This presentation will explore the local issues related to LEED ND and how the rating system approaches and measures initiatives to reduce regional impact of these issues. A general overview of the LEED ND system including prerequisites and their impact on project site selection will be presented. The session will discuss specific issues addressed by LEED ND and how individual credits relate to the issues outlined.
Help support Sustainable Jersey’s new Green Infrastructure Task Force by attending a meeting on December 4, 2012, to discuss regulatory and legal framework to support green infrastructure, educational needs and opportunities, and the development of new model ordinances in New Jersey.
Purchase your tickets today for the 2012 Downtown New Jersey Excellence Awards!
Please join us for a holiday party hosted by the APA-NJ Young Planners Group and the Rutgers Association of Policy and Planning Students
Charles Brown, Senior Researcher at the Voorhees Transportation Center will lead a discussion on the need to write more people of color into the world of cycling and providing underserved communities with active transportation choices. Karyn Williams, co-founder of Velo City, and Tiffany Robinson, Chair of the APA-NJ's Ethnic & Cultural Diversity Committee, will discuss their experiences in teaching minority youth in underserved communities about the community planning process and empowering them with the skills needed to discuss urban issues.
The tour will walk around the Voorhees Town Center site, beginning at the new town hall with a brief presentation of the background and history of the site and the redevelopment initiative. The tour will be led by representatives of the developers as well as the Mayor and Township administrator and will explore progress that has been made, the work that is currently underway, challenges that have been overcome, and where additional opportunities may be realized in the future.
Given the nation’s economic climate and looming fiscal constraints, many of us are looking for creative solutions to our communities’ problems. This Roundtable series, designed exclusively by and for Greater Philadelphia’s community and economic development professionals, invites you to share your challenges, bring your good ideas, and brainstorm answers to your colleagues’ tough questions.
Utilizing a “systems perspective” speakers will provide direction on what recommendations, strategies, and actions should be implemented in the short term to accelerate progress in obesity prevention over the next 10 years.
Our current selection is The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. Our December 2012 meet-up will be held at BXL Zoute from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
The purpose of the workshop is to “bridge the gap” between planners and community based organizations (CBOs). The workshop will provide a platform for CBOs to better understand the role of city and regional planners in community development, and acquire access to information that can help them become strong and sustainable entities within their target populations. It will also give planners an opportunity to learn more about CBO’s, what they do, and their needs.
The proposed webinar will explore the connection between aviation and other travel modes, and the challenges that airports and their communities face when integrating airports into regional transportation systems and nearby communities. We will provide background that transportation planners need to know when embarking on transportation planning or site development projects that involve direct or indirect connections with airports or federally obligated airport property.
More than half of Americans own and use a smartphone. Increasingly planners and the public are accessing information and engaging via mobile devices. Walk through the research and mobile applications out there to aid planners in using their mobile devices to the maximum effectiveness. This session is sponsored by the Ohio State University.
Please join us for the annual NJ Planning Conference! Due to Hurricane Sandy, the originally scheduled conference was moved to January 31 and February 1. There's still time to register!
New pressure from elected officials and city managers to reduce fees, regulations and process to make it easier to attract development may or may not be consistent with the Principles espoused by the Code of Ethics, much less the Rules of Conduct. This interactive session will engage participants in dialogue about the pressures we are facing in our jobs on a day to day basis and how to align our response with the AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
Planning and plagiarism go hand in hand. We copy zoning codes, plans, and ideas from other towns and, in the process, we are responsible for killing any sense of identity in our own communities. This session is about gaining the self confidence to plan truly exceptional places. This session is sponsored by the Ohio State University.
The Green Tourism and Hospitality Conference is coming to Somerset County this February! This full day event providing technical insight in operations and marketing will show you how to leverage People, Planet and Profits to give your company a competitive edge.
This event sponsored by the Affordable Housing Professionals of New Jersey will discuss how to get eligible homeowners interested in affordable units you have for sale. It will include Sample Forms, Materials and Advertising for Open Houses, Advertising Tips/Resources, What to Do When Homeowner hires a Realtor and Much More! Space is limited and a light breakfast will be provided.
The powers afforded municipalities under the Local Redevelopment and Housing Law to reshape their communities are filled with promise and pitfalls. This session, featuring the authors of The Redevelopment Handbook: A Guide to Rebuilding New Jersey’s Communities (now in its second edition; available for purchase from APA-New Jersey via the link), will provide an overview of the redevelopment process, including the statutory criteria that must be established to determine that an area is in need of redevelopment, the steps that must be taken to adopt a redevelopment plan, together with a roadmap to follow the key legal requirements.
Real progress will occur with a paradigm shift if generations work together and cultural imperatives are addressed. This session will highlight both research and on-the-ground experience in multi-generational planning.
APA-NJ Members use promotional code APANJ2-13 to receive a 10% discount. A one-day intensive workshop teaching how to strengthen organizational communication & participation integrating the latest tools & innovations in social media and web applications. Designed for business district management organizations, chambers and other municipal, county and regional leaders.
This webinar will cover Food Systems Planning. It is targeted at local government officials and planners. The introduction will describe what food system planning is, what local governments should consider, and what tools and resources are available.
MAPS 3 is a 10-year program designed to improve the quality of life in Oklahoma City through the construction of eight projects funded by a limited term, one-cent sales tax initiative that began in April 2010. Russell Claus, Director of Planning for the City of Oklahoma City, and Cathy O’Connor, President of The Alliance for Economic Development of Oklahoma City, will discuss the history of the MAPS initiatives, private investment that has occurred as a result, and ongoing planning for leveraging private investment from MAPS 3 projects.
Sustainable Jersey is hosting two workshops to highlight new and existing incentives that are available to assist residents, businesses and the public sector in rebuilding with energy efficiency and future savings in mind.
Professor Buehler's presentation will investigate international trends in daily travel behavior with a focus on Germany and the U.S. Reliance on the automobile for most trips contributes to costly trends like pollution, oil dependence, congestion, and obesity.
What happens when a group of six planning consultants decides to create a new consulting firm during the latest Great Recession? Hear how this group of one-time sole proprietor planning consultants chose to join forces and start a new consulting firm as the market contracted….and they succeeded. What did it take? What lessons did they learn? What tools and strategies worked best? How did sole proprietors, used to being leaders themselves, adjust to the new normal of being part of a six-person firm? Learn how to succeed and what it takes to move forward in today’s market.
Please join Together North Jersey, the NJTPA, and the City of Elizabeth for a
public workshop to gather input for the plans that will shape the future of
North Jersey.
Sustainable Jersey is hosting two workshops to highlight new and existing incentives that are available to assist residents, businesses and the public sector in rebuilding with energy efficiency and future savings in mind.
Please join Together North Jersey, the NJTPA, and Essex County for a
public workshop to gather input for the plans that will shape the future of
North Jersey.
Join us for our next Roundtable discussion on various strategies on how to engage local businesses and build a more unified downtown. Topics of discussion will include outreach strategies, incentives for businesses, and overall strategies for downtown businesses. David Rucki of DMR Consulting Solutions will lead the roundtable discussion.
Design guidelines are an innovative tool for controlling strip development and helping to maintain community character. This session will present case studies of design guidelines being used to control strip development in Kittery and Scarborough, Maine, Salem, New Hampshire, and Cape Cod in Massachusetts. It will illustrate how design guidelines were prepared and implemented and how they have influenced new development.
The workshop is part of a series being held throughout the region by Together North Jersey, a consortium of local, state, and regional partners working together on a Regional Plan for Sustainable Development. These workshops are an opportunity for the public to share ideas about planning for the future to build stronger communities and local and regional economies. The NJTPA also will be on hand to discuss Plan 2040, its update to the long-range transportation plan for the region.
High oil and natural gas prices over the last decade, combined with new technology have ignited a fossil fuel boom across the West. Drilling for oil and natural gas is a high-impact economic activity. Today’s unconventional oil development and its effects differ in important ways from oil booms of the past. This webinar charts the new “unconventional” fossil fuel boom, tracking production, employment, and fiscal trends in an effort to better understand the pressures boomtowns face and to identify best practices for benefiting from these new unconventional fossil fuel plays.
TOGETHER NORTH JERSEY plans to host a day-long workshop to introduce the concept of HIAPs and train participants in approaches to HIAP, leaving them with the tools they need to undertake a HIAP approach in “non-health” decision-making.
Please join Together North Jersey, the NJTPA, and Hunterdon County for a
public workshop to gather input for the plans that will shape the future of
North Jersey.
The workshop is part of a series being held throughout the region by Together North Jersey, a consortium of local, state, and regional partners working together on a Regional Plan for Sustainable Development. These workshops are an opportunity for the public to share ideas about planning for the future to build stronger communities and local and regional economies. The NJTPA also will be on hand to discuss Plan 2040, its update to the long-range transportation plan for the region.
The Emerging Professionals Group has teamed with ASCE's young member group to host a joint networking event.
The City Planner Book Club Meet-up is scheduled for Thursday, March 21 at 6:00PM. The meeting will beat The Merchant in Jersey City.
