Institute official to moderate AARP ‘livability’ panel

November 18, 2013
Categories: General News Tags: Aging, GET INVOLVED, Quality of Life, Sustainability

Mary Newsom, associate director of urban and regional affairs at the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute, will moderate a panel of local experts Thursday at AARP’s “Making a More Livable Mecklenburg Summit.”

Speakers will include Charlotte City Manager Ron Carlee and Mayor Patsy Kinsey.

The event will explore Charlotte’s evolution into a larger city and how its ever-increasing aging population will affect transportation, mobility and housing.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will be 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Queens University Athletic Center on Tyvola Road in Charlotte. To register, click here, or call 1-877-926-8300. A networking breakfast will begin at 8 a.m.

Carlee will speak at 9:30 a.m., and Kinsey will speak at 12:15 p.m.

Newsom will moderate a panel discussion at 10 a.m. among:

  • Jim Prosser, executive director of the Centralina Council of Governments, which is engaged in a 14-county regional community planning process called CONNECT