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Friday December 1st – Last Day to Register for our Annual Meeting!

Tickets are now available for our 2023 Annual Meeting – Deadline December 1st!

Get your tickets today!

An Evening with Anne Fadullon
Thursday, December 7
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
The Post
129 South 30th Street, Philadelphia

Come join APAPA-SE at our 2023 annual meeting! The Southeast Section has had a lot to celebrate this year, including a national planning conference and summertime social outings. We will cover it all along with celebrating Anne Fadullon, the recently retired director of the Philadelphia Department of Planning and Development. Anne will speak on her time with the city and what could come next in a new mayoral administration.

Networking and socializing are welcome throughout the event.

Heavy appetizers and two beer/wine drink tickets are included with your admission ticket.

The Post is located a block and a half south of Market on 30th Street, with easy access to highways and transit.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

DVRPC Visioning Survey

Vision Update for 2050

See DVRPC’s website for the full announcement!

Join the Conversation. Shape Tomorrow.

What are your vision and goals for the region? It’s been several years since the Long-Range Plan for Greater Philadelphia was adopted. The Plan sets the Vision and goals for the region, strategies to achieve them, and allocates $67 billion in state and federal transportation funds through the year 2050. Per federal requirement, we’re updating it again, and need your help to do it!

Your Vision for 2050

The existing vision, generated through broad public engagement during the last Plan update, is an EQUITABLE, RESILIENT, and SUSTAINABLE Greater Philadelphia Region that:

– Preserves and restores the natural ENVIRONMENT.
– Develops inclusive, healthy, and walkable COMMUNITIES.
– Grows an innovative and connected ECONOMY with broadly shared prosperity.
– Maintains a safe, multimodal TRANSPORTATION network that serves everyone.

What do you like about the current vision statement? What would you add, remove, or change? Weigh in on a new ENERGY & CLIMATE focus area! DVRPC invites you to participate in a survey to shape the Vision for 2050 for the next iteration of the Long-Range Plan for Greater Philadelphia.

Take the Survey!

If you live, work, or play in Greater Philadelphia, we want to hear from you! Whether you have 5 minutes or more than 10 minutes to spare, your input matters in guiding investments and shaping the future for the region. Qualified participants who successfully complete a survey will have the opportunity to enter into a giveaway for one of 20 gift cards, valued at $50 each. Visit the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to see full giveaway rules.

Take the survey today!

Dec 6. – APA PA Webinar Wednesday – Land Use Law Update (Law CM Pending)

Webinar Wednesday: Land Use Law Update

December 6 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Land Use Law Update

This session will review opinions of the federal and Pennsylvania courts issued since the last APA PA annual conference and highlight developments in the law. The session will cover the adoption, administration, interpretation and enforcement of MPC-enabled ordinances; floodplain, stormwater and wetlands management; other state and federal statutes impacting land use (e.g. fair housing statutes, RLUIPA); and Pennsylvania and federal constitutional issues (e.g. due process, takings). (PLEASE NOTE: This is the same session from the APA PA Annual Conference, if you attended)

Law CM credit is pending approval. You must attend the webinar live in order to earn CM credit.

Speakers:
Susan J Smith, Esq
Leah Eppinger, AICP

**The Pennsylvania Chapter is not responsible for the materials or opinions of the speaker(s) you will hear**

Deadline to register is December 5

If you’re interested in sponsoring a Webinar Wednesday session or have a session for Webinar Wednesday please contact us. Send your request to info@planningpa.org.

Please note: You will receive a reminder email a few days before the webinar with zoom information (please check your spam/junk folders). This email will be sent to the email address you used to register for the event.

REGISTER NOW

2023 Annual Event Tickets Now Available!

Tickets are now available for our 2023 Annual Event!

Get your tickets today!

SAVE THE DATE – APAPASE Annual Event
An Evening with Anne Fadullon
Thursday, December 7
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
The Post
129 South 30th Street, Philadelphia

Come join APAPA-SE at our 2023 annual meeting! The Southeast Section has had a lot to celebrate this year, including a national planning conference and summertime social outings. We will cover it all along with celebrating Anne Fadullon, the recently retired director of the Philadelphia Department of Planning and Development. Anne will speak on her time with the city and what could come next in a new mayoral administration.

Networking and socializing are welcome throughout the event.

Heavy appetizers and two beer/wine drink tickets are included with your admission ticket.

The Post is located a block and a half south of Market on 30th Street, with easy access to highways and transit.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

SAVE THE DATE – APAPASE Annual Event

SAVE THE DATE – APAPASE Annual Event
An Evening with Anne Fadullon
Thursday, December 7
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
The Post
129 South 30th Street, Philadelphia
Join APAPASE for our annual event at The Post in University City! We’re looking forward to a night of networking, appetizers and drinks, and a conversation with Anne Fadullon who recently left the Philadelphia Department of Planning and Development.
Tickets will go on sale in early November.

