Community Planning Workshops

As part of the Community Assistance Program, the American Institute of Certified Planners sponsors one-day workshops at the annual APA National Planning Conference.

The workshops were designed to address a local planning issue in a community of the conference host city. Projects are selected to ensure that the community benefits from a focused one-day effort involving community members, local planning staff, and APA volunteers from all over the country. Workshops assist a community that does not have all of the necessary resources to engage in the community planning process.

Workshop planners prepare a program that is intended to:

• Serve as a legacy of the national planning conference for the host city.
• Highlight the capabilities of the planning profession.
• Visibly demonstrate planning to the public.
• Provide training on public consensus building and hone skills in community participation and problem solving.

Completed Workshops