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A P A - N M C H A P T E R N E W S L E T T E R S T A T E C O N F E R E N C E E D I T I O N S E P T .

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In This Issue:

What to Expect: Las Cruces 2015 APA-NM Conference

Housing First, the Key is Housing: Laurie Frappier

The Transparency of Convenience: How Uber May Transform Transportation

Planning: Erick Aune

SNAPSHOTS SEPTEMBER

Kagyu

Shenpen

Kunshab

Buddhist

Center &

Bodhi

Stupa,

Santa Fe

“It is better to travel well than to arrive.” Buddha

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What to Expect…Sept. 23rd-25th in Las Cruces

Complete Streets: From Concept to Reality

How Los Alamos County rebuilt Cen-

tral Avenue with a complete streets

design ethic, how El Paso is navi-

gating the complexity of complete

streets, and what complete streets look like in rural Cuba

and in the Pueblo of Laguna.

Empowerment Congress:

Find out how the Empowerment

Congress model from Los Angeles

County, CA made its way to Dona

Ana County where community activ-

ists are working to train residents to

advocate for their communities.

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What to Expect…Sept. 23rd-25th in Las Cruces

Today’s Shifting Energy

Landscape:

Learn how electric utilities

in New Mexico are grap-

pling with providing elec-

tricity in an era where re-

newable energy no longer belongs to your crazy uncle

with a pair of wire cutters, a bank of solar panels and a

backyard wind generator.

Place Matters: Discover

ways of making health the

foundation of land use

planning.

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Housing First!

The Key is Housing Laurie Frappier

Communications Manager

Supportive Housing Coalition of New Mexico

Imagine a young mother of 4 children without a

home….

Imagine a young man living on the street, in sur-

vival mode, losing his family….

Imagine a woman dealing with mental health is-

sues she couldn’t possibly understand….

Imagine feeling terrorized, alone, living with no

hope….

NOW

Imagine being told, “You have a voucher, start

looking for a house”

Going from having nothing but the clothes on our

back and blankets to keep warm while we slept in

our van. From going to homeless shelters to get a

warm meal to having it all feels like a dream come

true. – Adrienne

The mission of Supportive Hous-

ing Coalition of New Mexico is

to prevent and reduce homeless-

ness and increase the quality of

life for people with behavioral

health issues in New Mexico by

creating affordable, supportive

housing in partnership with local

communities and member agen-

cies

Imagine getting reunited with your

family

I have gotten the trust of my family back

because I am in a stable place. My

grandkids come to visit me. And now my

house is not just a place to live, they (the

grandkids) have turned it into a home. -

Harold

Imagine finally being able to dream

about your future

Before I got my apartment life was hard

and I had no place to call home. Since I

have moved into my apartment I am now

going on six years free from drugs and I

am stable on my medication, and safe

from the harm of the streets. - Alayna

Imagine feeling safe and able to go

home every night

“I feel safe – I can sleep at night. I’m not

worried about being shot. This is begin-

ning to be something I can believe in –

like when I was a teenager.” – Dennis

Continued…

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Housing First… cont.

This is what we do at Supportive Housing

Coalition of New Mexico (SHC-NM). We

not only provide permanent supportive

housing to people experiencing homeless-

ness, we provide hope. We provide safety

and a place to get

well physically,

emotionally, and

mentally, a place to

begin healing after

years of uncertainty

and fear. We provide

an opportunity for

families to get reu-

nited, for children to

thrive. We provide a

way for people, for-

merly homeless, to

be a part of their community as artists,

workers, volunteers, and friends. We can’t

fix all the issues. We can’t promise a happy

ending. But we CAN offer hope and we

CAN offer possibilities.

Providing housing is the first step to ending

chronic homelessness. Supportive Housing

Coalition of New Mexico (SHC-NM) em-

braces the Housing First approach, a na-

tionally recognized “best practice” en-

dorsed by the United States Interagency

Council on Homelessness. It is an interven-

tion that moves people off the street into

stable, affordable housing with supportive ser-

vices to address mental health, substance abuse,

health, and employment needs. Since 1996 SHC

-NM has been working collaboratively to pro-

vide people, particularly those with a behavioral

health diagnosis who have experienced chronic

homelessness, with a permanent apartment

home along with “wrap-around” supportive ser-

vices critical to maintaining housing stability.

People living with a behavioral health diagnosis

are very vulnerable to a downward spiral that

contributes to chronic homelessness. Often they

have employment limitations and behaviors re-

lated to the diagnosis that make it difficult to

maintain stability in

housing. SHC-NM pro-

vides affordable housing

through housing vouch-

ers and its properties and

our partners provide sup-

portive services.

