2012 National Planning Awards
APA's National Planning Excellence and Achievement Awards honor the best planning efforts and individuals who create communities of lasting value. The 2012 recipients were honored at a special luncheon held during APA's National Planning Conference.
National Planning Excellence Awards
The Daniel Burnham Award for a Comprehensive Plan
Vision 2020: New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
New York, New York
The HUD Secretary's Opportunity and Empowerment Award
Robert R. Taylor Homes / NorthSide Revitalization
Wilmington, North Carolina
National Planning Excellence Award for Best Practice
Cool Planning: A Handbook on Local Strategies to Slow Climate Change
Oregon
National Excellence Planning Award for a Grassroots Initiative
Yorktown 2015: A Blueprint for Survival and Sustainability
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
National Planning Excellence Award for Implementation
Contra Costa Centre Transit Village
California
National Planning Excellence Award for Public Outreach
Fast Forward Mobile Outreach Bus
Tulsa, Oklahoma
National Planning Excellence Award for Innovation in Sustaining Places
Re-imagining a More Sustainable Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio
Best Practices in Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Planning
Florida Statewide Regional Evacuation Study Program
Florida
National Planning Excellence Award for a Planning Firm
Watertown, Massachusetts
The Pierre L'Enfant International Planning Excellence Award
Strategic Master Plan | Petra Region, Jordan
Petra Region, Jordan
National Planning Excellence Award for a Hard-Won Victory
Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard Phase II EIR
California
Advancing Diversity & Social Change in Honor of Paul Davidoff
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
National Planning Excellence Award for a Planning Advocate
Gov. Martin O'Malley: Reinvigorating Smart Growth in Maryland
Maryland
National Planning Landmark Award
The Bennett Plan of the City of Pasadena (1925)
Pasadena, California
Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture
U.S. General Services Administration
2012 National Planning Awards Jury
The jury is tasked with reviewing all of the award entries and identifying the ones worthy of receiving a national honor and recognition.
Back: Jeff Soule, FAICP; Phillip McKenna, AICP; Jacques Gourguechon, AICP; Pete Pointner, FAICP; and Paul R. Miller, AICP. Front: Marie L. York, FAICP, Jury Co-Chair; Ann C. Bagley, FAICP, Jury Co-Chair; Charnelle Hicks, AICP; and Lindy Wordlaw, AICP. Not pictured: Regina Gray.
Jury Co-Chair
Marie L. York, FAICP
Marie L. York, FAICP, is President of York Solutions and Senior Fellow with the University of Florida's Center for Building Better Communities. With more than 25 years of experience, York is a champion of economic, environmental, and social sustainability through planning and design. She created the award-winning Florida Public Officials Design Institute at Florida Atlantic University in Jupiter, Florida, teaching elected officials the fundamentals of place-making. York is an APA Board Director and corporate officer as the Secretary/Treasurer. She is the past chair of APA's New Urbanism Division, President of APA Florida Chapter, and a Fellow at the University of Miami's Community Building Program. York was inducted into the AICP College of Fellows in 2008.
Jury Co-Chair
Ann Cooke Bagley, FAICP
Ann Cooke Bagley, FAICP, a community planner and consultant, focuses on comprehensive plans, park development, and training planning commissioners. A practicing planner for almost 30 years, she has worked in both the public and private sectors working primarily for small to medium-sized cities. Bagley currently serves on the national board of the American Planning Association as a board member elected at large and serves as the Planning Official Development Officer for APA Texas. She was recently appointed to her fourth term on the Dallas City Plan Commission where she is chair of the Transportation Committee and on the Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee.
Jury Member
Jacques Gourguechon, AICP
Jacques Gourguechon, AICP, is a co-founder of Camiros, and a charter member of the American Planning Association (APA). He has served as president of the Illinois Chapter of the APA and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He has been dedicated to sustainable planning and the protection of the earth's natural resources through thoughtful planning since the inception of his career. In all his work, he displays a commitment to the health of the human component of large and small settlements, as well as the land and resources on which they are built. Natural resource planning and human investment planning together form his mission as a planning leader throughout his 35-year career at Camiros.
Jury Member
Regina Gray
Regina Gray is an analyst for the Division of Affordable Housing Research and Technology Division in the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Since joining HUD in 2000, her research activities have focused on sustainable development, urban design and land use planning, transit-oriented development, energy and green building practices, and affordable housing preservation. Beyond her work at HUD, Gray collaborates with other federal agencies on a host of sustainability initiatives and is actively involved in these interagency efforts. Gray holds a bachelor's degree from Emory University, a master's degree from George Washington University, and a doctorate from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Jury Member
Charnelle Hicks, AICP
Charnelle Hicks, AICP, is the principal and founder of CHPlanning Ltd, a full-service planning firm with offices in Philadelphia, Chester, Pittsburgh and New Orleans. She has practiced transportation, land use, and environmental planning for nearly 25 years and has led numerous planning and development projects for communities and infrastructure. Hicks has served as Vice-Chair of the APA's Transportation Division and as Secretary of APA's Planning in Black Community Division. She currently serves as the Chair of the National Estuary Program's Partnership for the Delaware Estuary and as Vice-Chair of the APA Pennsylvania Chapter. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Anthropology from Swarthmore College and her Master of Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jury Member
Phillip McKenna, AICP
Phillip McKenna, AICP, is president and CEO of McKenna Associates, Inc., a community planning and design consultant firm headquartered in Northville, Michigan, with branches in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The firm's professional practice includes downtown plans; urban neighborhood redevelopment urban design; open space preservation and the design of mixed-use centers. McKenna helped form the Michigan Downtown Association, the trade association for Michigan's downtowns. He is a licensed professional community planner in the state of Michigan and a certified planner by the American Institute of Certified Planners. He earned his master's degree from Eastern Michigan University and his bachelor's degree from Central Michigan University.
Jury Member
Paul Miller, AICP
Paul Miller, AICP, has been the Director of Planning, Zoning, and Building for DeKalb County, Illinois, since 1996. Previously, he was the Village Planner for Glen Ellyn, Illinois, for five years, and before that worked for a planning consulting firm out of Wheaton. He received his Master's degree in Planning from the University of Wyoming in 1988 following a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Geography from the University of Central Arkansas. He has been a certified planner since 1992. He has been published in APA's online Practicing Planner, presented at APA's National Planning Conference, and presented at a Tuesdays at APA event. He also recently served on an APA advisory panel about wind energy.
Jury Member
Pete Pointner, FAICP
Pete Pointner, FAICP, has more than 50 years of experience that includes: teaching at the university level; being vice president of an international planning and engineering firm; and founder of an interdisciplinary planning firm with experience in both the public and private sector. He has directed major projects in 25 states and four countries.
Jury Member
Lindy Wordlaw, AICP
Lindy Wordlaw, AICP, is a certified planner with more than fourteen years of planning experience. As Senior Planner at CNT Energy, a division of the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT), much of her work is geared toward integrating the goal of sustainable energy use into mainstream planning processes. Starting in 2004, she led the Kane County Energy Solutions project, which predicted growth in Kane County's energy demand (based on projected population growth and land use changes) and recommended strategies for mitigation.