Puget Sound Section
Planning Law Conference
New Innovations and Avenues for Planners
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
7:30am to 4:30pm
Meydenbauer Center
11100 NE 6th Street
Bellevue, Washington
Why You Should Attend
The legal environment for planning is changing day to day and planners need to stay up-to-date on the latest developments and tools. Join your peers at this year’s Planning Law Conference in Bellevue and get an update on important planning law issues from lawyers, planners and other knowledgeable professionals. This event will also feature lunch and ample time for catching up with your fellow planners.
Are you an Emerging Planner? Looking for Career Advice? Attend the YPG Mentorship Session!
Ten experienced planning professionals from the public and private sectors have volunteered to serve as mentors. They will share advice and answer questions about job searching, networking and more. After the session, mentors will be available for continued informal discussion next door at Wild Ginger. Bring your resume with you if you’d like it reviewed!
How to Register for the Full Conference
All conference attendees must register online at https://www.regonline.com/2013apawapssplc
Payment may be made by credit card, check or purchase order. The registration fee of $125 is available through Thursday April 25, 2013. Late registration will be $135 if space is available. This event is very popular and registration fills up quickly, please do not wait until the last minute.
How to Register for the YPG Mentorship Session
The YPG Mentorship Session is at the end of the day. You can attend without registering for the full conference, a fee of $20 will be payable at the door. If you register for the full conference, access to this session is included. Please RSVP to the Young Planners group at ypgpugetsound@gmail.com or RSVP on YPG Puget Sound’s facebook group, http://www.facebook.com/groups/ypgpugetsound/events/
How to Get There
Meydenbauer Center is conveniently located adjacent to Interstate 405 at N.E. 6th Street and 112th Avenue N.E. in downtown Bellevue–just nine miles east of downtown Seattle. The most convenient off-ramp from I-405 is at NE 4th Street (Exit 13A). Parking in the garage is $15 for 8 to 12 hours.
Luncheon (Keynote) Speaker
Gene Duvernoy, President, Forterra.
Schedule
Registration, refreshments, and networking begin at 7:30 AM. Sessions begin at 8:30 AM.
A Special Thanks to our Early Sponsors
H.W. Lochner Inc.
Transpo
VanNess Feldman GordonDerr LLP
Community Attributes
Not yet a Law Conference sponsor? We have opportunities for Conference, Room or Break sponsorships. Contact John Davies, Sponsorship Chair at 206-729-1555 or via email at john.davies.seattle@gmail.com.
AICP CM Credits
Applications for AICP Certification Maintenance credits are being submitted for most sessions but have not yet been approved. We will notify conference attendees when determination is made by AICP. We expect to receive CM credits for all sessions. Most sessions will qualify for CM law credits.
For more information contact:
Salina Lyons, President Elect, Puget Sound Section, Washington Chapter APA
206-228-1953 or via email at lyonssk@gmail.com
Stephanie Hansen, Secretary/Snohomish County Rep, Puget Sound Section, Washington Chapter APA
425-252-7700 or via email at shansen@perteet.com
2013 Planning Law Conference Sessions
Current sessions include a range of topics including legislative and legal issues, lessons from the counter and various hot topics in planning. Here is a glimpse of the various sessions that will be offered at this one-day conference:
- SEPA Reform in Washington. This session will feature a panel discussion on the SEPA reform efforts prompted by the 2012 legislation, and conducted in 2012/2013 through Ecology’s rule making process.
- Top 100 Land Use Laws. This session will cover key concepts and cases involved in the land use development in Washington State, including GMA, SMA, SEPA, subdivision review, vested rights, non-conforming uses and LUPA.
- GMA: Time for a Course Correction or Change in Course?—This session will discuss how GMA has addressed its original goals set 22 years ago and how it might be adapted to address emerging issues such as climate change, housing needs, and infrastructure funding.
- Property Takings: Regulatory & Physical. This session will provide an overview and discussion on various court cases associated with property takings, whole, partial and regulatory takings.
- An Archeological Site at the Newaukum Bridge. This session will provide an over view of a difficult archeological issue associated with the Newaukum Bridge and the how Lewis County handled those issues along the way.
- Coming up Short of a Straight Flush. This session will explore current efforts, both at the State and local levels to provide more rigorous prioritization of projects. The panel will also present the benefits that result from modeling, enhanced planning scenario planning, and capital programming.
- Farmland: Planning for Food Production. This session will provide a focus on the current state of agriculture, successful trends the support the importance of agriculture and various tools that planners can use to foster agriculture land use protection.
- Marijuana—City Roles. This session will attempt to sort out, clear up the ambiguity, and offer guidance for how local governments should react to State measures that allow medicinal marijuana collective gardens and then with Initiative 502 that allows recreational marijuana use.
- Before the Disaster. This session will aim to facilitate and open discussion regarding the legal issues, pitfalls and considerations that should be giving to disaster planning and how planning can be integrated into these strategies.
- Form Based Zoning Grows. This session will review the conclusions of the 2012 APA PAS report on the “Rules that Shape Urban Form,” which evaluates how form-based zoning controls are being used around the U.S. and how well they are working.
- Developing Paths and Trails in Washington. This session will discuss the current legal framework along with some of the opportunities for streamlining development of trails in Washington. Panel members with share their experiences with trail development giving State, regional and local agency perspectives.
