Organizers of the 2014 Delaware/Maryland Regional Planning Conference, “Planning for Healthy & Sustainable Places,” have extended their search for conference sessions and presentations through February 10. The two-day event, co-sponsored by Nemours, will be held at the Embassy Suites in Newark, Delaware on October 28 and 29, 2014.
Click here to learn more and submit an idea: http://delawareapa.
Happy New Year from Future City Philadelphia! We are pleased to announce a new location for this year’s regional competition – SAP America, 3999 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, PA. Our 41 participating schools are hard at work on their models and presentations and are getting ready for the big event. We need volunteers for the following positions:
PRELIMINARY JUDGE: be a member of a judging team that listens to, asks questions of, and judges the preliminary teams.
Time commitment – Saturday, January 26, 8:00AM – 12:00PM. Preliminary Judges are required to attend a training session if you have not judged before. The training session will be a teleconference at 12pm on1/22.
SPECIAL AWARDS EVALUATOR: talk with teach team’s members to determine which team best meets the criteria of your organization’s special award.
Time commitment – Saturday, January 26, 8:00AM – 12:00PM.
GENERAL VOLUNTEER: help run the competition by volunteering to help with registration, act as a team escort, take photos, update our website, etc.
Time commitment – Saturday, January 26, 8:00AM – 1:00PM. A few volunteers are needed starting at7:00AM and a few more to help during the afternoon.
2014 and new hirings are in full swing!
1) Manager of Corporate and Community Relations – Transportation Management Association of Chester County – Malvern, PA
2) Assistant/Associate Professor – Urban Design and Infrastructure Planning – College of Architecture and Design at New Jersey Institute of Technology – Newark, NJ
3) Block Programs Coordinator – New Kensington CDC – Philadelphia
4) Resident Services Coordinator – New Kensington CDC – Philadelphia
5) Real Estate Development Associate – New Kensington CDC – Philadelphia
6) Director of Communications – AIA Philadelphia – Philadelphia
7) Roots to Re-Entry Project Coordinator – Pennsylvania Horticultural Society – Philadelphia
8) Urban Designer – Lehigh Valley Planning Commission – Allentown, PA
9) Director of Community Planning – Lehigh Valley Planning Commission – Allentown, PA
10) Director of Planning & Zoning – Ferguson Township – State College, PA
11) Urban Design Intern – Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission – Philadelphia
Full descriptions after the jump!
PlanningCamp is an unconference about technology and the future of urban planning.
Join us on February 1st if you’re working at the intersection of technology and the hard effort of making better cities — on the technology side, or the planning side, or a bit of both.
Spend a day in sessions led by your peers, exploring new and old challenges. Whether you’re thinking about the role technology in public involvement, increasing equity, modeling, analysis, community organizing, at local to regional scales, PlanningCamp will be an opportunity to go deep into conversations and form new connections.
The 2014 Pennsylvania Chapter of the APA conference, Innovation from Historic Foundations, will be hosted by APA-PA-SE at the Society Hill Sheraton in Philadelphia. This is the first time the conference will be hosted in Philadelphia in over a decade, so it is an exciting chance to show off our great city. You can register here if you are interested in helping to show off our region to planners statewide.
The January 27 meeting will be at 5:30 pm at the Sheraton Philadelphia Society Hill Hotel (2nd & Walnut) and we will have a chance to view the site. Unfortunately, that means we won’t be able to offer a conference call option for this meeting. See the detailed agenda below for detailed information and to sign up for the google groups. Agenda additions are welcome and can be sent to events@apapase.org
The National Stormwater Center is offering Certified Stormwater Inspector (municipal) training in Pennsylvania. Designed specifically for municipal personnel the course offers training and certification to demonstrate, for the record, that inspectors are qualified. The locations and dates for Pennsylvania are:
Inspectors who take the course learn:
– how to inspect construction, commercial, industrial & municipal activities
– what to inspect
– the limits of their authority
– appropriate demeanor
– appropriate discretion
The PA Chapter is once again holding a spring AICP exam prep session. The prep session is targeted at those who are taking the test in May or November of 2014, and will provide testing tips as well as an overview of material within each content area of the exam. Information will be provided on history, law, theory, plan implementation, functional areas, public participation, social justice, spatial areas and ethics. Resources will be identified to assist attendees with their studies.
The session runs from 9 am – 4 pm in Harrisburg on Saturday March 8th and covers test-taking tips and the content areas. There is ample opportunity for questions. The session is free for Chapter members and $20 for non-PA Chapter. Lunch is NOT included but refreshments and morning/afternoon snack are included.
For more detail and to register, click here.
Get Involved in 2014!
APA PA Southeast Section Council meeting
Thursday, January 9th
5pm (sharp!)
The Reinvestment Fund (TRF)
1700 Market Street, 19th Floor
Please see the attached DRAFT minutes from the last meeting(s) to catch up. If you’d like add something to the agenda or provide materials to distribute in advance of the meeting, please email them to secretary@apapase.org.
In partnership with the Bicycle Coalition and PEC, DVRPC will be hosting three bikeshare webinars in 2014, each worth 1.5 AICP CM credits.
Funding Bikeshare Transit Systems
Wednesday, January 8 | 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. ET
Institutionalizing Bikeshare Transit Systems
Wednesday, February 5 | 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. ET
The Future of Bikeshare Transit Systems
Wednesday, March 5 | 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. ET
Please RSVP to Greg Krykewycz (gkrykewycz@dvrpc.org) if you would like to attend. DVRPC’s address is 190 N. Independence Mall West, 8th Floor Main Conference Room, Philadelphia, PA 19106. The building is on the corner of 6th and Race and says “American College of Physicians” on the front. Directions and parking information is available at http://www.dvrpc.org/
NEW TIME AND REDUCED COST!
Register by January 17th
Registration includes a bound reference guide that has been updated by the panel members Read more
