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Conference: Regional Planning Comes of Age

A groundbreaking conference exploring the promise and practice of regional land use planning in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states, on the 25th Anniversary of the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan.

By Aaron Donovan

12:58 PM EDT on September 9, 2006

The conference will include plenary addresses and seminars on regional land use planning aimed at preserving natural and historic resources while strengthening communities in our dynamic and growing part of the country. Hon. Bruce Babbitt, Robert Yaro, and Doug Foy will deliver plenary addresses.

Seminars will address topics such as transfer of development rights, growth management tools, protecting water resources through regional planning, economic impacts of regional planning, using regional planning to preserve historic and cultural resources, cooperative planning across political boundaries, and regional zoning and land use regulation.

Seminars will also explore outstanding and developing examples of regional planning, such as the New Jersey Pinelands, the Adirondacks Park, the Long Island Pine Barrens, the Cape Cod Commission, Chesapeake Bay watershed initiatives and much more.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan, there will be a banquet on Thursday night the 28th.

WHEN: Sept. 27-29 (See Conference and Banquet Program for full details)

WHERE: Hyatt Regency New Brunswick

TO REGISTER: http://www.regionalplanningcomesofage.org/conference/registration.html

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Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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