OKI26 Mobile Workshops
Mobile workshop registration is ongoing until workshop space becomes full. Onsite registration will also be available for remaining spots.
| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 |
Morning Mobile Workshops
10:30 AM – 12:45 PM Meetup in 1st floor lobby 10-15 minutes before departure
>> Building the Future by Preserving the Past: A Downtown Troy Tour on Economic Development, Sustainability, and Historic Preservation
Bus | $30
This guided bus tour with walking stops will explore how Downtown Troy has leveraged historic preservation, adaptive reuse, public spaces, and local businesses to drive revitalization while preserving community character. Participants will visit key sites and gain practical insights into how preservation, placemaking, and strategic investment can support long-term economic vitality. CM | 2.25 SR | 1
SPEAKERS
Tim Davis, City of Troy
Austin Eidemiller, City of Troy
Cameron Goschinski, AICP, City of Dayton
>> Downtown Dayton Past and Present
Walking | $20
Led by Dayton historian Angie Hoschouer Berghuis, this guided walking tour explores downtown Dayton’s retail, industrial, entertainment, and residential architecture. Learn what has been lost, preserved, and transformed from the 1820s to today, and how those changes shaped the downtown of 2026. This rain-or-shine tour requires walking on city sidewalks and streets; comfortable shoes and a water bottle are recommended. CM | 2.25
SPEAKERS:
Ann Schenking, AICP, APA Miami Valley
Angie Hoschouer Berghuis, Preservation Dayton
>> Revitalizing Greater Old North Dayton: Progress and Community Transformation
Walking | $20
Led by Dayton historian Angie Hoschouer Berghuis, this guided walking tour explores downtown Dayton’s retail, industrial, entertainment, and residential architecture. Learn what has been lost, preserved, and transformed from the 1820s to today, and how those changes shaped the downtown of 2026. This rain-or-shine tour requires walking on city sidewalks and streets; comfortable shoes and a water bottle are recommended. CM | 2.25
SPEAKERS:
Katie Lunne, CityWide Development Corporation
Caitlin Jacob, AICP, CityWide Development Corporation
Karen DeMasi, CityWide Development Corporation
Afternoon Mobile Workshops
2:00 PM – 4:15 PM Meetup in 1st floor lobby 10-15 minutes before departure
>> Installation Development Planning at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
RTA Bus | $35 (registration for this mobile workshop has closed)
The Installation Development Plan (IDP) is the comprehensive plan for military installations. Come see the Wright Patterson AFB IDP in action. The base is host to over 100 missions including research, intelligence, medical, museum, airport, and command mission uses. With a working population over 30,000 people, the base functions as a little city with all the transportation, utility, and environmental challenges that come along. Rather than working through private owners, the Civil Engineering Group (including the community planners) is the landlord that manages growth and development. We'll showcase our plans and growth opportunities. Peek behind the fence! CM | 2.25
SPEAKERS
Kjirsten Frank Hoppe, AICP, US Air Force
>> Planning for “No”: Power, Privatization, and the Future of Equitable Cities
Walking | $35
This session uses the documentary film Emergent City (2024, 1hr. 35min.), directed by Kelly Anderson and Jay Arthur Sterrenberg, as a springboard for examining the complex realities of contemporary urban planning, community development, and equitable growth. Through the lens of Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood and the redevelopment debates surrounding Industry City, audience members will explore the intersection of planning practice, public policy, economic development, environmental justice, and community power.
Attendees are invited to participate in a post screening discussion - examining the competing interests and values that shape urban change while considering critical questions facing planners, civic leaders, developers, and residents across the country.
Drawing connections between the film and real-world planning challenges, questions emerge such as: Who benefits from redevelopment? How can planners balance economic investment with anti-displacement strategies? What role should community voices play in shaping neighborhood futures? And how can cities pursue climate resilience without deepening inequities? These ongoing debates are reshaping cities nationwide and how planners can help foster more democratic, resilient, and people-centered urban environments. Ideal for planners, architects, public officials, community advocates, students, and interdisciplinary practitioners, this session invites thoughtful dialogue about the future of cities and the evolving role of urban planning in advancing equity and belonging. CM | 2.25
SPEAKERS
Debi Chess, AICP, Urban Book Book Club
Matt Sauer, Matthew Sauer Architect LLC
| FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 |
Morning Mobile Workshops
10:30 AM – 12:45 PM Meetup in 1st floor lobby 10-15 minutes before departure
>> Shaping the Dayton Main Street Story Through Urban Design over the last 40 years
Walking | $20
A 5-block walking tour of Main Street. The first half will leave from the Convention Center and cover how Dayton redeveloped Main Street from 1947 until today touching upon Urban Renewal and post-Urban Renewal Actions including Ohio Impacted Cities Legislation and modern public finance methods and tools to implement the Vision. The return walk will start at Main and Monument where we will see Dayton's first survey monument. We will then tell the story of the reshaping of Dayton over the last 45 use applying the urban design principles of Placemaking. CM | 2.25
SPEAKERS
John D Gower, CityWide Development Corporation
>> Brownfield to Bike Trail - Transforming Dayton's Wolf Creek into a Recreational Amenity
RTA Bus, Walking | $30
In 2016, Dayton staff had an audacious idea: transform a long-vacant, tax delinquent 2.75-acre site strewn with collapsing buildings and debris along the Wolf Creek into a bike path segment. This bike path segment would connect Downtown Dayton with Five Rivers MetroPark’s Wesleyan Center and complete a continuous recreational path along the creek. The project is in a majority Black, low to moderate income community that did not have direct access to this part of the Wolf Creek through an along the river bike path. The Dayton region has an extensive river corridor bikeway system and Dayton wanted to provide that experience here. Complicating things was a Dayton-owned railroad spur that bordered Wolf Creek at the site, and the creek was eroding the railroad embankment. Part of the project involved the restoration of more than 1,000 linear feet of Wolf Creek. The restoration addressed significant degradation of the stream channel and eroding channel banks. Completed in June 2025, the project required extensive partnerships and leaps of faith between city departments and outside agencies, along with multiple funding sources.
This rain or shine mobile workshop will travel to the site, walk it, and discuss how the project came to fruition. CM | 2.25
SPEAKERS:
Joe Weinel, City of Dayton, Ohio
Keith Klein, City of Dayton, Ohio
Ann Schenking, AICP, APA Miami Valley
