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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 in 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 UpdatesEVENT: RenewLV's next brown-bag session on the topic of Municipal Finance will be on Friday, August 27, 12 (noon) to 1pm at the Sigal Museum, new home of the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society [342 Northampton St. in Easton]. Visit RenewLV's Crossroads blog for more details. BLOG: Read our blog post on the American Infrastructure at a Crossroads event, held at Central Penn College on August 11, 2010. BLOG: How can passenger rail and freight rail work together in the United States? Read our blog post on Crossroads. NEWS: Regional health department on hold as county legislators vote down the proposed plan and budget amidst counties' financial concerns. (Morning Call, July 20, 2010) NEWS: At the well-attended Building One Pennsylvania summit in Lancaster on July 16, state and local leaders stressed the importance of coalition-building and statewide policy reform (The Pottstown Mercury, July 20, 2010). Read our feedback and thoughts on the event at Crossroads. PODCAST: Missed our last brown-bag session? Check out the full length recording on iTunes and on our Multimedia page. BLOG: The Lehigh County Authority (LCA) hosted a community forum to discuss available options for expanding wastewater capacity in central and western Lehigh County. Read our coverage of the meeting on RenewLV's blog, Crossroads. NEWS: Scott Kraus of the Morning Call discusses a recent Keystone Research Center study highlighting the disparity in economic development aid distribution in the Lehigh Valley. (Morning Call, June 9, 2010) POLICY: Steven Bliss, RenewLV's Executive Director, testified on behalf of RenewLV at the PA House Transportation Hearing on June 3, 2010, held at DeSales University. Read the full testimony. VIDEO: Missed RenewLV's Regional Transportation Forum on April 19? Watch the entire forum online at PBS39/WLVT. REPORT: Read the Executive Summary and Full Report of the New NJT/SYSTRA Regional Transit Study (commissioned by the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation and Lehigh and Northampton Counties). OPINION: Elliot Sussman (President/CEO of Lehigh Valley Health Network) and Alice P. Gast (President of Lehigh University) highlight the important distinction between the work of hospitals and the focus of a public health department. (Express Times, May 06,2010) OPINION: The opinion staff at the Express Times outlines the reasons for why elected officials and the public should give the Lehigh Valley Health Department a fair shot. (Express Times, May 02, 2010) OPINION: Lehigh University's Judith Lasker stresses the importance of prevention and encourages the Lehigh Valley to move forward with a public health department. (Morning Call, March 16, 2010) OPINION: L. Anderson Daub and Deana Zosky, RenewLV's Co-Chairs, urge local elected officials in Lehigh and Northampton Counties to support efforts to promote regional collaboration - especially the effort to establish a Lehigh Valley Health Department. (Morning Call, February 14, 2010) OPINION: David Beckwith and David Lyon, members of the Lehigh Valley Board of Health, discuss the need to provide access to essential public health services to all residents and workers in the Lehigh Valley. (Express Times, January 27, 2010) VIDEO: Watch Tempo PublicSquare: Water Consolidation featuring Michael Drabenstott, RenewLV Board Member, discussing RenewLV's effort to mobilize community support for regional collaboration on water/wastewater infrastructure in the Lehigh Valley. Learn more about the Regional Water Initiative. 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.
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