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Smart Cities and Planners: Leading Change Effectively
This session empowers planners to lead conversations about smart city projects, guiding technology integration and innovation while ensuring inclusive, equitable outcomes across communities’ built and natural environments. Learn to translate vision into actionable strategies for your city.- Matthew Bucchin, FAICP
- Robert Kerns, AICP
- Kelly Porter, AICP
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The Politics and Practice of Parking Reform
Parking reform is one of the largest, most unified zoning movements sweeping the US and can transform downtown economies, facilitate new housing, and more. Planners must know the practical strategies and politics behind reform to be effective stewards of change.- Andreea Udrea, AICP
- Nani Wolf, AICP
- Tony Jordan
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Write a Comprehensive Plan In-House
This session will walk planners through a locality's experience writing a comprehensive plan primarily in-house. Consultants were hired for specific tasks, and session will explore real cost breakdown and lessons learned in making those choices.- Lucy Stoll, AICP
- James McNamara
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Local Programming: Sharing the Future: Collective Ownership in Detroit
Community Investment Vehicles (CIVs) are an innovative fiscal tool allowing local residents an opportunity to pool accessible amounts of money to collectively invest in a development project. CIVs have the potential to democratize development, enhance civic engagement, and build wealth.- Morgan Fett
- Sam Butler
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Thriving in a Changing Climate: Proactive Planning Strategies
Incorporating climate resilience into planning practices requires a multi-faceted approach that addresses various aspects of community development. The first step is to conduct a thorough climate risk assessment to identify potential vulnerabilities and opportunities for resilience-building.- Melissa Tiedemann, AICP
- William Holloway
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The Road Less Traveled: Women in Transportation Planning
Through the lens of women's experiences in transportation planning, a historically male-dominated field, this session demonstrates the need, the benefits, and the importance of inclusive transportation design to safer, more accessible communities for all.- Caroline Dwyer, AICP
- Gabriella Harpel
- Lauren Grove, AICP
- Divya Gandhi
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Elevating Planners’ Voices in Advancing Housing Reform
Planners are advancing housing reform across states by building coalitions, educating stakeholders, and influencing policy. This session explores how planners elevated their voice, navigated political tensions, and translated technical knowledge into real, equitable housing solutions in Massachusetts, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.- Jason Jordan
- Jennifer Raitt
- Andrea Brown, FAICP
- Ed LeClear, AICP
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Creatively Imagining Our Shared Futures: Art + Policy
To solve today's challenges, we need to think creatively and intersectionally. Art humanizes policy at a time when that is deeply needed. By sharing how we worked with artists, planners can draw inspiration and build capacity for their own practices.- Ellie Hohulin
- Amanda Lovelee
- Henry McCarthy
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Analyzing "Pockets of Poverty" for Equitable Planning
Pockets of Poverty (PoPs) is a model that allows planners to look beyond traditional methods of community affordability. It identifies geographical "pockets" burdened by rising infrastructure costs. PoPs can help planners make investment decisions and target programs to vulnerable populations.- Anna Wolf
- Stacey Berahzer
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East Coast vs. West Coast: Planning Practices Compared
Comparing the approaches, policies and politics of planning on the East Coast in Tampa, Florida vs. the West Coast in Tacoma, Washington will illustrate the impacts of the political dymanics of each state and locality on planning.- Melissa Zornitta, FAICP
- Marcie Stenmark, AICP
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Planning for Change: Building Small Business Endurance
Planning professionals will learn tactics to proactively plan for small and local businesses to better understand why small businesses are important to a community’s character and entrepreneurial success, and how these businesses benefit from an updated vision for their communities.- Jose Delcid
- Andra Roventa Schmitt
- Jeffrey Farner
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Plan4HealthNJ: Activate the Power of Comprehensive Plans!
