Online Webinar

While individual planners strive to attain the high ethical standards of the AICP Code of Ethics, the office environment is certainly a contributing factor to ethical practice. Learn from Carol Barrett, FAICP as she shares helpful advise on how to work to create and sustain an ethical office environment. She will explore common ethical challenges in the office and approaches to resolve these ethical conflicts.

In the last two decades, communities across the nation have come to value bicycle and pedestrian facilities – sidewalks, bike lanes, shared use paths – as significant community assets. Bicycle and pedestrian facilities provide direct benefits to residents and employees, connecting people to local destinations and increasing access to recreational 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.