esq., Former City Land Use Director

9:45 a.m. - The Green Building Code: Energy and Cost – Efficient Construction

Frank T. Herdman, Esq.; City Councilor Christopher Calvert; Kim Shanahan, Home Builders Association Director

10:45 a.m. - Morning Break

11:00 a.m. – Visual Asset Protections:  Escarpment Ordinance Concerns

Karen Walker, Former Policy Planning Commission Chair; Matthew O’Reilly, P.E., City Land Use Director; Wendy M. Blackwell, CFM, City Land Use Technical Review Director

Noon – Lunchtime Speaker – New Mexico Court of Appeals Judge Timothy L. Garcia –

Legal Ethics and Fair Decisions by Municipalities

1:45 p.m. - Neighborhood Schools:  State Funding Legislation and Local Priorities –

Gerald T.E. Gonzalez, Esq., State Senate Majority Analyst; City Councilor Carmichael Dominguez; City Councilor Ronald S. Trujillo; Kristina G.  Fisher, Esq., Think New Mexico Associate Director

2:45 p.m. - Roundtable Discussion: Public Interest Lawyering  
Daniel Yohalem, Esq. & David A. Benavides, Esq.

3:45 p.m. – Afternoon Break

4:00 p.m. - Legal Ethics:  Conflicts, Disclosures and Recusals
Peter A. Dwyer, Esq. & New Mexico State Representative Brian Egolf, Esq.

5:00 p.m. – Evaluations & Adjournment