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after the devastating earthquake will
<br />discuss their first-hand experiences of the
<br />destruction and recovery. Learn about the
<br />Japanese planning system through their
<br />examples. Sponsor: International
<br />Division. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Gambling with History
<br />Tuesday, 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
<br />
<br />This session highlights communities that
<br />have chosen to adopt gambling, and
<br />evaluates the impacts of gaming facilities
<br />from the historic preservation perspective.
<br />Presenters also provide case studies of
<br />communities that considered gambling
<br />and chose not to adopt it. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Land-Use Exactions After Nollan
<br />and Dolan
<br />Tuesday, 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
<br />
<br />Discuss the latest cases on the
<br />constitutionality of exactions, with an
<br />emphasis on the federal Nollan/Dolan
<br />standard. Includes advice on the drafting
<br />and application of land-use exactions that
<br />will survive federal constitutional
<br />challenges. Sponsor: Planning and Law
<br />Division. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Customer Service Orientation
<br />Tuesday, 2:30 p,m.-3:45 p.m.
<br />
<br />Learn how customer service is important
<br />to the planning process, and examine the
<br />politics involved. Focus on the principles
<br />and practices appropriate in a local
<br />government setting, including how to
<br />listen to and empower your customers.
<br />Sponsor: National Association of County
<br />Planners. CPDP: 1.$
<br />
<br />Planners and the Media
<br />Tuesday, 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
<br />
<br />Change and growth can put planners in
<br />the hot seat, but they can also create a
<br />great opportunity to increase public
<br />understanding of planning and its
<br />benefits. Learn how to use the media and
<br />to build good relationships with
<br />journalists. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Community Planning Teams
<br />Tuesday, 2:30 p.m.-3:45 a.m.
<br />
<br />Greensboro, North Carolina, is the pilot
<br />project site for APA's new initiative.
<br />Review the program and experiences of
<br />the first CPT visit from the perspectives
<br />of the team and the local government
<br />sponsor. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Citizen Involvement Beyond
<br />Visioning
<br />Tuesday, 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
<br />
<br />Using case studies, learn how to involve
<br />all citizens in planning efforts. Find out
<br />what to do--and not to do--to get
<br />citizens involved in a long-term planning
<br />process by using innovative techniques.
<br />CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Federal Planning in the Future
<br />Tuesday, 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
<br />
<br />Learn how federal planners can improve
<br />their networking capabilities and establish
<br />strategic alliances to address future
<br />planning issues, including environmental
<br />management and comprehensive,
<br />component, and element plans.
<br />Understand how GIS and multimedia
<br />technology are changing the focus of
<br />federal planning. Sponsor: Federal
<br />Planning Division. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />New Directions in Land-Use
<br />Regulation
<br />Tuesday, 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
<br />
<br />An emerging trend in land-use planning
<br />and regulation focuses on patterns of
<br />development and the character of the
<br />urban fabric. Form-based approaches are
<br />new, but hold the promise of producing
<br />quality development. Learn how to offer
<br />more flexibility, while integrating
<br />environmental, transportation, and
<br />economic planning objectives. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Transportation Demand
<br />Management
<br />Tuesday, 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
<br />
<br />Understand the methods and terminology
<br />of Transportation Demand Management
<br />(TDM), and learn to recognize locations
<br />suitable for application of TDM
<br />strategies. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Planning Commissioners Workshop
<br />Regulating Conflicts of Interest
<br />and Ethics
<br />Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
<br />
<br />Look at how some states and communities
<br />are using formal rules of conduct to
<br />govern the behavior of their commissions
<br />and the decision-making process. Learn
<br />how administrative rules and legislation
<br />are used to address these issues.
<br />
<br />Computer-Based Land-Use
<br />Regulations
<br />Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
<br />
<br />Gain an understanding of the advantages
<br />that a Visual Interactive Code (VIC) has
<br />over conventional municipal regnlations.
<br />Learn to use your own V1C and translate
<br />
<br />zoning regulations and planning data into
<br />easily understood photographs.
