2024 GSA Registration Copy

Grow Smart Academy is a free, monthly, 5 session program designed to educate Lexingtonians on land-use planning and its relationship to our community’s economic development, environment, and quality-of-life.

Want to learn more about how land-use impacts your daily life from public transit, walkability, housing affordability, greenspaces, our climate impact, and where you live, work, and play? Join us at Grow Smart Academy to learn more about these local issues with experts. Alumni are encouraged to register.

We are very excited to welcome Galina Tachieva as Grow Smart Academy's 2024 keynote speaker. Galina Tachieva is the managing partner of DPZ CoDESIGN, directing the work of the firm in the US and around the world. With more than 25 years of expertise in sustainable planning, urban redevelopment and form-based codes, Galina is the author of the “Sprawl Repair Manual”, an award-winning publication by Island Press, which focuses on the retrofit of auto-centric suburban places into complete walkable communities.

Please save the date for the following program sessions:

• Session 1: Intro to Smart Growth Keynote Session
  • Tuesday: May 7th, The Kentucky Theatre, 5:30pm-8:00pm
• Policy, Pedals, and Pints, Bubbles, and Brunch
  • Tuesday: May 28th, West Sixth Brewery, 5:30pm-7:30pm
• Session 2: Growing our City
  • Tuesday: June 4th, Location TBD , 5:30pm-8:00pm
• Session 3: Sustainability and Transportation
  • Tuesday:July 9th, Location TBD, 5:30-8:00pm
• Session 4: Promoting our Farms
  • Tuesday, August 6th, Location TBD, 5:30-8:00pm
• Session 5: Land Use and Its Economic Impact
  • Tuesday, September 17th, Location TBD, 5:30-8:00pm

This program will be in-person at various locations around Lexington. Spots are limited, so register now! 

If you are interested in only attending Intro to Smart Growth for the keynote presentation by Galina Tachieva, there is space to indicate so on the registration form below.