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
Save
the date! The 2010 workshops will occur simultaneously on Friday,
April 30th in San Jose and Santa Monica. Each workshop will
entail a walking tour highlighting sustainable practices local organizations
engaged in promoting more sustainable urban environments. Click on
the following links for detailed information about each workshop and
site-specific registration forms:
San
Jose tour 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Santa
Monica tour 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
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.
CPF has offered sustainability walking tours through a variety of neighborhoods
every spring for the past several years. Prior to the walking tour format,
the California Planning Foundation sponsored workshops on 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
mintier@mintierharnish.com
II.
Paul CRAWFORD MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES
Inaugural Crawford
Symposium:
THE LIVEABLE
CITY: FORM BASED CODING FOR SUSTAINABLE URBANISM
April 16, 2009,
12:30-5:30PM on the campus of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Building 5 - Berg
Gallery
Throughout America,
form based codes are becoming an important tool for regulating development
to achieve a specific urban form. Form-based codes address the relationship
between building facades and the public realm, the form and mass of buildings
in relation to one another, and the scale and types of streets and blocks.
Not to be confused with design guidelines, form-based codes are regulatory,
not advisory. Two national experts from the Form-Based Codes Institute will
explore the essential ingredients in developing and implementing effective
and professionally useful codes.
For more details
and to register: http://planning.calpoly.edu/crawford/index.html
III.
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.
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