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2006 National Planning Awards Call for Entries Good planning helps create communities of lasting value. Creating such communities takes effort, vision, and dedication. The American Planning Association recognizes this effort annually with its National Planning Awards. The awards showcase the cutting-edge achievements of individuals, agencies, commissions, government officials, and others who work together to create communities that offer citizens greater choices on how and where they live, work, and recreate. We invite you to participate in the celebration of the best in planning by nominating projects and people that deserve recognition. How to Submit Nominations
For more information about the National Planning Awards program, please call 202-349-1006, or send an e-mail message to AwardsProgram@planning.org.
Distinguished Leadership Awards
Additional Eligibility Criteria
The Outstanding Planning Awards are for group achievement and may be made to a planning agency, planning team or firm, community group, or local authority. There are no restrictions on the size of jurisdiction. The Current Topic Award
Award — Housing Choice and Affordability This award will go to a plan, community program, or design that demonstrates the successful use of planning principles to expand housing choice and affordability in a manner that strengthens neighborhood revitalization, reduces sprawl, and promotes public health. Eligibility: Open to APA members and non-members. Criteria Impact. What are the anticipated or realized results of the entry in terms of value to residents, design quality, adjacent property values, resident satisfaction and, if applicable, the protection and interpretation of neighborhood, cultural and historic resources? Transferability. Illustrate how the entry has potential application for others. Describe how broader application of your entry's components and methodology would further the cause of good planning for housing affordability and choice. Balance. How does your affordable housing plan demonstrate a varied approach to placemaking? For example, does the plan incorporate incentives, public education or other approaches? How well does it address popular misconceptions about affordable housing or concerns of neighboring landowners? How well does it provide for environmental and historic conservation while accommodating appropriate opportunities for new development, either within or adjacent to the resource? Role of planners. How did staff or consulting planners play a role in developing and implementing the nominated effort? How did the effort demonstrate the value of planners to a broader public? Did it change people's opinions or tangibly result in an improved climate for planning, e.g. more attention, more access, increased budget?
Eligibility: Open to APA members and non-members. Outstanding Planning Award for
a Project/Program/Tool Eligibility: Open to APA members and non-members. Outstanding Planning Award
for a Special Community Initiative Eligibility: Open to APA members and non-members.
Eligibility: Open to APA members and non-members. Criteria for all four Outstanding Planning Awards Originality/Innovation. Document how your entry presents a visionary approach or innovative concept to address local needs. Explain how the use of the planning process in this context broadened accepted planning principles within the context of the local situation. Transferability. Illustrate how the entry has potential application for others and how application of your entry's components and methodology would further the cause of good planning. Quality. Winning entries will represent excellence of thought, analysis, writing and graphics throughout the nomination, regardless of budgetary limitations. Indicate how available resources were used in a thoughtful and ethical process. Comprehensiveness. Specify how planning principles have been observed, especially in consideration of your entry's effects on other public objectives. Identify to what extent your entry includes elements important to the local community. Public Participation. Explain the level of public participation in this effort. The winning entries demonstrate a strong effort to solicit input from those who historically have been left out of the planning process. Show how the entries obtained public and private support. Role of Planners. Clarify the role, significance and participation of the planner; for instance, how in-house staff and consultants worked together. Demonstrate the connection between the success of this effort and increased awareness of planners and the planning process. Effectiveness/Results. State how your entry addressed the need or problem that prompted its initiation. Be explicit about how the results have made a difference in the lives of the people affected. Convey the level of effectiveness your entry could have over time. Additional criteria, Special Community Initiative category Education. Establish that your entry has encouraged community leaders to revise their opinions about the varied uses and broad applications of the planning process. State the influence your entry has had on public awareness beyond those immediately affected. Collaboration. Describe the level of collaboration between leadership and competing interests. Explain how those affected were brought into the planning process for this initiative. Additional criteria, Implementation category: Sustained Improvement. Indicate the level of consistency of this implementation effort since its start. Detail any changes, derailments or improvements throughout the implementation phase. Funding. Identify funding challenges or support for this effort. Report any political changes that might affect, for better or worse, the effort's long-term funding. Community Acceptance/Support. Describehow the longevity of this effort has increased the community's appetite for planning and the pursuit of similar initiatives. Clarify the extent that this effort's sustained success has been achieved beyond its general audience.
