Inside this issue:

Volume 35, Issue 2

Spring 2017

Planning Reorgani-zation Discussed

1

President’s Message 2

What’s Popping Up! 4

State Grapevines 5

CDC Community Guide

10

Professional Devel-opment Updates

11

Events Calendar 12

The Northern New England Planners4Health

project is looking for input on active transpor-

tation initiatives in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The team is led by the Bicycle

Coalition of Maine in partnership with the

Greater Portland Council of Governments and

the Northern New England Chapter of the

American Planning Association. The project is

funded through a Planners4Health grant from the American Planning Association and the

American Public Health Association.

The goal of project is to:

• Create a picture of who is working to in-

crease active transportation option (walking, bicycling, wheeling, and using public trans-

portation for daily travel) across Maine, New

Hampshire and Vermont

• Assess current and potential partnerships in

this arena between public health practition-

ers and local and regional planners

• Inform development and distribution of the

"Imagine People Here" demonstration project

toolkit

Please share your knowledge with us by com-

pleting this short survey: https://

www.surveymonkey.com/r/MNV-ActiveTrans.

Pass it on to your networks and colleagues –

the more responses we received the better!

Questions about the survey can be directed to

Zoe Miller at Zmiller@gpcog.org or 207-774-

9891. Thanks in advance for your time.

Northern New England Planners4Health Survey

Proposals Discussed to Reorganize

Planning Associations in the Region

On April 7 and 8, 2017 representatives of NNECAPA, Maine Association of Plan-ners, New Hampshire Planners Association, and Vermont Planners Association gathered for two days at AMC’s Highland Center in Crawford Notch, NH to dis-cuss possibilities for organizational collaboration. This unprecedented summit was spurred by a NNECAPA Executive Committee retreat in early 2016 and the Chapter’s resulting Strategic Plan. See the Yankee Planner Winter 2017 edition for an introduction to this initiative and a description of some different options being considered.

The goals of the meeting were to (1) discuss problems and benefits of the status quo, and (2) identify pros and cons of different organizational structures. Rep-resentatives also discussed the histories of the different organizations in an ef-fort to understand how they evolved to their current status. Nationally, the Northern New England region is very unusual with its multi-state APA Chapter and independent individual state planning organizations.

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[Note: NNECAPA editorial staff was in hiber-nation during the months of March and April. As a result, this message was delayed in

transmission…]

As I write this during an April Fool’s Day snowstorm, I’m think-ing of silver linings and hope that is in the air.

Hope in the upcoming open discussions on how NNECAPA and our state associations should be structured so we can best serve our members. Whatev-er the end result, bringing all four organiza-tions together, to learn from each other and better understand our strengths and weak-nesses, will lead to better organizations.

Hope that the proposed elimination of fund-ing for vital community building programs like CDBG, HOME, the Economic Develop-ment Administration, the Endowment for the Arts and many related programs will spark a much needed national conversation about what we value in our com-munities and how essential these programs are. These are perfect opportunities for planning and Planners to work across pro-grams and support our col-leagues that we have built rela-tionships with outside of plan-ning, to ensure our communities needs are met.

And opportunity to grow as pro-fessional Planners and the Plan-ning profession, through amazing upcoming conferences including APA National in New York City May 6th through 9th Planning in Motion - Location, Learning and Connections, and the truly awe-

some upcoming NNECAPA Conference in the works for September 7th & 8Th in Manches-

ter, VT, What’s Popping Up in Planning.

I hope you are able to take advantage of this spring of hope and all the opportunities to support our communities and each other during the upcoming months. For now, let’s grab our skis, snowshoes, and sleds to enjoy that one last (I hope) winter adventure!

