AICP Certification Maintenance Credit:  2012 Planning Law Review

PA Chapter of APA, Lehigh Valley section will be holding Economics of Stadium Development. Learn about the economic impacts of the development of Coca Cola Park, Home of the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs.

DVRPC’s Strategies for Older Suburbs Roundtable Series provides a means for networking and exchanging ideas with similar organizations and municipalities that are encountering similar challenges in their community. The first roundtable discussion of FY 2013 will feature presentations in the morning followed by a peer discussion in the afternoon.

The workshop will debunk the myth that PA planning law requires plans to be organized by functional chapters – land use plan, housing plan, etc.  It will suggest that work sessions and plan chapters be built around a community's priority issues – whether revitalizing downtown, fixing a problem road corridor, becoming more walkable, or capitalizing on local history.  The session will suggest creating detailed action plans, organizing implementation teams, and making plan implementation part of elected officials' regular business BEFORE the plan is finished.

The workshop will debunk the myth that PA planning law requires plans to be organized by functional chapters – land use plan, housing plan, etc.  It will suggest that work sessions and plan chapters be built around a community's priority issues – whether revitalizing downtown, fixing a problem road corridor, becoming more walkable, or capitalizing on local history.  The session will suggest creating detailed action plans, organizing implementation teams, and making plan implementation part of elected officials' regular business BEFORE the plan is finished.

While parking is not always the most loved of topics, it is a consideration during almost all planning projects and often times plays a key role in influencing the planning outcomes.  This session will explore a diverse range of topics related to parking, ranging from parking management, financing, and analysis to the relationship between parking, smart growth, and redevelopment.

3.0 CMs approved

The workshop will debunk the myth that PA planning law requires plans to be organized by functional chapters – land use plan, housing plan, etc.  It will suggest that work sessions and plan chapters be built around a community's priority issues – whether revitalizing downtown, fixing a problem road corridor, becoming more walkable, or capitalizing on local history.  The session will suggest creating detailed action plans, organizing implementation teams, and making plan implementation part of elected officials' regular business BEFORE the plan is finished.

The workshop will debunk the myth that PA planning law requires plans to be organized by functional chapters – land use plan, housing plan, etc.  It will suggest that work sessions and plan chapters be built around a community's priority issues – whether revitalizing downtown, fixing a problem road corridor, becoming more walkable, or capitalizing on local history.  The session will suggest creating detailed action plans, organizing implementation teams, and making plan implementation part of elected officials' regular business BEFORE the plan is finished.

Planning Mistakes: Assessing, Learning, Adapting
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
3:30-5:30PM
Event Location: Gloucester County Planning Commission, NJ
Presented by DVRPC Municipal Outreach Program
Free event.
To register, visit www.dvrpc.ticketleap.org

1.5 CM credits

What you don’t know about “Right to Know” will give today’s planner a good understand of the municipal responsibilities and nuances of the ACT to improve our direct contact and correspondence practices with municipal entities and clients.

"Charting a Course - Balancing Opportunity and Environment"

This two-day course on the redevelopment planning process will provide a broader understanding of the crucial issues, steps and challenges associated with the New Jersey's Local Redevelopment and Housing Law (LRHL). (This course is pending 12 CM and 12 CLE Credits)

Participate in a comprehensive review of the assessment that take place prior to the acquisition or development of commercial property. Learn how to conduct analysis on various real estate development projects to identify the magnitude of the risk, and based on that assessment, make the decision to move forward or not with the development project. (This course qualifies for 8 CM and 12 CLE Credits)

Ethics and Food Systems Planning
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
3:30-5:30PM
Event Location: Chester County Planning Commission, West Chester, PA
Presented by DVRPC Municipal Outreach Program
Free event.
To register, visit www.dvrpc.ticketleap.org

DVSGA "American Dream or American Nightmare: Housing after the Great Recession"

Generations of Americans in the 20th century moved out of cities, seeking more land, space, and privacy. Since the Second World War, every prior downturn was followed by a swift uptick and resumption of growth, satisfying our social norms of "success" and fueling our primary source of savings. Are we experiencing a long pause from this virtuous cycle or the beginning of a "new normal?" Please join our panel of nationally renowned housing experts discuss the future of housing and how it relates to Smart Growth.

Zoning For Small Scale Businesses
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
3:30-5:30PM
Event Location: Doylestown Borough Hall, Doylestown, PA (Bucks County)
Presented by DVRPC Municipal Outreach Program
Free event.
To register, visit www.dvrpc.ticketleap.org

1.5 CM credits

PennDOT’s new handbook on “Improving Connectivity and System Function through Local Planning” provides guidance to municipalities on how to enhance vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian connectivity. This training offers an overview of the handbook and includes strategies to effectively regulate and manage a connected transportation network within a community including a review of connectivity index calculations and model ordinance language.

