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Thank you for coming to the Annual Conference, we will see you next year in State College.
Presentations are below:
Main Sessions
- Opening Keynote: Planning for Place and People | 1.25 CM
- Pitkin Lecture: Growing Philadelphia’s Future at 30th Street Station | 1.00 CM (view presentation)
Mobile Workshops
- M1. Winery & Brewery Tour: Highlights of Local Agricultural Practices and Products | 3.00 CM
- M3. Transforming a Steel Town with Arts and Culture | 3.50 CM
- M4. Easton Revitalization | 3.50 CM
- M6. Allentown Historic Preservation | 3.00 CM
- M8. Allentown’s Rejuvenated Downtown Core | 1.50 CM
Concurrent Sessions A
- A1. Legal Updates | 1.50 CM Law (view handout)
- A2. Navigating the Revised Code of Ethics | 1.50 CM Ethics (view presentation) (view handout) (view reference guide)
- A3. Water Design in Urban Environments: Planning and Implementing Green Stormwater Infrastructure | 1.50 CM (view presentation)
- A4. Company’s Coming: Taxation, Zoning, & Licensing for Short-Term Residential Rentals | 1.50 CM (view presentation)
Concurrent Sessions B
- B1. How Community Planning is Being Shaped by MS4 Regulations and Things You Should Consider Moving Forward | 1.25 CM (view presentation)
- B2. Green and Sustainable Parking Lots: Making Them More Than Paved Areas to Park Your Car | 1.25 CM
- B3. Getting Out From Behind the Wheel: Promoting Walkability at the Local Level | 1.25 CM
- B4. A Municipal Approach to Helping Communities Activate Vacant Land | 1.25 CM (view presentation)
- B5. The Story of the Circuit: Connecting the Dots to Build a Metropolitan-wide 750-Mile Multi-Use Trail Network | 1.25 CM (view presentation)
- B6. If You Build It, How Will They Come? | 1.25 CM
Concurrent Sessions C
- C1. Upside Allentown: A Community-Based Neighborhood Improvement Strategy | 1.25 CM (view presentation) (view handout)
- C2. Small Change/Big Impact: How Storefront Facade Improvements Can Revive Commercial Corridors | 1.25 CM (view presentation 1) (view presentation 2) (view presentation 3)
- C3. Entrepreneurship & Innovation Driving Economic Development in South Bethlehem | 1.25 CM (view presentation)
- C4. Our Children, Our Neighborhoods: Understanding the Neighborhood Impacts of Market-based School Reforms | 1.25 CM
- C5. Utilizing Planning Methods in the Public Works Department | 1.25 CM
- C6. Fast-Fun-Fervent: Transportation | 1.25 CM
Concurrent Sessions D
- D1. Revisioning Underutilized Assets + Planning Agency/Academic Partnerships | 1.50 CM (view presentation)
- D2. Implementing MS4: Models of Regional Collaboration for Creative, Cost-Effective Compliance | 1.50 CM (view presentation)
- D3. Confessions of a Wireless Communications Facility Convert | 1.50 CM Law
- D4. Finding Common Ground Amid the Changing Tide: Challenges and Successes in Maintaining Watershed Partnerships Through a Long Term Planning and Political Process | 1.50 CM (view presentation)
- D5. Creating a More Efficient Freight Network: Challenges and Opportunities | 1.50 CM (view presentation) (view handout 1) (view handout 2)
- D6. Fast-Fun-Fervent: Community and Economic Development | 1.50 CM
- Data Driven Place (view presentation)
- A Challenge to Planners: Streamline the Development Review Process (view presentation)
- Preserving Natural Greenways in a Community: The Upper Salford Township Greenway Guidebook (view presentation)
Concurrent Sessions E
- E1. Fiscal Impact Analysis: New Methods, New Data and Best Practices | 1.25 CM
- E2. Instituting Reuse: Achieving Successful Adaptive Reuse of Institutional Properties | 1.25 CM (view presentation 1) (view presentation 2)
- E3. Market Based Incentives for Smart Growth | 1.25 CM
- E4. Reinventing the Suburban Office Park: Planning and Zoning for Tomorrow’s Market | 1.25 CM
- E5. Is AICP Certification for You? (view presentation)
- E6. Providing Bike Facilities for the Strong and Fearless and Recreational Riders | 1.25 CM
Concurrent Sessions F
- F1. The Riverfront Plan: A Shared Vision for a Shared Riverfront | 1.50 CM
- F2. GIS and Land-Use Decision Making | 1.50 CM
- F3. Better Buses Benefit Pennsylvania’s Cities | 1.50 CM (view presentation)
- F4. Plan Now or Pay Later: Integrating Hazard Mitigation and Comprehensive Planning for More Resilient Communities | 1.50 CM (view presentation) (view handout 1) (view handout 2) (view handout 3)
- F5. SteelStacks Campus: The Transformation of the Bethlehem Steel Site into an Arts and Cultural Campus | 1.50 CM (view presentation)
- F6. Under Pressure – Pipelines and People: How to Get the Information You Need to Understand and Manage Pipelines | 1.50 CM (view presentation) (Pipeline Information Center Resources)
Concurrent Sessions G
- G1. Starting a Local Food Revolution: The Story of the Lehigh Valley | 1.50 CM
- G2. The Implementable Comprehensive Plan Revisited | 1.50 CM (view presentation) (view handout 1) (view handout 2)
- G3. Lehigh Valley Return on Environment Implementation | 1.50 CM (view presentation)
- G4. Beyond Codes: Fair Housing + Inclusionary Zoning | 1.50 CM Ethics
- G5. Zoning Hearing Board Testimony Tips, Tricks and War Stories | 1.50 CM Law (view presentation)
- G6. WALKLV: Sidewalk and Crosswalk Inventory | 1.50 CM