<br />illustrations, and maps. CPI)P: 1.5
<br />
<br />From St. John's College to
<br />Baden Square
<br />Tuesday, 4:00 p.,n.-5:15 p.m.
<br />
<br />This session describes the adaptive
<br />redevelopment of a small private liberal
<br />arts college into a comprehensive
<br />community center. Examine the role of a
<br />student-faculty commt, nity service team
<br />and tbe creative mix of public and private
<br />funding. Cosponsors: Housing and
<br />Human Services and Small Town and
<br />Rural Planning Divisions. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Affordable Housing in Florida
<br />Tuesday, 4:00 p.,n.-5:15 p.m.
<br />
<br />Florida has one of the most complete
<br />affordable-housing programs in the
<br />nation. This session will explain and
<br />showcase examples of building, fimding,
<br />and regulating affordable housing, using
<br />Orlando as the case study. Sponsor: Local
<br />Host Committee. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Gambling with the Future
<br />Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
<br />
<br />Look at the same communities studied in
<br />the gambling with history session, but
<br />from a fiscal and economic perspective.
<br />Review the benefits these communities
<br />realized and the costs they have incurred.
<br />Panelists will reflect on how planning and
<br />negotiation efforts may have helped or
<br />hindered the success of gambling as an
<br />economic development tool. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />The Property Rights Revolution
<br />Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
<br />
<br />Discuss and debate the pros and cons of
<br />assessment- and compensation-type
<br />legislation. Discussion includes a
<br />summary of current federal and state
<br />takings legislation proposals and actions,
<br />and points of negotiation and
<br />compromise. Sponsor: Planning and Law
<br />Division. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Economic Development
<br />Round Table
<br />Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
<br />
<br />This session will focus on commercial
<br />demographic databases and computer
<br />mapping tools for economic development.
<br />Un,!erstand the pros and cons of GIS as
<br />an economic development planning tool,
<br />and judge the strengths and weaknesses of
<br />commercial data for planning. Sponsor:
<br />Economic Development Division.
<br />CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Retail Market Analysis
<br />Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
<br />
<br />Understand how retail market analysis is
<br />applied to entire communities rather than
<br />specific sites. Discuss sources of data,
<br />strengths and weaknesses of
<br />methodology, and ways communities can
<br />use this information to encourage retail
<br />development. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Environmental Issues Facing
<br />Federal Facilities
<br />Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
<br />
<br />Federal sites have nnique environmental
<br />issues to consider. Presenters demonstrate
<br />how to design strategies for habitat
<br />preservation, contamination, liability, and
<br />risk, and navigate the layers of laws
<br />governing environmental issues. Sponsor:
<br />Federal Planning Division. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Downtown Transportation
<br />Systems
<br />Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
<br />
<br />Using Nashville as a case study, look at
<br />central business district commuter travel
<br />and approaches to manage commuter-
<br />based traffic congestion effectively.
<br />Examine pedestrian and streetscape
<br />issues, and apply ISTEA concepts and
<br />funding opportunities in a downtown
<br />environment. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Biological Services Planning
<br />Partnership
<br />Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
<br />
<br />Examine the Gap Analysis Project. a
<br />nationwide project of the National
<br />Biological Services that is currently
<br />operating in 42 states. Understand how
<br />GAP data can be used for land-use planning
<br />by using digital mapping. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />AICP Workshop
<br />AICP Exam Review Course II
<br />Tuesday, 6:00 p.ln.-9:00 p.m.
<br />
<br />A review of the topics that have caused
<br />the most difficulty: budgeting and
<br />economic techniques, and applying
<br />analytic methods. (See Monday, 6:00 p.m.
<br />to 8:00 p.m. for Part I.)
<br />
<br />Wednesday, April 1 7
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<br />AICP Workshop
<br />Computer Visualization
<br />Wednesday, 8:45 ;,.m.-I 1:30 a.m.