Planning and Public Health, once inextricably linked, have become siloed and misaligned, with competing objectives and priorities. Learn how partnering with health officials and using a health equity lens can be the foundation for innovative planning and universal design.- Angela Knowles, AICP
- Tara Kenyon, AICP
- Robin Vlamis
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Planning and Regulating for Trees and Unconstitutional Conditions
Local regulation of private property to protect trees can implicate constitutional protections, especially regulatory takings and unconstitutional conditions. This session reviews current planning practice at the intersection of those legal doctrines and presents methods designed to provide individualized determinations.- Richard Norton
- Mark Wyckoff, FAICP
- Lee Mueller
- Sean Scoopmire, AICP
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Stitching Urban Fabric: Reconnecting Communities Through Infrastructure Transformation
This is vital to planners as it addresses how outdated & divisive infrastructure can be reimagined, removed, or reorganized to heal communities, enhance connectivity, amplify transportation alternatives and create vibrant destinations that reflect equity, sustainability, and modern urban values- Tyler Cukar, AICP
- Laura Starr
- Rebecca Karp
- Adam Salgado
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RTP 3.0: Re-imagining the Future of Research Parks
Planners around the country are grappling with underutilized or vacant office parks and housing shortages. Creative public and private planning partnerships can introduce new housing opportunities and create in-demand, amenitized work environments within mixed-use communities.- Travis Crayton, AICP
- Amber Wendland, AICP
- Geoffrey Green, AICP
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Schools and Communities: Housing Policy and K-12 Education
Innovative policy and planning strategies can link housing and public education, which is vital for planners in housing, public education and community development. Includes learning objectives and strategies for planners to reduce displacement, support teachers, and strengthen community resilience.- Mathew Palmer
- Parker Darden
- Matthew Sears
- Brian Godfrey
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Shared Mobility: Enhancing Safety, Equity, Inclusion
Shared mobility integrates tech to advance safer, equitable urban transport, fostering inclusion for diverse users. Rooted in resilience research, this session empowers planners to overcome accessibility barriers, ensuring systems prevent exclusion and promote sustainable, fair community outcomes.- Seyedmohsen Alavi
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State Preemption for Housing: Benefit or Bane?
Increasingly, states are taking legislative action to preempt planning and zoning decisions by local governments. Often these state preemptions can pave the way for important planning initiatives, but they can sometimes have unexpected consequences. Hear from planning directors from big cities across the country about how state preemption is affecting local planning and housing development in thei- Andreea Udrea, AICP
- Lucy Kempf
- Heather Sauceda Hannon, AICP
- Meagan McMahan, AICP
- Vincent Bertoni, AICP
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Have You Met BESS?
Battery energy storage systems are reshaping our energy system and land use. Planners must understand BESS technology, impacts, and evolving policies. This session offers Michigan-based insights, adaptable zoning strategies, and resources to help planners integrate BESS into their communities’ ordinances.- Mike Auerbach, AICP
- Madeleine Krol
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Small Lots, Smart Solutions: Affordable and Resilient Infill
Small lot development represents an opportunity to address housing affordability and neighborhood revitalization. The Finding Home Initiative demonstrates how community-engaged design, regulatory flexibility, innovative financing, and integrated sustainability can transform seemingly unbuildable lots into catalysts for neighborhood wealth-building and resilience.- Brooke Meredith Troxmondo, AICP Candidate
- Mackenzie Stagg
- Lindsey Williams
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Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
Anti-discrimination ordinances apply nationwide. Local governments that accept federal dollars also have contractual agreements to remove public actions that contribute to a lack of housing opportunities. This session will explore effective ways planners can differentiate between and satisfy both obligations.- Maximillian Mahalek
- Donald Elliott, FAICP
- Benjamin Frost, FAICP
- Noah Kazis
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NOAH Preservation Lessons from the Twin Cities
Partnerships to preserve affordability and improve existing housing is a powerful and cost effective approach towards addressing local housing affordability issues. Learn from nearly 10 years of government and housing finance interventions to preserve existing affordability in the Twin Cities.- Dean Porter-Nelson, AICP
- Irene Ruiz-Briseno
- James Crumble
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Unpacking Opportunity Zones 2.0 for Sustainability and Equity
Opportunity Zones are permanent due to changes made in the administration’s budget bill. Planners can guide private investment to build more sustainable and equitable places.#9332836CM | 0.50
Planning with Foresight: How to Use Scenarios
Get introduced to exploratory scenario planning. With real-world case studies, you’ll generate multiple plausible futures to better inform community planning in these uncertain times.- Joseph DeAngelis, AICP
- Ievgeniia Dulko
- Senna Catenacci
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Futures Literacy: An Introductory Training
Get introduced to Futures Literacy, a skill that helps planners better understand and engage with the role of the future in current-day planning processes.- Ievgeniia Dulko
- Petra Hurtado, PhD
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Balancing Land Use and Economic Tradeoffs of Data Centers
APA hosts this panel discussion about how local and regional planners can help decision-makers navigate these tradeoffs and establish a positive long-term vision for the role of data centers in local and regional economies.- David Morley, AICP
- Joe D'Antonio
- Xiaofan Liang
- Sagar Shah, AICP
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Planning for Housing Reform: What’s in the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Law?
