DVRPCās Municipal Outreach program will be showing an APA audio/web conference in DVRPCās Main Conference Room on Wednesday, October 9, 2013. The event is free to attend, but you must register in advance to attend:Ā 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 Parkās award as a...Ā 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 Jerseyās 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.Ā
The City of Hobokenās South Hoboken Waterfront has been named aĀ Great Place in New JerseyĀ for 2013 by the American Planning Association-New Jersey Chapter (APA-NJ).Ā Ā 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. Ā
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 atĀ 12 West in Upper MontclairĀ - 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 ofĀ 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 developerās view of the regionās future.Ā
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.Ā
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 ā 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 hearĀ Rebuild by Design'sĀ 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:Ā 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. Ā 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.Ā
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.