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!Â
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.Â
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.