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"From Jersey to Dixie: Issues of Place and Planning" is a documentary, created by Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy students Brandon McKoy and Susannah Dyen, that compares and contrasts planning issues in New Jersey and the Southern region of the United States (Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana).
Registration Open! As the lights come back on in New York and New Jersey, the region looks to the future. How can planning create a more resilient region? Who will make the tough decisions? And how will they change the way people live, work, and play along the coastal shores?
Finding the right development properties and partners is a real challenge. The Community Marketplace will highlight 14 transit-oriented communities with redevelopment opportunities. Join builders, developers, investors, realtors, architects, engineers and economic development professionals to learn about these great places and how to leverage the right partnerships for success.
As bike sharing systems are proliferating in cities across the US, and early systems in Boston and Washington, DC are coming of age, we examine the different metrics on which bike share programs can be evaluated. What does bike share success mean? Financial self-sufficiency, or even profitability? Improved mobility? Improved public health? Reduced GHG emissions? How can we measure the cultural impact of bike share? Or should we simply be concerned about operational success--keeping the trains running on time.
This conference, sponsored by the Raritan Valley Community College and the New Jersey Chapter of the Sierra Club, will discuss the idea of building on parking lots near transit. Leading experts from the business community, environmental organizations, and academia will be featured.
Please join us in a candid and information discussion among students and professionals about the realities of the planning profession. Obtain insight, career advice, and network with practitioners.
The Affordable Housing Professionals of New Jersey is sponsoring this event that will explore how to effectively market affordable rental properties. There will also be a legislative update on affordable housing issues. A light breakfast will be provided.
Downtown New Jersey will be welcoming Joe Getz, Principal, JGSC Group to their April 12, 2013 meeting held at Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith and Davis, Metro Corporate Campus 1,99 Wood Street, Iselin, New Jersey 08830-2712– 4th Floor, 10 am.
Using 13 cases studies of the largest PHAs in the Pacific Northwest Region, this webinar outline what activities PHAs are undertaking in this devolved, market-based context, speculating about the future. PHAs make trade-offs among paths that emphasize agency survival, producing more housing for the poorest households, identification as a non-profit housing provider (rather than depending on HUD), poverty alleviation, merging with another public agency, or closing. This diversity of responses points to the under-valued attribute of public housing authorities as local organizations receiving diverse mandates from the federal government and as local housing providers.
Begin with an unrivaled professional development program. Mix in unparalleled networking opportunities. Top it all off with unmatched restaurants, jazz clubs, and sights. Don't miss out; join APA in Chicago April 13-17, 2013.
80 sessions with 5 to 6 concurrent each time slot specializing in transportation planners subjects ranging from new state and federal programs, guidelines, rules, etc. to peer group and VIP sessions. An exhibit hall with more than 100 exhibitors from government agencies to consultants, to equipment suppliers. All modes of transportation included except aviation.
This training will offer an overview of PennDOT’s new handbook, “Improving Connectivity and System Function through Local Planning,” and provide guidance to municipalities on how to enhance vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian connectivity. The presenters will discuss strategies to effectively regulate and manage a connected transportation network within a community, including a review of connectivity index calculations and model ordinance language.
Join us on Saturday, April 20th, for a leisurely stroll through the beautiful Borough of Frenchtown, named One of New Jersey’s Great Places by the New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association – and we’ll show you why it deserves this title!
The inaugural Hoboken Green Buildings Walking Tour will showcase sustainability in building design and function, from LEED® certified residential and commercial buildings to Hoboken’s first Passive House, composting at Hoboken Community Church and renewable energy production at Stevens Institute of Technology. On the tour you will experience Hoboken’s vibrant community, innovative architecture and see some of the hottest new properties in town. Plus, you'll learn how your neighbors are saving money and making our city greener!
Members will learn the basics of energy pipeline operations and maintenance, facilities, and products transported. They will gain an understanding of the risks and benefits pipelines pose to the community. Members will learn the agencies that regulate pipelines at the Federal, State and local level. They will learn the role that local governments can play in improving pipeline safety. Additionally they will learn risk based practices for land use and development planning near transmission pipelines. They will be provided with examples of good and poor development near pipelines and well as the location of additional technical information and financial resources to support their efforts to improve safety of the community and the built environment near pipelines.
Increasing natural disasters have caused unprecedented flooding in parts of NJ, resulted in widespread power outages, and damaged our transportation infrastructure. As immediate crisis management of the most recent storm gives way to longer term recovery planning, what should we as a State be considering for redevelopment and disaster preparedness?
Join our panelists on May 21st for a practical, tactical review of the online tools and techniques that help small businesses think big — creating a compelling brand promise, driving more online traffic, and creating a community of loyal customers in the process.
Save the Date: Thursday, June 6, 2013. The conference will be held at the Newark Museum. The conference is co-hosted by the NJ Historic Trust, NJ Historic Commission, NJ Historic Preservation Office, and the Common Wealth of New Jersey.
Join DVRPC and municipal leaders at a half-day forum on the intricacies of municipal shared services. In many cases, sharing services allows municipalities to decrease both the cost and the complexity of the services they provide to their constituents while providing a higher level of service overall.
Recent federal legislation on collocations, FCC non-binding guidance and now state level legislative proposals could dramatically impact your community's planning authority and local zoning of wireless facilities towers. In this webinar, BB&K telecommunications attorneys will provide an overview of the challenges and opportunities facing local governments as they attempt to protect local interests while complying with federal requirements governing zoning of wireless facilities and to defeat damaging state legislative proposals that are sweeping the nation.
The 5th Annual Sustainable Raritan River Conference will focus on action steps everyone can take as individuals, as families, as part of a company or as a leader in government – to improve water quality in the region through redevelopment, remediation, restoration and protection of the Raritan River and all its tributaries.
Featuring front-line Executive Directors from NYC - Kerry McLean from the South Bronx and Rebeca Ramirez from the Heart of Brooklyn - NJ'sJGSC Group, developer Steve Santola and commercial real estate CEOBrian Silbert.
At this meeting we will explore the connections between economic development, business, and quality of life amenities. We will hear about the new data tool CultureBlocks from Moira Baylson of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy. Larry Eichel, of Pew’s Philadelphia Research Initiative will share findings from the Philadelphia 2013: State of the City report. Lastly, there will be a panel of creative economy businesses who will share their experiences and decision-making in opening businesses in and around Philadelphia.
In this webinar we examine a few failed projects that damaged the financial position of the municipality that undertook them and consider what lessons we can learn from these unfortunate situations. “The wise learn from other people's mistakes and fools from their own.” –Old Proverb. “The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice.” –King Solomon, Circa 950 A.D.
Please join APA-NJ as it celebrates one of its 2012 Great Place in New Jersey award winners with a Walking Tour of Broad Street, Hopewell Borough. The Hopewell Borough Mayor, Council members and other local stakeholders will walk with us and discuss the efforts made to retain the historic qualities of the area while seeking and investing grant monies into streetscape improvements
Join AHPNJ in June for Our First All-Day Symposium on Expiring Affordability Controls
The Symposium will cover the following topics: A brief history of restrictions, the control periods, credits and the planning process; a focus on discussing both rental and sales controls, including the documentation affecting the length of those controls; the benefits, costs and options for extending those controls; and the processes to unwind expiring controls.
Come explore Orange’s Valley Arts District - a strikingly rich multicultural community nested in the Valley of West Orange and Orange. This is a terrific opportunity for planners to uncover the history and vibrant culture in the Valley Arts District.
USGBC and the Land Use Law Center at Pace University have recently launched two new, free resources to help municipalities utilize the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system to support their sustainable planning goals. While certification under the rating system is often best suited to development projects, many elements of the rating system can be utilized as an open-source tool to strengthen local government planning efforts. These two resources explore in great detail the ways in which the rating system can be utilized translating those into direct action for planners complete with numerous case study examples.
Addressing the Needs of LGBT Seniors: Seniors in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender community face a unique, and significant, set of obstacles to aging comfortably, including discrimination, lack of certain legal protections, and an absence of a family support system. Examine current trends in addressing the needs of LGBT seniors as well as innovative programs and services to help them age in place.
New York is known the world over as a city of walkers and straphangers, not to mention one of the most popular tourist destinations anywhere with five very distinct boroughs, clashing street configurations, and a variety of naming and numbering conventions. Despite huge volumes of residents and visitors walking and using transit, most existing on-street directional information is aimed at drivers. This webinar will introduce participants to the basics of wayfinding with a focus on the system design and program development in NYC. There will be a Q & A session at the end of the webinar.
On Monday, October 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy struck New York City, the most populous region in the United States. Sandy was the biggest Atlantic storm in history, devastating homes and businesses across the Northeast, and causing over $19 billion in damages in New York City alone. In response to this disaster, the New York Metro Chapter of the APA undertook a six month effort to assess how Superstorm Sandy impacted businesses in Rockaway, Queens, a community uniquely situated on a narrow peninsula and one of the hardest-hit areas of New York City. This webinar walks you through the process that the New York Metro Chapter team took to conduct its needs assessment and develop meaningful recommendations for strong planning.
