Chicago Metro Section of the American Planning Association

Announcements ● Executive Committee ● Event Presentations   Announcements PLANNERS TOOLKIT: TWO-SESSION WORKSHOP - Freehand Drawing & Visualization Skills for Planners and Design Professionals  Session #1: Thursday, January 22, 2015, 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm Session #2: Thursday, February 12, 2015, 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm CMAP, 233 South Wacker Drive, Suite 800, Chicago IL Bruce Bondy of Bondy Studio, Northbrook, IL, is an Architectural Illustrator with over 25 years experience. He specializes in freehand drawing and rendering techniques. Bruce specializes in charrette drawing, working alongside clients to help develop design ideas into presentation sketches and renderings. This two-session workshop is designed to help planners and emerging designers develop and communicate their ideas comfortably and effectively using freehand drawing skills. This will be a very hands-on workshop. Participants will be drawing in various exercises with immediate coaching feedback from Bruce. Seating will be limited to 25 participants per session. Although not required, it is recommended that participants register for both sessions. To RSVP, please email cms@ilapa.org by January 20th.   CMS Annual Networking and Mentoring Event, February 2015   If you are not receiving CMS announcements or event information via e-mail, visit our FAQ. Executive Committee   President James Testin, AICP City of Park Ridge (phone) 847-318-5296 Send Mail   Vice-President Todd Vanadilok, AICP Teska Associates (phone) 312-577-7434 Send Mail       SecretaryBrittany Bagent Teska Associates (phone) 312-898-6738 Send Mail   TreasurerBrandon Nolin, AICP Houseal Lavigne Associates (phone) 312-372-1008 x111 Send Mail       Past President Vijay Gadde, AICP Village of Oswego (phone) 630-551-2334 Send Mail

CMS Event Presentations September 10, 2014 - Chicago Union Station Master Plan: Looking to the Future August 21, 2014 - Realizing Potential: Land Banks, Demolition & Planning for Vacant Land July 29, 2014 - Chicago Zoning Reform: Tenth Anniversary PANEL DISCUSSION & RECEPTION Photos from the event: photo 1, photo 2, photo 3 June 17, 2014 APA-IL CMS Program: Future Suburban Industrial & Business Parks “Future Suburban Industrial & Business Parks” – Geoffrey Dickinson, AICP, SB Friedman “Modernizing Office & Industrial Zoning” – Arista Strungys, Principal, Camiros March 12, 2014 CMS Program: What Planners Do? Revisited February 26, 2014 Annual Networking & Mentorship Event.  February 18, 2014 CMS Program: Cool Communities – Setting your Town Apart “Cool Communities” – Adam Rosa, AICP, Senior Associate, Camiros “Recent Past Survey, Suburban Cook County” – Lisa DiChiera, Director of Advocacy, Landmarks Illinois “CMAP Arts & Culture Toolkit” – Stephen Ostrander, AICP, Senior Planner, CMAP January 22, 2014 CMS Program: Creating Expert RFPs Creating Expert RFPs – Christina Bader, AICP, LEED AP, Associate Planner, Farr Associates Creating Expert RFPs from the Public Perspective – Margaret McGrath, Grant & Contract Officer, CMAP Responding to a RFP – Michael Blue, FAICP, Principal, Teska Associates, Inc. Aug 20, 2013: Hazard Mitigation Planning in Response to Extreme Weather Events/Climate Change Primary Impacts of Climate Change in the Chicago Region, Molly Woloszyn, Extension Climatologist, Midwest Regional Climate Center FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation and Resiliency Planning, Rebecca Leitschuh and Ken Hinterlong, FEMA Region V; and Jaspreet Randhawa, CFM, CDM Smith Hazard Mitigation, Sandy, and Climate Change, Jim Schwab, Researcher, APA July 24, 2013 - Laying the Groundwork for Job Creating Industrial Development Laying the Groundwork for Industrial Development, Vijay Gadde, AICP, Economic Development Director, Village of Oswego and Ivan Baker, CEcD, AICP Tinley Park Economic Development Chicago Industrial Development, Luis Monterrubio, LEED AP, Chicago Dept. of Housing & Economic Development June 11, 2013: Active Transportation: Planning & Implementing Real World Policies & Solutions May 23, 2013: CMS Workshop: Making the "Big Idea" into a Viable Project March 13, 2013: Working with