APA-NJ and the Young Planners Group are proud to offer a intensive 4-weekend course aimed at getting you ready for the November 2010 exam. This course will feature topics likely to be addressed in the exam and will be led by a variety of well-respected planning professionals and lecturers practicing or teaching in NJ. Email for more information!
APA-NJ and MAC URISA are co-sponsoring a 3-day workshop with some of the most innovative uses of GIS. MAC URISA is a volunteer organization made up of government and private individuals who provide quality educational programs to the planner and other who use GIS. This is the first time that APA-NJ has co-sponsored this annual workshop and are applying for CM credits for most of the sessions that will be held.
"Planning the Urban Forest" is a hands-on training workshop for professional planners on integrating best practices in urban forest protection and development into the planning process. It will introduce participants to concepts of the urban forest and how planners and allied professionals can quantify its benefits in social, environmental, economic, and other terms.
In today’s economic times, it is vital for communities to focus on redeveloping sites that can add value, fit into the community, and can be implemented. The speakers will present a variety of project types that address the following key details of a successful redevelopment project. Â
This course will cover general exam topics including the State Plan, environmental regulations, affordable housing, Planning Board and Board of Adjustment activities, MLUL, regional planning entities, and other material relative to the PP Exam. Email for more information!
Join Michele Alonso, Acting Historic Preservation Officer and Planner for the City of Newark, and Ulana Zakalak, President of Zakalak Restoration Arts, a historic preservation specialist who has been working in Newark for 25 years, as we use downtown Newark's rich building vocabulary as a primer for historic commercial architecture.
APA-NJ and the Young Planners Group are proud to offer a intensive 4-weekend course aimed at getting you ready for the November 2010 exam. This course will feature topics likely to be addressed in the exam and will be led by a variety of well-respected planning professionals and lecturers practicing or teaching in NJ. Email for more information!
The conference will focus on how to plan healthy communities, and how to improve children's health and development by improving the built environment.
Complete Streets are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users - pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities. Instituting a complete streets policy ensures that agencies routinely design and maintain the entire right of way to enable safe access for anyone who may use it.
This webcast will discuss the uses of and limitations on development incentive agreements applicable to various redevelopment mechanisms (tax increment financing, special taxing districts, tax abatement etc.) and practical aspects of redevelopment project financing and implementation.
APA-NJ and the Young Planners Group are proud to offer a intensive 4-weekend course aimed at getting you ready for the November 2010 exam. This course will feature topics likely to be addressed in the exam and will be led by a variety of well-respected planning professionals and lecturers practicing or teaching in NJ. Email for more information!
We are pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Urban Developer's Night will be held Monday, October 25, 2010 at 5:00 PM at the Robert Treat Hotel, Newark, NJ. Last year we had over 30 display tables and over 250 attendees.
PlanSmart NJ honors key players with the C. McKim Norton Community Development Award, the Van Zandt Williams, Jr. Community Involvement Award, and the Awards for Economic, Environmental, Resource Efficiency, and Regional Equity Achievement.
This program describes the crossover between Conservation Design and the New Urbanism, showing how they can be blended. In areas served by public water and sewer, conservation design techniques can be readily combined with TND principles to create walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods, often involving infill projects and incremental growth around the community's outer edges.
View the Flyer:Â http://policy.rutgers.edu/news/events/CandeubLecture10-28-10-LR.pdf
Affordable Housing Strategies discusses policy considerations and the political and financial challenges that confront developers of housing for individuals and families earning less than 80% of the area median income (AMI).
This course will familiarize participants with the basic elements of planning: principles of planning, the comprehensive plan, plan adoption and specific plans. Participants will learn how planning is practiced in the United States, and explore how to apply the concepts in their communities.
Contextual site analysis is a pre-design research activity which focuses on the existing, imminent and potential conditions on and around a project site. It is, in a sense, an inventory of all the pressures, forces and situations and their interactions at the property where our project will be built.
Business Development for Planners is an introductory class that will provide planners that are new to consulting - or agency planners that want to learn the overall business development process - tools and techniques to build their business development skills, identify potential opportunities, and pursue business opportunities.
