In her presentation to the Colloquium, Barb
Frommell (MUP 2002) will discuss critical lessons from her 20-year (so far!)
career about how to build equitable and sustainable communities. She’ll start
with her experience as a new graduate leading a U.S. Coast Guard team to ensure
that service members could find an affordable place to live in the San Francisco
Bay Area’s always-tight housing market. Then, she’ll recount lessons from three
large, complicated projects on the Front Range in Colorado. Working for the
City and County of Denver, she and her team coordinated with nonprofits, other
government agencies, and community organizations to create the award-winning Decatur-Federal
Station Area Plan (2013), which aims to transform the Sun Valley
neighborhood—one of the most distressed communities in Colorado—into equitable
transit oriented development. Thanks to her work on the National
Western Center District Energy project, also in Denver, this 250-acre
infill redevelopment area built on the site of the Denver Union Stock Yard will
generate 90% of its heating and cooling from low carbon thermal energy from a sewer
pipeline running through the site rather than burning fossil fuels. In the latest
phase of her career, Barb helps obtain zoning approvals and entitlements for
multi-family projects throughout the United States. She will touch on a few
examples and how NIMBYism and the overall fear of multifamily development is
contributing toward our nation’s housing crisis.
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