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CM Credits Approved for May 22: Land Use Planning Matters: Planning for Disaster Resilient Communities

May 3, 2013 / Susan Elks / Comments Off

The PA Chapter of the American Planning Association and the PA Local Government Training Partnership are cosponsoring training on planning for disaster resilient communities. There are six training sessions statewide, kicking off with a session at the new Chester County Public Safety Training Campus on May 22nd.

As natural and man-made events teach us over and over, 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 session will cover details on creating a hazard mitigation plan as well as review how to incorporate emergency management and emergency services planning in other municipal plans and ordinances. A key concept of the training will be how to ensure that land use and community planners and emergency management personnel/emergency responders are coordinating their efforts.

The training will use Pennsylvania specific case studies and examples to convey relevant information to attendees. The presenters will review tools, resources, and guidance provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency to help you match resources to their challenges. The target audience for this training session includes professional planners and elected officials, municipal staff, emergency management personnel, and citizen planners who are well-versed in planning and seeking advanced information on hazard mitigation planning and emergency management to improve the safety and resiliency of residents and business for current and future hazard risks. There will be ample opportunities for Q&A.

Please see the brochure for details or the PA Chapter website for full details and registration: http://planningpa.org/news/land-use-planning-matters/

Reminder: Renewable Energy PDI on May 8! Registration Deadline Is May 6!

April 29, 2013 / Justin Dula / Comments Off

Interested in creating a renewable energy ordinance for your community?

Register for the 5/8 PDI: Choosing the Renewable Energy Frameworks that Work for Your Community at http://energyframeworks.eventbrite.com/

Join a panel of local experts who will provide an overview of considerations for developing a renewable energy ordinance for solar, small-wind, and geothermal energy systems in Pennsylvania. An overview of Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission’s (DVRPC’s) Renewable Energy Ordinance Frameworks, which include a menu of permissive and restrictive ordinance language options; accompanied by explanatory guidance on the barriers, benefits and cautions for adopting language will be provided. Additionally, panelists will address the key issues surrounding the regulation of each type of renewable energy system at the municipal level.

This session is a part of the 2013 Greenbuild Challenge

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

8:30 (registration & breakfast)
8:45 to 12 noon (program)

Register by Monday May 6, 2013
$25 for APA-PA members & students, $30 for APA members (not PA Chapter), $35 for nonmembers
3 AICP CM Credits pending approval

At the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC), 190 North Independence Mall West – 8th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19106-1520

Webinar option: If you are not able to make it in person, we are working to provide a webinar option at the same price. Simply select “yes” to the “Are you interested in attending this event as a webinar?” question after selecting your ticket price. Webinar log in information will be sent to you by Tuesday May, 7.

Category: Upcoming Events / Tags: certification maintenance, energy, environment and sustainability, events, PDI

Central Section Event: Meeting the Letter and Spirit of the Law – 5.75 CM

April 20, 2013 / APAPA-SE / Comments Off

Central Section Event: Meeting the Letter and Spirit of the Law: Legal Components of Comprehensive Plans | 5.75 CM

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 applicable laws that are required to be followed when completing a municipal, regional or county comprehensive plan will also be covered Community planning documents that impact the development of comprehensive plans and how these plans including recreation plans, sewerage plans, and housing plans can complement each other will also be discussed. In addition, this workshop will discuss the five key components to developing plan content and the process to create a comprehensive plan more likely to be implemented and provoke action and results will be a key topic.

This workshop has been approved for 4.25CM credits and 1.5 Law .

Start: May 2, 2013 8:30 am

End: May 2, 2013 4:15 pm

Organizer: APA PA, Central Section

Venue: Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Community Room

Address: 3899 N. Front Street, Harrisburg, PA, 17110, United States

Registration fee is $40.00 for APA PA members and $45.00 for non members.

