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July 18: Choosing the Renewable Energy Frameworks That Work for Your Community

June 7, 2013 / Justin Dula / No comments

Interested in creating a renewable energy ordinance for your community?
Register for the 7/18 PDI: Choosing the Renewable Energy Frameworks that Work for Your Community

APA PA SE PDI: Choosing the Renewable Energy Frameworks that Work for Your Community
Register at http://energyframeworks.eventbrite.com/

Join a panel of local experts who will provide an overview of considerations for developing a renewable energy ordinance for solar, small-wind, and geothermal energy systems in Pennsylvania. An overview of Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission’s (DVRPC’s) Renewable Energy Ordinance Frameworks, which include a menu of permissive and restrictive ordinance language options; accompanied by explanatory guidance on the barriers, benefits and cautions for adopting language will be provided. Additionally, panelists will address the key issues surrounding the regulation of each type of renewable energy system at the municipal level.

This session is a part of the 2013 Greenbuild Challenge.

Category: General, Upcoming Events / Tags: certification maintenance, DVRPC, energy, environment and sustainability, events, resources

June 17: Transportation of the Future — 3 CM Credits Pending

June 4, 2013 / APAPA-SE / No comments

Transportation of the Future
June 17, 2013 from 8am to noon
Sheraton Great Valley (707 Lancaster Ave, Frazer, PA 19355)
Cost: $45 TMACC members and $55 for non-members
Learn about planning for our future transportation system. The program includes the presentations of planning and case studies for all electronic tolling systems, high-occupancy toll lanes, connected vehicles, and new public transit fare payment technologies. The program is pending approval for 3 AICP CM Credits for planners. Go to http://www.tmacc.org/news-and-events/transportation-future/ to register by the extended deadline of June 14th.

TMACC TRANS FOR FUTURE 0513 FINAL 8 5×11 (2)

Category: Upcoming Events / Tags: certification maintenance, events, resources, transportation

Next Week: Voices of the Creative Economy — 2 CM Credits Pending

June 4, 2013 / Christina Arlt / No comments

Credit: Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy http://www.cultureblocks.com/wordpress/

DVRPC is hosting an event – Voices of the Creative Economy – Why Does Place Matter to Creative Businesses? – on Wednesday, June 12th at 9:30am.

In addition to presentations by Moira Baylson of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy and Larry Eichel, of Pew’s Philadelphia Research Initiative, Michelle Freeman of Flying Kite Media will moderate a panel of creative economy businesses. The panelists include Seun Olubodun, owner of Duke & Winston, a clothing design company in Philadelphia, and Bill Covaleski, President and Brewmaster at Victory Brewing in Downingtown, PA.

Voices of the Creative Economy – Why Does Place Matter to Creative Businesses?

Wednesday, June 12, 2013
9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Coffee and tea will be available at 9:00 AM.

Category: Upcoming Events / Tags: certification maintenance, DVRPC, events, redevelopment and revitalization, resources

Last Chance to Register: Vacant Land Planning in a Land Bank World — 3 CM Credits!

May 24, 2013 / Jeff Barg / No comments

: What will a land bank mean for vacant land–and for planners? Credit: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

A land bank is (very likely) coming to Philadelphia. Learn all about what a land bank is and how it will change vacant land planning, and hear it from the people who are creating, implementing and advocating for the new legislation. Everything you need to know about Philadelphia’s land bank—before it happens, from the people who are making it happen.

Speakers include John Carpenter, Jennifer Kates, John Kromer and Karen Black.

This session is a part of the 2013 Greenbuild Challenge.

Click here to register!

Wednesday, May 29, 8:45 am – 12 pm

Category: Upcoming Events / Tags: certification maintenance, events, redevelopment and revitalization, resources

June 12: Voices of the Creative Economy

May 24, 2013 / Christina Arlt / No comments

DVRPC is hosting an event – Voices of the Creative Economy – Why Does Place Matter to Creative Businesses? – on Wednesday, June 12th at 9:30am.

Category: Upcoming Events / Tags: DVRPC, events, redevelopment and revitalization, resources

Coming Soon: DVRPC Audio/Web Conferences

May 24, 2013 / Christina Arlt / No comments

DVRPC’s Municipal Outreach program will be showing two APA audio/web conferences in June 2013, one at Center City District and one at the Montgomery County Planning Commission. If you are interested in attending either one, please register through the links below. Please note: You must attend the event in person; you cannot watch from your desk.

