Wednesday, September 30, 2009

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 

Social Equity through Planning Processes

Sustainable Business Districts: Rethinking Commercial Planning

3:30  p.m. -  5:00 p.m.

Case Law and Legislative Update

Community Marketing Strategies That Work

Thursday, October 1, 2009

8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Session: Effectively Linking Land Use Planners to Strategic Economic Development in the New Economy

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Revelations about RLUIPA

10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Fisher Station - Lessons from a Multi-Jurisdictional TOD Charrette

Green to Go: Safe Routes to School Planning

Harvest an Industry: Planning for Agriculture

Best Practices + Investment = Downtown Success

12:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Keynote Luncheon and Annual Meeting: How Can Planners Reclaim Their Position as Advocates for Community Transformation?

1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Gestalt and the Art of Preserving Working Lands

Quantifying the Economic Value of Oakland County's Green Infrastructure

Embracing Diversity to Build Better Communities

1:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

Charrettes for Form-Based Codes and Sustainability Plans

3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

Smart Strategies for Dealing with Junkyards, Gravel Pits,

Sexually-Oriented Businesses, and other LULUs

Gardens, Chickens, and Hoophouses - Planning and Zoning for Urban Agriculture

Show Me the Money: Economic Stimulus Update by MSHDA

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Friday, October 2, 2009

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

General Session: A Better Way to Zone

9:40 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.

Ethics - What's Right?

9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 

Moving Uptown Forward: Creating a Corridor Improvement Authority and District

The Grand Vision: A Regional Case Study

The Grand Vision Powerpoint

11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Turning Development On Its Head: Planners Lead

Zoning for the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Land Use Regulations

Procedure Manuals - Making Zoning Understandable

11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

The Role of Local Government in Protecting Wetlands

1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

A Trail Runs Through It

Desolate to Dynamic: Facility Assessment and Adaptive Reuse

Transportation Futures

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Conditional Zoning: Negotiating This for That

3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

Brevity or Ambiguity - What's In Your Ordinance?

Saturday, October 3, 2009 

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Breakfast Keynote: Race to the Finish: Rethinking Your Community's Assets