Distinguished Leadership Awards The Distinguished Leadership Awards are presented to individuals for sustained and significant contributions to the profession. The Distinguished Leadership
Award for a Professional Planner Eligibility: Nominated individuals may not enter themselves and must be employed within the practice of planning, whether in the public, for-profit, or nonprofit sector. APA membership is not required. Criteria Support of Planning/Planners. Illustrate how the nominee's work has increased the understanding of the planning process. Indicate how the nominee has shown a clear understanding of, and support for, the role of planners in public life. Effectiveness/Results. Describe the extent that the nominee has been effective in formulating and implementing plans and ideas in support of good planning. Identify the level of influence and effectiveness achieved by the nominee within different segments of the community.
Eligibility: Candidates cannot be self-nominated and cannot earn their living as planners or hold elected office. APA membership is not required. Criteria Support of Planning/Planners. Illustrate how the nominee's work has increased the understanding of the planning process. Indicate how the nominee has shown a clear understanding of, and support for, the role of planners in public life. Effectiveness/Results. Describe the extent that the nominee has been effective in formulating and implementing plans and ideas in support of good planning. Identify the level of influence and effectiveness achieved by the nominee within different segments of the community.
Eligibility: Candidates cannot be self-nominated. APA membership is not required. Criteria Support of Planning/Planners. Illustrate how the nominee's work has increased the understanding of the planning process. Indicate how the nominee has shown a clear understanding of, and support for, the role of planners in public life. Effectiveness/Results. Describe the extent that the nominee has been effective in formulating and implementing plans and ideas in support of good planning. Identify the level of influence and effectiveness achieved by the nominee within different segments of the community.
Eligibility: One nomination will be accepted from each accredited planning program at the undergraduate and graduate levels. APA membership is not required. Criteria Support of Planning. Illustrate how the nominee's academic achievement has demonstrated comprehension of planning principles and the planning process. Show how the nominee's participation and leadership within the planning program demonstrated a sincere enthusiasm for excellence in planning. Effectiveness/Results/Potential. Describe the contribution the nominee has made to the planning profession. Explain how the nominee demonstrates potential for success as a professional planner.
Eligibility: Open to APA members and non-members. Criteria Results. Specify to what degree your entry addressed the need for increased economic, employment and housing choice, and mobility among low- and moderate-income residents. Illustrate how the implementation of this project made specific improvements in the quality of life for the community. If the nomination is a project, include the end date and when results were implemented. Transferability. Detail how this submission provides an example for others. Describe how the approach can be applied elsewhere. Innovation. Explain how your submission represents an innovative approach to the need for increased choice and community empowerment. "Innovation" should be discussed on two levels: for the locality (or region) and for the nation, given field of program or practice. For projects utilizing HOPE VI funds, describe how the nomination builds on existing HOPE VI requirements. Planning. Clarify how this project tied into and furthered existing plans (comprehensive, regional, neighborhood) and the role that planners played in achieving the results. Show how the planning process was important to implementation. Collaboration. Indicate the level of support and contribution by all of the stakeholders in the community to the results. Be explicit about how specific groups and individuals from the private, nonprofit, and public perspectives, particularly those typically overlooked, were involved and influenced the outcome. Value. Demonstrate that the effort is cost-effective and list other alternatives that were considered for this approach. Design Quality. For submissions with a physical aspect, contemplated or completed, entries receiving this award will exhibit attention to detail and urban design including materials, context, public amenities, and historic and cultural features. Funding Sources. If a project, describe the sources of funding. If HUD monies are involved, be sure to list the type(s) and amount(s) (HOPE VI, CDBG, NCDI, HOPWA, etc.).
Eligibility: Open to APA members and non-members. Criteria Advocacy. Describe to what extent the nominee addressed the needs of those that society typically overlooks during the planning process. Effectiveness. Specify how the nominee's effort has had an impact on the lives of those the nominee is working to help. Indicate how those efforts have touched a wider audience.
Eligibility: Open to APA members and non-members. Candidates may not nominate themselves. Criteria Support of women and the family. Describe how the nominee's efforts addressed the concerns of women through specific actions or contributions to planning initiatives in the community. Effectiveness. Specify how the nominee's effort has been effective in furthering the cause of women's issues through planning. Indicate how those efforts have touched a wider audience.
