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Last Chance to Register: Vacant Land Planning in a Land Bank World — 3 CM Credits!

May 24, 2013 / / Comments Off on Last Chance to Register: Vacant Land Planning in a Land Bank World — 3 CM Credits!
What will a land bank mean for vacant land--and for planners? Credit: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
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.

Speakers include John Carpenter, Jennifer Kates, John Kromer and Karen Black.

This session is a part of the 2013 Greenbuild Challenge.

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Wednesday, May 29, 8:45 am – 12 pm

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June 12: Voices of the Creative Economy

May 24, 2013 / / Comments Off on June 12: Voices of the Creative Economy

DVRPC is hosting an event – Voices of the Creative Economy – Why Does Place Matter to Creative Businesses? – on Wednesday, June 12th at 9:30am.

In addition to presentations by Moira Baylson of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy and Larry Eichel, of Pew’s Philadelphia Research Initiative, Michelle Freeman of Flying Kite Media will moderate a panel of creative economy businesses. The panelists include Seun Olubodun, owner of Duke & Winston, a clothing design company in Philadelphia, and Bill Covaleski, President and Brewmaster at Victory Brewing in Downingtown, PA.

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Coming Soon: DVRPC Audio/Web Conferences

May 24, 2013 / / Comments Off on Coming Soon: DVRPC Audio/Web Conferences

DVRPC’s Municipal Outreach program will be showing two APA audio/web conferences in June 2013, one at Center City District and one at the Montgomery County Planning Commission. If you are interested in attending either one, please register through the links below. Please note: You must attend the event in person; you cannot watch from your desk.

Pedestrian & Bicycle Planning (1.5 CM credits)
Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 3:30-5:30pm (DVRPC presentation from 3:45-4:00pm; APA webinar from 4:00-5:30pm)
Center City District, Philadelphia, PA
Register at: [https://dvrpc.ticketleap.com/]

2013 Planning Law Review (1.5 Law Credits)
Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 3:30pm-5:30pm (DVRPC presentation from 3:45-4:00pm; APA webinar from 4:00-5:30pm)
Montgomery County Planning Commission, Norristown, PA
Register at: [https://dvrpc.ticketleap.com/]

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June 7: Implementing Shared Services: Best Practices and Case Studies

May 14, 2013 / / Comments Off on June 7: Implementing Shared Services: Best Practices and Case Studies

Implementing Shared Services: Best Practices and Case Studies

Friday, June 7, 2013
8:30 am – 12:00pm
Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
8th Floor l ACP Building
190 N. Independence Mall West l Philadelphia, PA 19106

RSVP by Friday, May 31 at http://dvrpc.ticketleap.com/sharedservices/

Join DVRPC and municipal leaders at a half-day forum on the intricacies of municipal shared services. 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. In the DVRPC region, there are many examples of service sharing; it has been embraced by members of both political parties as a fiscally responsible method of service delivery. This forum will address legal issues related to sharing services and present some of the latest research on best practices and performance measurement in service sharing. Local leaders who have implemented service sharing in their communities will share their stories.

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Now Hiring: This Week’s Job Postings

May 12, 2013 / / Comments Off on Now Hiring: This Week’s Job Postings

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Brand-new website. Same awesome job listings.

1) Township Manager – Township of Easttown – Devon, PA

2) Commercial District Revitalization Manager – Cornerstone West CDC – Philadelphia

3) VISTA Volunteers – Department of Commerce – Philadelphia

4) Americorps VISTAS – New Kensington CDC – Philadelphia

5) Transportation Engineer/Modeling Intern – Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission – Philadelphia

6) Community Development Director – Lower Providence Township – Eagleville, PA

7) Planner I – Kent County Levy Court, Department of Planning Services – Dover, DE

8) Rebel Ventures Team Manager – Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative – Philadelphia

9) AUNI Garden Assistant Supervisor – Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative – Philadelphia

Full descriptions after the jump!

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

May 3, 2013 / / Comments Off on CM Credits Approved for 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.

 

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

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

April 20, 2013 / / Comments Off on Central Section Event: Meeting the Letter and Spirit of the Law – 5.75 CM

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>>

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May 3: Planning for Livable Communities

April 17, 2013 / / Comments Off on May 3: Planning for Livable Communities

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

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Field Trip!: APA Prez in Bethesda

April 9, 2013 / / Comments Off on 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/

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Now Hiring: This Week’s Job Postings

April 4, 2013 / / Comments Off on Now Hiring: This Week’s Job Postings

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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!

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