Oct. 19: AIA PHL + ULI PHL Urban Resilience Forum (3 CM)

Reserve your spot today for the ULI Philadelphia
& AIA Philadelphia Urban Resilience Forum on
10/19! Learn about the creative ways in which
our local leaders are responding to the effects of
climate change in the Philadelphia region.
Learn more about each panel and register today:
https://philadelphia.uli.org/events/detail/7B16204C-8D69-40DE-83E5-24147640BE7D/

WHEN 

Oct 19, 2023  

12:30 PM – 6:00 PM EDT 

WHERE 

Center for Architecture and Design 

1218 Arch Street 

Philadelphia, PA 19107 

About the Program: 

Hurricane Ida’s record flooding in 2021, summer of 2023 heat records, and record for worst  urban air quality in the world on June 8, 2023, these events demonstrate that climate change is  on Philly’s doorstep, and we must respond. What is Philadelphia doing to address the effects of  climate change from the parcel, project, and regional scale while addressing historic  environmental injustices?  

Join AIA Philadelphia and ULI Philadelphia to hear about the creative ways in which our local  leaders are responding with solutions that will work in our specific context.  

The Urban Resilience Forum will be a half-day program with three sessions featuring guest  speakers presenting case studies, moderated conversations, and audience Q&A. Following the  program, continue the conversation over a networking happy hour. 

Credits: Earn a total of 3 AIA LUs (HSW) | 3 LA CES Credits (HSW) | 3 AICP

Oct. 24 – Sharing & Connecting Block: How We Are Implementing DEI Initiatives in Our Industry

October 24 – 5:30 PM to 7:3 PM

Presented by ASCE Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee

To round out our series, this event will focus on SHARING how we are implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and employee resource groups (ERGs) initiatives. With a fast and dynamic presentation, representatives of different companies and industry associations will share what they’re doing at their organizations. What works? What doesn’t? How can we do better? This will be followed by a series of breakout roundtables, allowing us to CONNECT on a more personal level.

Location: 1818 Market St 16th floor, Philadelphia, PA 19103
(The presentation section will have a virtual option.) –
Registration: Tuesday, October 17, 2023, This is a FREE event (Register Here)

Featured Job Listing – DVRPC – Planning Data Analyst

DVRPC is looking to hire a Planning Data Analyst! Click through for the full job announcement.

Annual APA PA Conference

October 15 – October 17

Register Today!

Electrifying the Future With Our Past

Join Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Planning Association for their Annual Conference in Scranton.

  • 400 planners expected
  • Over 40 classroom sessions
  • 6 mobile workshops offered
  • Up to 12 CM credits, including Sustainability/Resilience, Equity, Law and Ethics
  • Welcome Reception at Scranton Cultural Center
  • Annual Awards presentation – our best and brightest
  • State of the APA PA Chapter
  • Monday reception with the Exhibitors
  • Tuesday afternoon Desserts with our Exhibitors
  • and more!

The largest annual gathering of planners in PA!

PMPEI Train the Trainer

The PA Municipal Planning Education Institute will be conducting a Train-the-Trainer class to prepare instructors to teach the PMPEI Course in Subdivision and Land Development Review. The training consists of two weekend sessions, Friday and Saturday, October 6 and 7, and Saturday, October 21.  and will be held in State College. The training program will also include instruction for teaching the PMPEI online course, Managing the Subdivision Review Process.

The Course in Subdivision and Land Development Review Course is an in-depth, 10-hour, newly revised course intended to help students master the complex and time-sensitive review process, as well as teaching them how these regulations are an integral part of a community’s planning process. In sharing your knowledge and experience you will be helping local officials become better planners.

2023 is PMPEI’s 31st year as the PA Chapter/American Planning Association’s principal educational outreach to planning commissioners and local officials. Courses are set up at convenient sites- usually in municipal facilities- so they are close to where students are located. As an instructor you will be joining about 50 other professionals who teach in the PMPEI program that reaches about 1,400 officials a year. PMPEI Instructors are paid for teaching courses, and also receive travel and meal reimbursement. Teaching assignments are set up to keep travel time reasonable for instructors.

If you have at least five years’ experience in planning in Pennsylvania and would like to be a PMPEI Instructor, contact Stanford Lembeck, AICP, at slembeck34@gmail.com.  The registration fee for the three-day training is $150, and class size is limited. A registration form, with additional information about the PMPEI Planning and Zoning Course Program, will be sent to you.