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2006
RRRC Living Towns- Gordonsville
"Marketing Small
Town Virginia"
Attendance at the Fifth Annual RRRC Living
Towns Planning Workshop, this year held in the beautiful Town of Gordonsville,
was once again standing-room-only, with three informative panel discussions,
walking tours of the town, and a reception at the Historic Gordonsville
Exchange Hotel and Civil War Museum.
A hearty thanks to members of the Gordonsville Living Towns Steering Committee,
sponsors, and, indeed, all who helped to make the workshop one of the
biggest and best ever, not to mention this year's moderators and speakers
for their outstanding presentations:
Panel #1
Moderator: Jay Harrison,
Executive Director, Historic Fredericksburg Fdn, Inc.
- Ron Higgins, Planning Manager, City of Charlottesville
- Ed Volway, President, Stuart Business Association & Owner,
Old Dominion Toy Shoppe
- Carl Espy, Town Manager, Town of Halifax, VA
Panel #2
Moderator: Joe Ward, Orange
County Director of Tourism
- Jerry Schiro, Town Manager, Town of Luray; Pat O'Brien,
Director, Town of Luray Parks & Recreation; Catherine Stewart,
Executive Director, Luray Downtown Initiative
- Steve Galyean, Tourism Development Director, VA Tourism Corporation
- David Myers, Assoc. for Govt. Relations, Civil War Preservation
Trust
Panel #3
Moderator: Debbie Kendall,
Planning Director, Orange County
- Chris Mothersead, Planning Director, Town of Warrenton
- Terry Knouse, Section Manager, VDOT Design & Special Projects;
Walter Pribble, Senior Transportation Planner, VDOT Transportation
& Mobility Planning
- Cate Magennis Wyatt, President, Journey Through Hallowed Ground
- Vaughn Rinner, Principal, Landmark Design Group
Copies of the Agenda, Powerpoint presentations
and pictures from the Workshop can be found below.
Requests for hosting of next year's proceeding
are already starting to come in (please contact RRRC Executive Director
Jeffrey Walker for further details), and we look forward to seeing everyone
again in the spring!
Note: All files are in .pdf format.
Powerpoint presentations are in handout format with six slides per page.
Agenda (78 KB)
Main Street Identity and Design
- Town
of Halifax, VA: Streetscape Redesign (4600 KB)
Heritage Tourism & Economic Development
- Town
of Luray: Historic Depot Renovation & Main Street Tourism (5930
KB)
- Cross-Marketing
& Other Promotion Strategies (11273 KB)
- Civil War
Tourism - Civil War Preservation Trust (1471 KB)
Planner's Tool Box
- Traffic Circles
& Roundabouts (3514 KB)
- Journey Through
Hallowed Ground Initiative (6180 KB)
- Landmark
Design - Bicycle & Pedestrian Facility Development (3548 KB) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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The
Gordonsville Town Hall served as the location for workshop panels
and presentations at the 2006 Living Towns Workshop. (Courtesy of
Orange County Review) |
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Lunch
was provided by the Gordonsville United Methodist Church Women. |
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RRRC
Executive Director Jeff Walker speaks with Living Towns Workshop participants.
(Courtesy of Ray Root) |
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Workshop
participants listen to a discussion of Shared Parking given by Town
of Warrenton Planning Director Chris Mothershead. |
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Mayor
Bob Coiner leads workshop participants through the town of Gordonsville.
The picture to the left looks south along Main Street toward downtown
Gordonsville. |
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Tour
guides provided stories and local knowledge to workshop participants
past the Gordonsville Presbyterian Church along Main Street in Gordonsville. |
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Mike
Yeatts, President of Historic Gordonsville, Inc., welcomes participants
to a reception at the Historic Gordonsville Exchange Hotel and Civil
War Museum. |
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