For more information and to register for this workshop, click here>>

Category: Upcoming Events / Tags: certification maintenance, events, government, multi-municipal planning, resources

Now Hiring: This Week’s Job Postings

April 20, 2013 / APAPA-SE / Comments Off

Not a huge list this week, but some cool jobs to be found:

1) Technical Services Specialist – Chester County Planning Commission – West Chester, PA

2) Education and Community Development Manager – Esperanza – Philadelphia

3) Planner/Urban Designer – Group Melvin Design – Camden, NJ

4) Special Projects Manager – Pennsylvania Small Business Development Centers – Philadelphia

5) Regional Equity Community Organizer – Building One Pennsylvania – Philadelphia

6) Commercial District Revitalization Manager – Cornerstone West CDC – Wilmington, DE

7) Community Assessment Intern – Lutheran Settlement House – Philadelphia

8) Interns – Larry Weaner Landscape Associates – Glenside, PA

Full descriptions after the jump!

Category: General / Tags: jobs, res

May 29 PDI: Vacant Land Planning in a Land Bank World — 3 CM Credits!

April 20, 2013 / Jeff Barg / Comments Off

What will a land bank mean for vacant land–and for planners? Credit: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

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 who are making it happen.

This session is a part of the 2013 Greenbuild Challenge.

Click here to register!

Wednesday, May 29, 8:45 am – 12 pm

Location:
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
100 N. 20th St., fifth floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103

8:45 (registration & breakfast)
9 am to 12 pm (program)

$25 for APA-PA members & students, $30 for APA members (not PA Chapter), $35 for nonmembers

3 AICP CM Credits pending approval

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And…we’re back!

April 17, 2013 / APAPA-SE / Comments Off

We were having a few technical difficulties that kept us from posting for the last week. Sorry about that. But we’re back in business! All of your great post-APA conference posts coming soon. Thanks for hanging in there with us!

Category: General / Tags: about

May 3: Planning for Livable Communities

April 17, 2013 / Susan Elks / Comments Off

The PA Chapter and Temple University School of Environmental Design are pleased to announce Planning for Livable Communities: Incorporating an Aging Perspective. The one day planning institute will be held May 3, 2013 at the Temple Harrisburg campus. The institute will provide 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. Planners will learn to recognize impediments to the aging population and techniques to avoid and minimize these impediments. The event will address transportation, zoning, development standards, parks and recreation, accessibility, and planning ethics. AICP CM credits are pending approval. Over lunch attendees will be able to review the work of three Temple University Planning Studios that spent the 2013 spring semester focusing on community planning for aging in Lebanon and Montgomery counties. Full registration information and agenda: http://www.ambler.temple.edu/news/planning-institute.htm

Category: Upcoming Events / Tags: certification maintenance, environment and sustainability, events, resources

Philadelphia: A National Leader in Green Infrastructure

April 17, 2013 / APAPA-SE / Comments Off

In recent years the term green infrastructure has become well known to planners. At the municipal and regional scales it refers to a network of natural areas, parks, greenways, and working lands that provides multiple benefits for people and ecosystems. At the local and site scales it refers to a stormwater management approach that mimics natural hydrologic processes. These two definitions come together in the City of Philadelphia’s ground-breaking green infrastructure program, which includes Green City, Clean Waters and two related planning initiatives, GreenPlan Philadelphia and Green 2015.

Category: General / Tags: environment and sustainability, infrastructure, stormwater management

Field Trip!: APA Prez in Bethesda

April 9, 2013 / Susan Elks / Comments Off

Vibrant Streets Learning Lab
April 29 & 30, 2013
Bethesda, MD
6 CMs, $325

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.

Attendees will learn from presenters about current Vibrant Streets best practices and the future of Vibrant Streets around the world, land banking for retail redevelopment, creating a pop-up gallery space through the ArtPlace program, creating a temporary retail district, how communities can collect data through an app called LocalData, how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and more sustainable places, and how a foundation works with a community and the American Sign Museum to create effective and creative district branding.

Mitchell Silver, AICP and current APA President will be one of the instructors for the Learning Lab.

For full details and to register: http://www.vibrantstreets.com/learninglab/

Category: Upcoming Events / Tags: certification maintenance, events, public spaces, resources

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