Thank You for Attending the 2025 GPA Spring Conference which was held on Thursday, March 13, 2025, at the Gainesville Civic Center. Save the date for the Fall Conference, October 8 – 10 in Athens.
The Power of Place
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.
Conference Feedback
We would love feedback from all of our conference attendees. Please complete the overall Conference Survey located within the menu of the conference guide app. And for each session you attended, please provide feedback through the app as well. Locate the sessions you attended through the schedule and scroll to the bottom to “Session Evaluation”.
It’s not too late to download the Guidebook app to access the conference guide to complete these important surveys.
If the Guidebook app is already downloaded on your phone, search 2025-gpa-spring-conference to pull up and download the latest guide.
These surveys are reviewed by the GPA board and programs committee members when planning for future GPA conferences.
Scan the QR code below with your phone or click the link from your phone to access the app if you haven’t already.
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!
Learn more about how you can become a Sponsor.
Click each logo to visit the sponsor’s website.
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