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SUMMER 2009A “Smarter” Future: Regional Tool Box Now Available to Visualize, Design, and Fund Smart Growth Projects in the San Diego RegionBy Coleen Clementson and Carolina Gregor, SANDAG
With the recent creation of Smart Growth Design Guidelines, the San Diego Association of Governments has completed all the fundamental elements of its “Smart Growth
Tool Box” to help local communities accommodate expanding populations while at the same time encouraging the development of inviting, efficient, sustainable communities as envisioned by the Regional Comprehensive Plan (RCP).
The SANDAG Board of Directors formally accepted Designing for Smart Growth, Creating Great Places in the San Diego Region in June – adding it to the other elements of the Tool Box, which combine to help visualize, plan for, and finance smart growth development.
The San Diego region is expected to grow by about one million people and 500,000 jobs in the next 40 years, reaching a predicted 4.5 million people by 2050. Smart growth can play a big role in maintaining and enhancing the region’s quality of life while the commu-nity grows, but many people continue to ask questions like:
What does smart growth look like here in the San Diego region?•
What good examples do we have of existing smart growth?•
What could future smart growth look like in local neighborhoods?•
IN THIS ISSUE:
REGIONAL TOOL BOXPage 6
WHAT’S GOING ON?Page 2
DIRECTOR’S MESSAGEPage 3
AWARD SHOW RECAPPage 6
SD MAKING WAVESPage 7
PLANNING TOPICS
More Recent ProgramsPage 9
Award Show PicturesPage 11
Free CM Credits?!!?Page 12
APA MembershipPage 14
ANNOUNCEMENTSPage 13
1©2009 APA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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To give concrete answers to these questions, SANDAG has partnered with local juris-dictions and stakeholders to develop a set of materials to help everyone visualize and understand smart growth. Containing both planning and financing tools, the Tool Box encourages discussion in local communities, generates greater support for smart growth principles, and provides incentives and assistance to local governments to implement local smart growth projects.
July Program Luncheon: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design - July 30, 2009 - Please join us to learn about the first two LEED-ND pilot projects in San Diego - Quarry Falls in Mission Valley and Westfield University Town Center. Learn about LEED-ND certification and innovative sustainability techniques and project features which will lead to LEED-ND certification. Our speakers will be Marco Sessa, Senior Vice President, Sudberry Properties, and Greg Fitchitt, Vice President of Development, Westfield. The luncheon will be held at the Downtown Information Center 193 Horton Plaza. Lunch will be provided by Waters Cafe. Registration deadline is Tuesday July 28.Download FlyerRegister Online 2009 APACA Annual Conference Stipends - August 7, 2009 - In response to the state of the economy and San Diego APA’s focus on serving and supporting our members, the SDAPA Board of Directors has made available three stipends of $500 each to San Diego APA members who have a strong need to attend the 2009 APACA Annual Conference in Tahoe, CA. Further Details and Award Criteria California Transportation Plan 2035 Public Workshop - October 8, 2009 - The California Transportation Plan CTP) is a statewide, long-range transportation plan for meeting statewide mobility needs. The CTP defines goals, policies, and strategies to achieve our collective vision for California’s future transportation system. This plan, with a minimum 20-year planning horizon, is prepared in response to federal and state requirements and is updated every five years. The current CTP 2025 was approved in 2006 and updated by an Addendum in October of 2007 to comply with SAFETEA-LU requirements. An update to the plan for the 2035 planning horizon was initiated in September 2008. Caltrans staff will provide an update on the development of this latest planning effort. A public workshop for the San Diego region has been scheduled on Thursday, October 8, 2009 from 12-3pm at the Caltrans District 11 office’s Garcia Auditorium. For more information, including signing up for e-mail alerts, go to www.californiatransportationplan2035.org. Download FactsheetDownload Brochure APA California Conference
September 13 - 16, 2009 at Lake Tahoe. The California Chapter presents an annual statewide conference that provides both networking and educational opportunities for its members. This popular conference attracts planning professionals from throughout California, the United States, and around the world. For more information and to register please click below. Hope to see you there!Register Here
San Diego Section Board MembersSection Director, Bill Chopyk, [email protected]
Past Section Director, Bill Chopyk, AICP 619.667.1187
Treasurer, Carey Fernandes, [email protected]
Secretary, Sara Lyons, AICP 619.236.6368
Membership Director, Elisa [email protected]
Webmaster, Greg Konar, AICP 619.881.3265
Newsletter Editor, Kiley Lyons, AICP, LEED [email protected]
Professional Development (AICP), Stan Donn, AICP619.409.5953
Professional Development (Workshops), Nancy Graham, [email protected]
Awards Chair, Jennifer Cordeau, AICP619.294.9400
Marketing & Sustianable Initiative Director, Sarah Lozano, [email protected]
Programs Co-Chair, Dan Wery, AICP 858.614.5081
Program Co-Chair, Patrick [email protected]
Membership Inclusion Director, Connery Cepeda 619.688.6968
Academic Liaison/Mentor Programs, Kevin [email protected]
Student Representative - UCSD Damon Jordan619.225.6459
Assistant Newsletter Editor, Dana [email protected]
Student Representative - SDSU, OPEN
Imperial Valley RAC - OPEN
What’s Going On?
