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National APA Conference

Hyatt Regency Chicago 151 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL, United States

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   

Improving Connectivity and System Function through Local Planning | 2 CMs pending approval

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.

$25

Vibrant Streets Learning Lab | 6 CM

Bethesda Row Bethesda , MD, United States

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.

APA PA Event: Planning for Livable Communities | 6.75 CM

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.

LV Section Event: Creating an Implementable Comprehensive Plan | 1.5 CM

BrewWorks 812 W Hamilton St, Allentown, PA, United States

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   

TOD: Maximizing Opportunities in Your Community | 5 CM

UPMC McKeesport

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.

APA PA Event: Land Use Planning Matters | 3 CM

Chester County Public Safety Training Campus 137 Modena Road, Coatesville , PA, United States

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. 

$30.00

SE Section Event: Vacant Land Planning in a Land Bank World

Pennsylvania Horticulatural Society 100 N. 20th St., Fifth Floor, Phildelphia, PA, United States

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   

APA PA Event: Land Use Planning Matters | 3 CM

Monroe County Public Safety Center 100 Gypsum Road, Stroudsburg, PA, United States

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. 

$30.00

APA PA Event: Land Use Planning Matters | 3 CM

Township of Upper St. Clair 1551 Mayview Road, Upper St. Clair, PA, United States

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. 

$30.00

APA PA Event: Land Use Planning Matters | 3 CM

Franklin Industrial & Commercial Development Authority (FICDA Building) 191 Howard Street, Franklin, PA, United States

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. 

$30.00

Enriching Place

Newark Museum

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.

APA PA Event: Land Use Planning Matters | 3 CM

Old Lycoming Fire Hall 1600 Dewey Ave, Williamsport, PA, United States

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. 

$30.00

Implementing Shared Services: Best Practices and Case Studies | 2.5 CM

Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission 190 N Independence Mall West, 8th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, United States

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.

Free

Voices of the Creative Economy: Why Does Place Matter to Creative Businesses?

Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission 190 N Independence Mall West, 8th Floor, Philadelphia, PA, United States

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   

Transportation of the Future

Sheraton Great Valley 707 Lancaster Ave, Frazer, PA, United States

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.

PMPEI: Train the Trainer Program

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.

2013 Planning Law Review

Montgomery County Planning Commission 425 Swede St, Norristown, PA, United States

2013 Planning Law Review
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
3:30-5:30PM
Event Location: Montgomery County Planning Commission
Presented by DVRPC Municipal Outreach Program
Free event.
To register, visit www.dvrpc.ticketleap.org

1.5 CM Law credits

Free

Statewide Conference on Heritage

William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Place, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

The annual Statewide Conference on Heritage will be held at the historic William Penn Hotel in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  The conference will begin on Tuesday, July 16th