| #e.22970 | Friday 8:30AM to 5:00PM
February 22,
2013 | CM | 6.50 |
2013 Planning Staff And Officials Training SeminarAPA Florida Chapter, Broward SectionLauderdale By The Sea, FL This training is intended for planning directors, planners, and appointed and elected planning officials, and covers current planning and growth management laws and practices in Florida. It is intended to provide a substantive educational training for planning professionals and the officials responsible for decision making on planning matters.
Part 1: Planning and Growth Management In Florida: (1.5 Hours)
This session will explain the principles of effective planning in the context of Florida’s Community Planning Act, including the practices of land use planning under Florida law; the roles of the planning director, planning staff, as well as appointed and elected planning officials. This session will expand on effective techniques for engaging the public in the planning process.
Part 2: Comprehensive Planning Under Florida’s Community Planning Act (1.5 Hours)
Planning in Florida has changed significantly, under the comprehensive 2011 legislative amendments to Florida’s long-standing growth management statutes. This session will examine the legal status, procedures for amendment and evaluation of the local comprehensive plan, with a focus on current issues and challenges such as school concurrency planning, transportation planning and water supply planning.
Part 3: Land Development Codes and the Implementation of Florida Growth Management (1 Hour)
This session will provide a detailed primer on the most current techniques in land development codes preparation and amendment, including zoning, planning development, concurrency planning, as well as Florida local government experiences with advanced implementation tools and techniques including urban design standards, traditional neighborhood and New Urbanist development standards, form-based codes and “smart growth” codes.
Part 4: Planning Law 101: (1.5 Hours/Law Credits)
This session will provide a detailed overview of important legal concepts and up-to-date legal analysis of case law affecting Florida planning. This session will be led by expert land use attorney and certified planner Susan L. Trevarthen, Esq., AICP. Participants will learn the important legal distinctions between legislative and quasi-judicial decisions, and how preparation and conduct of a public hearing is essential to ensure the legal defensibility of the decision on a development application. Ms. Trevarthen will also provide an overview of critical case law updates on First Amendment planning law (sign law, adult use law and religious land uses). Additionally, this session will offer important guidance on how to ensure that planning legislation and decisions are legally sufficient in an increasingly litigious legal environment.
Part 5: Planning Ethics: (1 Hour/ Ethics Credits)
This session will address the critical ethical requirements for planners, planning officials and elected officials. This session will highlight the key requirements of Florida’s Government in the Sunshine Law, the Florida Code of Ethics and the AICP Code of Ethics. Mr. Boles will identify the key pitfalls to avoid during the planning process, and how to ensure that ethical considerations remain at the forefront of the planning and decision making process.
More Instructors: Gene Boles FAICP Gene Boles is a Senior Fellow and Project Coordinator for the Center for Building Better Communities. Gene earned a Master of City Planning (MCP) and Master of Science (MS) in Transportation form Georgia Tech in 1969 and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (BCE) from Auburn University in 1966. Gene is an experienced planning administrator and consultant having held director positions in Hillsborough County, Florida, Springfield, MO and Oklahoma City, OK. Gene is a charter member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and was inducted into the AICP College of Fellows (FAICP) in April 2008. Susan Trevarthen Susan handles land use, planning and zoning matters for governments and is a municipal attorney. Her work includes negotiating development agreements and approvals, drafting municipal codes and plans, advising municipal staffs, managers and attorneys, defending challenges to municipal regulations and decisions, handling public hearings and counseling elected officials, as well as advocating for municipalities on legislative issues in her field. She serves as Town Attorney. She also serves as the Chair of our Public Land Use and Zoning Group, which handles all of the land use matters for the Cities of Cooper City, Weston, Miramar, Aventura, North Bay Village, and Homestead; the Towns of Cutler Bay and Lauderdale-By-The-Sea; and the Villages of Bal Harbour, Key Biscayne and Islamorada. The Group also provides outside counsel services on planning, zoning and land use matters to additional South Florida cities on an as needed basis. In recent years, these cities have included Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Deerfield Beach, Pompano Beach, Sunrise, Hallandale Beach, Hollywood, Coconut Creek, Dania Beach, Cape Coral, Coral Gables and Miami Springs.
Susan's practice includes extensive constitutional law in her field, including regulatory taking cases and land use and zoning decisions raising First Amendment issues, including sign codes, adult use regulations, and regulation of religious uses, Harris Act claims, comprehensive plan challenges and petitions for certiorari. (10 Ratings)
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