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Section Director’s Message
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SDAPA has monthly programs scheduled through the summer and fall and two workshops that will provide very low •cost opportunities for professional development, particularly certification maintenance (CM) credits. We also have our networking mixer, Planner’s Night Out, scheduled for late August.
APACA recently launched the CD Lending Library which offers CD-ROM training packages on a range of topics that can be •checked out for $5.00 each a week. The purpose of the lending program is to offer a no-cost option for AICP members to qualify for CM credits, but CDs may be borrowed by any Chapter member. You can watch these CD’s with a group at the office or in the comfort of your own home. CDs are loaned on a first-come, first-served basis so act fast! For more details on the CD Lending Program, visit the APACA’s website.
The APA California Board has committed $50,000 from its reserve account towards a membership/conference support •program. $30,000 has been established in a separate account to provide direct financial support towards membership fees while $20,000 has been set aside in a fund to provide financial support for those members in need to attend this year’s state conference at Squaw Creek. The support program has been designed for the unemployed or households where income has dropped substantially. Visit APACA’s website for further details.
Last but not least, preparations are underway for the APACA Annual Conference coming to San Diego in 2010! The upcoming conference, Coast, Canyon, Crest: Elevating Sustainability, will be held November 1-4, 2010 at the La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad. As I’ve said before, please contact me if you would like to get involved!
The San Diego Section Board of Directors continues to focus on equipping its members to stay ahead of the curve through support and education. We look forward to seeing you at a future event or hearing from you!
Sincerely,
Brooke E. Peterson, AICPDirector, San Diego Section of the American Planning Association
Welcome to summer where our sunny San Diego becomes even sunnier and our beaches and amusement attractions
fill up! I want to take just a moment to give you an update on what’s going on in your local APA Section and State Chapter.
Both your San Diego Section of APA and the APA California Chapter (APACA) are primarily focused on supporting and sustaining their members throughout the economic downturn. As training budgets are tighter or even non-existent and planning positions (and entire departments for that matter) are being eliminated, APA recognizing its responsibility to support its members to the maximum extent possible. Here are just a few things that are happening:
SDAPA is offering $500 scholarships to assist three (3) of •its local members in attending the 2009 APACA Annual Conference in Lake Tahoe. Please visit our website for eligibility criteria and further detail on how to apply!
The Smart Growth Tool Box is key to achieving the goals of the Regional Comprehensive Plan. Adopted in 2004 by the SANDAG Board, the RCP serves as a blueprint for the San Diego region and provides a broad framework for local and regional decisions that can move the region toward a more sustainable future.
Setting the Stage: The Smart Growth Concept Map
When people hear the words “smart growth,” what might come to mind are dense, compact cities such as New York or San Francisco; or, conversely, they might also picture a walkable small town village like Seaside, Florida. Reflecting this notion that smart growth is not “one size fits all,” the RCP identifies seven smart growth place types tailored specifically to the San Diego region.
The seven place types—Metropolitan Center (which is downtown San Diego), Urban Centers, Town Centers, Community Centers, Rural Villages, Mixed Use Transit Corridors, and Special Use Centers—are characterized by different levels of general land-use intensity and transit service. These charac-teristics provide a baseline for how planned and future projects can support smart growth prin-ciples, focusing on a mix of land uses, walkability, and connectivity to transit.
