The conference is co-hosted by the NJ Historic Trust, NJ Historic Commission, NJ Historic Preservation Office, and the Common Wealth of New Jersey.
Please join NJ Future on Thursday, June 5, at their annual Smart Growth Awards gala celebration in the Metropolitan Room at the Newark Club, One Newark Center, Newark, as they honor the winners of this year’s Smart Growth Awards competition. The evening is one of the networking highlights of the year, drawing almost 300 land-use professionals, planners, attorneys, developers, and local and state officials.
Whether you work for local government, a Business Improvement District, or another local organization, effective communication with your constituents is essential. These days, much of our communication takes place online—either through websites or social media. How can you ensure that your constituents find the information they seek quickly and effectively? How can you use social media more effectively given time and budget constraints? We will discuss these questions and more.
PlanSmart NJ’s 3rd Annual Regional Planning Summit will bring together experts in the development and local decision making field to explore how the current regulatory system might be reformed to achieve better outcomes on the ground to stimulate the economy, protect the environment, and encourage land use patterns that create more vibrant communities served by public transportation.
The Affordable Housing Professionals of New Jersey in collaboration with the New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association is hosting an all-day symposium on the new proposed COAH Third Round Regulations.
Get new ideas for making places better through arts and culture and building more creative communities. Learn from experts in real estate development, public administration, arts management, and urban planning. Share your insights in peer learning sessions.
This webinar is designed to inform planners on the benefits of landscaping to promote sustainability and redevelopment and then how to get this message out to developers, home owners and the community. The webinar will also provide a crash course on “right tree, right place” requirements. Finally the beneficial impacts that green areas provides for surface water retention and the prevention of hazardous runoff into our waterways will be discussed.
"Hazards Ahead - All Hands on Deck!" - Commencing Effective Action to Prevent Future Damage. Join fellow hazard mitigation practitioners from all disciplines and regions as we pull together in turning our ship (and communities) toward a safer course.
In this annual review, planning attorneys assess the impacts on planning of U.S. Supreme Court, federal district court, and state court decisions. Topics will range from First Amendment issues to environmental actions, and from housing to equal access. Panelists also will discuss APA's amicus filings and significant legislative actions. The program website contains links to or copies of all cases discussed and suggestions for further reading. It's a lively, highly informative program that you and your staff, colleagues, and officials won't want to miss.
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is an emerging area of practice in the United States that is designed to be a practical tool that can be used to incorporate “health in all policies” into decisions made outside the traditional health fields that have impacts on health (transportation, land use, development, infrastructure, housing, education, policy).
Join us on Friday, June 27 at 3:30PM and see how a combination of zoning changes, infrastructure investments, financial incentives, and grassroots organizing has impacted the landscape of Downtown Newark and Newark’s LGBT community. (CM|Pending)
With the damage caused from hurricanes, tornadoes and floods around the United States, more communities are looking to be more ‘resilient.’ Resiliency is not just about creative physical improvements to withstand storms; it is also connects to a community’s ability to revitalize quickly after disaster. Arts and culture can play a big role in helping communities recover. We will explore examples from Louisiana, New Jersey and Missouri, and discuss how to connect creative placemaking with resiliency in community dialogues.
“Heritage Preservation” acknowledges the value of historic buildings and landmarks while sensitive to the stories, institutions, and cultural imprint of incumbent residents within our communities. Redevelopment initiatives that compromise cultural heritage are not sustainable due to the loss of assets that are irreplaceable.
During this day-long workshop (7/23), nationally and internationally-renowned Kennedy Smith will take you through the relationship between successful "places", best practices for economic analysis, and making the most of historic assets. CM Pending
This webinar will outline how the three-year program made an impact on planning and equity initiatives throughout Greater Boston. The webinar will focus on a few of those key planning and equity initiatives including transit-oriented development, fair housing plans, and housing and community development.
Join the movement to reconnect the soul of Newark to its river! This interactive walkshop led by Newark Planning Director Damon Rich and others will cover two miles of Newark's Ironbound riverfront between Penn Station and Chapel Street.
Planners currently use diverse engagement tools and processes to reach “beyond the usual suspects” and get outside of City Hall to gather input. However, reports, findings, draft and published plans all are still communicated in very traditional forms - long, jargon-filled documents with limited ways to explore the content non-linearly or comment on it.
Youth planning programs can help communities shape the next generation of civic-minded citizens. Listen while experts from the Atlanta Regional Commission, the University of Georgia, and the University of Georgia’s Cooperative Extension describe three of the area’s youth planning programs: a day camp, a leadership program, and an outreach program for at-risk youth.
During the last fifteen years, thousands of communities across the United States have sought to attract or develop advanced communications networks, recognizing that such networks can provide them and the nation multiple strategic advantages in the increasingly competitive global economy. In virtually every case, fostering robust economic development has ranked at or near the top of the list of considerations motivating these communities.
For this webinar, presenters will share how to alter policies that hinder the needs of underserved populations as well as how to rise above institutional inertia. The webinar will introduce new tools and strategies, and participants will learn how to calibrate existing tools in order to realize desired outcomes. Examples will showcase creative ways to integrate equitable development into the planning process to make communities better.