2024 Annual Conference Presentations

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Final Program

Main Sessions

  • Opening Keynote | Livability Reimagined: An Ecological Approach to Placemaking | 1.00 CM
  • Plenary | Proactive PA: Insights on Planning Related Pending Actions and Legislation | 1.25 CM
  • Pitkin Lecture | Youth Are Not the Future, But the Now | 1.00 CM

Mobile Workshops

  • M1. Connecting Town and Gown… | 1.75 CM
  • M2. Downtown Erie: Making a Comeback | 1.75 CM
  • M3. Tides of Change: Mobilizing the International Coastal… | 1.25 CM
  • M4. Successfully Deploying Gaming Revenue… | 2.50 CM
  • M5. Help Us Create Safer Streets in Erie | 2.50 CM
  • M6. Planning for Bluff Recession Strategies… | 1.25 CM

Concurrently Session A

  • A1. Climate Change Adaption Planning… | 1.00 CM Sustainability/Resilience (view presentation)
  • A2. BUILDing Capacity for Erie Neighborhood… | 1.00 CM Equity (view presentation)
  • A3. Implementing On-demand Microtransit… | 1.00 CM
  • A4. Closing the Digital Divide: Broadband Expansion | 1.00 CM (view presentation)
  • A5. Building Together: Constructing Futures with Erie County… | 1.00 CM

Concurrently Session B

  • B1. Ethics Jeopardy | 1.25 CM Ethics
  • B2. House Undivided: Bringing Stakeholders… | 1.25 CM
  • B3. Innovative Funding Strategies for Critical Infrastructure…| 1.25 CM (view presentation)
  • B4. Supporting Communities: Bridging the Gap… | 1.25 CM (view presentation)
  • B5. Infinite Erie: A Model for Collective Impact | 1.25 CM Equity (view presentation)

Concurrently Session C

  • C1. Is Your Community Online… | 0.75 CM Equity (view presentation)
  • C2. Collaborative Approaches to Affordable Housing… | 0.75 CM
  • C3. Outdoor Recreation & Pennsylvania Economic… | 0.75 CM
  • C4. Transforming Communities: Tackling Blight… | 0.75 CM (view presentation)
  • C5. Assessing the Economic Impact of Trails… | 0.75 CM (view presentation)
  • C6. Fast Fun Fervent

Concurrently Session D

  • D1. Grow Your Own Way: Planning & Land Use Tools… | 1.00 CM
  • D2. Designated Stop…Bringing Mobility… | 1.00 CM (view presentation)
  • D3. Public Placemaking: Building Spaces for Community Life | 1.00 CM (view presentation)
  • D4. Using GIS to Support State College’s Zoning Ordinance… | 1.00 CM
  • D5. Bridging Communities: Advancing Erie Bayfront Parkway | 1.00 CM
  • D6. University in our Backyard… | 1.00 CM

Concurrently Session E

  • E1. Pennsylvania Land Use Law Update… | 1.25 CM Law (view presentation)
  • E2. Low-Cost Strategies for Public Engagement… | 1.25 CM
  • E3. Planning for Redevelopment Prior to Decline… | 1.25 CM
  • E4. Crawford Inspired: Leading Community Change… | 1.25 CM
  • E5. Managing Conflict Continued… | 1.25 CM
  • E6. So…You Want to Be a Planner | 1.25 CM

Concurrently Session F

  • F1. Shakespearean Ethics Skits… | 1.00 CM Ethics
  • F2. Linking Erie’s Bayfront to Presque Isle State Park… | 1.00 CM (view presentation)
  • F3. Active Transportation Safety on Local Rural Roads | 1.00 CM
  • F4. Blowing Up Your Boards and Other Bold Ideas… | 1.00 CM (view presentation)
  • F5. How to Activate to Outdoor Economy… | 1.00 CM
  • F6. Transforming Blighted Properties Into an Urban Greenway… | 1.00 CM

Concurrently Session G

Concurrently Session H

  • H1. Dancing with Denizens of the Ideological Lagoons… | 1.00 CM Equity
  • H2. Thumbs Up for Community Planning… | 1.00 CM
  • H3. Charged Up: Analyzing the Future of EV Charging… | 1.00 CM
  • H4. Investing in Downtown Redevelopment… | 1.00 CM (view presentation)
  • H5. It’s More Than Elementary, Customizing Outreach for Youth | 1.00 CM