To identify these place types in the region, the RCP called for the creation of a “Smart Growth Concept Map” to pinpoint locations where existing and/or planned development reflects the characteristics of the various place types, as well as locations where certain types of smart growth development would be desirable and could occur if existing local plans were modified to allow it. Through a collaborative process with SANDAG, local planning staffs identified their jurisdictions’ existing and planned Smart Growth Opportunity Areas, as well as areas with smart growth potential. Collectively, they totaled nearly 200 locations throughout the region, with at least one in each jurisdiction.
In 2006, this process culminated with the SANDAG Board accepting the Smart Growth Concept Map. The map identifies the smart growth locations by place type. It also overlays other important regional systems and landmarks, including the existing and planned future transportation network, open space and habitat preserve areas, and major regional employment areas. In 2008, SANDAG and local jurisdictions completed a technical update to the map, which is intended to serve as a bridge between the RCP and local plans and zoning regulations.
The Smart Growth Concept Map is the foundation for other Smart Growth Tool Box initiatives outlined below, including the Smart Growth Photo Library, Visualization Tools, Smart Growth Design Guidelines, and the Smart Growth Incentive Program.
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Visual Tools for Smart Growth
To showcase local examples of existing smart growth development, SANDAG has assembled a “Smart Growth Photo Library” of nearly 4,000 photographs depicting existing transit-oriented development, pedestrian-oriented streetscapes, mixed-use build-ings, higher-density housing, affordable housing, and walkable and bikable spaces across the region. A sampling of images from the Photo Library is available for free on the SANDAG website, and a full 3-set DVD case is available for $15 upon request (see ordering information below).
In addition, to help communities envision the potential of areas on the Smart Growth Concept Map, SANDAG partnered with local jurisdictions and two firms to create two- and three-dimensional visual simulations for several specific locations. These simulations transform photographs of existing conditions by overlaying conceptual smart growth alternatives that complement existing community attributes. The simulations are posted on the SANDAG website, and are also included in the Smart Growth Photo Library DVD set.
SANDAG encourages planners, architects, community members, developers, academics, consultants, and other interested par-ties to use the Smart Growth Photo Library and the visual simulations in presentations, brochures, and community meetings to generate discussion about the opportunities for adding smart growth to more places throughout the region.
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The Nuts and Bolts: Designing Smart Growth
Despite the recent progress, questions about smart growth still remain. For example, if a project is high-density, does that mean it automatically qualifies as a smart growth project? Does a bus station near a mall count as transit-oriented development? How can we tell if a community plan update is incorporating smart growth principles? Sometimes it is difficult to know if a design is truly enhancing the surrounding community.
To address these and other issues, the SANDAG Board recently adopted a set of guidelines: Entitled Designing for Smart Growth, Creating Great Places in the San Diego Region. The guidelines are intended to illustrate for policymakers, local agency planning and engineering staffs, planning consultants, developers, and interested citizens how good design can contribute to the quality of life in the San Diego region.
Serving as both a primer and a technical reference, the guidelines address the importance of design in maintaining and enhanc-ing community character and in creating great public places. Among the topics covered are site design, street design, sustain-ability, and parking solutions that support mixed-use development and a variety of transportation options. In addition, the guidelines include a “Smart Growth Score Card” that can be used to assess how plans or projects perform against smart growth principles.
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Incentives for Smart Growth: Funding Local Plans and Projects
The region has secured a steady source of local funding for smart growth projects. In November 2004, just after the SANDAG Board adopted the RCP, San Diego County voters approved a 40-year extension of TransNet—a half-cent sales tax administered by SANDAG that generates funds for transportation and environmental projects. The TransNet ordinance allocates funds to programs that finance smart growth, bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, habitat preservation, and environ-mental mitigation projects. SANDAG leverages these local funds to bring in additional state and federal resources.
Earlier this year, the SANDAG Board approved the first round of projects funded under the TransNet extension’s Smart Growth Incentive Program (SGIP), Environmental Mitigation Program (EMP), and Bicycle, Pedestrian, and Neighborhood Safety/Traffic Calming Program. The combined value of the projects funded under these programs totaled almost $20 million.