The National Association of Flood and Stormwater Management Agencies (NAFSMA) is pleased to announce a special one-day Agency to Agency Flood Risk Management Mentoring Session. A total of six core continuing education units for Certified Floodplain Management will be available for participants in the meeting which is sponsored by NAFSMA, in cooperation with the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM), the New York State Floodplain and Stormwater Managers Association (NYSFSMA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Join the placemaking experts from Project for Public Spaces, Philadelphia's University City District, and the C.L.U.E Group (along the Montclair Center District itself) for this workshop. You will learn about key principles for creating great community places, scalable & innovative placemaking in practice, and innovative funding sources for making local public improvement projects happen.
Last month, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District. In this complex 5-4 decision, the court ruled that monetary conditions attached to land use permits are now subject to the heightened scrutiny tests of nexus and rough proportionality found in Nollan and Dolan – and that these tests also apply to permit denials, as was the case here. To help you understand what Koontz means, join with two of the country’s leading experts in land use law: Professor John Echeverria of Vermont Law School and Dwight Merriam, Esq., FAICP of Robinson & Cole LLP.
Functional classification is a transportation topic that is often left for engineers to sort out, but it has a huge impact on urban planning. Anyone involved in urban planning – including community stakeholders – should be part of the dialogue surrounding the function of public streets. This webcast will incorporate very specific examples that are typical of public transportation networks throughout the United States.
Join with others who live, vacation or make a living at the Jersey Shore to think through the lessons from Superstorm Sandy. Take part in a community dialogue about what individuals, communities and governments can do to limit the harm done by the next storm. Join your neighbors and make your voice heard.
We want to hear from coastal community leaders about their most pressing coastal hazards and climate-related concerns and needs. Please join us to have your voice heard and to network with other coastal community leaders.
Addressing the Needs of LGBT Seniors: Seniors in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender community face a unique, and significant, set of obstacles to aging comfortably, including discrimination, lack of certain legal protections, and an absence of a family support system. Examine current trends in addressing the needs of LGBT seniors as well as innovative programs and services to help them age in place.
Join with others who live, vacation or make a living at the Jersey Shore to think through the lessons from Superstorm Sandy. Take part in a community dialogue about what individuals, communities and governments can do to limit the harm done by the next storm. Join your neighbors and make your voice heard.
We want to hear from coastal community leaders about their most pressing coastal hazards and climate-related concerns and needs. Please join us to have your voice heard and to network with other coastal community leaders.
New Jersey’s leading experts in Climate Change have been busy creating an assortment of tools to help us visualize the potential future impacts of climate change. What’s more, they are looking for ways to help communities prepare for and to adapt to “a new reality” that includes frequent changes in temperature, precipitation and sea level. Living in a State that is on pace to bear the impacts of Climate Change more quickly and harshly than others, New Jersey Planners should be familiar with the most current research and best practices for addressing Climate Change.
This presentation will demonstrate a small historic Connecticut town's efforts to create a form-based code that enables a significant amount of context-sensitive development within the existing town center. The town also established innovative stormwater management regulations and design guidelines integrated with the adopted form-based code. Issues common to many smaller towns will be discussed as will the approach taken to establish compact, walkable development patterns as a framework for watershed health.
The Common Ground Program is a community gardening and urban agriculture program created by the city of Lawrence, Kan. This webinar will provide an overview of the Common Ground Program, an outline the goals of the project goals, community benefits and lessons learned. The webinar will also provide insight on funding sources and potential partnerships that other communities or organizations may utilize in pursuing similar efforts.
Join with others who live, vacation or make a living at the Jersey Shore to think through the lessons from Superstorm Sandy. Take part in a community dialogue about what individuals, communities and governments can do to limit the harm done by the next storm. Join your neighbors and make your voice heard.
Please join us for our APA-NJ Emerging Professionals Quarterly Meeting. The committee will be discussing specific events for the remaining months of the year. We'll also be looking for people who want to get involved and help to coordinate activities. If you can't make the meeting, but would like to help, please contact Darlene Green.
This webinar session will highlight trends in transport, and explore sustainable mobility and solutions emerging from local and national partnerships. Successes around the country will be showcased, and strategies noted that scale up the movement. GPC’s tools include: Energy efficient technologies; Hosting of bike-sharing, car-sharing, carpooling, and mass-transit, EV charging; Responsible storm water management, Integration of intelligent transportation; Placemaking: parking assets right-sized, as well-designed, responsible neighbors; Resiliency: parking garages as energy storage and deployment centers in times of crisis; Green Garage Certification: a program inspiring parking assets to be a positive force in the built environment.
This one-of-a-kind event will bring together New Jersey’s top sustainability experts with
academics, state and local agencies, organizations, Sustainable Jersey Green Team and Task Force members and the interested public, at a sustainable venue, Duke Farms!
Super Storm Sandy caused billions of dollars of damage along the Jersey shore. In order to spur rebuilding the State and Federal government has provided a massive amount of funds to municipalities. Attached to these funds is a host of rules and regulations. This seminar will review how the State of New Jersey, HUD, and FEMA are funding the rebuilding effort and discuss these legal requirements. This event is a League Professional Development Program sponsored by the NJ League of Municipalities.
As we move toward more transit oriented development and work to retrofit our existing suburbs, we search for opportunities to use existing infrastructure and land area efficiently. As we evaluate these opportunities, it is important to fully understand the residential developments in these suburban areas of the post-WWII era -- both lower density modest single-family house tracts and garden apartment complexes with acres of green space.
Join Roger Brooks of Roger Brooks International (RBI) as he shared his high-energy, high-value expertise to take you through key strategies and tactics for building communities as destinations and then promoting them effectively. Using uncommon common sense and his ability to cut through the B.S. in our media and marketing-saturated world Roger will leave you with great ideas that are both inspiring and actionable.
This session will focus on the kinds of incentives and planning tools that can be used that promote both redevelopment in the traditional centers of a city—those outside downtown—and the unification of those areas through mass transit. The session will cover the use of a variety of economic development incentives, form based codes implementation, and use of the Institute for Transportation Engineers Walkable Urban Thoroughfares Manual as a package for revitalization in El Paso, Texas.
This session shows how to calculate the increase in value of private land due to public actions and develop a reasonable figure for developer contributions. This knowledge is particularly helpful to those working in urban design and preservation where much of what is achieved is through negotiating developer contributions. This session was first presented at the APA National Conference in Chicago in 2013.
The purpose of the 16th YP Multi-Group Mixer is to bring together young professionals from various organizations for a night of social networking and for group-to-group cross exposure. Young Professionals attend to make new contacts, make new friends, and to learn about other organizations.
The PP Exam Review Course for the Fall 2013 test period will be held Saturday, October 5 from 8:30AM to 4:00PM, at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, 2nd Floor, Room 261, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.
DVRPC’s Municipal Outreach program will be showing an APA audio/web conference in DVRPC’s Main Conference Room on Wednesday, October 9, 2013. The event is free to attend, but you must register in advance to attend: http://dvrpc.ticketleap.com/. Please note: you must attend the event in person; you cannot watch from your desk.
Panel discussion the safety and land use implications of rail and truck freight routes through local communities. Learn from national research and from the experiences of the railroads, the City of Baltimore.
Join Camden County and Cherry Hill Officials and the American Planning Association, New Jersey Chapter, to celebrate Cooper River Park’s award as a... GREAT PLACE IN NEW JERSEY!
This two-day course on the redevelopment planning process will provide a broader understanding of the crucial issues, steps and challenges associated with the New Jersey’s Local Redevelopment and Housing Law (LRHL).
This presentation describes the scope of the problem in terms of public health risks. federal and state drinking water, water quality, and stormwater laws require permittees to address leaky infrastructure, but local implementers often interpret these requirements in ways that ignore the potential infectious disease risk posed.
The City of Hoboken’s South Hoboken Waterfront has been named a Great Place in New Jersey for 2013 by the American Planning Association-New Jersey Chapter (APA-NJ). The City will be hosting a Walking Tour on Friday, October 18 from 2pm-4pm. The Walking Tour will highlight the South Hoboken Waterfront and present the processes which were involved in its industrial-to-recreational transformation.
Please join the American Planning Associa2on - NJ Chapter for a Sussex County Winery Tour which will be the vehicle for a presenta2on by Donna Traylor, AICP, PP on the economic and social values of eco-tourism in Sussex County.
Anticipated sessions include Contextualizing Complete Streets, Rightsizing Streets, Complete Streets Implementation, and Making the Case for Complete Streets. Charles Marohn from Strong Towns will deliver the keynote address. Lunch will be provided in addition to morning refreshments and a reception following the Summit.
On Thursday, Oct 24th, from 6-9pm continue our Community Planning Month celebrations with fellow APA-NJ members at this Northeast Area networking event. Enjoy light fare at 12 West in Upper Montclair - conveniently located in Upper Montclair Town Center, adjacent to the Upper Montclair Train Station.
