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Featured: PLANNING ADVISORY SERVICE Planning the Wildland-Urban Interface

Planning the Wildland-Urban Interface, a report from APA's Planning Advisory Service, explores the issue of how land-use decisions intersect with wildfire and provides practical guidance for planners working to address WUI challenges.

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APA Foundation Funds Disaster Recovery and Resilience Planning

The APA Foundation, with the support of donors and additional funding from the Pisces Foundation, is funding six disaster recovery projects in Florida, Texas, and Puerto Rico that will help communities build resilience and improve infrastructure.

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Hats Off to Successful AICP Certification Examinees

493 APA members passed the AICP Certification Exam administered in May, including 136 who are enrolled in the AICP Candidate Pilot Program. Congratulations to all!

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APA resources like Zoning Practice open windows into today's planning practice. Student members can stay up to date on zoning trends with ZP issues like "Using Smart Growth to Adapt to Climate Change." Free online access to ZP and its archive are benefits of your free student membership.

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    Fiscal Health: The Basics of Municipal Finance

    Presented in partnership with The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, this course will introduce you to general aspects of how municipalities raise money, spend money, and develop budgets to meet the infrastructure and operations needs of the community.
  • Historic Preservation | Institutional Land Use

    The Role of Heritage in Redevelopment

    Planners can inspire community building and support economic development while preserving heritage. Hear how this is being done in places with strong cultural roots as well as the role of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
  • Planning History and Theory

    Fifty Years of Inspired Planning: Boulder

    Explore how planning has evolved in the 50 years since Boulder, Colorado, first taxed itself to buy open space and build multimodal transportation and the 40 years since the city-county comprehensive plan was adopted.
  • Economic Development

    Short-Term Rentals in New Orleans

    Directors of the two departments that were instrumental in the preparation and execution of the City of New Orleans’s highly successful short-term rental regulations speak about their experience developing and implementing those regulations.
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What's in the 2019 Planning for Equity Policy Guide

Policy Guide Working Group co-chairs Lynn Ross, AICP, and Susan Wood, AICP, preview the equity-in-all-policies approach the guide promotes; how the guide can be used to influence work at the local, state, and federal levels; and why planners are the right profession to advance this issue.

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