This workshop is at the Ferguson Township Municipal Building, State College.  You will receive an email confirmation approximately one week before the workshop.  Registration begins at 9:30 a.m.; the workshop is from 10:00 - 12:00.

PennDOT’s new handbook on “Improving Connectivity and System Function through Local Planning” provides guidance to municipalities on how to enhance vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian connectivity. This training offers an overview of the handbook and includes strategies to effectively regulate and manage a connected transportation network within a community including a review of connectivity index calculations and model ordinance language.

This workshop is at the Giant Food Store-Community Room, Harrisburg.  You will receive an email confirmation approximately one week before the workshop.  Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.; the workshop is from 9:00 - 11:00.

Fracking and Resource Extraction and Community Planning
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
3:30-5:30PM
Event Location: DVRPC, 190 N. Independence Mall West, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Presented by DVRPC Municipal Outreach Program
Free event.
To register, visit www.dvrpc.ticketleap.org

1.5 CM credits

PennDOT’s new handbook on “Improving Connectivity and System Function through Local Planning” provides guidance to municipalities on how to enhance vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian connectivity. This training offers an overview of the handbook and includes strategies to effectively regulate and manage a connected transportation network within a community including a review of connectivity index calculations and model ordinance language.

This workshop is at the Monroe County Conservation District, Stroudsburg.  You will receive an email confirmation approximately one week before the workshop.  Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.; the workshop is from 9:00 – 11:00.

PennDOT’s new handbook on “Improving Connectivity and System Function through Local Planning” provides guidance to municipalities on how to enhance vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian connectivity. This training offers an overview of the handbook and includes strategies to effectively regulate and manage a connected transportation network within a community including a review of connectivity index calculations   …

PennDOT’s new handbook on “Improving Connectivity and System Function through Local Planning” provides guidance to municipalities on how to enhance vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian connectivity. This training offers an overview of the handbook and includes strategies to effectively regulate and manage a connected transportation network within a community including a review of connectivity index calculations and model ordinance language.

This workshop is at the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission, Allentown.  You will receive an email confirmation approximately one week before the workshop.  Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.; the workshop is from 9:00 – 11:00.

PennDOT’s new handbook on “Improving Connectivity and System Function through Local Planning” provides guidance to municipalities on how to enhance vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian connectivity. This training offers an overview of the handbook and includes strategies to effectively regulate and manage a connected transportation network within a community including a review of connectivity index calculations and model ordinance language.

This workshop is at the Training & Workforce Development Center at LindenPointe, Hermitage.  You will receive an email confirmation approximately one week before the workshop.  Registration begins at 9:30 a.m.; the workshop is from 10:00 – 12:00.

Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance (DVSGA) presents “Community Marketplace: Investing in the Delaware Valley’s Downtowns”

Finding the right development properties and partners is a real challenge. The Community Marketplace will highlight 14 transit-oriented communities with redevelopment opportunities. Join builders, developers, investors, realtors, architects, engineers and economic development professionals to learn about these great places and how to leverage the right partnerships for success.

IMPROVING CONNECTIVITY IN WEXFORD HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 10AM-NOON.

PennDOT’s new handbook on “Improving Connectivity and System Function through Local Planning” provides guidance to municipalities on how to enhance vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian connectivity. This training offers an overview of the handbook and includes strategies to effectively regulate and manage a connected transportation network within a community including a review of connectivity index calculations and model ordinance language.

Begin with an unrivaled professional development program. Mix in unparalleled networking opportunities. Top it all off with unmatched restaurants, jazz clubs, and sights. Don't miss out; join APA in Chicago April 13-17, 2013.  For more information

PennDOT’s new handbook on “Improving Connectivity and System Function through Local Planning” provides guidance to municipalities on how to enhance vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian connectivity. This training offers an overview of the handbook and includes strategies to effectively regulate and manage a connected transportation network within a community including a review of connectivity index calculations and model ordinance language.

The workshop is at the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, Philadelphia.  You will receive an email confirmation approximately one week before the workshop.  Registration begins at 1:30 p.m.; the workshop is from 2:00 – 4:00.

You can't learn about what makes a Vibrant Street work in a conference room. From speaker sessions in the Row's Arts Theater to walking tours to dining in Bethesda's restaurants and wine bar, this Learning Lab will send you home with an authentic Vibrant Street experience. More importantly, you will return to your community with an ACTION PLAN you have crafted with our Vibrant Streets specialists.