Moderated by Bloustein Local Director and University Professor Raphael J. Caprio, and Senior Research Fellow Marc Pfeiffer, the program includes a macroeconomic overview of the region, presentations by representatives from Jersey City, Weehawken and Edgewater, all waterfront municipalities that have experienced significant impact from Gold Coast development, and a prominent developer’s view of the region’s future.
Status quo parking requirements often stand in the way of making communities livable, equitable, and sustainable. Responding to criticisms of excessive minimum parking requirements, many planners feel that improvements should be made but they lack a solid procedure for generating reform. Webinar participants are provided with a handout showing a step-by-step technical and policy process for reforming parking requirements. A brief introduction explains that parking requirements are a policy choice, not merely a technical calculation.
The downtown area of Freehold is the heart of the Borough, which is located centrally in Monmouth County. Like many towns of its time, it is the historic village center for much of the surrounding population.
On this Day of Service, APA-NJ volunteers will be helping to paint the playground at Belmar Elementary School in Belmar, NJ – renewing students sense of play after their playground was damaged by the effects of Hurricane Sandy. Belmar Elementary School is a public school serving 555 students from Belmar and Lake Como in grades K-8.
Please join us on Monday, October 28 as the Rebuild by Design Teams unveil their resiliency-driven ideas! We invite you to a public reception at the New Jersey Institute of Technology to hear Rebuild by Design's ten Design Teams discuss their research and the ideas born out of their work. This is a critical moment for the […]
Design on the Delaware is a collaborative conference examining the issues and opportunities of the built environment.
On Oct. 29, 2013, the anniversary of the worst natural disaster ever to hit New Jersey, we invite you to join us at Monmouth University in W. Long Branch for a day-long conference to address three critical questions about the Sandy recovery process: What have we accomplished? What have we learned? What do we still need to do?
The purpose of this panel discussion and workshop is to provide communities in Northern New Jersey with cutting-edge tools and techniques to move beyond mere climate- and disaster-preparedness toward a state of dynamic resilience. Think of it as a sustainability "clinic," where we will help you anticipate problems you might encounter and assist you with trouble-shooting your way around obstacles you have already encountered.
The North American urban landscape is dominated by the products of late 20th century suburbanization, leaving the built environment littered with dead malls, failing strip centers, foreclosed houses, vacant big boxes, and acre upon acre of asphalt parking lots. What to do? June Williamson will discuss promising planning and design strategies and tactics, illustrated with competition-winning proposals from her book Designing Suburban Futures as well as case studies from her previous book Retrofitting Suburbia, co-authored with Ellen Dunham-Jones.
If you have completed the ArcGIS: Introduction course or if you are familiar with the toolbars and basic functions of Arc Map and Arc Catalog, you are qualified to take this course. This course will guide you through real world editing tasks and data management processes that are vital for intermediate GIS users to know.
The Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time. In this Webinar, Jeff Speck outlines the compelling economic, health, and environmental mandates behind creating more walkable communities. He then discusses his General Theory of Walkability, which describes the measures that communities can undertake to create larger walking and biking populations by providing the "useful, safe, comfortable, and interesting walk."
Whether you are a lake manager or a lake resident, an ecologist or an engineer, this popular two-day course is for you. From small ponds to large lakes, drinking water reservoirs to fishing lakes, if you want your lake and watershed management efforts to be successful you need a technically sound foundation. This course will give you the training needed to properly investigate and diagnose lake quality problems and to develop and implement cost-effective, restoration measures.
Please join this important, informative, and engaging webinar on the ethical rules and considerations governing planners, plan commissioners, and lawyers who work with planners and appear before plan commissions. The webinar will cover the primary sources of ethical rules for planners and lawyers, common ethical mistakes and how to avoid them, and recent cases. In addition, the webinar will have an interactive component that will enable participants to interact with the presenters and other participants on ethical scenarios.
This symposium will showcase recent work from the Transportation and Climate Initiative’s (TCI) Northeast Electric Vehicle Network on electric vehicle deployment in the northeast and mid-Atlantic region. Georgetown Climate Center, facilitator of TCI, will present the Network’s research findings on challenges and opportunities for EV deployment in the Northeast, and will also explore a number of EV planning tools –such as siting and design guidelines and best practices for developing EV-friendly zoning codes –that can help communities in New Jersey become EV-Ready.
This webinar is intended for local officials, planning board members and interested citizens, and will explain how non-contiguous cluster development works, with illustrated case studies and resources for getting started. Speakers will also address how to plan for attractive, walkable neighborhoods and centers, with input and support from the community.
In this intensive three-day workshop, led by Joseph Skupien (an expert with more than 25 years of NJ stormwater management experience), you will get a comprehensive overview of the steady flow capabilities of the current version (V4.1) of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Hydrologic Engineering Center River Analysis System program (HEC-RAS).
This one-day seminar is designed to present an overview of NJ's Flood Hazard Area Control Act Rules (N.J.A.C. 7:13). Instructors will discuss these rules in detail, and will answer questions regarding the technical issues and regulatory requirements involved in obtaining flood hazard area permits. DEP staff will provide information on the recently adopted emergency rules aimed at promoting re-construction for Hurricane Sandy related projects. In addition, presenters will provide information on additional proposed changes to the Flood Hazard Regulations.
This conference is focused on preventing childhood obesity, reducing chronic diseases and creating healthy communities by using effective community prevention strategies, as well as implementing policy and environmental changes that have a lasting impact.
DVRPC's Strategies for Older Suburbs Roundtable Series highlights challenges older suburbs and downtowns are facing. The series provides a means for networking and exchanging ideas with similar organizations encountering the same concerns. This roundtable will feature presentations followed by peer discussion.
This session will introduce community planners to the concepts and core principles of the NDRF; equip planners and others involved in post-disaster recovery with the tools and techniques needed to design and execute a post-disaster planning process; and will educate planners on how to build community capacity through the post-disaster planning process. Planners will leave this session armed with a number of community recovery and planning resources. They will learn the critical steps needed to guide communities to successful recovery. They will learn how to engage local citizens in the recovery process, and teach community members how to be engaged, successful, local champions who will take ownership of their local recovery planning process.
This second session goes into greater detail on the new law. Experienced practitioners will explain its new features and how municipal planners and attorneys can apply them to craft cluster development ordinances that address community goals. Speakers will cover how to structure a non-contiguous cluster program that is attractive to developers from a financial and risk perspective and how to integrate cluster development ordinances into local open space and farmland preservation programs. Audience members will have ample opportunity to ask questions.
Then two panels will evaluate the September 26, 2013 New Jersey Supreme Court ruling on the Council of Affordable Housing’s round III methodology for calculating each town’s affordable housing obligation.
This introductory webinar will focus on how to do so by describing how to conduct a vulnerability analysis. The webinar will include processes that local, regional, or state planners can use to ensure transportation system resiliency and provide an effective network to support their communities. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of specific vulnerabilities and be informed about a step-by-step process that they can follow to assess and rank vulnerabilities for project prioritization purposes.
AICP certification qualifies you to testify in court as an expert witness. The “How to be an Expert Witness” presentation will include a breakdown of the process and procedure involved in expert witness testimony.
This interactive one-day workshop will engage Licensed Site Remediation Professionals (LSRPs) and other environmental professionals to work through a typical Site Remediation Program (SRP) Case starting with an ISRA triggering event, through all the phases of remediation (PA/SI/RI and RA), including applying for and implementing a remedial action permit and culminating in the issuance of an RAO.
Get ready for what we hope will be our largest and best state conference yet! Join us and you will pick up new tools and tips, reconnect with over 500 of your colleagues, and leave at the end of two days a bit tired, but intellectually energized.
In 2011, the US Department of Justice promulgated rules on “Other Power Driven Mobility Devices” under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Attend this webcast and learn how the new rule applies to Federal, State, local, and privately owned lands as well as the assessment factors and public notice requirements under that Rule.
Please join NJASLA for the 2014 Annual Meeting and 50th Anniversary Honoring Our Past....Enbracing Our Futures #NJASLA50. Go to the NJASLA website for all 2014 Annual Meeting info, highlights and registration. We look forward to seeing you in January!
A three-hour intensive workshop teaching how to focus your scarce time and money to maximize your business success! Designed for current and future business owners and operators, entreprenuers, and non-profit entities.
Across the country municipalities seeking to reshape dysfunctional auto-oriented development continue to replace conventional zoning codes with new codes that primarily regulate form and only secondarily regulate use. As the fundamentally different approach of Form-Based Codes becomes more popular, practitioners are looking for credible guidance on how to draft and implement form-based codes in their area. In this webinar, we will share lessons distilled from over a decade of experience implementing and administering municipal form-based development and will introduce community planners to the core principles of Form-Based Codes.
Test out your GIS knowledge and skill with hands-on GIS software application! With a focus on layout and core functionality, this 12-hour evening course offers an overview of ArcGIS components, basic display and map querying functions, metadata browsing and file management, basic analysis techniques, and map layout. Increase your software proficiency with practical, in-class exercises!
