Planners Training Service
Planners Training Service
Sustainable Zoning and Development Controls
Austin, Texas
January 21-22, 2010
Hosted by RMLUI
Registration is Now Open
You’ll learn about:
- Plan components that achieve sustainability
- Zoning options that implement these components
- Subdivision standards
- Conserving open space and natural resources
- Connecting compact development and transportation services
- Balancing growth and conservation strategies
- Local building and energy code initiatives
- Energy Star and LEED energy standards
- Project approval techniques and their constitutionality
- How to avoid regulatory takings challenges
- How to conduct a green audit of local plans and laws
- Strategic options that conform to local political realities
Presenters
Christopher Duerksen is managing director of Clarion Associates of Colorado, LLC, a land-use consulting firm. He has represented local governments, nonprofits, and the private sector in a variety of land-use and zoning matters and specializes in development code revisions, growth management planning, historic preservation, natural resource and scenic area protection strategies, airport-area development, and market development strategies. A cofounder of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Duerksen has written and spoken extensively on land-use issues in Colorado and nationally.
James Duncan, FAICP, is one of the nation’s leading urban planning and growth management practitioners. During his four-decade-long career, he has served more than 200 cities, counties, regions, and states, creating a series of award-winning comprehensive plans and development codes. He is a past president of APA, a former vice-chair of APA’s Chapter Presidents Council, and the co-author of the APA Planners Press book Growth Management Principles & Practices.
Craig Richardson is a planner and lawyer with substantial national experience in implementing comprehensive plans, drafting development codes, developing growth management strategies, and planning capital facilities. As vice president of Clarion Associates, he directs the firm’s North Carolina office.
James van Hemert, AICP is a planner with a wide range of planning and community development experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and has worked in Canada, the Philippines and in various locales within the USA. James is the Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute at the University of Denver where he is responsible for the institute’s conferences, seminars, publications, and research endeavors. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado’s School of Architecture and Planning and the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law.
Certification Maintenance (CM)
Application in process for certification maintenance credits CM |14
Workshop agenda (pdf) —_forthcoming_
NOTE: The workshop agenda provided here is for informational purposes only. The agenda is tentative and subject to change at any time prior to the actual workshop. Finalized workshop agendas will only be provided to workshop registrants when they check in with RMLUI staff at the Planners Training Service in Austin.
