MISSION POSSIBLE SEPTEMBER 11-14, 2011
Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort
633 East Cabrillo Boulevard
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Phone: 805.564.4333
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
10:00am – 4:30 pm
What’s Next (CPF Session)
Student Sessions
Planning 101: How to Get and Keep a Job
Introduction to CEQA and Careers in Environmental Planning
Student Sessions
Resumes and Interviews for Students
Charting a Career in Sustainability – Steps Students Can Take Before Graduating
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
8:40-12:00noon
Opening Plenary Session – Susan Anderson, City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
Diversity Summit
California’s Changing Face [Lilly Okamura, AICP]
California’s Changing Face [Hans Johnson]
10:30 – 11:45 am
Session Block #1A
Yes, History Can Be Modern! Understanding the Next Wave of Historic Resources
Redevelopment and Realignment: To Be or Not To Be
Does Redevelopment Deserve to Survive?
Session Block #1B
10:30 – 12:00 noon
Mediating Land Use Disputes
The California Silo Effect: Sustainable Community Strategy; Climate Action Plans; Regions, Subregions and Cities (Oh my!)
Building Your Career: Resumes, Interviews, and Lessons Learned From Both Sides of the Counter
Career Path Building and Beyond
Working with Religious Land Uses (RLUIPA)
Public Engagement: Making the Distinction from Public Relations and Developing Critical Tools for Success
Translating Sustainability into Practice: Tools for Measuring Community Sustainability
Session Block #2A
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Annual CEQA Update
Inclusionary Housing Ordinances: What’s Next?
Inclusionary Zoning: After Palmer and Patterson and Trinity: What’s Next?
Inclusionary Housing: Process in Fremont
Planting New Seeds: Sustainability and the Growing Popularity of Urban Agriculture
ENGAGE! Putting the Crowd to Work
Using Wiki to Develop an Active Transportation Plan
Citizensourcing the Spatial Way
Retail and Your Community
The Two Sides of Going Green – Ethical and Environmental Dilemmas in Sustainability Planning
The Two Sides of Going Green: Presentation by Laura Crane
Stuck in the Middle: The Local Government Perspective
AICP: Principles to Which We Aspire
Overview of Utility Scale Solar Projects in California
Session Block #2B
2:15 – 3:30 pm
Local Climate Change Planning in 75 Minutes
Planning Undercover: Land Use As An Art Form
Session Block #3
4:00 – 5:30 pm
LEED-ND Celebrity Jeopardy! Or. . . . Who’s Smarter Than a Planner?
Technology Natives vs. Technology Immigrants
Greening the Supply Chain – Problems, Prospects, and Plans
Reducing Community & Environmental Impacts from Multimodal Port Operations
An Air Quality Regulatory Perspective
Driving the Clean Truck Revolution
Ethics Planning: Real World Scenarios
No Shoe Phone Gimmicks Here! Tips to Avoid CEQA (and NEPA) Meetings with Your Attorney
Beyond Buildings: New Models to Provide Affordable Housing and Break the Cycle of Homelessness
Evolution of Green Building: What’s Next for Tomorrow’s Sustainable Communities?
Sustainable and Restorative Community Development with Form-Based Codes
Working Towards Effective and Efficient Conservation and Mitigation of Habitat and Open Space
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
13 8:00 – 9:15 am Session Block #4
How to Combine Sustainability & Green Building Principles with Grassroots Organizing Techniques to Get Controversial Projects Entitled
How Can Planners Be Leaders: Getting Beyond Permit Processing (CPR Session)
Optimism Localism Authenticity (City of Long Beach)
Smart Growth: Successes and Challenges on California’s Central Coast: Lessons of Infill
Renew and Rebuild – Strategies for Addressing the Foreclosure Crisis
A Tale of Two Cities, A Tale of Two Rivers
Making Science Relevant to Policymakers
Complete Streets: From Policy to Implementation
What Planning Directors & Managers Want Their Planning Commissioners to Know
Session Block #5
9:30 – 10:45 am
AICP Exam Preparation Workshop
Momentary Metropolis: City Planning Lessons from Burning Man
FAR Wars: In a Community FAR, FAR Away…
The Future of Redevelopment – Transition Planning for Expiring Agencies
Redevelopment Agency Report
Santa Barbara RDA Report Exhibits
Campus and Community Life: A Collaboration That Works
Workforce and Rental Housing … Myths and Realities (Michael Towbes)
Presentation by Courtney Seeple
Presentation by Home Builders Association of the Central Coast
Santa Barbara Design Charette: A Case Study
Model People-Oriented Street Manual
Zoning and Stormwater 202: The Nitty-Gritty of Coding for Water Quality
We Built This City on Rock and Roll (Earthquakes That Is!)
