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
May 3: Planning for Livable Communities
Philadelphia: A National Leader in Green Infrastructure
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.
Field Trip!: APA Prez in Bethesda
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/
Now Hiring: This Week’s Job Postings
Seems the job listings are coming fast and furious now that spring is finally here:
1) Development Coordinator – Bartram’s Garden – Philadelphia
2) Benefits Budget Analyst – SEPTA – Philadelphia
3) Executive Director – Lehigh Valley Planning Commission – Allentown, PA
4) Development Associate – Congreso – Philadelphia
5) Get Healthy Philly Healthy Supermarkets Coordinator – Health Commissioner’s Office, Philadelphia Department of Public Health – Philadelphia
6) Project Analyst – Transportation Resource Associates – Philadelphia
7) Senior Project Architect, Facilities Engineering – SEPTA – Philadelphia
8) Program Analyst, Operating Budgets – SEPTA – Philadelphia
9) Development Associate – RPM – Montclair, NJ
10) Energy & Climate Change Intern – Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission – Philadelphia
11) Comprehensive Planner – Adams County Office of Planning and Development – Gettysburg, PA
12) Economic Development Specialist – Adams County Office of Planning and Development – Gettysburg, PA
13) Recovery and Resiliency Coordinators and Managers – Sustainable Jersey – Ewing, NJ
14) Associate – Fairmount Ventures, Inc. – Philadelphia
15) Communications Intern – Facilities and Real Estate Services, University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia
Full descriptions, as always, are after the jump!
May 22: Land Use Planning Matters: Planning for Disaster Resilient Communities
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.
May 8 PDI: Choosing the Renewable Energy Frameworks that Work for Your Community
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.
April 14: Emerging Professionals Meeting
Are you a planner who has graduated from planning school but is relatively new to the profession? Have you recently transitioned to a career in planning and are looking for ways to get involved? Join the APAPASE Emerging Professionals Committee! We plan events that are of interest to “emerging planners,” including happy hours, tours, book groups, workshops, and trainings. Our next committee meeting will be on Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 4:30pm at Old City Coffee Company (221 Church Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106). Join us!
Now Hiring: This Week’s Job Postings
Lots of internships, as well as a few far-flung jobs to be found this week:
1) Preservation Compliance Coordinator – Chester County Department of Open Space Preservation – West Chester, PA
2) Interns – Next City – Philadelphia
3) Planner – Lehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority – Allentown, PA
4) Program Officer – The Fund for New Jersey – Princeton, NJ
5) Assistant Director of Coordination & Policy Research – Wharton Public Policy Initiative – Philadelphia
6) Director of Program Evaluation and Quality Assurance – Project H.O.M.E. – Philadelphia
7) Sustainability Intern (Graduate level) – University of Pennsylvania, Facilities and Real Estate Services – Philadelphia
8) Internship – Cairone & Kaupp – Philadelphia
9) Research Intern – The McDevitt Company – Philadelphia
10) Internship – Heritage Consulting Inc. – Philadelphia
Full descriptions after the jump!
April 5: Community Marketplace: Investing in the Delaware Valley’s Downtowns
Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance (DVSGA) presents “Community Marketplace: Investing in the Delaware Valley’s Downtowns”
Friday, April 5, 2013, 7:45 am to 11:30 am
PECO, Energy Hall, 2301 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA
Register at: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=lfsiqshab&oeidk=a07e71bbo4p2b3d3b2c
Private Sector: $40 / Public Sector: $25 / Student: $10
Registration closes Wednesday, April 3, 2013.
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.
April 10: Creating a Transit First Community – 3 CMs Pending
Learn strategies to create a Transit First Community through both planning and design at this training opportunity April 10th in West Chester. The program includes case studies from New Jersey and State College and a presentation on SEPTA’s recently released “Bus Stop Design Guidelines.” Three Certification Maintenance (CM) credits are pending approval for AICP planners. Go to http://www.tmacc.org/news-and-events/ to register by April 1st.
April 10, 2013 from 8am to noon
West Chester Country Club (111 W. Ashbridge St., West Chester, PA 19380)
Cost: $45 TMACC members and $55 for non-members
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