48th IMCL Conference on Planning Healthy & Child-Friendly Communities
The conference will focus on how to plan healthy communities, and how to improve children's health and development by improving the built environment.
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.