This webinar will address the viability of ferry services and their integration into public transportation systems. Speakers include Tim Payne, Principal of Nelson Nygaard and 35 years of experience. He also led development of TCRP SB-23, “Integrating Passenger Ferry Service with Mass Transit” on behalf of the Transportation Research Board. Also speaking will be Hannah Henn, Assistant Vice President and Director of Ferries at New York City Economic Development Corporation.
Get updates from APA on federal budget for planning programs, what's on the federal legislative horizon and the results of the chapter policy priorities survey.
This session focuses on examples of two engaging, community-based plans now being implemented to achieve active, vibrant environments in an existing downtown (Burlington, VT) and a new TOD neighborhood (Santa Monica, CA). Both plans were adopted in 2013, funded by HUD Office of Sustainable Communities Community Challenge grants, a pioneering Federal program that supports cities to develop integrated land use and transportation plans. The webinar will include ideas and lessons learned for involving the community, designing and presenting information, and including a phased Implementation Plan that guides and measures achievement of Plan goals.
The workshop will “bridge the gap” between planners and communities by introducing them to available resources for community planning projects and activities. Price includes breakfast, lunch and workshop materials.
The New Jersey Economic Opportunity Act of 2013 is designed to stimulate economic development and strengthen New Jersey’s competitive edge in the global economy. How will it impact land use decision making? Come hear experts discuss how the incentives will alter land use in vibrant urban areas, highly distressed areas, and suburban areas that are at risk of having stranded assets.
The AICP Exam prep session is targeted at those who are taking the test in May or November of 2014, and will provide testing tips as well as an overview of material within each content area of the exam. Information will be provided on history,law, theory, plan implementation, functional areas, public participation, social justice, spatial areas and ethics. Resources will be identified to assist attendees with their studies.
New Jersey Future's Redevelopment Forum is a daylong conference that brings together close to 600 municipal and state leaders and leading professionals in planning, development, law, transportation, architecture, construction, environmental conservation and historic preservation to share best practices and lessons learned.
Learn how to create plans that can be read on Kindles, iPads and other mobile devices. Creating plans with mobile devices in mind allows for a richer, more interactive experience for readers. Learn about easy to use, free software and tips for creating an interactive mobile-ready plan. This webcast is sponsored by the Ohio Chapter of the American Planning Association
The arts aren’t a diversion or a luxury. They are important for the well-being of individuals and communities. Many people already know about the power of the arts to enhance economic development. This webinar will discuss how the arts can help people develop and keep intellectual skills, build social connections, and more. We will explore how creative placemaking can support the elements of human needs placemaking.
A Water Conservation Ordinance can help municipalities curtail unnecessary water waste. Sustainable Jersey’s Water Conservation Ordinance seeks to help extend available supplies through short-term drought periods, and to avoid recurrent drought warnings/water emergencies caused by late summer “drought.”
The purpose of this session is to introduce participants to the origins of the BLM, FLPMA, and other related laws for managing the Nation’s most extensive network of public lands. A better understanding of why and how the BLM works with the public, partners and diverse interests improves inter-jurisdictional collaboration to meet shared goals.
The City Planner Book Club Meet Up is scheduled for Wednesday, March 26 at 6:30PM at The Daily in NYC. Click here for more details.
During the webinar easily accessible web-based products will be discussed as well as case studies of how they have been applied. From this webinar participants will learn about C-CAP land cover data, the Coastal County Snapshot, Economics: National Ocean Watch (ENOW) data, Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer, and the Historical Hurricane Tracks website. During the webinar easily accessible web-based products will be discussed as well as case studies of how they have been applied. From this webinar participants will learn about C-CAP land cover data, the Coastal County Snapshot, Economics: National Ocean Watch (ENOW) data, Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer, and the Historical Hurricane Tracks web.
Join us for a discussion on urban and regional planning in Quebec and New England, where we examine how cities in both these areas will face the future. Featuring guests from Canada and the Northeastern US, our panelists will attempt to tease out why urban and regional planning has gone from visionary to ordinary. This conference seeks to redirect the momentum of contemporary city planning back toward a creative exploration of what places could be instead of what they are likely to become.
In this panel presentation, professional planners will address the challenges and successes they have had with a wide range of projects, including the creation of an urban river walk, the development of a regional bicycle plan, addressing the active transportation needs of a suburban high school, and planning for a mixed-use trail connecting two municipalities.
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Please join us in a candid and informal discussion among students and professionals about the realities of the planning profession. Obtain insight, career advice, and network with practitioners.
Please join DVRPC, the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, the Southern New Jersey Development Council, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, Select Greater Philadelphia, and other leaders at "Investing in People and Places" to discuss Greater Philadelphia’s priorities for economic development. Business leaders from big and small companies will share why they chose to start, stay and grow their businesses in Greater Philadelphia.
This one-day class is meant for pond owners, pond managers, landscape architects, engineers and anyone involved with the design, management or maintenance of ponds. This course is structured to help you make the proper decisions regarding the appearance, function or up-keep of your pond. Starting with design, learn how to build a pond, including the construction of embankments and dams and the selection and installation of liners. You will also learn how to create and maintain a stable shoreline, create and aquascape littoral benches, and optimize habitat for fish and aquatic wildlife.
Join ULI NNJ members and colleagues on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at St. Peter’s University in Jersey City, as we engage in a profound dialogue and book signing with the author of “A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for Urban America,” Vishaan Chakrabarti. Mr. Chakrabarti is the director of Columbia University’s Center for Urban Real Estate (CURE) and a partner at SHoP Architects,
Come learn about the new trend of aging in place and how it may affect how we address affordable housing for seniors. Come join AHPNJ in the discussion with presenter Emily A. Greenfield, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Programs on Aging Coordinator at the School of Social Work at Rutgers University.
The APA-NJ Emerging Professionals Group will be hosting their 2nd quarterly meeting for the year. Topics to be discussed include: events, walking tours, volunteer events, and professional development offerings. Free appetizers will be available.
Small and mid-sized communities face significant planning challenges which are different than those faced by larger communities. This presentation will describe an approach to economic development planning suitable for small and mid-sized communities. Presenters will discuss key trends impacting small & mid-size communities, with a focus on retail, housing, and the growing importance of the Central Social District and its role in downtown revitalization.
Each spring, RPA brings together more than 1,000 civic and business leaders from around the New York metropolitan area to discuss major issues affecting the prosperity and quality of life in the region. At this year’s RPA Assembly, speakers, workshops and interactive presentations will explore our initial research for the next regional plan and discuss how to create more livable, prosperous and equitable communities, protect ourselves from severe weather, and grapple with our fiscal and governance challenges.
This spring, all roads lead to Atlanta. Five thousand planners are heading to APA's 2014 National Planning Conference, April 26-30. It's the perfect place to see what's around the corner for the planning profession and communities around the world.
Technology is changing the way planning is conducted and open government is reshaping community engagement. Citizens now can access extensive information online and make use of government data, application processes, review procedures, and project commenting. Learn how this affects the planning commission's role as the interface between government and the public. The program also will look at the developing concept of participatory budgeting.
You are cordially invited to the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Alumni Gathering. The school has organized this alumni event in the midst of the APA (American Planning Association) National Conference in Atlanta and would love it if you are able to attend! Even if you are not attending the APA conference, the alumni gathering is open to all Bloustein alums!
On April 29, 2014 the NJ Department of Health and ShapingNJ are co-presenting a special event with Rutgers University. Dena Seidel, Rutgers Center for Digital Filmmaking at the Mason Gross School of the Arts has produced a documentary feature entitled, Generation at Risk: Joining Forces to Fight Childhood Obesity, which now includes an interview with Commissioner O'Dowd, as well as several other experts in the field from within and outside of NJ.
The Spring NJDRMI for 2014 will get you up to speed on connecting your downtown, business and organization to the digital realm, helping your bring more money, people, and partners to support and sustain your efforts.
Welcoming Remarks: “Recovery after the Recovery” James W. Hughes, Dean, Bloustein School New Jersey Forecast Nancy H. Mantell, Director, R/ECON™ Michael Lahr, Research Professor, Bloustein School Hot Real Estate Sectors: Warehouse/Distribution: Anne Strauss-Wieder, A. Strauss-Wieder, Inc. Data Centers: Jeff Hipschman, Managing Director, CBRE Multifamily Rental: Ronald S. Ladell, Senior Vice President, AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
Over the last 40 years local and state governments and land trusts have preserved millions of acres of farm and ranch lands using agricultural conservation easements. How have these programs succeeded and how will they further evolve? Come to celebrate and to learn from the nation's most successful programs.
Act now to register for the 2014 Spring Planning Forum: Making It Great Now, just a short hop across the state line in Allentown PA on May 13. The day promises to be full of new ideas and required information – hear from Andrew Howard of Team Better Block about how to kickstart revitalization with tactical urbanism, get your ethics credits while hearing about inclusionary planning and how to engaged underserved communities, enjoy lunch while hearing the latest from elected officials, and choose from afternoon sessions that highlight revitalization projects.