President’s Message

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Sarah Marchant and Kim Lundgren presenting at NPC17 in NYC

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Goals for Process of Possible Restructuring

• Recognize the importance of maintaining each state association’s individual identity and some degree of autonomy in whichever restructuring option might be chosen

• Address states’ problems with capacity (limited human resources)

• Improve the financial sustainability of state asso-ciations

• Address NNECAPA problems with flow of finan-cial resources to states

• Address redundancy between NNECAPA & state associations (e.g., finances, membership renew-als, website maintenance, event organization)

• Work to enable states to better focus on specific planning needs and “threats” such as political changes and issues (state or federal)

• Simplify dues and membership for state associations and NNECAPA – resolve is-sue of NNECAPA members subsidizing state association members in terms of membership services/benefits

• Improve services

• Clarify advocacy efforts, especially federal

Options Reviewed

1. Maintain the current structure between states and NNECAPA – status quo

2. NNECAPA and state associations enter into an agreement to share resources

3. State associations become Sections of NNECAPA

4. State associations become individual Chapters of APA, NNECAPA dissolves

The pros and cons were outlined for each of these during the retreat. Representatives from the retreat will be summarizing this and getting additional information out to all state associations in the next few months. The group did feel this assessment leads to a preferred direction to go in (in terms of the options), but the next step in-volves taking the assessment to the state associa-tions and engaging in dialogue to come to mutual agreement on the best course of action.

State Associations’ Role and Next Steps

It became fairly clear during the retreat that the “status quo” option (1) is not sustainable for NNE-CAPA. Similarly, the state associations expressed that they are also experiencing limited and dwindling

resources.

The retreat group decided to establish a Task Force to carry out the next steps – this group will primarily be the NNECAPA and state association presidents and treasurers. As additional people are needed to work on things from the NNECAPA or state associa-tion boards, they will be brought in.

The Task Force’s job

• Start thinking through the issues and financial implications for the identified options

• Get more answers to known questions (there are many

• Start going to each state association to present the info

• Gather input on issues and chose an option that works for all

Timeline

• Spring/Summer 2017 - Get questions from mem-bership

• Summer 2017 - Discuss options and questions with Presidents and Treasurers

• Summer/Fall 2017 - Get answers and travel state-to-state to discuss with Boards and mem-bers

• Winter 2017/2018 – Memberships of organiza-tions vote on an option

Retreat Participants L-R: Bob Mitchell (facilitator), Yuseung Kim (NNECAPA), Sarah Marchant (NNECAPA/NHPA), Becky Hebert (NHPA), Donna Benton NHPA), Carol Eyerman (NNECAPA/MAP), Amanda Bunker (MAP), Mark Kane (VPA), Brandy Saxton (NNECAPA), Anna Breinich (NNECAPA), San-drine Thibault (NNECAPA), Ben Frost (NNECAPA/NHPA), Carl Eppich (NNECAPA/MAP), Jim Donovan (NNECAPA).

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Reorganization of Planning Associations (cont’d)

The 2017 NNECAPA Conference, coming Septem-

ber 7 and 8 to Manchester, Vermont, will be a

BYOB event, bring your own BIKE that is. We will be taking the conference out of the hotel meeting

room and into our host community, turning down-

town Manchester into a classroom and laboratory

for what is new and innovative in planning.

The conference will feature a diversity of sessions,

mobile workshops and hands-on activities struc-tured around three

tracks: public en-

gagement, food sys-

tems and new tech-

nology. Sessions will highlight how

planners can use

new tools for com-

munity engagement

and data collection;

new treatments that are being deployed

for construction

and stormwater

management; crea-

tive initiatives for food system plan-

ning that are con-

tributing to commu-

nity health, eco-

nomic stability, and

the maintenance of agricultural land-

scapes; and strate-

gies for successful

and meaningful

public engagement.

An exciting addition

this year will allow conference attendees to see

these themes in action, as Orion Planning Group

will be on-site conducting a multi-day charrette for

the Town of Manchester’s downtown master plan

and Local Motion will be undertaking a temporary street or parking lot redesign demonstration pro-

ject. Attendees will be invited to participate in open

studio hours and hands-on workshops, as Orion

and Local Motion work with the Manchester com-

munity to build a vision for the downtown. Among other goals, the charrette will help identify potential

solutions to long-term challenges related to the

transportation network around Manchester Ele-

mentary school, and creative strategies for funding

the relocation and redevelopment of the Depot Street substation. The demonstration project will

show how changes to streets or parking lots can

transform a car-oriented space to a people-oriented

space.