This long-term funding source allows SANDAG to offer grants to local governments for planning or capital improvement projects that embody smart growth principles in areas designated on the Smart Growth Concept Map, as well as projects that support the regional habitat preservation system. The SGIP and the EMP grant programs will be administered every two years, and the Bicycle, Pedestrian, and Neighborhood Safety/Traffic Calming Program will be administered annually. More information about the projects that were recently funded and about the programs themselves can be found on the SANDAG website.
Accessing the Smart Growth Tool Box
The Smart Growth Tool Box contains other resources, including a speakers bureau, the San Diego Regional Bicycle Plan, and infor-mation about the relationships between public health and smart growth. In addition, the new Smart Growth Trip Generation and Parking Demand Study will soon be added to the tool box. The RCP and the resources in the Smart Growth Tool Box can be accessed online at www.sandag.org/rcp. To order a copy of the Smart Growth Photo Library DVD, please visit the Web site or call SANDAG’s public information officer at (619) 699-1950.
Major New Planning Efforts on the Horizon
While the Smart Growth Tool Box focuses on providing resources to local jurisdictions and neighborhoods, SANDAG is also involved in a number of other large-scale and long-term planning efforts. The agency is currently working on the 2050 Regional Transportation Plan (RTP), the 2050 Regional Growth Forecast, the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA), the Regional Energy Strategy (RES) update, and the Regional Climate Action Plan. To stay tuned to these efforts and others–-as well as how the region works to meet the requirements set forth in new statewide climate change laws, including AB 32 and SB 375, and the preparation of a Sustainable Communities Strategy. Visit the SANDAG website at www.sandag.org, or call (619) 699-1950.
SDAPA would like to thank the following jury members for their participation in the event this year:
Maurizio Antoninetti, Professor, SDSU
The first-ever environmentally friendly SDAPA Awards event was a huge success! Many people came to play with the SDAPA and recognize some of San Diego’s best planning accomplishments at the New Children’s Museum (NCM), which utilizes innovative and environmentally sustainable architecture and was one of the first green museums in California. The sustainability focus of the event was apparent throughout the night, with the location, the local and organic food provided by Waters Catering, the centerpieces, the programs, and even the drink tickets which were made using recyclable. The MC of the event, Tod Oliver, even made sure to keep with the theme by recycling some of his jokes from last year!
The night was filled with laughs and surprise as guests took advantage of all the fun the NCM had to offer. Guests indulged in gourmet mini hot dogs and hamburgers during the cocktail hour and took turns racing through the lobby on wooden segways (insert pic of people riding scooters). During the ceremony, Tod Oliver performed a childhood psychology test on the audience that had everyone laughing in their seats and at the end of the night three lucky people received ‘big kid’ prizes consisting of a digital camera, iPod, and Nintendo Wii!
There were many projects submitted for consideration this year, and the jury went to great lengths to professionally evaluate each entry. As a result, the jury chose to honor the following six projects with awards:
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Recent Programs - SDAPA Awards
Comprehensive Planning Award WinnerCity of San Diego General Plan
Focused Issue Planning Award WinnerNCTD Three Transit Station TOD Redevelopment Plans
Focused Issue Planning Award Honorable MentionCity of Oceanside Bicycle Master Plan
Innovation in Green Community Planning Award WinnerGarden Del Mar Specific Plan
Distinguished Contribution/Service Award WinnerJane Clough-Riquelme, PhD.
Media Award Winner
The Nolan Plan: Vision, Politics and Memory in San Diego
Ed Batchelder, Planning Manager, City of Chula VistaCecilia Gallardo, AICP, Assistant Deputy Director, City of San DiegoKathleen A. Garcia, FASLA, Principal, Wallace Roberts & Todd, Inc. Lee Sherwood, Principal, RECON
SDAPA not have been able to produce this first-time event without our wonderful sponsors, who showed their support in the following ways:
Host of eco-friendly centerpieces (Dudek, RBF, Mooney Planning Collaborative in Association with Dudek), Host of Waters Catering organic dessert and coffee ser-vice (MIG), and In-kind (URS Corporation).