One of the first things that many people think about in creative placemaking is creating a cultural district or building a large cultural institution. While districts and institutions can become catalysts for community-wide creativity and revitalization, they can also absorb a lot of time, energy and resources that could be used effectively elsewhere in the community. Learn how creative placemaking can make it more likely that districts and institutions have a broader impact on their communities.
Plants are the most obvious clues to wetland boundaries. This two-day combination classroom and field course will teach you how to quickly and confidently identify plant species that are important in determining if an area meets the hydrophytic vegetation criterion for wetland delineation, focusing on ID characteristics. Learn basic plant ID groups, basic plant morphology and some basic botanical terminology.
Is gentrification a dirty word? How does revitalization impact existing communities? What is the perception versus reality of gentrification? Are we afraid to talk about gentrification....let's talk about it. This workshop will be taught by a published author, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD and an Economist/Planner, Peter Angelides, Ph.D., AICP. Both industry experts will provide practical and clinical evidence on the topic of gentrification. You don't want to miss this discussion. Seats are limited!
Planners and local governments should give attention to: holistic approach of multigenerational planning, work underway in cities, such as New York and Atlanta, taking creative steps to make their neighborhoods age-friendly and tools such as the Villages movement for self-empowerment on aging-in-place. This session will examine some tools and resources to foster communities friendly to all ages and highlight on-the-ground strategies to 'fund' changes.
Community coaching helps stakeholders build sustainable plans – and the shared leadership to implement them. This model helps build relationships between planner and client that makes it possible to address the big, difficult issues that keep a community from moving forward. It is a different approach to current models of planning practice, and it may challenge you to think about how you work with communities.
Register Residents of existing neighborhoods do not always welcome new development, and project opponents often cite density as a primary concern. Discover how to focus community conversations about infill and redevelopment on design. In this program, planning and design experts will explore how communities can use planning, design, and policy to minimize and mitigate the […]
Celebrate New Jersey’s 350th birthday at the Opening Reception hosted by the Advocates for New Jersey History on the evening before the conference at historic Thompson Park. The event recognizes leaders who have made significant contributions to advance history and historic preservation issues in New Jersey. This year we’re also commemorating NJ 350!
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.
Every year NJPO honors Achievements in Planning that are projects, large and small, that reflect good sense in planning; dedicated individuals, whose efforts through planning benefit their community’s quality of life; agencies on every level of government generating model approaches to planning; and organizations and initiatives promoting the ideals of sound planning.
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.
osted by James Carpentier, AICP, and presented by Wendy Moeller, and Mike Freeborg, Director of Government Relations for YESCO, the presentation of answers these questions, and provides practical, solution-focused guidance that can set the foundation for regulations that allow for the opportunity to leverage this technology while protecting community aesthetic values and safety concerns.
Organizing, designing, agreeing…and the dreaded collecting. Join DVRPC, the Collingswood BID, and Leigh Minor Nagy from Minor Bird Retail Therapy, on how to make cooperative marketing effective, smart, and as pleasant as possible.
Join APA-NJ for an exciting bus/walking tour of the Inner Essex Rail corridor with locations throughout Newark, East Orange and Orange. Learn more about the Urban Essex Coalition - their recommendations and accomplishments, and discuss whether or not this initiative can be replicated in other places.
Creative Placemaking Planning for Real Estate Professionals is a one-day workshop which will include a broad overview of what Creative Placemaking is and why this approach is so effective for sustainable development towards increasing community vibrancy, social equity and economic growth.
The referendum for a stable source of open space funding barely made it onto the November ballot. Tom Gilbert, Keep It Green will describe what the referendum means and what needs to be done to ensure its passage. Other speakers will discuss the importance of open space for healthy communities.
Registration is now open for the premier planning conference in Pennsylvania.
Join APAPASE for an evening of food, fun, and (planning-themed) Quizzo!
The NJAFM Annual Conference is a statewide conference related to floodplain management and planning. The conference draws a multi-disciplinary audience including planners, engineers, scientists and local officials.
Given the quagmire of this recent history of COAH proposals and litigation in NJ, maybe it’s time to review how other states are facilitating affordable housing production and to consider how their experiences could reshape New Jersey’s approach. Leading the discussion is Rachel Bratt, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University, and author or co-author of many articles, reports, and chapters in books on housing policy.
Join APA-NJ for a walking tour of Downtown Somerville. Centrally located in Somerset County, Somerville is the quintessential example of how old meets new. Through proactive planning and innovative development, Somerville represents the synergy between historic landmarks and modern amenities. (CM | 2.0)
Please join us for the largest GIS conference in the mid-Atlantic region. MAC URISA 2014 will be held October 22nd through the 24th at the Resorts Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. We are proud to host a comprehensive, multi-day conference to showcase the outstanding projects and technologies used by our members.
The 59th NJDRMI for Fall 2014 is your opportunity to get up-to-speed on making the most out of key digital tools for your marketing and is aimed to help you be more effective and strategic at promoting your downtown, business and events. This action-packed day is designed for business districts, management organizations, chambers and other municipal, county and regional leaders (CM | 2.5 Pending)
Join Brick City Conversations for a presentation on the Regional Plan Association’s Fourth Plan.
Registration is open. The PP Exam Review Course for the Fall 2014 test period will be held Saturday, October 25 from 8:30AM to 4:00PM, at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
The APA-NJ Executive Committee cordially invites you to a Volunteer Appreciation Party to thank all of our volunteers for the work you do for the chapter throughout the year. The event will be held on Wednesday, October 29 at Tumulty's Pub, 361 George St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Light fare (variety of appetizers) will be […]
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning's 54th Annual Conference offers nearly 300 AICP CM credits over a four-day conference. The preliminary program can be found at www.acsp.org and lists the sessions that qualify for credit. A conference app will be available this week and attendees can create their own schedule for session attendance.
With the two-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy on the horizon, what have we learned about rebuilding? This program, featuring Anthony Flint, fellow and director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, will focus on concrete steps that are being taken to plan, pay for and implement resiliency measures on the ground.
Using a class room case study and tour approach, participants will learn the fundamentals of comprehensive real estate development using actual development projects as “backdrops” to the concepts, applications and discussions about redevelopment.
Equity and ethics are not identical, but they do intersect. Listen as AICP planners and allied health professionals probe this important topic. How is health equity being addressed, and how does it relate to planning? What ethical codes do public health professionals follow, and where's the intersection with planning ethics? Examine the role equity plays in various ethical frameworks and find out how communities and planners are taking on health equity.
In a time when funding resources are scarce, it is imperative to understand and demonstrate the positive impacts of planning and implementation of transportation investments on our communities. A number of efforts including RTD’s Quality of Life Study, RTD’s TOD Program Metrics and the City of Denver’s TOD Strategic Plan have separate goals but similar methodologies. This session will discuss these programs and their applicability to projects from large scale to small scale.
When EPA created the Office of Environmental Justice, it required developing new tools for the purpose of engaging and working with the public, including segments of the public that are underserved. Community planners and other allied professionals may be less familiar with the tools the Office of Environmental Justice has developed overtime to strengthen public involvement; encourage community action for a renewed environment; or advance collaborative environmental problem solving.
Join us for a wine and cheese reception coupled with interesting tales of redevelopment where the attendees will join as some of the story tellers. From project highlights to challenges, here’s a chance to listen and learn from your colleagues in the trenches. Seating is limited, the event is free.
Join New Jersey Future, Regional Plan Association and Together North Jersey for an important discussion with thought leaders to bring forward the next generation of “big ideas” to enhance prosperity, livability, and environmental sustainability in the tri-state region.
Learn how Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Santa Monica used different, yet equally practical, applications of “tactical urbanism” to transform their streets in months, not years. One pilot project involved a transformative streetscape master plan; the other uses “pop-up” demonstrations of a potential “Neighborhood Greenway” design to get residents involved. Hosted by the Urban Design and Preservation Division.
Drought is becoming an increasingly important issue for planners at the local, regional and state levels. Drought impacts vary by region, but it affects everything from the most obvious -- water supply -- to ecosystems, the built environment, regional economies and human health. Mitigation and adaptation to drought requires attention and collaboration among planners, water engineers and natural resource experts.
“Complete street” is a transportation term that refers to a corridor designed for all modes of transportation. Washington, DC has made national news for its emphasis on the fundamental modes of transportation – walking and biking. It’s also home to one of the most recognizable mass transit systems. So why would the District Department of Transportation propose a scenario that eliminates complete streets?
This webinar is designed to help you make the case for implementing the most effective smart growth policies for ensuring that your community has an adequate supply of housing for the continuum of need: from workforce housing to seniors who need help to age in place. We will specifically address inclusionary zoning, community land trusts, accessory dwelling units, and tools for avoiding and overcoming NIMBYism.
This presentation will review some of these changes and outline steps that planners can take to mitigate present and future impacts of the new law. Planners are best trained to synthesize the multi-disciplinary nature of hazard mitigation planning and can be at the forefront of achieving reductions in losses to life and property as well as creating safer communities.