Continued...

We provide safety

and a place to get

well physically,

emotionally, and

mentally, a place

to begin healing

after years of un-

certainty and fear.

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Housing First… cont.

In this way, people can first get a roof over

their heads and then receive support to help

them keep that roof. Once their living situa-

tion is stable, individuals and families can fo-

cus on their physical, mental, and emotional

needs as well as educational and employment

opportunities.

Case managers are instrumental in connecting

our residents with the services they need to be

successful in housing, services that include

access to medical resources and psychiatric

care, transportation, educational opportuni-

ties, and economic resources.

Most of the over 650 individuals and families

that SHC-NM is housing are living in apart-

ment homes owned and managed by private

individuals, SHC-NM, and companies

throughout Albuquerque. These individuals

and families are not sleeping in parks, not

standing at the corners of busy intersections

holding up signs asking for money, not in and

out of the Bernalillo County Metropolitan De-

tention Center, and not using a hospital emer-

gency room because they have no access to

any other form of health care. They live quiet-

ly in their own homes and contribute to their

communities through their friendships, music,

art, employment, volunteer work, and more.

In addition to being the leading provider of

250 housing vouchers for the City of Albu-

querque Heading Home initiative, SHC-

NM services also include Tenant Based

Rental Assistance Vouchers, Move-in &

Eviction assistance, and Crisis Housing.

SHC-NM owns and manages seven Apart-

ment Home Complexes in Albuquerque,

Gallup, and Las Vegas, New Mexico.

The Supportive Housing Coalition of New Mexico depends on

our partners and supporters to continue our mission and hon-

or our legacy of not just building apartment homes, but build-

ing up our community. Please consider a donation to SHC-

NM. Visit our website at www.thehousingcoalition.org, call

505-255-3643, or email us at info@thehousingcoalition.org

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The Transparency of Convenience: How Uber Technologies, Inc. may Trans-

form Transportation Planning

Erick Aune, Transportation Planner, Santa Fe MPO

On August 27th, 2015 the Santa Fe

Metropolitan Planning Organization’s

(SFMPO) Policy Board approved the

update to the Metropolitan Transporta-

tion Plan (MTP). A week later I down-

loaded the Uber app, filled out the in-

formation and was in blue Prius headed

home all in less than 5 minutes. I barely

had time to finish my beer. Five years

earlier three entrepreneurs with only

three cars, began at test of what was then UberCab in New York City.

The MTP governs how the community will administer an estimated $232 million dollars over the

next twenty-five years. Uber is offering a service allowing its members to directly impact the way

they travel to fit their own lifestyles—with an investor valuation of more than $40 billion dollars

with a global reach including 58 countries and 311 cities (UBER Expansion, 2015). The MTP will

impact the manner in which people travel over the next 25 years. Uber is offering a service allow-

ing members to impact the way in which they travel to fit their lifestyle. Mobile technology and

the ability to make transparent the price of convenience combined with the ability to harness im-

mediate volumes of geospatial and social demographic data are shifting how people choose to

travel.

The public input process for the MTP revealed the

following themes and goals:

Balance investments to provide better means for

walking, biking, and taking transit.

Increase frequency and expanded transit services.

Enhance education and enforcement across all

modes of transportation.

Enhance walkability in the region.

Uber relies on a simple but strategic deployment of

the following principles: Convenience, Choice,

Service and Price. Source: http://blog.lyft.com/posts/2014/4/4/lyft-

community-update

http://santafempo.org/mtp/metropolitan-transportation-plan-2015-2040/http://santafempo.org/mtp/metropolitan-transportation-plan-2015-2040/http://uberexpansion.com/2015-uber-data-stats/

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The MTP’s themes and goals are characteristic

of what the metropolitan region has been de-

manding for the past two decades. However,

the relative change to a more balanced modal

system may be minor. This is because the met-

ro area outside of downtown was built to ac-

commodate vehicles at every scale and will

continue to do so until land use and develop-

ment investments realize a different yet still

profitable alternative.

The irony of Uber’s model is that its expan-

sion away from larger high density cities into smaller dispersed towns like Santa Fe takes ad-

vantage of suburban development and is still profitable. In twenty five years or less the stereo-

typical American motto that I love my car, may evolve into I love their car and the fact that I don’t

have to drive it!