In addition to the assistance of the jury and our sponsors, the event would not have taken place without all of the dedication and hard work of the following Awards Committee members:
Jennifer Cordeau, AICP, URS CorpAlex Hempton, AICP, City of San DiegoLisa Lind, ReconKiley Lyons, AICP, URS CorpSara Lyons, AICP, City of San DiegoDana Spaccarotella, URS Corp
Lastly, the SDAPA Awards event would not have been a success without the support from all of our guests who came to recog-nize San Diego’s planning projects that are designing for our future. Thank you all for your support of the SDAPA Awards and we look forward to seeing you all next year! For more information on the winners please visit
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San Diego: Making Waves with its General PlanBy: Sara Lyons, AICP
One of the big winners this year at the local APA Awards was the City of San Diego, walking away with
the Section’s Comprehensive Planning Award for a large jurisdiction for the 2008 General Plan. The City of San Diego’s General Plan represents a shift in focus from how to develop vacant land to how to design infill development and reinvest
1979 and reflected a time when San Diego had available land for development. It is no secret times have changed -- with only 4% vacant land remaining and a growing public policy awareness of the influence land use planning has for improving sustainability and conservation, healthy and walkable neighborhoods, and accessibility to transit and services -- a new strategy for growth was needed. Referred to as the City of Villages, the General Plan outlines a new strategy for handling smart growth by focusing growth into mixed-use villages that are pedestrian-friendly districts, of different scales, linked to the transit system. The General Plan’s Village Propensity Map shows a range of continuous values using 22 various land use and transportation characteristics that range from low to high where the higher values indicate greater propensity for a village. The General Plan provides guidance for each village to be unique to the community in which it is located, yet all villages will be pedestrian-friendly, and characterized by inviting, accessible and attractive streets and public spaces.
The new General Plan, unanimously approved and adopted March 10, 2008 by the San Diego City Council, also has a strong sustainability focus through policies addressing transit/land use coordination; climate change; healthy, walkable communities; green buildings; clean technology industries; water and energy conservation and management; and urban forestry. In addition, the General Plan features protections for prime industrial lands; strategies for providing urban parks; “toolboxes” to implement
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in existing communities. “This is the first General Plan in the City’s 240 year history that focuses on policies related to infill development and redevelopment, rather than raw land development, and includes sustainability policies related to climate change,” explains Director of City Planning & Community Investment for the City of San Diego, Bill Anderson, FAICP.
The 2008 General Plan tackles old and new issues with a balanced and creative approach that has received regional and national attention. Just this month, the APA’s Planning Advisory Service (link) Report, Planning, Public Health, and Physical Activity, includes excerpts from the General Plan’s Mobility Element regarding walk-able communities, bicycling and the Village Propensity Map as examples of policies which exemplify best prac-tices in planning and provide valuable information for planners across the country. In May, Living Cities issued a report, GREEN CITIES: How Urban Sustainability Efforts Can and Must Drive America’s Climate Change Policies (link) mentioning San Diego’s multimodal transportation approach to reduce car use and address climate change. It should also be noted, that the City of San Diego was the first city in California to update its General Plan and successfully undergo review by the State Attorney General’s Office pertaining to climate change, following the passage of Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
The General Plan draws upon the character and strengths of San Diego’s natural environment, distinctive neighborhoods, and activity centers that together form the City as a whole. The last General Plan was updated in
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mobility strategies; and policies designed to further the preservation of San Diego’s historical and cultural resources. “This is an inherently more sustainable approach to city development. Our next challenge and responsibility is to implement it,” states Bill Anderson.
The overall implementation strategy of the General Plan is being accomplished through a broad range of legislative and regulatory actions that influence private and public development. Implementation of the General Plan has only just begun and will be monitored through an annual monitoring report. On July 7th, 2009, the San Diego City Council unanimously adopted the General Plan Action Plan which outlines the implementation actions for each policy in the General Plan. The General Plan Action Plan, a companion item to the General Plan, identifies measures and timeframes for implementing General Plan policies. The City of San Diego is also embarking on an aggressive community plan update program. There are currently five community plan updates or major amendments underway and another four will begin in the near-term. Community plan updates will provide the opportunity to accomplish short-term as well as long-term General Plan implementation goals.
For links to the General Plan and other related City of San Diego documents visit the General Plan homepage at: http://www.sandiego.gov/planning/genplan/index.shtml
Congratulations to San Diego’s Newest AICP Members!
Bernard TurgeonJennifer CordeauLouis RadosevichAdam Birnbaum
Raeanon HartiganThomas Adler
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More Recent ProgramsSan Diego Movie Premiere EventBy: Elisa Marrone
On April 21st, over 100 San Diegans gathered to experience the premiere of the short documentary film The Nolen Plan: Vision, Politics and Memory in San Diego.
