Equity and Righting Past Wrongs to Start the 2021 National Planning Conference
The American Planning Association s 2021 National Planning Conference started streaming this morning, with an obvious focus on equity and the historical role of the planning profession in perpetuating systemic racism. May 5, 2021, 12pm PDT | James Brasuell |
There s an obvious effort to make up for lost time in the proceedings of the 2021 National Planning Conference (NPC).
Yes, the 2020 NPC was canceled in March 2020 as the COVID-19 started to take a toll in the United States, prompting closures of businesses and events all over the country. But even the original scheduled date of April 2020 would have preceded a moment of historic reckoning for the planning profession, as the nation grappled with the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and so many more.
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NOAA climate normals were updated this week. The climate normals, updated every ten years, are 30-year averages of climatological variables which give us a reference point for comparing current weather against what’s considered “normal”.
Climate normals also provide important information for a range of economic sectors, informing growers’ decisions on when to plant crops and what crops to plant, how electrical utilities can expect energy demand to vary by season, and planning construction projects.
Warming between our new normal period (1991-2020) and the previous one (1981-2010) was widespread across the U.S., with the exception of the northern Great Plains.
Planning for the 2021 National Planning Conference
After last year s National Planning Conference was canceled in the early days and weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual event returns online, with tons of planning content and even several avenues for networking and socializing. Share
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The American s Planning Association s 2020 National Planning Conference, scheduled for the end of April in Houston, was canceled on March 17 early on in the stay-at-home orders that would redefine daily life during the pandemic.
The 2021 National Planning Conference, originally scheduled for Boston, will take place this week, May 5-7, in the online format we ve become so accustomed to, but with some technological bells and whistles to duplicate some of the usual excitement and activity of the National Planning Conference. There is still plenty of Boston-specific content to peruse under the Beats of Boston activity type on the conference program, so the opportunity to exp
It was heralded locally and nationally.
In 1999, the New York Times wrote, “Today this half-mile swath bears a new name, Waterplace Park, and with its new outlook hints of a Venice in New England. Much of the credit goes to the architect William D. Warner, who, though he didn t exactly part the asphalt, has created a model of urban revitalization, turning what was once a desert of hardtop and highway into a canal and promenade.”GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST
At the time, the new waterfront walking park reinvigorated Providence from a gloomy city much like Gotham City to an urban explosion of arts, tourism and redevelopment.
Ann Arbor reconsidering proposal to ban some types of home-based businesses
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
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ANN ARBOR, MI Working from home has become the norm for many people during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s prompting Ann Arbor officials to consider new regulations for operating home-based businesses.
It’s been a topic of discussion at recent city meetings and the Planning Commission voted April 6 to recommend City Council approve new rules banning several types of home-based businesses, such as machine shops, metal working, recording studios, body piercing/tattoo parlors and furniture refinishing.
The commission also recommended types of home-based businesses to permit, such as computer repair, marijuana cultivation, hair salons, therapy/counseling, personal fitness training, architecture and accounting/tax preparation.