Join us on November 3 for a Fall MIT DUSP Alumni Reception and Open House event for alumni and prospective students in New York City. Come to hear current trends in Planning, Design, and Development of NYC Schools from DUSP Alumna Sharon Greenberger (MCP '93) and Department Head Amy Glasmeier. Meet and mingle with NYC-area colleagues, classmates, and old friends.
Join us for the 2010 NJ Planning Conference!
ULI NNJ cordially invites you to participate in an interactive half-day conference. The program designed to showcase excellence in the design and development of K-12 projects. The program will consist of presentations and discourse about specific projects and critical issues relevant to successful K-12 facilities.
Join us following the conference for an After Party at Tumulty's!
At the NJPO Days of Planning during the NJ State League of Municipalities Conference, several sessions will gain credit toward CM. Registration with NJPO covers all approved sessions over the three day schedule. For more information, visit www.njpo.org or call 908.412.9592
This program will provide technical guidance, direction, and resources for use by Engineers, Architects, Landscape Architects, and Planners when preparing green infrastructure solutions. The training will include discussions on site constraints, design strategies, materials and construction techniques, cost analyses, and regulatory requirements.
In many places Community Based Organizations (CBO) are on the ground running on their own without support and/or coordination with local government. CBO's are often so focused on the funding necessary to support those vulnerable populations they serve that their interaction with planning at the comprehensive level in consultation with local governments is many times set-aside.
The purpose of these awards is to recognize leadership in public policy and achievement of the full scope of the development process: design, planning, community development and involvement, construction, economic viability, marketing, management and sustainability.
Instructor:Â L. Nicolas Ronderos is Senior Planner for Community Development at Regional Plan Association. His work focuses on the interrelation between transportation, land use and real estate.
In this course, learners will serve as a consulting team to leaders of a community engaged in arts-based community or economic development. Learners will assess the challenges faced by the client, provide a leadership diagnosis, and offer recommendations to help civic or cultural leaders in the community be more effective.
Learners in this course will gain mastery over the fundamentals of urban design. In this interactive course, learners will use a variety of tools to learn urban design vocabulary, understand key concepts, and the ability to analyze and evaluate design strategies.
This course combines the best elements of the two Writing Studios. Part 1 focuses on short forms, such as emails and memos. Part 2 focuses on plans and projects. This course will be offered in an innovative way: through our standard BOCEP online format and through web conferences.
This course helps students understand and work with one of the most basic tools of housing development: market analyses. This course explores content, methods, techniques, information sources, and presentation styles.
Co-sponsored by the American Planning Association – NJ Chapter and Drew University, this course explores the particular challenge of preserving historic resources in New Jersey’s urban areas in the face of development pressure, the high cost of adaptive reuse, the unintended effects of public policies, and the low number of traditional historic-preservation stakeholders.
Learners in this course will gain mastery over the fundamentals of urban design. In this interactive course, learners will use a variety of tools to learn urban design vocabulary, understand key concepts, and the ability to analyze and evaluate design strategies.
The Future City Competition is a part of the National Engineers Week activities; the program was developed for seventh and eighth grade students to help them discover and foster interests in math, science and engineering. The team that wins the regional competition each year receives an all-expense paid trip to the national finals in Washington, DC in February.
Join us to learn about the past 25 years at HANDS from Patrick Morrissy, Executive Director and Founder, and for the launch of The Legacy Project. In an on-stage interview, Patrick Morrissy will answer questions about his tireless dedication to the work of preserving and revitalizing our neighborhoods—from tenant organizing to rehabbing vacant properties to comprehensive neighborhood planning. There will be time for Q&A from the audience so get your questions ready.
This edition of the 12 year old New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Downtown Revitalization and Management Institute will focus on Organization challenges facing every Main Street community-- making do with declining revenue from local government and other sources, while at the same time looking for new revenue opportunities.
The Internet has allowed a new ease in citizen communication and engagement. This citizen input has materialized through the Internet and more specifically through e-mail, blogs, interactive websites, U Tube, My Space, Facebook, and now Twitter. Most people’s cell phones are now powerful tools for communicating with each other. However, the amount of information which goes out via these tools on a daily basis is somewhat overwhelming and seems hard to get a handle on.
Description Come join members of the YPG in discussing future programs and activities! All ideas are welcome!