- Ethics. This session will focus on the standards of ethical behavior according to the AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. Attendees will be provided an overview of the Ethics Code, and presented with various challenging scenarios on how to react to situations from a variety of perspectives. This session is currently scheduled for the end of the day and will be 1.5 hours long. It is anticipated that this session will qualify for Ethics credits.
- Young Planner Group (YPG) Mentorship Program: In this session, experienced planning professionals from the public and private sectors will share advice and answer questions about job searching, networking, and more.
News
Call for Brown Bag Proposals
The APA Puget Sound Section Brown Bags need sessions for the Winter and Spring 2013 Series. The Winter-Spring Series will be held in the February-March timeframe.
If you have a session that you would like to present or you have a topic that you are willing to organize a session around, please email the Brown Bag Coordinator, Patrick Green, with your proposal. Ideas alone are not enough, we need people to fully organize sessions which means:
- You need to define a topic, and provide a couple of paragraphs describing the session that can be used in the AICP CM credit application.
- You are willing to recruit 2-4 presenters and get short, one paragraph bios from them. These will also be used for the CM credit apps.
We are especially interested in sessions that can be presented in Pierce and Snohomish Counties. Puget Sound Section Representatives will identify and reserve venues, you just need to organize the session. As always we will continue to hold BrownBag sessions at Mercer Island and Renton City Halls where we also need sessions.
Thanks in advance to all who take this opportunity to get involved in your planning community!
Finally, I'd like to introduce myself as your new Brown Bag Coordinator. After dedicated service, Stan May decided to pursue his many other talents. We thank him for his hard work and wish him well.
Best,
Patrick Green
Brown Bag Coordinator
Puget Sound Section
Washington APA
Download the new Puget Sound Section bylaws here.
Puget Sound Section 2012 Elections
Hello Puget Sound Planners –
Our section’s board elections have ended and although we had four candidates running unopposed this cycle, we did have over 200 members voting. I thank you for your participation. As for the results: Jim Colburn will continue on as treasurer, Emily Terrell will continue on as Pierce County Representative, Stephanie Young will continue on as King County Representative and I (Alex Cohen) will serve another term as secretary. Thanks to all who participated and we look forward to another year of great professional, educational and social events!
Alex Cohen, AICP
American Planning Association, Washington Chapter
Puget Sound Section - Secretary
Events
YPG Puget Sound
YPG Puget Sound is a professional venue where young planners can meet with their peers to network, learn, have fun and connect with mentors. For more information, including upcoming events, please visit our website. To join YPG's contact list, ask questions, or otherwise get involved, please email us.
Website: http://ypgpugetsound.weebly.com
Email: ypgpugetsound@gmail.com
2012 EPIC (Ethics, Policy & Informational Conference)
APA Puget Sound Section has made available the PowerPoint files from the 2012 Epic Conference.
Stay tuned for an update on the status of AICP credits.
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Brown Bag Series
Announcing the Puget Sound Section APA
Spring 2012 Brown Bag Series of continuing education
Come to the FREE session you need to do your job better! Lunches are still only $5! RSVPs are not required to attend or to buy a lunch. RSVPs are used to estimate the number of lunches to order. Please RSVP before Noon Monday each week to Stan May:stanleymay@gmail.com
AICP CM credit PENDING for all Spring 2012 Sessions!
| Topic | Time | Place | Speakers! |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trail-Oriented Development—The concept of "trail-oriented development" has emerged as a strategy to spur economic development, support transportation choice and active living, and provide added amenity to new and existing development. This session will dig into what exactly is meant by trail-oriented development, particularly within an urban context, and provide several local and national examples of how cities and developers are proactively supporting and promoting trail-oriented development. |
Noon to 1:15, Wed May 23 |
Renton City Hall, 1055 S. Grady, 7th Floor |
Michael Hintze Toole Design Group Carolyn Hope Redmond Franz Loewenherz Bellevue Guy Michaelsen The Berger Partnership |
| Food System Planning Tools in Action—City-oriented food systems policy is becoming more widespread across the country. Participants will learn about experiences of six cities in King County, Washington working to improve food security for their residents by integrating healthy food access into their regulatory framework, starting with comprehensive plans. |
Noon to 1:15 Wed May 30 |
Mercer Island City Council Chambers, 9611 SE 36th St. |
Kara Martin, Urban Food Link Denise Lathrop Des Moines Eva Ringstrom Northwest Center for Livable Communities |
| SEPA Administrative and Judicial Appeals—A discussion on SEPA administrative and judicial appeals, including the differences in the two, the appeal processes, applicable state laws, and applicable court decisions. |
Noon to 1:15 Wed June 6 |
Mercer Island City Council Chambers, 9611 SE 36th St. |
George Steirer Mercer Island Aaron Laing Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt |
| Community Planning in Guatemala; Let the people speak up—Janet Wright, an urban planner and current Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala will share her experience of citizen participation in this developing country. Come learn the ideals and reality of community planning in rural Guatemala, and lessons that can be applied to your own planning practice. Bienvenido a todos. |
Noon to 1:15 Wed June 13 |
Mercer Island City Council Chambers, 9611 SE 36th St. |
Janet Wright Peace Corps, Guatemala |
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