Recognizing efforts to elevate planning and inform the public. The Daniel Burnham Award Eligibility: Non-APA Members. Any APA member may submit a nominee for consideration. Criteria Effectiveness/Results. To what extent has the nominee been effective in formulating and implementing its plans and ideas and furthered the cause of planning? Where has this effectiveness been realized?
Eligibility: Open to APA members and non-members. Criteria Originality. Document how the program uses new ideas or combines tools to address a demonstrated need for planning information or education within the community. Quality. Entries need to demonstrate excellence of thought, analysis, writing and graphics throughout the nomination, regardless of budgetary limitations. Indicate how available resources were used in a thoughtful and ethical process. Education. Show how the program has increased the understanding of planning principles and the planning process. Explain how the results have been measured and internalized. Transferability. Illustrate how the entry has potential application for others. Describe how widespread application would be in the interest of the planning profession. Effectiveness. Specify the extent that the program, if directed to adults or designed as a general education effort, has been effective in implementing plans and ideas. Show how the program has furthered the cause of sound planning.
Eligibility. Any APA member other than the person nominated may submit a member's name for this award.
Eligibility. Any APA member other than the person nominated may submit a member's name for this award. Criteria Support of Planning. Specify how the nominee's work increased the understanding of planning principles and the planning process. Support of APA. Detail how the nominee's participation in, and contribution to, APA furthered the cause of the association. Effectiveness. Describe the level of effectiveness the nominee has had in formulating and implementing his/her ideas, subsequently furthering the cause of planning and APA.
The entry deadline for the Journalism awards is extended to January 17, 2006, for articles published in 2005. Click here for the Journalism Awards application form Please contact Sylvia Lewis at 312-786-6370 or slewis@planning.org for additional information.
AICP National Historic Planning
Landmarks and Pioneers Awards The Planning Pioneer Awards are presented to pioneers of the profession who have made personal and direct innovations in American planning that have significantly and positively redirected planning practice, education, or theory with long-term results. Application forms Deadlines: October 14, 2005
The Student Project Award recognizes a student or group of students in accredited
planning program for an outstanding paper or class project. The Outstanding
Student Award recognizes a student for significant attainment in the study
of planning and who is graduating from an accredited planning program during
the 2005/2006 academic year. For additional information about student awards, contact Susan Turner at sturner@planning.org.
Additional Eligibility Criteria With the noted exception of the Outstanding Planning Award for Implementation, any plan, project, program, tool, process, report, or ordinance entered must have been published, implemented, or completed within three years of the date of submission. Nominators must assign each submission to one category. No changes will be allowed after the submission deadline. The jury may move a submission from one category to another. Recipients of the Distinguished Service, Distinguished Contribution, Daniel Burnham, Distinguished Leadership, and Paul Davidoff awards are ineligible to receive the same award for 10 years after accepting it. Nominators may not be related by blood or marriage to any individual they wish to nominate for a Distinguished Service, Distinguished Contribution, Public Education, Distinguished Leadership, or Paul Davidoff award. Members of the APA Awards Committee, APA staff, APA Board of Directors, and
AICP Commission are not eligible to enter, to be nominated, or to receive individual
awards. These individuals may not attempt to influence or affect the outcome
of the jury process for any nominated project, plan, or individual. Submission deadline for the National Planning Awards is September 12, 2005. Please note that the APA Journalism Awards and several AICP awards have different submission contacts and deadlines.
The following attachments are mandatory. Submissions lacking these attachments will not be considered. Five collated sets of each nomination are required; two of these sets must contain the required images.
For additional information contact Denny Johnson at APA's Public Affairs Office at 202-349-1006 or e-mail djohnson@planning.org. Judging for National Planning Awards will take place in October/November 2005. Jurors are under no obligation to grant an award in any category or may select to move a nomination to a different category. Nominators of submissions will be notified confidentially by December 2005. Official announcements of submissions receiving awards will be made after all nominators have been notified. Award recipients will be recognized at APA's National Planning Conference in San Antonio April 22–26, 2006. National Planning Award recipients receive a personalized sculpture, plaque, or certificate, depending on the award category. Each award recipient will be profiled in the April 2006 edition of Planning magazine and on APA's website.
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