The reception and awards ceremony will showcase

the Southern Vermont food system, including local breweries. This special

evening event will be

set up like a farmers’

market on the green at

our host venue, the Taconic Hotel, a new

boutique hotel in his-

toric Manchester Vil-

lage. To cap it all off,

attendees planning to

stay the weekend in Manchester will be

invited to the final

charrette workshop,

which will double as a

block party on Friday evening, as Orion and

Local Motion show-

case the creative ideas

that the Manchester

and NNECAPA com-

munities have contrib-uted during the week.

If you can’t stay over

Friday don’t worry,

VPA’s Social Commit-

tee is working to bring other fun additions to

the program line up.

Registration for the September 7 and 8 conference

will open in May on NNECAPA’s website:

www.nnecapa.org – be on the lookout for an email

for registration details. If you are interested in sponsorship, contact Brandy Saxton at nne-

capa@vermontplanners.org.

We hope you’ll join us this fall in Manchester to see what’s popping up in planning!

Be There

Vermont

Brandy Saxton, AICP, Vermont State Director

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Adam Lougee, the Director of the

Addison County Regional Plan-

ning Commission, and a passion-ate weekend gardener, is pleased

to announce the launch of a new

Garden Design App, Garden

Greenprint, which is to give nov-

ice gardeners all the information they need to

design and plant small gardens. As one of its many uses, Adam hopes planners will be able to

use it as an interactive tool to engage civic

groups to give them the desire and confidence to

build public gardens in civic spaces.

The premise behind Garden Greenprint stemmed

from direct experience and observation. Novice

gardeners can often get overwhelmed by the vari-

ety of decisions they need to make to create a

garden. The Garden Greenprint app works like

an old fashion garden design book. Gardeners scroll through a series of gardens and choose one

they like. Garden Greenprint’s interactive, drag

and drop design allows gardeners to easily ma-

nipulate the template garden offered. One tap

quickly provides information on each plant in the garden. A second tap provides even more detailed

information on the plant selected

or shows a suitable alternative

plant substitute. Because the

plants in each garden are de-

signed to work together and the information about each plant’s

size, bloomtime, height, water

needs, etc. are so readily availa-

ble, the gardener’s choices are

limited, easy and designed to be successful. After a gardener com-

pletes their design, Garden

Greenprint saves the garden, pro-

vides a complete and uncompli-

cated blueprint (or as we like to

call it, “Greenprint”) of all the components, a list and quantity of

all plants and materials used and

a general instructional guide of-

fering information about the care

of the garden throughout the year.

“I am really pleased with Garden Greenprint’s

design aesthetic and functionality.” said Lougee. “We used Empower Mobility of Burlington to do

all our programming work. The artwork and gar-

den designs came from the National Gardening

Association when they were in Williston, Ver-

mont. I think our partners did a great job blend-

ing a fun combination of gaming and practical gardening design.”

Garden Greenprint is available for download from

the Apple App Store. There are tutorials, written

and video, available on www.gardengreenprint.com.

Matt Boulanger, planner for the Town of Willis-

ton, crazy bicycle enthusiast and founder of Ver-

mont Goldsprints, recruited and cajoled his fel-

low planners from the Vermont Planners Associa-tion to come out and participate in goldsprint

races at Maglianero, a bicycle-oriented coffee

shop, in Burlington on March 9. Goldsprints are

very short head-to head stationary bicycle races.

The mission of Vermont Goldsprints is to spread the awesomeness of bikes to everybody, especial-

ly Meagan or Matt: Who won the sprint? Read and find out!

State Grapevines

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kids - at Safety Days, Bike Rodeos and Open Streets

events. Check it out at http://

www.vtgoldsprints.com. According to Matt, if you like good bike racks, bike lanes, places to shower

after your commute to work, and cool places close

enough to your house to ride to, hug a planner!

And here are the results from the 250 meter sprints.