The evening began with a reception at the courtyard of the Prado restaurant in Balboa Park and moved to the Museum of Photographic Arts for the film viewing. A lively discussion followed the presentation when Brian Mooney and a panel of speakers from the film took questions from the audience.
Brian Mooney, AICP, wrote, directed and produced the film that presented the origins of Nolen’s 1909 plan for San Diego and its relevance to our city today. Brian’s experience as a planner in San Diego goes back many years and includes work in the private and public sectors. He was helped in this endeavor by these notable San Diegans: University of San Diego historian Iris Engstrand, PhD; Union-Tribune author Roger Showley; and planners Michael Stepner, FAICP, of the New School of Architecture and Bill Anderson, FAICP, of the City of San Diego.
If you weren’t able to join us for the event, you can still catch the film. It is playing locally on KPBS (www.kpbs.org/tv). Congratulations Brian! As always, you can find information on this and APA’s many exciting events at www.sdapa.org. While there, why not sign up for our local email blast to have the latest news delivered right to your inbox?
3rd Annual Regional Planning Collaborative Talk Climate ChangeBy: Elisa Marrone
This year’s 3rd Annual Regional Planning Collaborative continued the tradition of bringing together local experts to put a
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regional perspective on a global issue. This year, the conference addressed “Global Climate Change Initiatives in the San Diego Region.”
Emily Young of the San Diego Foundation started off the day with a presentation on the Foundation’s study on climate change or, as Emily called it, “the challenge of our lifetime.” California’s diverse environment will see varied impacts. With no changes to the current trends, we could expect a future with changes such as an earlier start to heat wave season with each wave lasting longer and sea levels rising between 12 and 18 inches. With California already leading the way in awareness of climate change challenges, Ms. Young emphasized that we can have more of an impact as we start addressing the issues now.
Rob Rundle from SANDAG focused on the transportation link to climate change. 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation. The “transportation” category is broad and can include everything from vehicle efficiency, the mix of fuels used in vehicles and the vehicle miles traveled. As such, lowering GHG emissions from the transportation category requires a comprehensive strategy such as locating jobs, housing, retail and recreation opportunities closer together and providing alternatives to driving individual vehicles. The Regional Climate Action Plan with current standards, forecasts and policy discussions, should be finalized by fall 2011.
Steve Kellenberg of EDAW shared some of the cutting-edge tools he uses to quantify and compare climate change impacts of competing projects. This integrated, whole-system thinking divides a project into various components and looks to optimize each piece while balancing the environmental impacts, market acceptance, and other criteria.
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The keynote speakers were followed by a panel discussion. Tom Fudge of KPBS encouraged the panel to build on the keynote ideas by asking “what’s next?” Representing points of view as varied as public health, water distribution, academia, environmental protection and conservation, and land use, all agreed that the future will be a complicated balancing act. San Diego has been able to disregard most of the organic limits on growth which has somewhat disconnected development from
its environmental impacts. A wholesale change in thinking is required where people live more densely and have more transportation options, where the public is educated about the impact of their choices, and where financing is allocated to ideas based on the changed thinking and not the standard projects of the past. It will need to happen more as an evolution then a revolution to be able to include the needs of existing development while at the same time asking people to start using resources in a new way. The results will be felt in many areas such as improved public health, extension of our water supplies and improved quality of life for the most vulnerable populations. The panel agreed - collaboration is the key to lasting solutions.
Three breakout sessions worked to put the pieces together for practical use. Facilitators stressed the importance of linkages – between general plans and climate change solutions; between environmental systems and a sustainable community fabric; and between lifestyle choices and technology advances to carbon reductions. These smaller groups encouraged even more discussions and allowed attendees the opportunity to learn from one another.
The global impacts of climate change are enormous and diverse, and the San Diego region will feel the effects. Throughout the day the presenters agreed that working together is the only way to create solutions that will have a substantial impact. Starting with this year’s Planning Collaborative, those who attended have plenty of “food for thought” to keep the conversations going.
Visit www.sdapa.org for the three presentations found in the Planning Library, and sign up on the local email list to receive announcements about events like the Planning Collaborative.
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More Pictures from the Award Show!
