APA Smart Cities and Sustainability Task Force co-chair Kathleen McMahon is presenting a Planning Smart for Smart Cities course at the Broadband Communities Economic Development Conference, Nov. 7, at the Renaissance Concourse Atlanta Airport Hotel.

This class offers 6 CM credit hours and uses the context of planning and land use decisions to address the core values underlying public problems, choices and decisions.

The Georgia Association of Zoning Administrators (GAZA) will hold its winter conference on February 8-9, 2018.

Join architects, landscape architects and planners for lectures, a tour and a social while exploring the Chicopee Mill and Village Historic District.

GPA’s 2018 Spring Conference will be held at the Gainesville Civic Center, located at 830 Green Street, on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 (map it). The keynote speaker will be Ed McBrayer from the PATH Foundation. If you have any questions, please email Allison Stewart-Harris, GPA Vice President of Programs. REGISTER ONLINE

Join architects, landscape architects and planners for lectures, a tour and a social while exploring the Chicopee Mill and Village Historic District.

The 2018 Fall Conference will be here before we know it, so start thinking of your session ideas now. The Fall Conference this year will take place on September 5th through 7th at Jekyll Island. The conference session submittal form will open soon! Please stay tuned for more details.

An event at historic Chicopee Village in Gainesville with a driving tour of the village and beyond; lectures on conservation ethics and historic preservation; and a social.

The DCA Office of Planning, in partnership with the Georgia Planning Association, offers a class called the Community Planning Institute to Georgia’s planning commissioners, elected officials and local government staff.

A highly rated and informative workshop on developing beneficial and enforceable sign regulations is coming to Birmingham, Alabama on July 26th.

Georgia Association of Zoning Administrators (GAZA) will be in Savannah for its next conference, August 21-23 at the Marriott Riverfront. CM credits will be offered through a partnership with GPA. GAZA is pleased to have The Brick Industry as a sponsor for the event. Sessions will include State Legislative Updates; Connecting Planning & Zoning with […]

The aim of the workshop is to bring together key stakeholders from local governments, government associations, planners, industry, and academic leaders to explore potential smart community initiatives with the theme of "inclusion." The workshop should help to empower planners with the tools (technology, data) to improve their ability and decision-making for the betterment of the […]

The Georgia Tech School of City and Regional Planning will host two short courses during the fall semester. We will open registration in the coming weeks, but please mark September 26-28 and November 7-9 in your calendars. The course topics will cover The Development Review Process and Effective Storytelling with ArcGIS StoryMaps, respectively. If you […]

The Georgia Tech School of City and Regional Planning will host two short courses during the fall semester. We will open registration in the coming weeks, but please mark September 26-28 and November 7-9 in your calendars. The course topics will cover The Development Review Process and Effective Storytelling with ArcGIS StoryMaps, respectively. If you […]

Viewing of the APBP webinar "Aging in Place: Designing Communities to Support Mobility" followed by a discussion on local issues at the CSRA RC office from 3 - 5pm.

This class will review the key components of legal and codified ethics before moving on to explore normative ethics, which includes ethical building blocks and cornerstones, duty and obligation, sources of moral authority, types of ethical dilemmas, and principles for resolving ethical dilemmas. This class offers 6 hours of AICP Ethics CM credits, in partnership […]

The GAZA Board of Directors designed the conference based on input from participants’ evaluations to address key topics of major concern to those involved in zoning administration. Thanks to a partnership with GPA, GAZA offers CM credits for conference sessions.

You are invited to join planning staff with the Southern Georgia Regional Commission (SGRC) and the City of Valdosta to review several model ordinances. Ordinance topics will include telecommunications towers, solar farms, preservation of historic resources, tiny home/cottage housing developments, and manufactured housing. Staff will also preview the newly created ecotourism map for the Regional […]

The Northeast Georgia Planning Collective will host its second roundtable discussion with a focus on new ideas and technologies in the transportation sector. With ideas such as app-enabled rideshare merging with public transit or micro-transit technologies spreading across our region, it is the perfect time to see how municipalities are responding and where we might […]

For 53 years running, the Georgia Tech Basic Economic Development Course (BEDC) has been the premier professional development course for over 3,000 economic developers across the country, both new and seasoned alike.

This event has been POSTPONED due to the Coronavirus COVID-19. Once it has been rescheduled, we will update the calendar. Save the date! There will be an all-day AICP Exam Review Session at Georgia Tech on Saturday, March 21, 2020 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Arch-E Building, Room 214. The event is […]