Join representatives from the 21 New Jersey municipalities that have combined sewer overflows and utility authorities to discuss: SPEAKERS: Mayor Ras Baraka, City of Newark Mayor Dana Redd, City of Camden Daniel M. Kennedy, Assistant Commissioner,Water Resources Management, NJDEP George Hawkins, CEO and General Manager of the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority Registration […]
Agenda 3:30 - 3:45 PM: Registration 3:45 - 4:00 PM: DVRPC Presentation 4:00 - 5:30 PM: Live viewing of APA Audio/Webconference Growing numbers of people are commuting and getting around town by bicycle. Keeping everyone safe on streets and sidewalks is a moving target. Explore the safety issues that go with more robust transportation options. […]
The APA International Division will be hosting a regional meetup for planners interested in international planning. All planners with an interest in international issues are welcome to attend. Hors d’oeuvres will be served. Happy hour drink specials will be available for purchase until 7pm.
Sustainability and comprehensive planning can run on two separate tracks within local government. To create sustaining places, the programs have to come together — but how? APA has worked with 13 communities to develop standards for integrating sustainability into comprehensive plans. Hear about the standards and the goals behind them.
The 60th NJ Downtown Institute for Winter 2015 is your opportunity to get up-to-speed on making the most of your limited volunteer and financial resources to help you achieve your revitalization and district management goals. This workshop is designed for business district management organizations, chambers and other municipal, county and regional leaders, whether staff or volunteers. APA 5.25 CM Credits, pending.
One of the great challenges of communities living on the New Jersey coast or along its some 18,126 miles of rivers and streams is how to prepare for inevitable flooding. The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) requires that buildings be elevated, moved out of a floodplain, or acquired and demolished to comply with the new flood maps. The hope is that elevating will keep buildings out of the water, but what do wholesale elevations do to a community?
New Jersey Future’s annual Redevelopment Forum attracts nearly 500 local and state officials, citizen activists, development professionals, architects, attorneys, planners, business leaders and students. Redevelopment allows us to re-use infrastructure, take advantage of historically strategic locations, maintain and improve our communities and preserve our remaining open spaces.
The FCC adopted new rules at its Oct. 17 meeting that are likely to require changes in the way local governments respond to applications for siting wireless towers, and for adding antennas to, and modifying, existing structures. The rules could necessitate an immediate review and revision of wireless siting ordinances in many communities, and have important implications for the way states and localities deal with siting of wireless facilities in historic districts and environmentally sensitive areas.
This presentation will discuss significant changes in housing for people with disabilities over the last several years. Enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Supreme Court’s decision in Olmstead v. L.C. – which requires public entities to offer their services to people with disabilities in “the integrated setting” – has led to statewide system reform of housing systems, moving away from congregate disability-specific housing to expanding access to scattered-site supportive housing.
NY/NJ Baykeeper in conjunction with Newark DIG (Doing Infrastructure Green) is hosting a free workshop on the economic benefits of green infrastructure. Geared towards private property owners, redevelopers, and engineers, guests will learn how implementing stormwater management strategies can affect your bottom line and much more.
Reshoring is a very popular idea among businesses, their customers and governments where jobs growth will have the most impact. But it’s not that simple. Reshoring requires a carefully crafted journey through innovation, automation, localization of products and site/community selection.
Registration is open. The PP Exam Review Course for the May 2015 test period will be held Saturday, March 28 from 8:30AM to 4:00PM, at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
Using a case study approach, participants will learn the fundamentals of real estate development using actual development projects as a “backdrop” to the concepts, applications and discussion about redevelopment. Leading community-based real estate developers will present case studies on some of their latest “crown jewels,” highlighting their actual problems, challenges and opportunities encountered with their development projects.
Register now for the world's premier educational event for planners and planning officials. With hundreds of sessions, workshops, mobile workshops, and networking events, you can build a conference that's just right for you.
Each year, RPA brings together more than 1,000 civic and business leaders from around the New York metropolitan area to discuss major issues affecting the prosperity and quality of life in the region.
Please join the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders on April 28, 2015 for a workshop exploring the resources and assistance programs available to strengthen your municipality’s capacity for resilience. Learn of practical measures and strategies to adapt to and withstand the severe weather and natural hazards of our changing future.
The 61st NJ Downtown Institute for Spring 2015 is your opportunity to get up-to-speed on making the most out of your number one asset that you control - your customer experience - to build your business, organization or district. This action-packed half-day is designed mainly for business owners and operators, however business district management organizations, chambers and other municipal, county and regional leaders can gain great insights for themselves and their clients and stakeholders.
Register Now (APA-NJ Members receive a 10% Discount) Featuring nationally-acclaimed customer acquisition & retention expert Pamela Herrman Hosted at the beautiful Montclair Library just steps away from the heart of award winning Montclair Center, a Main Street New Jersey community since 2007. The 61st NJ Downtown Institute for Spring 2015 is your opportunity to get up-to-speed […]
The New Jersey Health Impact Collaborative (NJHIC), a collaboration of Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS), is hosting a statewide conference on Health Impact Assessment (HIA) on May 7, 2015 at the Cook Campus Center at Rutgers University.
Join the Morris County Economic Development Corporation for a transportation panel and luncheon!
Learn how to build financial models for the acquisition and development of commercial and mixed-use real estate development projects using Excel.
Choose from a variety of registration and sponsor opportunities that will allow you to network with other professionals, nonprofit managers, historic preservation commissioners and others who have an interest in making our historic communities the very best that they can be.
New technologies. Evolving expectations. A variety of forces are changing the way planners work, the skills they need, even the issues they address. An APA task force recently spent a year looking into the planning office of the future. Learn about the findings and hear what practitioners have to say about recent changes, current conditions, and the shape of things to come.
On March 10, 2015, the New Jersey Supreme Court returned jurisdiction over low- and moderate-income housing to the trial courts, effectively ending COAH’s oversight. The ruling is the most significant court action impacting affordable housing since the court held that municipalities must provide their “fair share”. What does the court’s ruling mean for your municipality? […]
PlanSmart NJ's 4th Annual Regional Planning Summit, Stranded Suburban Real Estate Assets: Changing Economy, Changing Land Use will bring together experts in planning, redevelopment, and infrastructure to reveal the magnitude of the problem and explore methods to break through common barriers to transform New Jersey's suburbs into resilient and livable communities where people can live, work, and play.
We invite you to learn how to get ahead of the future with your peers from 9 states at the 2015 APA Northeast Planning Conference in Saratoga Springs, June 24-26th. Register online, book your hotel room, and don't forget to check out all the amazing sponsor and exhibitor opportunities!
Planning feels the impact of decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court, federal district courts, and state courts. How will their rulings affect you? Get a briefing on the year's legal developments, from First Amendment issues to environmental actions, housing, and equal access. Presenters also will discuss major legislative initiatives and APA's amicus filings. Join in a lively, informative program you and your staff, colleagues, and officials won't want to miss. This program is also suitable for planning commissioners.
Learn about the Coalition’s eorts to create model mixed-use communities at ve commuter rail stations in Newark, East Orange and Orange
The 62nd NJ Downtown Institute for Summer 2015 will get you up to speed on making your downtown look better and be the best "place" it can be! Join Mike Lydon, co-author of Tactical Urbanism and Seanette Corkill, nationally-known store designer, for a day of learning how to make exceptional design happen in your public spaces, businesses, and district as a whole.
This webinar will examine the linkages between landscape architecture and transportation planning, looking at how addressing design issues as early as possible in the planning process can result in transportation solutions more likely to win public support and produce the best transportation outcomes.
Athens, Ohio recently adopted The Essence of Athens: A Strategic Design Plan for Economic Enhancement and Community Competitiveness. This community collaboration 'extracted' the spirit and personality of the community and encourages architects, landscape architects, and planners to color outside the lines of ordinary design and create things that make people say, "That's so Athens."
This webcast will discuss what local governments need to do to ensure that their sign codes comply with the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2015 decision in Reed v. Town of Gilbert. That decision established that any sign regulation that "on its face" requires a consideration of a sign's content to determine how that sign will be regulated is "content-based" and subject to "strict scrutiny."
REGISTER Parking is a critical piece of a community’s infrastructure. It plays an important role in developing “mixed-use projects” and sustainable transportation. Parking also has a direct impact on the ability to create compact, healthy communities. Overly restrictive parking requirements can thwart efforts to build walkable communities that require less parking. Too little parking can […]
In this webinar you will learn what your community can do to prepare for, and land your next economic development prospect. It will cover the following items: (1) Current trends in Economic Development & Site Selection; (2) Understanding your target audience - What Prospects, Site Selection Consultants and other key players are looking for; (3) Understanding your product & target markets; (4) Before the prospect shows up – what can make your community competitive; and (5) The site visit and afterwards - practical pointers for closing the deal.