Session Block #6
11:00 am – 12:15 pm
The Once and Future General Plan (Planners Emeritus Network)
Preparing Successful Planning Grant Applications
The Value of Green Building Programs: GHG Savings or Catalysts for Climate Action Plans?
Sustainability and Climate Action
City of Pasadena – A Green and Sustainable City
Everything You Wanted to Know About APA California
Urban Design Review – Santa Barbara’s Process, Background and Ideas for Improvement
What has Worked in Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara’s Process, History, Practice, Enhancement, and Ideas
The Wet/Dry Conundrum: Reconciling Water Conservation and Storm Water Regulations
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Keynote Luncheon – Panama Bartholomy, California Energy Commission
Session Block #7A
2:15 – 3:45 pm
ECAT Update – What’s New With the CEQA Improvement Effort
Property Rights, Takings, and Exactions: A Legal and Practical Update for Planners
Greening Communities: Using LEED to Guide the Design of New Housing and Improve Existing Communities
LEED for Neighborhood Development
Victoria Garden Mews: A Model Green Infill Project
Florence-Firestone Community Plan
More Than a Mission – Respecting Historic Resources Under CEQA
Cracking the Code: Making a Form-Based/Traditional Hybrid Code Work for Your City
Electric Technology & Community Sustainability: A Planning Partnership
Regional Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Planning
Community Sustainability: The Claremont Experience
Southern California Edison Incentive Programs
Creating a Complete Community-The Real Benefits of Affordable Housing
Session Block #7B
2:30 – 3:45 pm
LED Signs: The Future Is Now – Is Your Sign Code Ready?
Lighten Up
Session Block #8
4:15 -5:45 pm
Using Public Health Data and Information for Planning
The Man With the Golden Gun (aka. Sound Level Meter)
Ethics 101: Testing What We Know About Ethics
Options After the Downturn: What CEQA Analyses Are Required when an Entitled Project is Changed?
APA California 2011 Legislative Update
A New Dialogue for Beneficial Habitat Restoration
Implementing Voluntary Steelhead Restoration Projects: One Permit at a Time
Permit Coordination Multi-Agency Regulatory Planning for Conservation Projects
Planning and Recovery Effort for Southern Steelhead: Santa Ynez River
Planning for Dam Removal: Matilija Dam Ecosystem Restoration Project
Station (Area) Planning and Design for Transit Stations
Climate Adaptation – Acting In the Face of Uncertainty
Mobile Home Park Conversions: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
Session Block #9
8:00 – 9:15 am
Grand Boulevard Initiative: Advancing Regional Planning Through Local Collaboration
Infill Development and CEQA under SB 375
Successes and Challenges of the Mission to Revitalize the Los Angeles River
Bag the Plastic Bags – State and Local Efforts to Restrict Plastic Bag Use
Single Use Carryout Bag Ordinance
Trials and Tribulations of a Carryout Bag Ordinance EIR
You Just Don’t Understand Me: Making Public/Private Communication More Effective
Reaching Community with Student Assistance: Augmenting Public Outreach at Cal Poly SLO
A Small Project with a Big Personality
The Baseline Inventory: What You Should Know Before Preparing a GHG Reduction Plan
Communitywide GHG Baseline Inventory
AEP White Paper Mobile Resource Emissions
Stationary & Area Source GHG Emission Inventory
Communitywide GHG Inventory Protocol White Paper
Baseline GHG Emissions Inventory: Waste & Sequestration
Session Block #10
9:30 – 10:45 am
Moving Forward: A Tool for Estimating VMT Reductions
Going Green When You’re in the Red: Sustainability on a Budget From San Joaquin to Sonoma
Creating Centers of Innovation: Economic Development and Place-Making
Land Assembly in a Post-RDA World
Renaissance Rialto Case Study/Graduated Density Zoning
Kadota Fig; Graduated Zoning Program
Wind Energy Ordinances in California: Facing Issues & Discussion Actions to Overcome Them
Session Block #10B
9:30 – 11:00 am
Ethics in Planning: Real World Scenarios
11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Closing Plenary Session
Census 2010: Where Did My People Go?