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Manager's Planning Guide to Improving the Development Review System CD-ROM Course Click here to view audio CD-ROM panelists. Available from Planners Book Service. Price: $225; APA members $195; AICP members $175 Let AICP Training help you navigate the tempest of organizational change and system streamlining with the Manager's Planning Guide to Improving the Development Review System. Learn to design a system that serves applicants, the public, as well as the needs of service-oriented government. Gain control over change through better management skills. The course is designed for both individual and group instruction. Through AICP Training (formerly Planners Training Service), the American Institute of Certified Planners provides high-quality, intensive instruction on management, planning techniques, and contemporary policy issues. Who should buy this course? Are you getting what you need from your development review process? Have you avoided improvement for fear of unleashing a storm? What does the course involve? You can study at your pace. The course consists of 6 hours reading, plus 4 hours audio discussion. AICP members can use this course for continuing professional development program credits (CPDP). CPDP: 10 (click here for a CPDP credit log) The six chapters of the manual guide you through the steps of improving the development review process. Each lesson is reinforced by a CD-ROM audio discussion of what it takes to implement change in city, county, and suburban communities.
George Arimes is a registered professional engineer with more than 25 years of public and private sector experience in governmental consulting, municipal management, regulatory system improvement, engineering design, and urban planning. Arimes is the president of Horizon Centre, Inc. (HCI), a management consulting firm specializing in land development system performance improvement within government agencies. His extensive "hands on" consulting experience includes comprehensive and complex system change, innovative business process re-engineering for improved customer service, cultural change management, permit process streamlining, organizational analysis, integration of new technologies, and educational seminars and training. Some of his current and past clients include Portland, Oregon; San Diego, Oakland, and Alameda, California; Ogden, Utah; El Paso County, Colorado; Yakima County, Washington; and Lee County, Florida. As a government manager, Arimes internally directed multiple year programs on citywide development process re-engineering for the cities of San Diego and Austin, Texas. The performance improvements centered on providing better customer service through innovative project management, multi-disciplinary team approaches, and technology to promote "real-time" access to information. Dick Anderwald, AICP, is Director of Planning/Special Projects for Yakima County, Washington. He oversees current and long range planning activities for the County and also coordinates special projects for the Board of County Commissioners. Over the last decade, those projects have included revamping the public defender, district court probation, and emergency medical service programs; coordinating E-911 program startup; and, most recently, coordinating improvements to the county's land use permitting system. He is the 2002 recipient of the Myer R. Wolfe Award for Professional Achievement, given by the Washington Chapter of APA. June Catalano, AICP, is the City Manager for the City of Martinez, California. Previous positions include: Assistant City Manager for the City of Milpitas; Development Services Director for the City of San Leandro; Executive Director of Planning and Building Safety for the City of Santa Ana; Community Development Director for the City of Laguna Beach; and Deputy Community Development Director for the City of Huntington Beach. She also served two terms as a Planning Commissioner for the City of Piedmont. Terry Harris is the County Administrator for the El Paso County Government. Previous positions include: Planning Director and Community Development Director for El Paso County, and President then Executive Director of Colorado Counties, Inc., the lobby and service organization for the counties of Colorado. He served two terms as an El Paso County Commissioner and also owned and operated a real estate and development business from 1975-1990.
Stuart Meck, FAICP, is a Senior Research Fellow with the American Planning Association. Since 1994, he has been Principal Investigator for the APA's Growing Smart project, a long-term effort to draft and implement the next generation of model planning and zoning legislation for the U.S. Meck is a former APA National President, Commissioner on the American Institute of Certified Planners Commission (AICP), and is a Fellow of the AICP. He was a founding member of APA's Amicus Curiae Committee, which intervenes in federal and state land-use and planning litigation. He is a registered professional community planner in the State of Michigan and a licensed professional planner in the State of New Jersey. Meck has 31 years of professional experience. He has served as assistant city manager and planning director of Oxford, Ohio, and on the staffs of the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission in Dayton, Ohio, and of the Memphis and Shelby County Planning Commission in Memphis, Tennessee. He has also written widely on planning and land-use issues for many years and in various publications.
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