The National Center for Transit Research, Urban and Regional Information Systems Association and the Transportation Research Board are jointly presenting the 9th National GIS in Transit Conference, on September 1-3, 2015, in Washington, DC.
Join the RPA/NJIT Mayors’ Academy on Resilient Design for a public keynote presented by David Waggonner, president of Waggonner & Ball Architects and producer of the award-winning Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan. Mr. Waggonner will offer lessons of resilience and living with water for our region’s urban cities and towns. Light appetizers and refreshments will be served
The Stormwater Committee of the NJ-AWRA is sponsoring a new seminar series that will allow for education and discussion of different stormwater related topics. Jeromie Lange, PE from Maser Consulting will present on a recent study of the performance of Basins across the State. Glen Carleton of USGS will follow with a presentation on New Groundwater Mounding Analysis Software. Please join us in this exciting new initiative and opportunity for professional development and continuing education.
This two-day course on the redevelopment planning law process will provide a broader understanding of the crucial issues, steps and challenges associated with the New Jersey’s Local Redevelopment and Housing Law (LRHL). The workshop features a faculty with many of the top planners, attorneys, government officials and consultants from the New Jersey redevelopment arena who will share their real world redevelopment experiences.
Nowadays a wide variety of data from the US Census Bureau is easily accessible for anybody to use and it is relatively easy to create impressive looking maps and flowcharts. But how reliable is this data and can we really use it to inform planning decisions? This program will highlight some of the issues with the data especially with regard to liability, comparability and data aggregation. In addition, the program will briefly discuss why these issues are even more relevant when you use third party software.
The PP Exam Review Course for the Fall 2015 test period will be held Saturday, October 3, 2015 from 8:30AM to 4:00PM, at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, 2nd Floor, Room 261, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. A light breakfast will be served, and students are encouraged to support local restaurants in the city for lunch.
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) can be used to evaluate a proposed plan or project’s potential effects on the health of a population. HIA provides evidence-based recommendations aimed at enhancing positive health impacts and minimizing negative ones, providing an approach to the decision-making process.
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) can be used to evaluate a proposed plan or project’s potential effects on the health of a population. HIA provides evidence-based recommendations aimed at enhancing positive health impacts and minimizing negative ones.
While aging in place enables older adults to live at home independently, Aging in Community promotes social capital—a sense of social connectedness and interdependence - with systems of support and caring to maximize one’s ability to remain at home in their community.
Increasingly young workers and baby boomers alike are leaving the suburbs for higher density mixed use areas with easily accessible public transportation. This renewed interest in living and working in urban areas is helping to drive an economic boom in some of New Jersey’s cities.
LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) is the only rating system for sustainable neighborhoods and is the result of a unique collaboration of three highly respected organizations: Natural Resources Defence Council, Congress for the New Urbanism and USGBC. This half day program will walk through the prerequisites and credits of LEED-ND using two New Jersey LEED-ND Gold certified neighborhoods: Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District and Teacher’s Village, both located in Newark.
Join APA NY Metro for the 2015 Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony at Lerner Hall, Columbia University.
Join a conversation with Senator Cory Booker and distinguished experts in business and public policy to discuss the risks and repercussions of a Hudson rail tunnel closure, as well as the benefits of building additional cross-Hudson rail access as part of Amtrak's Gateway program.
Building a Culture of Health in New Jersey means creating changes that will surround kids and families in every community with opportunities to make healthy choices. We will discuss how health is linked to health care; how policy and environment changes can better support children, family and community life; how equity is connected to opportunity; and how private and public decision-making impacts health. This conference will explore how New Jersey must balance the cost, benefits and effectiveness of treatment and prevention to improve the health of all residents.
Delve into the state of the real estate markets after the great recession. How have well-planned communities weathered the storm? Are more communities recognizing the importance of planning for economic development? Veteran planners look at new norms for home values, retail markets, development, and revitalization.
On Thursday, December 3, 2015, the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital are co-hosting Philadelphia’s first Vision Zero conference. Vision Zero is based on the concept that road crashes are not accidents, but are preventable events. Road deaths, currently totaling nearly 100 per year in Philadelphia, can be reduced to zero through education, engineering, and enforcement.
Navigating NJ's complex regulatory system can be a cumbersome process and can result in costly and often conflicting results. Are there more effective solutions for managing growth in New Jersey?
Please join us on the evening of December 9th as we celebrate five decades of planning and regional cooperation, recognize the people, projects and programs that have transformed our region, meet new friends and partners, and be inspired for the next 50 years!
The New Jersey Urban Water Conference is a half-day event that will bring together state and local decision-makers, practitioners and stakeholders to build awareness of the importance of modern drinking water, stormwater and wastewater infrastructure as key to New Jersey’s prosperity.
Please join the Urban Essex Coalition for Smart Growth for "Creating a Vision for Station Areas in Urban Essex County's Urban Transit Corridor". Space is limited, RSVP today.
Coming up with reasonable and enforceable sign codes can often be a complex and controversial process. With so many community stakeholders caring about sign codes, it is important to get the most accurate, up-to-date information and expertise as possible. The seminar will present modules that educate on the technology within signs, sign code issues, understanding electronic message centers, and the importance of signs to business.
RegisterThis session will review significant changes in Federal Fair Housing requirements that occurred in 2015. Topics include the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Federal Fair Housing Act, HUD’s new rule on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, and the implementation of the rule through the Assessment of Fair Housing template. The session will help HUD […]
The purpose of the conference is to educate stakeholders and engage them in addressing the impacts of stormwater runoff from impervious cover. The workshop will acknowledge on-going efforts by the Sustainable Raritan River Collaborative and showcase their work. It will also provide attendees an opportunity to network and develop new partnerships so they can better achieve the goal of a sustainable Raritan River Basin.
Winning isn’t everything, but we can often learn a lot from plans, programs, and projects that have been deemed worthy of an award. In this session, speakers representing four winners of SCD’s 2015 Awards for Excellence in Sustainability will demonstrate how communities can function more sustainably.
For decades, the terms Central Business District, CBD and downtown were used almost interchangeably because, functionally, downtowns were dominated by retail stores, office based businesses, professionals and government agencies, along with some hotels and maybe entertainment venues.
The U.S. city was built for the baby boom. Its bones were formed when the U.S. was in its final decades of legal apartheid and fleshed out over four decades of rising inequality. The baby boom is still here and will continue to shape cities, suburbs, and rural areas. But we now need to accommodate a new generation— the millennials—whose coming of age will require millions of new rental housing units. Where will this housing be built?
New Jersey Future's Redevelopment Forum is a daylong conference that brings together more than 500 municipal and state leaders and leading professionals in planning, development, law, transportation, architecture, construction, environmental conservation and historic preservation to share best practices and lessons learned.
Understanding the challenges andopportunities communities face—economic, social, and environmental—is a prerequisite for making investments that achieve their goals. To respond to this need, environmental justice stakeholders have begun developing analytical tools that can give communities rich and accessible information for supporting local goals for environmental protection and equitable development in cities and regions.
The Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit is one of the largest gatherings of people involved in the intersection of arts, culture, community improvement, and local economic development. In 2014, it attracted more than 250 people. They included public and elected officials, leaders of community based organizations, developers, urban planners, and leaders of cultural organizations and, of course, artists.
This session will explore the relationship of the short-term rental sector of the sharing economy to land use and tax regulation and social and economic factors in resort and destination communities.
Maintaining a variety of affordable housing types is a critical component of long-range community viability. This session will equip planners and public leaders with strategies for determining the type and volume of housing that is most needed, by whom and where, within the context of shifting demographics. The presenters will review affordable housing needs assessments they conducted in Colorado Springs, CO, the State of Washington and Westmoreland County, PA, and explain the approaches that were most successful in translating measured housing needs into community goals with targeted, practical action steps.
APA's National Planning Conference offers advanced sessions by top presenters — and a high return on your training dollars. Registration is now open for the planning profession's biggest event of the year — APA's 2016 National Planning Conference, April 2–5 in Phoenix. Register before March 4 and save $!
Parks have become an unexpected driver of both tourism and urban transformation. Learn about new approaches to urban parks, from reusing industrial sites to rethinking design and function. Hear about unexpected uses, economic benefits, and enticing ways to attract people to parks. Where do parks fit into the work of the planning commission? Find out in a program designed for commissioners as well as planners.
Come join AHPNJ's Panel Discussion and hear the panelists share their perspectives on the municipal approvals process for affordable housing and it's importance in facilitating effective regulatory compliance.
We live in aworld with much uncertainty about federal level transportation legislation andsufficient funding to maintain existing infrastructure in our communities. With this level of uncertainty about policy and funding, it can be difficult at thelocal level to think about projects like bike share, which can take years toplan and large capital investments to fund.
The 65th NJ Downtown Institute to features Roger Brooks of Roger Brooks International (RBI) as he shares his high-energy, high-value expertise to take you through key strategies and tactics for building communities as destinations and then promoting them effectively. Using uncommon common sense and his ability to cut through the B.S. in our media- and marketing-saturated world Roger will leave you with great ideas that are both inspiring and actionable.