Save the date for Regional Planning Summit hosted by PlanSmart NJ.

New Jersey Future’s annual Redevelopment Forum is a day-long event that brings together more than 500 local and state officials, citizen activists, development professionals, architects, attorneys, planners, business leaders and students. Come learn best practices, share innovative ideas, and make our state a better place for tomorrow.

Register Now and join us April 21-24 in New Orleans! With hundreds of sessions and cutting-edge presentations on offer, you can dig deeper into your specialty or explore new topics. Early bird rates end on February 22nd - don't miss this opportunity!

Please join New Jersey Future on June 6 to celebrate the best in development and redevelopment projects around the state that embrace sustainable growth and environmental preservation. The ceremony will be held at 15 Washington Street, a building with a rich history connected to Newark’s past.

APA-New Jersey is proud to support the NJ History and Historic Preservation conference, an annual state-wide educational and networking opportunity for history and historic preservation professionals and allied professions. Register now, CM credits have been submitted.

Public engagement is a vital component of any planning project. As online tools become more sophisticated and accessible, planners are starting to use them in greater numbers to help them reach their communities more effectively. But, how do you know which ones to use when and how do you account for all the nuances of projects and locations?

Access to Smart City technologies and applications that high-speed broadband enables has become one of the most critical factors in any community’s economic development, affecting everything from our children’s education, to housing values, enterprise development, and health and welfare services for the poor and elderly. This is especially true in rural America, where access to high-speed broadband underpins any strategy for future economic growth – and is key to overcoming the “digital divide” and economic dislocation that continues to plague many of our small towns and rural communities across the nation.

Save the Date! The Affordable Housing Professionals of New Jersey are excited to once again be hosting a symposium on June 20 at the Metro Top Plaza. Topics include acquiring foreclosed properties, an update on HUD, and extension of controls. Register now a full agenda will be available shortly.

The 2018 New Jersey Sustainability Summit will bring together a unique mix of over 300 diverse participants from the public and private, state and local sectors. This year will highlight state level progress in achieving our collective goals, successful case studies from the ground, our new work in the Gold Star Standard in Water, and more.

As urban populations have grown, the need for sustainable transportation systems is increasingly crucial. Communities must now account for a range of complex factors in their transportation and land-use planning, including mass transit, economic development, livable communities, population density, climate change, alternative energies and more. This webinar explores the concepts behind hind sustainable transportation and provides an overview of successfully applying sustainable transportation principles in Norway. The webinar also covers a program at the University of Washington designed to train planners and engineers to bring a sustainability perspective to all aspects of transportation systems policy and planning.

This workshop is a collaborative effort by the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA), Sustainable Jersey, the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University, the New Jersey Department of Transportation and Together North Jersey. The full day training opportunity is structured in four discrete sections, giving the participants the ability to make the most efficient use of their time by choosing the content that best meets their needs.

Come out & enjoy a great round of golf at this beautiful & scenic course, and better yet – network with friends & colleagues while supporting the USGBC NJ Chapter.

This session will discuss two parallel arterial corridor planning programs the City of La Crosse undertook in 2017 and how each engaged stakeholders, identified goals and integrated transportation design and desired outcomes with triple bottom line targets in land use planning. Learn how the City worked with consulting teams, engaged citizens and businesses to set the stage for improvements and redevelopment on these aging urban strips.

Keeping volunteers engaged is key to any community planning project that relies on the altruistic investment of its residents. In Florida, AARP has had success in turning core volunteers into viable leaders who help educate local communities about the benefits of planning healthier and livable communities for residents of all ages.

Don't miss a full day of learning, networking, and awards! The DNJ Annual Conference hosts industry experts who will provide insights into downtown management best practices, as well as development, business and retail market trends. AICP CM Credits Pending

Work on The Fourth Regional Plan began by talking with and listening to people from across the region. What the Regional Plan Association heard was that people loved where they live, but they had serious concerns. Housing was too expensive. Commutes were long and unreliable. The destruction brought by Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy underscored the region’s vulnerability to climate change and raised questions about how prepared we were for the storms to come.

The NJLM Conference 2018 rolls out inspiration to plan for the future with a theme of Municipalities Leading the Way. Join 16,000 of your peers in municipal government for an invaluable learning experience which yields benefits throughout the year. With 100+ educational sessions and over 700 exhibitors, November 13-15 will be three eventful days to share ideas, products, and solutions!

As we get ready to close the books on 2018 and ring in the New Year, it is time to focus on what’s ahead for the economy and commercial real estate markets. This is especially timely as the Federal Reserve’s more restrictive fiscal policy seems to be creating a glide path toward slower growth and the next recession, as is already evident in a decelerating housing market which is usually a leading indicator.

