Shoreline speakers series: Sara Schott Nikolic on Feb. 22

Sara Schott Nikolic, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, 6:30 - 8:30 pm, Shoreline City Hall, Council Chambers

Last month, the City of Shoreline kicked off a five-month speaker series on themes related to the City's Comprehensive Plan Update. Each month, a speaker will present a topic relating to the Comprehensive Plan component that will be before the Planning Commission the following week. The second speaker, Sara Nikolic, will focus on Transit-Oriented Communities. The event will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Shoreline City Council Chambers.

Sara Schott Nikolic is a Senior Planner with Growing Transit Communities, a new effort at the Puget Sound Regional Council to create equitable opportunities for people to live and work in near high capacity transit in the Puget Sound region. 

She is the lead staff for the North Corridor planning effort-encompassing the long-range high capacity transit corridor from downtown Seattle to Everett, including transit nodes on Aurora Avenue and I-5 in Shoreline. 

Prior to joining PSRC in 2011, Sara spent over 12 years in the nonprofit advocacy sector. Most recently, she created and led the Transit-Oriented Communities Program at the statewide non-profit Futurewise, and was the lead author on the comprehensive 2009 publication Transit-Oriented Communities: A Blueprint for Washington State. Her articles on transit-oriented development have appeared in numerous journals and blogs including the recent "Growing Equitable Transit Communities" in the Winter 2012 issue of AIA-Seattle Forum. A native of Chicago, Sara has been a lifetime transit commuter. She has enjoyed her walkable neighborhood in Northwest Seattle since 2005.

Following each speaker's presentation, attendees will be invited to mingle and share ideas with staff and other participants. These ideas will be transformed into new goals and policies for the Comprehensive Plan that will guide future decisions made by City officials and staff. The Comprehensive Plan is the primary tool used by local governments to guide decisions regarding the use of land, housing, transportation, community design, economic development, infrastructure and natural resources.