Join APA and a panel of housing experts for a timely discussion on the biggest housing law in a generation, including how key provisions invest in planning, make federal programs more efficient, and support locally led zoning reform.- Jason Jordan
- Mike Kingsella
- Mike Wallace
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Let’s Break it Down: Simplifying Complex Information - Part 2
The second part of “Let’s Break it Down: Simplifying Complex Information” is a hands-on training that allows participants to practice communicating sample data sets to multiple types of audiences, such as elected officials, internal staff, and external constituents.- Rachel Shindman, AICP
- Andrew Rutz
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Let’s Break it Down: Simplifying Complex Information - Part 1
Rachel and Andy will outline key considerations for using data most appropriately and will offer approaches for determining the amount of level of content to present to different audience types.- Rachel Shindman, AICP
- Andrew Rutz
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"Wait, Why Am I Talking?" Active Listening as a Planner's Best Friend, Part 2
Building on the foundational concepts of deep and active listening, this virtual two-hour interactive training with improviser and planner Phil Green, AICP, guides us through the crossroads of improv and active listening. Participants will build listening agility, embrace vulnerability, and learn how to respond to tension with confidence and care.- Philip Green, AICP
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"Wait, Why Am I Talking?" Active Listening as a Planner's Best Friend, Part 1
In a landscape marked by increasing polarization and rapid-fire communication, the ability to truly listen has never been more urgent or powerful. This course, led by planner, author, and educator Corrin Wendell, AICP, explores why active listening is crucial to planners and how to practice it effectively.- Corrin Hoegen Wendell, FAICP
- Philip Green, AICP
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Members Only Mini Course: You’re the Messenger: Communicating the Value of Planners
The newest series from APA's Upskilling Initiative, "You're the Messenger: Communicating the Value of Planners," will explore the mismatch between negative national narratives and positive local sentiments about planners and equip you with the tools necessary to advocate for the importance of planners.- Liz Lang
- Brenna Donegan
- Zoe Kaplan
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Mapping the Fiscal Dimensions of Land Use Policy
Imagine having the ability to evaluate the fiscal impacts of development on your agency’s operating budget at your fingertips. Our Esri-based model generates visual and numerical fiscal impacts of new development, from single-lot redevelopment projects to multiple-use plan areas.- Luke Foelsch
- Christine Ma
- Edith Smith
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Engagement Evolution: Blueprint for Equitable Planning
Equitable strategies don’t guarantee representative data, so it’s critical to know who you're reaching and who you’re not. Here's how one community adopted an approach that has resulted in 20,000+ residents engaging from all corners of the community.- Graham Stone
- Angelica Tyler
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NPC24 Opening Keynote: Changing the Pace: The Impact of Multicultural and Multigenerational Momentum
Get ready to be inspired and motivated at the Opening Keynote! Join us as we welcome Lori Pace, for an unforgettable morning of passion, inspiration, and personal growth.- Lori Pace
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Bringing Health Equity into Long Range Transportation Planning
Recent applications of the U.S. EPA's National Public Health Assessment Model (N-PHAM) are advancing health equity in planning. Learn about two case studies that integrate advanced metrics to support long-range transportation planning and guide infrastructure investment decision-making.- Lawrence Frank
- Dov Kadin
- Kim Anderson
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Decoding Zoning: How Machine-Readable Zoning Data Bridges Housing Gap
Open Zoning is democratizing zoning codes, allowing anyone to access them as simple visuals for any property or city in seconds, crowdsourcing new ways forward for the bottom-up response to the housing crisis.- Nneka Sobers
- Elizabeth Christoforetti
- Alyssa Brandt, AICP
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Building Sustainable Infrastructure for Community Co-Leadership in Planning
Community members often lack access to the knowledge needed to effectively influence systems that serve them even when they are invited to the table. Without sustained investment into community capacity-building and relationships, community engagement tools will continue to fall short.- Tynisha George
- Nicole Marcus
- Jennifer Latham
- Christopher Ausura
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Immerse Yourself! Youth and XR Master Planning