The Fastest Planner on Two Wheels award went to Eric Vorwald, planner at the Central Vermont Re-

gional Planning Commission, who came in about 1

second faster than his wife, Meagan Tuttle, planner

for the City of Burlington, at 12.259 seconds. Mea-

gan, however, proved the supremacy of the Queen City by besting Paul Conner, Planning Director for

the City of South Burlington by about 0.28 seconds.

Alex Weinhagen, Planning Director for the Town of

Hinesburg, also edged out Paul by about 0.02 sec-

onds and really enjoyed telling people about his tri-

umph for several weeks after the event.

Planners from New Hampshire and Maine are urged

to start training. We think Matt will be bringing the

goldsprint set-up to the 2017 NNECAPA conference

in Manchester this September. We Vermont plan-ners are preparing to dominate in a three-state

showdown of pedal power!

Chris Sargent, AICP: After working 16 years at the

Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission in

Woodstock, VT as a Senior Planner focusing on land

use and energy planning policy, Chris Sargent has

joined DuBois & King as a Senior Planner, with offices

down the street from his home in Randolph, VT. He

joins another TRORC alumnus - Lucy Gibson, a Senior

Transportation Planner, also with DuBois & King.

"The experience I gained working for TRORC was inval-

uable to me as a planner; it was a great place to work,

in a region that is personally significant to me as a res-

ident of the Upper Valley. I believe strongly that we

need to periodically take on new challenges to keep our

minds fresh, so I am excited to have the opportunity to

learn new things and look at Planning from a new an-

gle through my work with DuBois & King."

An Interstate Planner, of Sorts…

Please welcome Olivia, daughter of Rita Seto, AICP—Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commis-

sion, Woodstock, VT

and Nate Miller, AICP, Southern New Hampshire Planning Commis-

sion, Manchester, NH

Chris Sargent, TRORC

Maine

Carol Eyerman, AICP, Maine State Director

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Musical Chairs

Megan Hopkin, began her new post as the new

CLG Coordinator at the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. Megan is a Historic Preservationist/

Architectural Historian who earned her Master of

Science Degree in Historic Preservation from Ball

State University in 2010. She moved to Maine in the

fall of 2010 in order to work for MaineDOT as their

architectural historian. On March 6th, she left MaineDOT to work with the Commission as the Re-

view and Compliance/CLG Coordinator position.

Historic Preservation and architectural history is

not only her profession but a passion of hers. She

loves researching old buildings and the people that utilized them. In her free time, Megan likes to ex-

plore the state of Maine and photograph the various

places she visits. She is also an avid hiker with her

dog Gunner and her significant other Jacob.

Jessa Berna is joining the Greater Portland Council

of Governments as Associate Planner. She was pre-viously a planner in Portsmouth, NH and New

Gloucester, ME.

Eric Galant resigned as the long serving Executive

Director of the Mid-Coast Regional Planning Com-

mission to pursue a new professional direction as a private consultant. During his tenure he put the

agency on a sound financial footing and maintained

its independence from other encroaching organiza-

tions and groups.

Doug Greene is now the City of Auburn's urban

development and grant administrator. Doug comes to Maine by way of Upstate New York’s chapter.

Ian Houseal, who most recently managed the city

of Portland’s rental inspection and registration pro-

gram, has been named director of Community De-

velopment. Houseal, a former assistant to the city managers in Portland and Lewiston and who head-

ed Portland’s energy sustainability office prior to

taking up the assistant city manager’s job there,

begins his new gig in Sanford on Jan. 17. Among

his tasks will be to focus on Sanford’s multi-family

dwelling market. READ MORE. Catherine Ingraham has been selected as the coor-

dinator for Mahoosuc Heart & Soul. The towns par-

ticipating are Greenwood, Bethel, Newry and Wood-

stock.

North, South, East, and West – Hot Topics, Fun

Projects and Awards

The Land Use Planning Commission, who oversees zoning for unorganized townships, plantations, and

some towns in 13 counties and many different re-

gions in Maine; covering roughly half the state (this

area is sometimes called the “UT”); is currently re-

viewing the adjacency principle, which is a policy

that guides where new zones for development can be created. The purpose of the review is to find out

if there are better ways to account for different situ-

ations when deciding where to encourage new de-

velopment.

