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What is RENEWLV?Renew Lehigh Valley is committed to promoting smart growth and smart governance in order to revitalize our core communities, preserve open space, and establish an economically and environmentally sustainable foundation for our region's future growth. Why RENEWLV?The Lehigh Valley is rich a variety of assets that foster a high quality of life in the region. These include unique cultural, historic, and natural resources. Significant population growth is projected for the Lehigh Valley over the next 10 to 20 years, and it is crucial that the region grows in a way that not only draws on and preserves these assets, but also ensures that the Lehigh Valley's older core communities--our cities and boroughs--can thrive. Making "smart growth" a reality in the Lehigh Valley must involve broad-based regional collaboration and the participation of individuals and organizations across the region's various communities. Renew Lehigh Valley (RenewLV) seeks to catalyze action focused on creating a vibrant region characterized by strong core communities, abundant open space, and regional thinking.
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Recent Updates
Gov. Rendell helped launch RenewLV's Regional Water Initiative on June 9 at Illick's Mill Park in Bethlehem. VIDEO: Watch Steven Bliss, Executive Director of RenewLV on Tempo PublicSquare, PBS 39 discussing what it will take to get regional rail service running in our area. Next meeting of the Board of Health is on July 13th at the Lehigh County Government Center, Allentown. Learn more about regional health. Deana Zosky, Lower Macungie Township Commissioner and community leader, introduced as the new Co-Chair of RenewLV. Read the press release.
Morning Call - 2009 will be important year for new regional health effort. RenewLV's Executive Director, Steven Bliss discusses the historic opportunity to develop a regional public-health system and what a regional health department would mean for the Lehigh Valley. Learn more about this effort on the Regional Health Department page. Morning Call - In 2009, start to make Valley's rail connections real. Paul Marin, Chair of the Transportation Committee of the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation, discusses the need for rail as part of the future of transportation in the Lehigh Valley and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Morning Call - 'Smart growth' will get Valley through next 10 years. Christopher Kocher, president of the Wildlands Conservancy, talks about why 'smart growth' policies should guide the Lehigh Valley through the next decade.
New Regional Support for Community Gardening. The Leadership Lehigh Valley Class of 2009 has launched Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley (SUN*LV), a regional network of residents committed to creating and sustaining commuity gardens. Walkability expert Jeff Speck gave a report May 13 at Lehigh University on how Bethlehem can become a more pedestrian friendly city. Some suggestions included changes to Fahy Bridge as well as altering traffic and parking patterns. Read the Express-Times Article [5.14.2009]. view the coverage by WFMZ, Channel 69. Allentown to sell water to Lehigh County Authority for up to $1.2 million a year. The city of Allentown has reached an agreement in principle to provide the Lehigh County Authority with up to 7 million gallons of water daily to meet its increasing demand, ending a two-year water supply battle. RenewLV Leadership Council approves study of regional rail (pdf). The proposed study examines extendingNJ Transit's planned expansion westward through Northampton and Lehigh Counties (click to view statement).
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