This session will review the current state of the law governing the placement of wireless facilities, with particular emphasis on recent federal actions on small cells within the rights-of-way.

Female planners only comprise of 22 percent of the FAICP College of Fellows membership within APA. While there is a gradual increase in the number of female nominations and inductees throughout recent years, the current gender disparity of membership is alarming.

New Jersey is struggling with outdated infrastructure, congested roads, and polluted water… but solutions are within reach. Learn about how redevelopment is the best way to achieve efficient, equitable, and sustainable growth in our state at New Jersey Future’s Redevelopment Forum.

Hosted by the New Jersey Builders Association (NJBA), the Atlantic Builders Convention (ABC) is the largest regional building industry tradeshow in the Northeast. With state of the art products, innovative services, and educational programs, ABC inspires attendees with countless ideas to aid in the success of their business. It is also an excellent forum for networking and deal-making amongst peers in the home building industry. The show is one of the pre-eminent events on the East Coast for building industry professionals. Come see the latest products and technologies, meet the manufacturers, network with your cohorts and kick off a busy 2019 on a productive note.

APA's 2019 National Planning Conference is the premier planning event of the year. NPC19 will bring together the hottest topics, the latest tools, and the leading voices with something new to say. With hundreds of sessions and cutting-edge presentations on offer, you can dig deeper into your specialty or explore new topics.

The New Jersey Sustainability Summit is an exceptional one-day forum, annually drawing more than 350 change-makers from across the political, private and public sectors. Participants will engage in thoughtful discussions, share best practices, hail the work that is currently being done in sustainability across the state, and identify areas for future regional collaboration. This year’s Summit will be bigger and better than ever to celebrate Sustainable Jersey’s 10th Anniversary!

AHPNJ is excited to once again be hosting a June Symposium for affordable housing professionals. Continuing education credits are pending with NJAPA, Rutgers, and NJ Supreme Court. Janel Winter, Director, DCA Division of Housing and Community Resources, will be the keynote speaker.

Movements of industry, service, and residents cause substantial change to our cities, towns, and suburbs. The visual impact of the changed physical environment often negates the social characteristics that once uniquely identified a neighborhood or place. Urban design is often used to generate and substantiate citizen buy-in – the promise of a better quality of life, and a higher tax base, But who is the beneficiary of good urban design? Our panelists will discuss how design impacts community development. They will explain how their role in community development leads, and will partner-with the development community to reduce the negative effects of change and gentrification.

Movements of industry, service, and residents cause substantial change to our cities, towns, and suburbs. The visual impact of the changed physical environment often negates the social characteristics that once uniquely identified a neighborhood or place. Urban design is often used to generate and substantiate citizen buy-in – the promise of a better quality of life, and a higher tax base, But who is the beneficiary of good urban design? Our panelists will discuss how design impacts community development. They will explain how their role in community development leads, and will partner-with the development community to reduce the negative effects of change and gentrification.

Floodplain management encompasses a number of systems and resources that share a common denominator – water. Floodwater, stormwater, wastewater, stream flow, groundwater, tides and waves are all interconnected in some way, especially in a small, densely developed, water-rich state like New Jersey. As we experience more frequent and intense storms and precipitation events, and as we continue to develop and redevelop our communities, understanding these interconnections becomes critical to protecting people and property, and maintaining various water systems and infrastructure in the most efficient, cost-effective manner.

The 2019 NJAFM annual conference provides an opportunity to bring people together from various sectors in order to promote multi-objective outcomes, by identifying common ground and overlaps in the respective work that we do. Looking at floodplain management from this perspective allows us to consider the full range of water-related impacts and to leverage our collective energy and resources to achieve common goals.

In this course, the PLANNING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE (PHCI) will lead an introductory training on health impact assessment as a tool to promote community health and equity in planning processes and decision- making. Participants engage in group exercises related to HIA steps, discuss opportunities and challenges to integrating health into planning and policy processes, and learn about new statewide collaborative initiatives and emerging tools to build capacity for health advancement in planning, and to support health in all policies.

The DNJ conference hosts over 100 downtown professionals, real estate experts, designers, developers, lawyers, public officials, and community organizers for this full day of education, networking, and celebration of achievement. 

Join more than 300 state and local decision-makers, practitioners and stakeholders to amplify the importance of addressing New Jersey's water infrastructure, explore innovative solutions and national models, and celebrate the Jersey Water Works collaborative and its members.

Many of our public processes require some form of community outreach and engagement, but do these efforts lead to meaningful community engagement? Yes, we can tick the box to say that we've held the requisite public hearing or placed the public advertisement, has the community been reached?