2025 Spring Conference in Review

Date :: March 13, 2025
Location :: Gainesville, GA

It was another successful GPA Spring Conference! “The Power of Place” brought 225 attendees to beautiful Gainesville on March 13, 2025.

Attendees enjoyed a day packed with exhilarating presentations and panels covering transportation, housing, and inclusive communities, environmental and sustainability planning, including three engaging mobile sessions exploring Gainesville-Hall County’s multi-use trails, local projects that is generating global impacts, and innovative placemaking strategies.

Don’t forget to apply your CM credits and the APA-required credits in equity, law, and sustainability and resilience. If you haven’t yet logged them, the event is posted on APA as #9307389 – 2025 GPA Spring Conference.

We hope that our attendees gained new insights, sparked fresh ideas, and reconnected with the planning community. We thank all of those who attended, our 2025 sponsors, volunteers, and speakers.

Keynote Speaker

We are thrilled to welcome Kristin Allin, Principal Planner with the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), as our keynote speaker! Kristin will dive into Affordable Housing Strides, Accomplishments, and Challenges across metro Atlanta and introduce best practices from the newly established Regional Housing Toolkit.

Download and view the Presentation here.

Presentations

The 2025 Spring Conference presentations are available here for your viewing.

• • • Equitable Greenway Planning
    • What’s Next After the Sackett Decision?
    • Station Soccer
    • Rural Renaissance
    • Reimagining Tara Blvd
    • Pedestrian Infrastructure Data Collection
    • Meaningful Mentorship
    • Lessons Learned about Effective Technical Assistance
    • Just Communities
    • From Policy to Action
    • Enhancing Local Government Through Zoning & Planning Education
    • The Civic Legacy Project
    • Building Strategies in Energy Efficient Retrofits in Thomasville Heights
    • A Climate Action Hub for Your City

A Special Thanks to our 2025 Sponsors!

Click each logo to visit the sponsor’s website.

ULTIMATE PARTNER PLUS

ANNUAL PREMIER

ULTIMATE SUPPORTER PLUS

CONFERENCE GOLD

CONFERENCE SILVER

CONFERENCE HOSPITALITY SPONSOR