<br />
<br />Learn about the developments in
<br />computer visualization, computer-aided
<br />design, multimedia applications, and
<br />software development that have occurred
<br />
<br />in this fast-moving field since lhe last
<br />conference. See examples that point the
<br />way to new and better ways of "seeing"
<br />the city. Cosponsors: Information
<br />Technology and City Planning and
<br />Management Divisions. CPDP: 3
<br />
<br />AICP Workshop
<br />Planning Statute Reform
<br />Wednesday, 8:45 aan.-I 1:30 a.m.
<br />
<br />Convincing state legislators of the need to
<br />reform antiquated planning statutes is like
<br />sweeping a bag of marbles from one end
<br />of a gym to another. Drawing upon their
<br />own experiences, panelists will develop a
<br />list of common principles that could be
<br />used to get statute reform done in an anti-
<br />regulatory, property rights-conscious era.
<br />The session provides an npdate on
<br />GROWING SM..XRTTM. Sponsor: Planning and
<br />Law Division. CPDP: 3
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<br />Planning Commissioners Workshop
<br />Visioning for Planning
<br />Commissioners
<br />Wednesday, 8:45 a.m.-I 1:30 a.m.
<br />
<br />A hands-on exercise designed to illustrate
<br />the principles of visioning, this workshop
<br />will identify and communicate ideas, set
<br />priorities, and develop a strategy for
<br />implementation. Participants will join
<br />together to "vision" a 21st century
<br />community.
<br />
<br />AICP Workshop
<br />Leadership in the '9Os
<br />Wednesday, 8:45 a.m.-I 1:30 a.m.
<br />
<br />A review of the best and brightest
<br />thinkiug about leadership: teams vs. work
<br />groups, coaching vs. bossing, coaching
<br />individual "players," using win-win
<br />agreements, and applying consequences
<br />when an agreement succeeds or fails.
<br />CPDP: 3
<br />
<br />Meadowlands Management Plan
<br />Wednesday, 8:45 a.m.-I 1:30 a.m.
<br />
<br />Examine how the state and federal
<br />partnership in the Itackensack
<br />Meadowlands achieves sustainable
<br />growth for economic and environmental
<br />improvement, while avoiding takings
<br />claims. Learn techniques you can use in
<br />your communily. CPDP: 3
<br />
<br />Pros and Cons of Taking the
<br />AICP Exam
<br />Wednesday, 8:45 a.m.-10:00 a.m
<br />
<br />Is it really as difficult as people say? Find
<br />out what the advantages and
<br />disadvantages of putting yourself through
<br />the stress of becoming AICP really are.
<br />
<br />Planning Barcelona
<br />Wednesday, 8:45 a.m.-lO:00 a.m.
<br />
<br />Barcelona is one of the great cities of
<br />Europe, blending medieval, 19th, and
<br />20th century design into a vital and
<br />functional whole. Learn how the city
<br />developed and the role of key planners in
<br />shaping this exciting city. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Return of the Grand Parks
<br />System Plan
<br />Wednesday, 8:45 a.m.-I 0:00 a.m.
<br />
<br />In this discussion of the elements aud
<br />qualities of a visionary parks system plan,
<br />learn how to implement these bold visions
<br />in today's political, social, and fiscal
<br />environment. Learn how to redefine the
<br />elements of great parks, create a vision,
<br />build community support, and identify
<br />nontraditional funding. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Effective Advocacy Skills for
<br />Planners
<br />Wednesday, 8:45 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
<br />
<br />With state-level legislative actions
<br />affecting planning regulation and growth
<br />management, knowing how to get across
<br />the points of view of your community and
<br />your chapter is more important than ever.
<br />APA's public affairs staff will show how
<br />it's done. CPDP: 1.5
<br />
<br />Encouraging Investment and
<br />Empowerment
<br />Wednesday, 8:45 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
<br />
<br />Learn about Michigan's tax abalement
<br />and incentive programs and their
<br />relationship to federal programs.
<br />Presenters will evaluate the implications
<br />of Michigan's proposed Renaissance
<br />Zone legislation and the slate's attempt 1o
<br />encourage private investment in derelict
<br />areas. CPDP: 1.5
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