Explore Mesa, Arizona's use of VR/MR to create new engagement strategies, starting with youth and civic planning. These immersive technologies bring abstract concepts like TOD and climate-adaptation to life, allowing for experiential understanding and participatory decision-making across diverse groups.- Sarah Bassett
- Nicholas Pilarski
- Bruce Meighen, AICP
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Mapping Segregation and the Geography of Racial Exclusion
The Mapping Segregation Project maps how racial restrictive covenants led to the inequitable development of Montgomery County, Maryland. The Planning Department has built a GIS mapping tool and data set that shows patterns of racial segregation at the neighborhood level.- Rebeccah Ballo
- Jason Sartori
- John Liebertz
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Planning for Food Systems Resilience
The disruption of the nation’s food supply brought by COVID-19 showcased the need to plan for a more resilient food system. Learn how planners can address systemic vulnerabilities and increase food security at the national, regional, and community levels.- Luis Nieves-Ruiz, FAICP
- Andrea Clark, AICP
- Camille Hadley
- Elsie Moore
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Co-Designing with Community on Chicago's Cumulative Impact Assessment
A cumulative impact assessment is one tool that the government can use to understand the disproportionate burden over time within its communities. This course will highlight the role planners can play in facilitating assessments that center on community leadership and equity.- Susan Martinez
- Eduardo Munoz
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Leveraging Federal Funds in a Food Desert
Partnerships and Federal Funding Build an Oasis in a Food Desert. Tulsa Economic Development Corporation and partners leveraged federal grant dollars and made community and equity the core of a new grocery store.- Gary Hamer, AICP
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The OTHER MN Code Everyone Is Talking About
This session will feature Rochester’s Unified Development Code and will provide strategies around how to reform local zoning to successfully encourage housing affordability/availability along with a real example of how to gain public support to advance planning best practices.- Ryan Yetzer
- Jenny Baker
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Streamline Development Approvals with Objective Design Standards
Form Follows Regulation! Learn how Objective Design Standards can help your community achieve more sensitive development than traditional zoning-based regulation, streamline housing review, and empower your planning staff to perform ministerial review as an alternative to difficult discretionary review.- Andrew Faulkner
- Leila Hakimizadeh, AICP
- Valerie Quarles, AICP
- Ruchira Gaur
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California Cities: Effectively Implementing Housing Programs
The heightened expectations of the State of California raised standards for housing programs in cities of all kinds. Three vastly different cities serve as examples of successful executions of housing elements that confront housing issues through meaningful and measurable programs.- Jennifer Murillo, AICP
- Lisa Wise, AICP
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From NIMBY to YIMBY: A Downtown Housing Transformation
Learn how one small city added over 1,000 housing units to its downtown in five years by improving zoning standards, focusing on affordable housing, collaborating with partner agencies, and overcoming opposition to change.- Lee Butler, AICP
- Bonnie Lipscomb
- Jessica De Wit
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How Four Cities Are Reviving Missing Middle Housing
Missing middle housing plays an important role in meeting a variety of housing needs at different price points, yet it's been disappearing for decades. This course explores how four Twin Cities municipalities are removing barriers to missing middle housing development.- Emma Brown
- Janelle Widmeier
- Janice Gundlach
- Ryan Krzos, AICP
- Adrian Diaz, AICP
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It Takes a (Suburban) Village: Raising Affordable Housing
As the population continues to grow, affordable housing needs have quickly spread across Colorado suburbs. Join us to hear about the City of Centennial's approach to simplifying complex housing topics and finding creative solutions to a variety of outreach challenges.- Gabby Hart, AICP
- Elizabeth Garvin, AICP
- David King
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Here to Stay: Building Hearts in South Bronx
This course elevates the work the South Bronx community has been doing, led by South Bronx Unite (SBU), to dream, envision, and advocate to transform the former Lincoln Recovery Center into a thriving community hub: The Hearts Community Center.- Devan Cronshaw, AICP
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