Updates on the current state affordable housing environment from AHPNJ's Policy Committee Chair and a panel with experts and practitioners on how to use HUD, FHA and Low Income Housing Tax Credits programs for multifamily refinance.
The Building Blocks of a Successful Downtown Retail District – Heather Arnold, Streetsense
What Key Criteria are Retailers Looking for? – Kelly Kost, Downtown Works
The Importance of Parking Management Strategies for Downtown Retail - Timothy Haahs, P.E., AIA, President/CEO, Timothy Haahs & Associates, Inc.
The Car Future Group will conduct an interactive session about how trends in vehicle design and technology will play out on the roadways and policy context of the future. We will present important information about the future of cars design: Shape, weight, size, fuel types and degrees of automation. We will then discuss the future of our infrastructure and how the new vehicles will be used, exploring issues such as roadway and lane design, pricing, insurance and public policy. The audience will see that we are facing a future characterized by opposing trends, and not monolithic solutions.Â
Join ULI NNJ for a spectacular summer walking tour of Hoboken with one of its most influential architects, Dean Marchetto. The tour will begin after meeting at the Gazebo in the Pier A Park and continue to numerous sites to hear accounts of how infill development – Hoboken Style – has been done over the last 30+ years.Â
The NJDEP Waiver Rule allows the NJDEP Commissioner to grant exemptions to certain environmental regulations enforced by NJDEP. Hear speakers representing different perspectives discuss the implications and opportunities of this rule.
Continued economic opportunity in the Meadowlands is contingent on maintaining and improving our transportation network. In this summit, we will review recent system improvements and projects planned and underway, including but not limited to rail service, Bus Rapid Transit, and potential “Rubber Tire Rail” routes that will increase job access and Economic Development. In addition, we will learn how access to both Super Bowl and America Dream is being addressed.
Columbus Planning Division staff will provide an overview of the Urban Commercial Overlay (UCO), a highly successful zoning tool that requires a walkable built environment reflecting the development pattern of late 19th and early 20th century commercial corridors. Since it was established in 1999, a broad array of pedestrian-friendly development has been constructed, including gasoline stations and a major grocery store. The UCO applies design standards that address the location and design of new buildings (and additions to existing buildings), parking lot placement and related development standards without requiring mandatory design review.
The Review Course is expected to 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. Additionally, all students will receive a complimentary copy of the 2010 Complete Guide to Planning in New Jersey.
The Community Leadership Institute, a two day program focused on strategies to address vacant problem properties and revitalizing communities. The Institute is structured to be a low-cost, relatively small gathering where we can have in-depth discussions that prepare participants to return to their locales armed with perspective needed to address the considerable challenges we face.
Our planning careers are pivoted on building communities, both physically and socially. But what about building literary communities? The premise of the CPBC is simple. Every three months, APA-NJ and APA-NYM will choose a different book for membership to read. Our current selection is Crabgrass Frontiers: The Suburbanization of the United States. On the third month of these quarterly cycles, the chapters will organize an in-person meet-up to discuss the featured book at length. Between the time of introduction and meeting-up, CPBC members are encouraged to participate in an online forum to share their ideas in real-time. Our September 2012 meet-up will be held in Jersey City's The Merchant Bar and Restaurant from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.