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Free CM Credits!??!Planning for Healthy Places The American Institute of Certified Planners announces Planning for Healthy Places with Health Impact Assessments (http://professional.captus.com/Planning/hia), the first in a series of CM-eligible online courses from APA. Through examples and activities, this “how-to” guide explains the value of health impact assessments and outlines the steps involved in conducting one. The course was developed in partnership between the American Planning Association and the National Association of County and City Health Officials and is offered free of charge through a grant from the Centers for Disease Control. The course carries 6 CM credits.
Space Available!
Zucker Systems, a planning, development and management firm located at 1545 Hotel Circle South, Suite 300 has an excellent furnished extra private office space that it wishes to rent to a plan-ning or environmental consultant. Good opportu-nity for synergistic conversations. Call Paul Zucker, FAICP at (619) 260-2683.
SDAPA Support for Student Internships - The SDAPA supports students who are preparing to pursue careers in the planning field. As part of our supportive efforts, we are providing an active employment/internship assistance program which functions as an intermediary between the students and the planning business community at large.
While SDAPA does not guarantee employment, every possible effort is made to assist students in pursuing work experience in the diverse planning profession. SDAPA will accept and post internship opportunities for undergraduates and/or graduate students who are actively engaged in the pursuit of a career in the field with a planning emphasis. Intern positions will be posted on our jobs page at no charge.
We encourage you to participate in our efforts. Please download, complete, and submit the form below to Kevin Grant at [email protected]. Download Form
SDAPA Academic Liaison Mentor Program - Did you know that SDAPA has a Mentor Program that matches planning students with planning professionals? Students and faculty members are encouraged to utilize our SDAPA Board liaison to communicate and network between the Planning/Geography/Urban Studies Departments of the San Diego region universities and the professional planning community.
The liaison is also tasked with assisting student representatives in organizing interested students in becoming more involved in the planning community prior to commencement. For more information, please contact Kevin Grant at [email protected] or 858-342-8808.
Mail-List - Receive the latest SDAPA news and job announcements by subscribing to our e-mail list at no charge. Subscribe
Jobs Available - Check here for the latest San Diego Planning jobs. Go to jobs page
SDAPA Planning Library - Download PowerPoint presentations and workshop materials from SDAPA sponsored workshops and luncheons. Download Presentations
Request for Proposals - SDAPA is now accepting RFP documents in downloadable PDF format for posting on our jobs announcements page. Go to jobs page
Announcement Requests - Please submit announcement requests by e-mail to [email protected]. Announcements should be relevant to the San Diego planning community. Please see sample announcement request. Download sample announcement request
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APA Membership
Becoming an American Planning Association member is easy! The APA website, www.planning.org, offers online membership services. To sign up go to www.
planning.org/joinapa/. You may also reactivate your membership, change your contact information and join up for additional services on the national website.
As a Planner, there are many benefits by becoming involved in the American Planning Association (APA). Whether you are interested in staying on top of current industry events, discussing planning issues, or just looking for a new job, APA is there to help facilitate it. As a professional organization, APA brings together people who share an interest in working towards better-planned communities.
APA aims to improve your career by providing opportunities to become more engaged in your profession. As a national professional organization, APA is highly recognized by private, public and academic entities as being on the forefront of the planning profession.
APA creates an opportunity to expand your career. As a member,
• UseAPAresourcestostayuptodateonpolicyissues
• YouareencouragedtobecomeAICPcertified. American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) is a designation for those who choose to take their profession one step further. AICP allows you to become a credible planner and show that you are trained as a certified planner. In addition, our local San Diego APA section offers professional development workshops and luncheons to keep professionals up to date on local planning issues.
• Get recognized. Annual conferences andaward ceremonies for national, state and local sections offer a way to exchange ideas and for projects and hard work to be recognized by your professional peers.
To keep members up-to-date on national trends, local news and innovative ideas APA provides a number of publications. National, state and special interest divisions produce monthly periodicals and the San Diego local section issues a regular newsletter.
For students, becoming a member of APA is an incredible tool in learning to navigate the professional world of planning.
The most helpful resource and simplest way to stay involved with what’s with happening locally and around the world is to sign up for email notices on the APA websites. (National: www.planning.org and locally, www.sdapa.org).
To become a member visit APA’s website:http://www.planning.org/joinapa/.
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