Right now, new homes can be built in most places,

but new zones for subdivisions or commercial devel-

opment need to be within a mile by road of existing

development. This policy, known as adjacency, en-

courages lower tax burdens, keeps land available

for forestry, agriculture and recreation, and pro-motes the health of existing communities. But it is

too blunt a tool.

They are reviewing the adjacency principle for three

reasons:

• The Commission’s service area is a big place,

and a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t always

mean new development happens in the most

suitable locations.

• Sometimes, additional flexibility is needed to

account for site conditions. For example, wet-

lands or steep slopes in the area may make it

difficult to locate new development within a road mile of existing types of development.

• There are some locations that would be a good

fit for a new residential subdivision or commer-

cial business for a number of different reasons, but are located farther than a mile from similar

types of development.

In order to improve the zoning system, the Commis-

sion wants to develop an understanding of the land use needs and desires of people who care about the

UT. A survey was created and asked several ques-

tions of residents, property owners and others who

might have another connection to the towns, town-

ships, or plantations the Commission serves. Gen-

erally speaking the questions ask: what do you

State Grapevines (continued)

Maine (continued)

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Build Maine 2017—June 8th and 9th—Lewiston, Maine Join the conversation with Donald Shoup at Build Maine

Is parking holding you back? Is it driving up the cost of your housing? It it consuming valuable land?

Is it somehow plentiful, yet never where you need it to be? There's a better way to deal with parking: Whether your project is located in a city center experiencing a

renaissance, or an auto-oriented suburban big box retail center

feeling the pressures of changing consumer and lifestyle prefer-

ences, Donald Shoup knows the answer.

Donald Shoup is the nation's leading innovator in right-sizing and right-pricing parking, and understanding the real costs as-

sociated with providing too much or too little parking in your

community. In his book, The High Cost of Free Parking, Shoup

recommends that cities and towns charge fair market prices for

on-street parking, use the meter revenue to finance public ser-

vices in the metered neighborhoods, and re-

move off-street minimum

parking requirements.

A distinguished research professor of urban planning at UCLA, Shoup's research has fo-

cused on how parking policies affect cities, the economy, and the

environment. His logical and market-based approach to parking

has garnered such widespread support that he has amassed a cult

following of “Shoupistas”, with an active Facebook page dedicated

to the discussion of parking.

Join us at Build Maine, and hear from Donald Shoup and many

other innovative professionals working to improve our cities and

towns. Visit our website at build-maine.com for more information.

want your community or area to look like in the

years to come, and where should new develop-

ment locate.

They have recently closed the public survey and

will be releasing the results in the coming

months. Here is a link to the project webpage,

which they recently updated:

http://www.maine.gov/dacf/lupc/projects/adjace

ncy/adjacency.html

For more information about the Adjacency Project,

please contact Ben Godsoe at 207-287-2619 or e-

mail Benjamin.godsoe@maine.gov.

State Grapevines (continued)

New Hampshire

Elizabeth Wood, AICP, New Hampshire State Director

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This past December Heather Shank was promoted

to City Planner for the City of Concord. She had

been the Assistant City Planner since December of 2014. Prior to relocating to Concord, Heather

worked for the Regional Planning Commission in

Chattanooga Tennessee, responsible primarily for

urban development projects and land use recom-

mendations to municipal boards. Prior to that she

worked with a private consulting firm in southeast Pennsylvania for 7 years providing plan review, ur-

ban master planning, and landscape architecture

services to multiple municipal clients. In addition

to overseeing the Planning Division, Heather looks

forward to updating the City’s codes and master plans and engaging with the community to envision

the future of Concord. Heather lives in the south

end of Concord with her partner and their 5-year

old son. They spend their free time biking, camp-

ing, gardening, remodeling their house, and playing

with Legos.