Pedestrian & Bicycle Planning (1.5 CM credits)
Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 3:30-5:30pm (DVRPC presentation from 3:45-4:00pm; APA webinar from 4:00-5:30pm)
Center City District, Philadelphia, PA
Register at: [https://dvrpc.ticketleap.com/]

2013 Planning Law Review (1.5 Law Credits)
Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 3:30pm-5:30pm (DVRPC presentation from 3:45-4:00pm; APA webinar from 4:00-5:30pm)
Montgomery County Planning Commission, Norristown, PA
Register at: [https://dvrpc.ticketleap.com/]

Category: Upcoming Events / Tags: certification maintenance, DVRPC, events, law, resources, transportation

June 7: Implementing Shared Services: Best Practices and Case Studies

May 14, 2013 / APAPA-SE / No comments

Implementing Shared Services: Best Practices and Case Studies

Friday, June 7, 2013
8:30 am – 12:00pm
Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
8th Floor l ACP Building
190 N. Independence Mall West l Philadelphia, PA 19106

RSVP by Friday, May 31 at http://dvrpc.ticketleap.com/sharedservices/

Join DVRPC and municipal leaders at a half-day forum on the intricacies of municipal shared services. In many cases, sharing services allows municipalities to decrease both the cost and the complexity of the services they provide to their constituents while providing a higher level of service overall. In the DVRPC region, there are many examples of service sharing; it has been embraced by members of both political parties as a fiscally responsible method of service delivery. This forum will address legal issues related to sharing services and present some of the latest research on best practices and performance measurement in service sharing. Local leaders who have implemented service sharing in their communities will share their stories.

Category: Upcoming Events / Tags: DVRPC, events, multi-municipal planning, resources

Now Hiring: This Week’s Job Postings

May 12, 2013 / APAPA-SE / No comments

Brand-new website. Same awesome job listings.

1) Township Manager – Township of Easttown – Devon, PA

2) Commercial District Revitalization Manager – Cornerstone West CDC – Philadelphia

3) VISTA Volunteers – Department of Commerce – Philadelphia

4) Americorps VISTAS – New Kensington CDC – Philadelphia

5) Transportation Engineer/Modeling Intern – Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission – Philadelphia

6) Community Development Director – Lower Providence Township – Eagleville, PA

7) Planner I – Kent County Levy Court, Department of Planning Services – Dover, DE

8) Rebel Ventures Team Manager – Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative – Philadelphia

9) AUNI Garden Assistant Supervisor – Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative – Philadelphia

Full descriptions after the jump!

Category: General / Tags: jobs, resources

CM Credits Approved for May 22: Land Use Planning Matters: Planning for Disaster Resilient Communities

May 3, 2013 / Susan Elks / No comments

The PA Chapter of the American Planning Association and the PA Local Government Training Partnership are cosponsoring training on planning for disaster resilient communities. There are six training sessions statewide, kicking off with a session at the new Chester County Public Safety Training Campus on May 22nd.

As natural and man-made events teach us over and over, it’s too risky NOT to consider hazard mitigation and disaster resiliency, especially with hazard mitigation being an essential component of site planning, comprehensive planning, stormwater management and numerous other planning practices. Building resilient communities is not just a product of emergency management and emergency services personnel, but also a responsibility of planners as they assist communities with comprehensive planning and development of and updates to zoning and subdivision and land development ordinances. The session will cover details on creating a hazard mitigation plan as well as review how to incorporate emergency management and emergency services planning in other municipal plans and ordinances. A key concept of the training will be how to ensure that land use and community planners and emergency management personnel/emergency responders are coordinating their efforts.

The training will use Pennsylvania specific case studies and examples to convey relevant information to attendees. The presenters will review tools, resources, and guidance provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency to help you match resources to their challenges. The target audience for this training session includes professional planners and elected officials, municipal staff, emergency management personnel, and citizen planners who are well-versed in planning and seeking advanced information on hazard mitigation planning and emergency management to improve the safety and resiliency of residents and business for current and future hazard risks. There will be ample opportunities for Q&A.

Please see the brochure for details or the PA Chapter website for full details and registration: http://planningpa.org/news/land-use-planning-matters/

Category: Upcoming Events / Tags: events, resources

Central Section Event: Meeting the Letter and Spirit of the Law – 5.75 CM

April 20, 2013 / APAPA-SE / No comments

Central Section Event: Meeting the Letter and Spirit of the Law: Legal Components of Comprehensive Plans | 5.75 CM

This workshop will provide participants with an understanding of the legal connection between Comprehensive Plans and the PA Municipalities Planning Code. Matthew J. Creme, Jr., Esq. will cover all of the applicable laws that are noted in Article III, Section 301(a)(6) which require municipalities to plan for the protection of natural and historic resources. Other applicable laws that are required to be followed when completing a municipal, regional or county comprehensive plan will also be covered Community planning documents that impact the development of comprehensive plans and how these plans including recreation plans, sewerage plans, and housing plans can complement each other will also be discussed. In addition, this workshop will discuss the five key components to developing plan content and the process to create a comprehensive plan more likely to be implemented and provoke action and results will be a key topic.

This workshop has been approved for 4.25CM credits and 1.5 Law .

Start: May 2, 2013 8:30 am

End: May 2, 2013 4:15 pm

Organizer: APA PA, Central Section

Venue: Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Community Room

Address: 3899 N. Front Street, Harrisburg, PA, 17110, United States

Registration fee is $40.00 for APA PA members and $45.00 for non members.

For more information and to register for this workshop, click here>>

Category: Upcoming Events / Tags: certification maintenance, events, government, multi-municipal planning, resources

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