This workshop will provide participants with an understanding of the legal connection between Comprehensive Plans and the PA Municipalities Planning Code. Matthew J. Creme, Jr., Esq. will cover all of the applicable laws that are noted in Article III, Section 301(a)(6) which require municipalities to plan for the protection of natural and historic resources. Other   …

This planning institute provides planners, policy makers and other stakeholders with the tools to incorporate an aging perspective in community planning thereby creating livable communities that support people of all ages.

Question Conventional thinking about preparing comprehensive plans and learn key ingredients to plan content and process that will create a successful comprehensive plan more likely to be implemented and provoke action and results.  With guest speaker: Denny Puko, Planning Program ManagerPA DCED Governor's Center for Local Government Services Approved for 1.5 CM creditsRegistration fee: $25.00RSVP   …

Southwestern Pennsylvania municipalities can capitalize on the presence of transit in their communities. How does your community ATTRACT investment to help make viable and sustain transit INVESTMENT? What are the factors that drive successful transit oriented developments? How can you best utilize your community’s current assets to make TOD a reality? Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission’s Future Investments in TOD (FIT) tool is designed to help figure it out.

Today, it’s too risky NOT to consider hazard mitigation and disaster resiliency, especially with hazard mitigation being an essential component of site planning, comprehensive planning, stormwater management and numerous other planning practices.  Building resilient communities is not just a product of emergency management and emergency services personnel, but also a responsibility of planners as they assist communities with comprehensive planning and development of and updates to zoning and subdivision and land development ordinances. 

A land bank is (very likely) coming to Philadelphia. Learn all about what a land bank is and how it will change vacant land planning, and hear it from the people who are creating, implementing and advocating for the new legislation. Everything you need to know about Philadelphia’s land bank—before it happens, from the people   …

Today, it’s too risky NOT to consider hazard mitigation and disaster resiliency, especially with hazard mitigation being an essential component of site planning, comprehensive planning, stormwater management and numerous other planning practices.  Building resilient communities is not just a product of emergency management and emergency services personnel, but also a responsibility of planners as they assist communities with comprehensive planning and development of and updates to zoning and subdivision and land development ordinances. 

Today, it’s too risky NOT to consider hazard mitigation and disaster resiliency, especially with hazard mitigation being an essential component of site planning, comprehensive planning, stormwater management and numerous other planning practices.  Building resilient communities is not just a product of emergency management and emergency services personnel, but also a responsibility of planners as they assist communities with comprehensive planning and development of and updates to zoning and subdivision and land development ordinances. 

Today, it’s too risky NOT to consider hazard mitigation and disaster resiliency, especially with hazard mitigation being an essential component of site planning, comprehensive planning, stormwater management and numerous other planning practices.  Building resilient communities is not just a product of emergency management and emergency services personnel, but also a responsibility of planners as they assist communities with comprehensive planning and development of and updates to zoning and subdivision and land development ordinances. 

The conference will be held at the Newark Museum. The conference is co-hosted by the NJ Historic Trust, NJ Historic Commission, NJ Historic Preservation Office, and the Common Wealth of New Jersey.
The conference is pleased to welcome keynote speaker Tony Hiss who will begin by exploring how residents, workers and visitors experience place.

Today, it’s too risky NOT to consider hazard mitigation and disaster resiliency, especially with hazard mitigation being an essential component of site planning, comprehensive planning, stormwater management and numerous other planning practices.  Building resilient communities is not just a product of emergency management and emergency services personnel, but also a responsibility of planners as they assist communities with comprehensive planning and development of and updates to zoning and subdivision and land development ordinances. 

In many cases, sharing services allows municipalities to decrease both the cost and the complexity of the services they provide to their constituents while providing a higher level of service overall.

DVRPC is hosting an event – Voices of the Creative Economy – Why Does Place Matter to Creative Businesses? – on Wednesday, June 12th at 9:00am.  This event may be eligible for up to 2CM, credits pending approval. In addition to presentations by Moira Baylson of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy   …

Learn about planning for our future transportation system. The program include case studies related to all electronic tolling systems, high-occupancy toll lanes, connected vehicles, and new public transit fare payment technologies.

The program will include an overview of the master plan and status of the site’s current redevelopment including the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem and the Steel Stacks Arts Quest Campus. 

The Pennsylvania Municipal Planning Education Institute will hold a Train-the-Trainer program to prepare new instructors to teach The Course in Zoning Administration.  The training is an intensive two-day program, June 21-22, 2013.