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| #e.21881 | Wednesday 11:30AM to 12:45PM
November 14,
2012 | CM | 1.25 |
How am I doing? Measuring planning successAPA Nevada ChapterLas Vegas, NV This presentation examines the concept of social success in planning. How do professional planners know when they have succeeded? How can citizens and elected officials tell how well the outcome of a program fulfills the adopted plans? This session raises issues of social accountability in professional planning practice. It begins with a brief review of the history of social equity concerns in planning. Social equity was one of the basic tenets of early planners.
We look at how they defined social equity and what assumptions about the social needs of urban residents underlay their planning. A review of current social equity factors in today’s practice emphasizes the North American model most closely applicable to Nevada planning. Along the way, planners will be invited to compare their own situations with best practices from around the continent. A primary example of Social Equity planning practice is the example of transit planning. The session uses the example of transit planning and its social goals, primarily Title VI Civil Rights goals and Environmental Justice. The social goals for transit are established by federal legislation and administrative law, but local evaluation is necessary to show compliance with the regulations.
We review the requirements, how they are measured, and possible improvements to the program’s measurements and federal evaluation of local efforts. This is particularly relevant in today’s environment of sustainable planning that mandates combined land use and transportation planning. The presentation opens and highlights issues for both transportation and land use planners that can help define this closer partnership.
More Instructors: Bruce Turner AICP Bruce Turner, AICP, has 35 years of planning experience, practicing in land use and transportation in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Nevada. He retired as Director of Planning Services with the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada in June, 2010. For the past two years, he has been researching and writing on social equity issues. He is a PhD candidate in Sociology at UNLV, where his dissertation examines legislation and regulation of social equity issues related to planning programs and capital projects. He was one of the team that started the Las Vegas public transit system, the largest and fastest-growing startup transit system since World War II. He holds a Master of Science in Community and Regional Planning (MSCRP) from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from UNLV, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Geography from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (Dip Geog Edin). Bruce Turner AICP Bruce Turner, AICP, has 35 years of planning experience, practicing in land use and transportation in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Nevada. He retired as Director of Planning Services with the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada in June, 2010. For the past two years, he has been researching and writing on social equity issues. He is a PhD candidate in Sociology at UNLV, where his dissertation examines legislation and regulation of social equity issues related to planning programs and capital projects. He was one of the team that started the Las Vegas public transit system, the largest and fastest-growing startup transit system since World War II. He holds a Master of Science in Community and Regional Planning (MSCRP) from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from UNLV, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Geography from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (Dip Geog Edin). (4 Ratings)
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