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NATIONAL PLANNING CONFERENCE |
Get connected at NPC19
APA members only can register now for the 2019 National Planning Conference in San Francisco. You're at the front of the line until January 9 for conference registration and tickets to mobile workshops, orientation tours, and other popular activities. Get familiar with the program, get acquainted with San Francisco, and get registered!
Tip: Make the most of FY18 funds! Apply expiring capital to your NPC19 registration now, when rates are lowest. |
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What's trending? Propose a session
Inclusionary zoning, midterm elections, wildfires, prefabricated and smart homes — a lot has happened since we first asked for your help building the NPC19 program. Now through January 4, propose a session on an emerging planning issue to present at the year's premier planning conference. |
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APA NEWS |
Support the APA Foundation and recovering communities
The APA Foundation recently announced the recipients of a first cohort of disaster recovery grants: six communities in Florida, Puerto Rico, and Texas affected by hurricanes and other natural disasters in 2017. |
As you consider year-end charitable contributions, remember your tax-deductible gift to the APA Foundation will support programs that help economically challenged and disaster-devastated communities like this year's grantees. Please donate on the APA Foundation webpage or via the PayPal Giving Fund. |
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POLICY AND ADVOCACY |
National housing experts convene on ADUs
On December 6, local, regional, and national housing experts came together in APA's Washington office. Attendees at the Future of Housing Innovation Roundtable, led jointly by AARP and APA, explored how accessory dwelling units work in practice and how to help communities realize their many potential benefits. The event was part of APA's Planning Home Initiative, which aims to reshape the way planning is used to address America's housing affordability and availability crisis. |
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RESOURCES |
Planner Profile: Jason Schrieber, AICP
Planners can play an integral role in helping communities find innovative solutions to complex mobility problems. Jason Schrieber, AICP, senior principal at Stantec's Urban Places, is part of a team of experts in urban mobility strategies, helping to plan and implement best practices in transportation, transit, and multimodal solutions. He has helped hundreds of cities, institutions, and developers broaden options for urban mobility and shown governments from Boston to Abu Dhabi how to manage parking in difficult shared environments. |
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Learn more on this topic in a related series from APA Learn: |
"Emerging Technologies to Transform Urban Design Series"
The two courses in this series — "Future Commute: Robots, Ratrods, and Ropeways" and "New Technologies to Transform Urban Design" — examine how urban form and regulation of land use may change in response to automated vehicles, e-bikes and scooters, and other emerging and disruptive technologies. CM | 2.25 |
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The Open Space Net
Interest in large-scale green infrastructure networks has a long history. In the 1960s, planners and urban thinkers called for establishing planned "open space nets" that linked public, quasi-public, and private lands to protect and preserve open space and shape future development. This historic PAS report from 1968 calls for coordinated, continuous systems of urban open space in U.S. cities and explores how this could reshape neighborhood development. |
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Get recorded NPC18 sessions
NPC18 session recordings were included with registration and are now available in APA Learn. If you registered for NPC18 in New Orleans, you have a year of unlimited access to almost 200 courses. CM |
OPPORTUNITIES |
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Grant opportunities
Voices for Healthy Kids initiative sponsored by the American Heart Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Apply by January 11 for grants to advance coordinated state, local, and tribal public policy issue advocacy campaigns focused on healthy eating and active living.
National Trust for Historic Preservation African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. Submit letters of intent by January 15 for grants ranging from $50,000 to $150,000 for historic places that represent African American cultural heritage such as sites, museums, or landscapes. |
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