Beth Fenstermacher was recently promoted to

Assistant City Planner for the City of Concord, she

was previously the Senior Planner since March

2015. Prior to working in Concord, Beth was an Act 250 Coordinator with the State of Vermont

Agency of Agriculture and prior to that she worked

for private consulting firms in Massachusetts as a

landscape architect. In addition to site plan re-

view, Beth’s duties include working with the City’s

Conservation Commission and Trails subcommit-

tee. She has also designed landscape projects for

the City, and is committed to the preservation of agricultural land within the City of Concord. Beth

resides in Springfield, NH, with her boyfriend,

where they spend their weekends working on their

new house, snowshoeing, hiking, kayaking, or ex-

ploring New England.

The City of Concord has hired John Stoll as their

new Senior Planner. John brings planning experi-

ence from Berwick, ME, where he had a wide range

of duties but his primary focus was downtown de-

velopment and Brownfields grant administration. John worked with local community leaders on a

downtown visioning effort that lead to the success-

ful acquisition of a record six $200,000 single site

EPA Brownfields grants. His responsibilities also

included plan review, ordinance amendments,

grant administration, and community develop-ment. Prior to working in Berwick John served as

a planning consultant in Sanford, ME and a City

Planner in Aberdeen, SD. As the Senior Planner in

Concord John will be responsible for site plan and

subdivision review and will take on transportation planning responsibilities serving as the staff liaison

to the Bike-Pedestrian and Transit subcommittees.

John loves the outdoors and spends his summers

canoeing and camping in New Hampshire with his

wife Rachel and sons Cade and Cael.

Heather… Beth… and John.

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CDC Community Guide’s New Findings and Recommendations

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Combined Built Environment Features Help Communities Get Active The Community Preventive Services Task Force

recommends combined built environment ap-proaches to increase physical activity. These ap-

proaches combine new or enhanced transporta-

tion systems (e.g., pedestrian and cycling paths)

with new or enhanced land use design (e.g.,

proximity to a store, access to a public park) to promote physical activity among residents.

The Task Force finding is based on a systematic

review of the evidence that showed combinations

of activity-friendly built environment characteris-

tics are associated with higher levels of transpor-tation-related physical activity, recreational

physical activity, and total walking. The review

was conducted on behalf of the Task Force by a

team of specialists in systematic review methods,

and in research, practice, and policy related to

physical activity.

What are Built Environment

Intervention Approaches? Built environment intervention approaches to

increase physical activity create or modify envi-

ronmental characteristics in a community to make physical activity easier or more accessible.

Transportation system interventions include one

or more policies or projects designed to increase

or improve the following:

• Street connectivity

• Sidewalk and trail infrastructure

• Bicycle infrastructure

• Public transit infrastructure and access

Land use and environmental design interven-

tions include one or more policies, designs, or projects to create or enhance the following:

• Mixed land use environments that increase

the diversity and proximity of local destina-tions where people live, work, and spend their

recreation and leisure time

• Access to parks, and other public or private

recreational facilities

Why is the Task Force Recommendation Important? Despite the benefits, less than half of all adults,

and 3 in 10 high school students in the United States, get the recommended daily amounts of

physical activity. Regular physical activity is one

of the most important things people can do for

their health. It can help individuals:

• Control weight

• Reduce risk of cardiovascular disease

• Reduce risk for type 2 diabetes and metabolic

syndrome

• Reduce risk of some cancers

• Strengthen bones and muscles

• Improve mental health and mood

What are the Task Force and

Community Guide?

The Community Preventive Services Task Force

(Task Force) is an independent, nonfederal, panel

of public health and prevention experts whose

members are appointed by the director of CDC.

The Task Force provides information for a wide range of decision makers on programs, services,

and other interventions aimed at improving pop-

ulation health. The Task Force was established

in 1996 by the U.S. Department of Health and

Human Services. Although CDC provides admin-

istrative, scientific, and technical support for the Task Force, the recommendations developed are

those of the Task Force and do not undergo re-

view or approval by CDC.

The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) is a collection of all the

evidence-based findings and recommendations of

the Community Preventive Services Task Force

and is available online at

www.thecommunityguide.org.

