Smart Growth University Training Program  

AQG offers comprehensive training on the tools and techniques of quality growth for elected officials, professional staff, developers, and citizens. We work with the Georgia Municipal Association and Association of County Commissioners of Georgia to provide elective courses for their members at both voluntary and required training sessions. We also offer specialized trainings at the request of local governments. CEU/CLUs are usually available for participants in AQG trainings.

Smart Growth University Courses

Curriculum (PDF)

Past Trainings

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Atlanta, August 17, 2004

Agenda (pdf) AQG
What is Quality Growth? (pdf) Chrissy Marlowe, Georgia Department of Community Affairs
Watershed Protection and Better Site Design (pdf) Liz Kramer, Director, NARSAL, UGA Institute of Ecology
Economics of Growth, Sprawl and Land Use (pdf) Jeffrey Dorfman, UGA Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
The Law and Public Policy (pdf) Jamie Baker Roskie, UGA Land Use Law Clinic
The Developer's Perspective (pdf) Ron Sprinkle, Sprinkle Design and Conservancy
Design and Smart Growth (pdf) Pratt Cassity, UGA Center for Community Design & Preservation, College of Environment & Design
   

Georgia Municipal Association Training, Savannah, June 26 2004

GMA Training Package (pdf) AQG
Designing Green Infrastructure (pdf) Liz Kramer, Director, NARSAL, UGA Institute of Ecology
   

Contact AQG
Danny Bivins, AQG Coordinator
UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government
Lucy Cobb House, 201 N. Milledge Ave
Athens, GA 30602
(706) 583-0856
bivins@cviog.uga.edu

AQG Partners
Georgia Department of Community Affairs
The Georgia Conservancy
UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government
UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences - Housing and Consumer Economics
UGA Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics

UGA Georgia Center for Continuing Education
UGA Institute of Ecology River Basin Center

UGA J.W. Fanning Institute of Leadership
UGA School of Environmental Design Center for Community Design & Preservation
UGA Warnell School of Forest Resources
US Environmental Protection Agency Region 4