Focus
The
secondary focus of the CPF is to continue the professional development of
practicing planners. This is
accomplished with two ongoing activities:
Offering professional workshops and through
research
projects.
I.
WORKSHOPS
To further its
mission to provide continuing education for practicing planning professionals,
CPF periodically sponsors workshops on topical issues.
All revenue from registration fees in excess of nominal workshop
expenses goes to the Foundation’s scholarship endowment.
In recent years, the California Planning Foundation has sponsored
workshops on Trekking Through Great Neighborhoods (2008), Walking the Sustainability/Green Building Path (2007), Bay Area
Sustainability Tour (2007),
Planning Safe Communities: Lessons from Earth, Wind, Fire, Water & Other
Natural Disasters (2006), Linking Water and Land Use Planning (2005),
Planning in Financially Difficult times (2004), Communication Skills for
Today's Planners (2002), Hiring and Working with Consultants (2002),
Environmental Mitigation Monitoring (2001), State population projections and
the 2000 Federal Census (1999), and major project deal making using the Long
Beach Aquarium and adjacent commercial development as a case study (1999).
For more
information please contact Larry Mintier 916.446.0522
or mintier@jlmintier.com or Alex
Hinds 415.499.6278 or
ahinds@co.marin.ca.us
II.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
The
Eastern Sierra Land Use Planning Project
The Sierra
Nevada Regional Initiative is a one-year pilot project created to enhance the
quality of land use planning decisions by public policy makers in the
tri-county eastern Sierra Nevada region of Alpine, Mono, and Inyo Counties.
This project is co-sponsored by CPF and the California Planning
Roundtable (CPR) through a $100,000 grant from the David and Lucile Packard
Foundation.
The
objective of this project is to materially improve the conservation outcomes
associated with land development project approvals and other important land
use planning decisions affecting this still largely pristine environment.