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Professional Development Updates

By Yuseung Kim, PhD, AICP

NNECAPA Professional Development Officer

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NEW AICP MEMBERS

These Chapter members passed the AICP exam in November 2016 – Congratulations!

James Burdin, AICP

Peter Furst, AICP

Angela LaBrecque, AICP

Jodie Levandowski, AICP

TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

Let me announce two training opportunities at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, ME.

I’ll teach a workshop course this summer,

“Introduction to Town Design and SketchUp” in 7-9

June. This 3 day afternoon sessions will address a

range of town design issues and provide a detailed

introduction to SketchUp. By the end of this class, you’ll be able to visualize your design idea using a

3D modeling software. This course does not require

prior experience with town design or a computer

graphical program. Course taker will earn 12 CM

credits.

Professor Emeritus of Community Planning and

Development, Jack Kartez, will teach a regular graduate school level course, “Dispute Manage-

ment,” scheduled on Monday and Wednesday even-

ing during 5/15-6/28. This course focuses on the

nature of conflict and involves the study of theory

and methods of dispute management as well as the

practice of skills including active listening, reflect-ing, summarizing, and reframing. Through an in-

tensive workshop format using lectures, discussion,

debate, and practical exercises and simulations,

course takers will develop awareness of their own

conflict resolution style.

Both courses are open to practitioners in the field. Let me know if you are interested in those training

opportunities.

CHAPTER EVENT SPONSORSHIP POLICY FOR CM CREDIT

Please remember that the Chapter has a policy re-

garding sponsorship of Certification Maintenance

applications for events hosted by other organiza-tions. This requires contact with the Chapter PDO

(that’s me) as early as possible in the event plan-

ning process, as well as completion of a form ac-

knowledging the policy and submission of all infor-mation necessary for filing the CM applications.

Chapter CM sponsorship may be made in situa-

tions where

• The host organization is a non-profit or govern-

mental organization based in the NNECAPA re-

gion, including any of the three state planning

associations affiliated with NNECAPA;

• A NNECAPA member is significantly involved in

the development of the event;

• The event meets minimum standards for CM

credit for delivery and administration, as estab-

lished by the AICP and described in the provider

handbook (https://www.planning.org/static/

_pdf/cm/activities/cmproviderhandbook.pdf);

and

• NNECAPA CM sponsorship will be consistent

with APA’s sponsorship guidelines.

It’s a quorum!

Lee Krohn photo

Check the online calendar for additional updates: www.nnecapa.org/calendar

What’s Happening?

• Build Maine, Lewiston, ME, June 8 & 9 (see page 8) • NHPA Conference, Hanover, NH, June 5-6. See

www.nhplanners.org. • NNECAPA Conference, Manchester, VT, September 7-8.

See http://nnecapa.org/resources/2017-conference/.

Planning Webcast Series

June 2—Women and Planning Division Women in Planning: Leadership & Empowerment

June 16—Private Practice Division A Road Map for Age-Friendly Communities

June 23—Mississippi Chapter Economic Development for Everyone

June 30—Urban Design and Preservation Division Images, Creative Commons and Copyright

You can see the current listing of all webcasts at www.ohioplanning.org/planningwebcast

NNECAPA 2015-17 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

President Sarah Marchant, AICP

Vice-President Sandrine Thibault, AICP

Secretary Rita Seto, AICP

Treasurer Jim Donovan, FASLA, AICP

Professional Development Officer Yuseung Kim, Ph.D., AICP

Assistant PDOs Anna Breinich, FAICP, ME Lee Krohn, AICP, VT

ME State Director Carol Eyerman, AICP

NH State Director Elizabeth Wood, AICP

VT State Director Brandy Saxton, AICP

ME Legislative Liaison Jamie Francomano

NH Legislative Liaison Sarah Marchant, AICP

VT Legislative Liaison Alex Weinhagen

Public Information Officer Benjamin Frost, Esq., AICP

Faculty Liaison Mary Adamo Friedman, Ph.D.

Student Liaison —

Chapter Historian David E. White, AICP

Immediate Past President Carl Eppich, AICP

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Next submission deadline: Friday, June 19, 2017.

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