Public versus private transportation systems may be akin to debating apples versus oranges, but

consider this; the end users are essentially the same and the digital economy is arming them with

more choices then ever before. Since Uber’s beginning its transformative nature of their now

global business model, despite the legal and philosophical backlash, is moving public policy re-

garding private transportation in ways that will never be the same. Uber and other shared-

economy models provide unique insight on what the public is drawn to and how they will allo-

cate their resources. As a result, the public transportation sector may soon be compelled to fun-

damentally rethink how people engage and travel through community systems. The bottom line,

Uber “makes it very easy NOT to own a car.” This quote coming from CEO Brian Chesky of

Airbnb and if you haven’t checked out how

Airbnb is impacting New Mexico already, it’s

simply a click or tap away and it’s impressive

(whether you’re a fan or not).

One example of the evolution of public

transportation planning is Uber’s automated

algorithm to augment prices in accordance

with supply and demand in the market. The

public sector has been struggling for decades

to take advantage of “surge” pricing to reduce

congestion during peak hours.

Source: http://blog.lyft.com/posts/2014/4/4/lyft-community-update

Source: Uber Dallas

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With the passage of the MTP and implementation of progressive infrastructure that improves

safety and multi-modal ridership the plan’s basic business model is based on the soon to be fifty-

four year old Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962. This is the same yellowed, dog-eared blue-print,

set forth by then Commerce Secretary Luther H. Hodges that projects will be “consistent with

adequate, comprehensive development plans for the metropolitan area or are based on results of

a continuing process carried on cooperatively by the United States and lo-

cal communities” so that the Federal-Aid system “will be an integral part

of a soundly based, balanced transportation system for the area involved.”

1962, the year The Jetsons debuted on ABC and Ringo Star replaced Pete

Best for %$#’s sake. Is it time for transportation planning to consider new

digital blueprints for the next generation of users? Perhaps it will be the

millennial’s great-grandchildren who send the Federal-Aid Highway Act

ethic to its field of dreams. On the other hand there may be a few enthusi-

astic entrepreneurs tinkering in their digital garages right now who will

trade that Kimberly Blue 1962 Pontiac Bonneville 8 Series Sports Coupe

in for what may be new freedoms realized. What new freedoms does Uber

and this new business model have to offer the public sector?

The transparency of…

Convenience: Just click a button on your phone minutes before you need to be on the road

and a car with a style of your choice is waiting for you with the payment conducted electroni-

cally without hassle.

Choice: If the metro transportation system is viewed as providing only one convenient op-

tion, the automobile, then choice rises to consciousness when your transmission craps out.

The shared-economy model puts choice in the palms of people’s hands and as it turns out

people like to have choices.

Service: Whether it be Uber, Airbnb or Zagster, the new business model is committed to ex-

traordinary service, realizing that it results in customer loyalty and return on investment.

Price: Technology allows for cost savings (monetary, temporal or otherwise) to be translated

in a manner that is fully conscious or completely transparent for the user in a manner that is

almost instantaneous.

Maybe these business models are flash-in-the-pan entrepreneurial events that will pass through

our collective conscious like freedom from gluten but I would bet otherwise. For the sake of the

environment and our individual and collective wellbeing, I hope to see planning and implemen-

tation of transportation systems increase transparency and empower all users.

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SNAPSHOTS SEPTEMBER 2015

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy launched a "Call to Action on Pro-moting Walking and Walkable Com-munities" on September 9th. Check it out by clicking the im-ages:

Place Making @ Work

Webinar

What: People Habitat—

Longtime sustainability

leader and PlaceMaker sen-

ior counsel Kaid Benfield,

author of People Habitat:

25 Ways to Think about

Greener, Healthier Cities,

will share eight key

thoughts about better com-

munities.

When: Thursday, September 17, 1PM MDT

To register go to: http://www.placemakers.com/webinars/people-habitat/

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After

The New Mexico Chapter of the American Planning As-

sociation (APA-NM) is an organization of professional

planners and planning officials who serve New Mexico’s

communities in many ways, at all levels of government,

the private sector, and not-for-profit organizations.

The APA-NM Chapter Board would like to extend a

very sincere appreciation to our former Treasurer,

Derrick Webb. Derrick has moved to Denver for new

adventures with DRCOG this past August. Derrick

provided outstanding leadership and technical/web

support for the Chapter and was a critical team

member for making the 2014 State Conference in Al-

buquerque a success. Best of Luck Derrick and

Thank You!

2015 Executive Board

President, Sandra Gaiser

Vice President, Erick J. Aune

Immediate Past President, Chris Hyer

Secretary, Richard Meadows

Professional Development Officer,

Mary Holton

Treasurer, Vacant

Member-At-Large, Andy Hume

Western Planner Rep, Dan Pava

Legislative Action Committee,

Mary-Helen Follingstad

Newsletter: Erick Aune with editing and grammati-

cal engineering assistance by Sharon Hausam

Contact: ejaune@santafenm.gov

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