2009 Advanced Academy
Placemaking for Prosperity:
Practical Education for the New Economy
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center, East Lansing
Online registration is now closed. Please call our office to register at 517.432.7600.
The 2009 Michigan Citizen Planner Advanced Academy is Michigan’s premiere training event designed exclusively for local planning and zoning officials. This year’s event will focus on strategies to build prosperity by linking your community to the future through sustainable growth. The Academy will offer skill-building sessions and tools for local planning and zoning officials on topics such as Green Development, Adaptive Reuse, Placemaking, Neighborhood Stabilization and Site Plan Review for Renewable Energy. It will also provide important land use case law and legislative updates. The Academy is available to all Michigan Citizen Planner alumni, local officials and citizens engaged in creating vibrant Michigan communities that will succeed in the New Economy.
Already registered? Print out your presentation materials. In an effort to "go green" and prevent wasted paper, presentations and other handouts for all sessions, including the keynote and case law update will be uploaded to our website prior to the Academy so that individuals can print out materials for sessions they want to attend. Materials are available on the "Sessions and Handouts " page.
Thank you to our event sponsor:
Plenary Sessions
Keynote Address: Sustainable Communities for the New Economy
Suzanne Schulz, Planning Director, City of Grand Rapids, MI
Neighborhood Stabilization: Foreclosure, Housing, and the Economy
This panel session will focus on strategies and efforts communities are taking to stabilize neighborhoods and improve the local economy. Collaborative efforts between community foundations, local units of government and educational institutions will be examined.
Moderator: Richard Wooten, Wayne County Extension Director, MSUE
Case Law and Legislative Update
Learn about the most important changes in land use law that affect every community in Michigan. Presenter: Mark Wyckoff, FAICP, Planning and Zoning Center at MSU
Concurrent Sessions
This year’s Academy provides three tracks of sessions to best suit your community’s needs and interests: Development Review, New Economy and Green Development:
Development Review Track
A1: Site Plan Review for Utility Scale Wind Energy Systems
Explore the process a local planning commission should follow and require to be shown on windenergy farm site plans. Review the state wind energy guidelines and walk through their application. Examine site plan examples and review major issues.
Presenters: Dean Solomon and Kurt Schindler, MSUE Land Use Educators
B1:. Site Plan Standards and Review for Home and Small Business Renewable Energy
More and more homes and small businesses are proposing alternative energy systems on their property. Learn about wind, solar, bio-fuel (including wood) alternative energy, and requirements for a plot plan or site plan. Review issues of concern, and what type of ordinance standards can help lesson those concerns. Discussion will also focus on encouraging use of alternative energy systems.
Presenters: Dean Solomon and Kurt Schindler, MSUE Land Use Educators
New Economy Track
A2. Best Practice Case Studies in the New Economy
While much research has been conducted in defining the New Economy and the changes it brings, communities remain uncertain in how they can position themselves for success in this new paradigm. Based on on-going research of 50 high performing New Economy communities nationwide, this session provides
best practice lessons that are instructive for any size community.
Presenter: Dave Ivan, Central Regional Director, MSUE
B2. Creating a Local Strategic Growth Plan for the New Economy
Presenter: Brad Neumann, Land Policy Educator, MSUE – St. Joseph County
Green Development Track
A3. Growing Green: Human Scale Communities
One way to reach sustainability is to think about communities from the human perspective, at a human scale. Learn about human scale design leading to pedestrian-oriented, human interaction in your community. This session will explore the science and tools of designing human scale communities.
Presenter: Glenn Pape, MSUE Regional Land Use Educator
B3. Making Green Places through Adaptive Reuse and Historic Preservation
Preservationists assert that the greenest building is the one that's already been built. This session demonstrates how sustainable, environmentally sound and culturally attractive places can be created and maintained using the techniques of adaptive re-use and historic preservation. Urban, small town and rural places will be showcased.
Presenter: Mary Ann Heidemann, MSUE Regional Land Use Educator
Master Citizen Planners
Master Citizen Planners (MCP) attending will earn 0.6 MCP continuing education units (CEUs).