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Vibrant Cities: Urban Solutions for a Healthy California

24th Annual Environmental Leadership Awards celebrate developers and architects

From left: Greg Vilkin, CLCV Executive Director Susan Smartt, Rick Holliday, Peter Calthorpe, CLCV Board President Tom Adams (See a larger image)

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At the Environmental Leadership Awards Dinner on March 25th, 2006, CLCV celebrated the work of planner and architect Peter Calthorpe, developer Rick Holliday, and developer Greg Vilkin on behalf of Forest City Enterprises.

In his introductory remarks, CLCV Board President Tom Adams highlighted the many ways redevelopment in our existing cities protects our precious open space and farmland, reduces the time people spend in traffic and our dependence on oil, increases opportunities for affordable housing, and creates thriving, livable cities.

"Housing is where jobs go to sleep at night," noted Vilkin in his acceptance remarks. "If we don't have houses, we don't have jobs. If we don't have jobs, we don't have taxes, and we don't have all the things that we need. So it all is a big circle and we all need to stay focused on the holistic solution."

Read biographies of the honorees.

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Susan Smartt of CLCV (at left) with Susan Smartt of Forest City (read article).	(L to R) Nicole Spear, Analivia Suchman, and Stephanie Shakofsky* of the California Center for Creative Land Recycling.*	David Roe (principal author of Prop 65), Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi, and Darcy Brown.
Warner Chabot (Vice President for Regional Operations of the Ocean Conservancy) and former Congressman Pete McCloskey, CLCV-endorsed candidate for the 11th Congressional District Republican primary.	Honoree Greg Vilkin* with David Madway of Sheppard Mullin.*	Phyllis Faber with CLCV Board Member Dr. Alan Harper.
CLCV Board Member Felicia Marcus, formerly Regional Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton Administration and currently Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Trust for Public Land.	CLCV Board Member Mary Nichols, former California Secretary of Resources and current Director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment.	David Nawi (center) and Fran Layton (right).