Diverse Communities: Recognizing Community Diversity and Effectively Engaging Residents Feb. 21, 2013: CMS Workshop: Tools for Creating and Preserving Affordable Housing, November 16, 2012: APA-CMS Program Reinventing Aging Commercial Corridors October 18, 2012: Sustainability: Planning Strategies and Implementation Examples August 24th CMS Event: Bicycle Planning in the Chicago Region July 26, 2012: Grassroots Planning: Working with Community Organizations from the Planning Stages to Implementation June 21, 2012: Economic Development Toolkit: Pro Forma Basics, Negotiation Techniques, and the Pros & Cons of Special Events Developing an Economic Development Incentive Policy, Government Finance Officers Association, Nicholas Greifer, Vice President, Kane, McKenna and Associates, Inc. Minneapolis, MN Tax Increment Financing Policy Negotiating Responsible Public Private Partnerships, Geoff Dickinson, AICP, SB Friedman Community Festival Impact for St. Charles, IL, Amy Egolf, Executive Director, St. Charles Convention & Visitors Bureau and Lynne Schwartz, Executive Director, Downtown St. Charles Partnership May 8, 2012: Community Involvement and Advocacy for Planners or “Tell me again – Why did I volunteer for this???” March 21, 2012 CMS Workshop: Effective Engagement and Project Marketing Media-Minded Tools & Strategies The Value of Sustainable Development in Data and Pictures by Stefanie Shull, Policy Analyst, Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) Promotional Tools & Strategies for communities, planners, developers by Mandy Burrell Booth, Communications Director, Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) February 21, 2012: CMS Annual Networking & Mentorship Event January 27, 2012: Principles for Updated Your Zoning Map by Arista Strungys, AICP & Nikolas Davis, Camiros, LTD Nov. 16, 2011: Law & Ethics Workshop by Eric Damian Kelly, JD, PhD, FAICP, Duncan Assoc. & Ball State University Aug 24, 2011: Best Practices in Sustainability Planning July 20, 2011: Making it Happen: Implementing Plans May 17, 2011: Complete Streets Making Complete Streets a Reality - The Hoffman Estates Experience, by Nathan Roseberry, P.E.,  Village of Hoffman Estates March 25, 2011: Federal Legislation Supporting Local Planning APA Legislative Program, by Jacques Gourguechon, AICP, Camiros Federal Initiatives and Local Planning, by Jonathon Grosshans, AICP, LEED-AP, US EPA GO TO 2040 and Federal Support for Local Planning, by Bob Dean, AICP, CMAP Building Sustainable Communities, by Brian Gillen, Region V Sustainability Officer, US Dept. of HUD, Chicago February 24, 2011: Outside the Box: A Historic Preservation Toolkit for Planning November 10, 2010: Design Guidelines: Overcoming Barriers to Effective Place-Making: Empowering Effective Place-making by Mahender Vasandani, President, M Square Part 2. Developing Effective Design Guidelines by Doug Hammel, AICP, Senior Associate, Camiros, Ltd. Municipal Design Review Network (“MDRN”) by John Hedrick, JD, Municipal Design Review Network/Chaddick Institute, Senior Advisor August 12, 2010: A Planner's Toolbox: Creating Better Codes (3 presentations): Rules for Better Zoning by John Houseal, AICP, Principal, Houseal Lavigne Associates SIGN TOOL KIT FOR LOCAL AREA BUSINESSES by Afshan Hamid, Design Planner, Village of Arlington Heights Landscape Codes by Keven Graham, ASLA, RLA, Principal / Director of Planning, Planning Resources, Inc. May 21, 2010: "Planning in Shrinking Cities" (2 presentations): Cleveland Experience by Philip Hanegraaf, AICP Right Sizing by Jacques Gourguechon, AICP July 2009: Greening Your Zoning Code by Arista Strungys, AICP Feb. 19, 2009, "The ABCs of FBCs", (click on name for each presentation): Mahender Vasandani, President, M Square Jonathan Furr, Senior Counsel, Holland + Knight Daniel Peterson, Village of Lake Zurich Kristin Ihnchak, Farr Associates. January 30, 2008 Integrating Market Analysis into the Planning Process, David J. Stamm, AICP, SB Friedman & Company "Getting from here to there", The Importance of Residential Market Research in Community Planning, Erik A. Dorersching, Tracy Cross & Assoc. Commercial Sector Analysis, Methods & Techniques, Jon DeVries, AICP, CRE, Jen McNeil Dhadwal, AICP, URS Corporation