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Item Best Practices for Community Gardening(Resilient Communities Project (RCP) University of Minnesota, 2014) Leslie, Madeline; Mueller, Kayla; Peterson, Cadence; Tripp, LeilaThis project was completed as part of the 2013-2014 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of North St. Paul. Hoping to increase community involvement and encourage healthy eating, the City of North St. Paul was interested in developing community gardening opportunities. To facilitate this, project lead Jon Fure partnered with students in PA 5242: Environmental Planning, Policy, and Decision Making, taught by Dr. Carissa Schively Slotterback, to create a guide of community gardening best practices. The students developed best practices for preparation and selection of a community garden, management practices for a community garden, and logistics of the garden and produce. The final report, presentation, and poster are available.Item Improving Transportation Accessibility for the City of Rosemount(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2015) Lopez, Bryan; Tripp, Leila; Pal Singh Thind, Maninder; Ouyang, Xinjia; Durham, Wesley; Kays, Brian; Mueller, Joseph; Potter, AnnaThis project was completed as part of a year-long partnership between the City of Rosemount and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). The City of Rosemount is interested in improving transit services and expanding residents’ job commute options. The goal of this project was to conduct a travel shed analysis of where Rosemount residents and employees work and live that can inform future transit and transportation planning and to provide recommendations for increasing transit use. In collaboration with city project lead Eric Zweber, a planner for the City of Rosemount, two teams of students in PA 8202: Networks and Places conducted an analysis of transportation in Rosemount and provided recommendations for increasing transit use including route expansion and non-motorized transportation options. A final poster from each of the teams is available.