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The YIMBY Movement: Opportunities and Challenges for Planners

The YIMBY Movement: Opportunities and Challenges for Planners

Instructor: Mark Vallianatos

Yes In My Back Yard, most commonly referred to as YIMBY, is a grassroots social movement advocating for an increase in housing development at the regional, city, and neighborhood levels. This course examines YIMBY organizational structures and the roots, goals, setbacks, successes, and tactics of the movement.

66 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
The Ethics of Disruptive Transportation Technologies

The Ethics of Disruptive Transportation Technologies

Instructor: Carol D. Barrett

This course discusses the process for making ethical decisions as part of planning for disruptive technologies.

83 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
Regulating Electronic Message Centers

Regulating Electronic Message Centers

Instructor: James Carpentier

This course provides practical, solution-focused guidance for regulations that leverage digital sign technology while protecting community aesthetic values and safety concerns. This course is available for free.

49 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
Free
Form-Based Codes 101: Legal Aspects

Form-Based Codes 101: Legal Aspects

Instructor: Daniel Parolek

This course explores the legal issues of creating and using a form-based code.

85 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
Defensible Sign Regulations

Defensible Sign Regulations

Instructor: Eric Damian Kelly

Communities regulate the characteristics of signs to achieve multiple goals, such as limiting driver distraction, maintaining the aesthetic character of the community, and implementing aspects of related plans. This course will show participants how to draft—and adopt—sign ordinances that accomplish those purposes while conforming with the First Amendment.

63 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
Regulating Sex Businesses, Part 2: Practical Tips

Regulating Sex Businesses, Part 2: Practical Tips

Instructor: Eric Damian Kelly

This course will provide practical tips for developing local zoning and licensing regulations for sexually oriented businesses. This course builds on material from Part 1 of this two-part series.

62 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
Regulating Sex Businesses, Part 1: Principles and Foundations

Regulating Sex Businesses, Part 1: Principles and Foundations

Instructor: Eric Damian Kelly

This course shows how to lay the foundation for ordinances that mitigate the negative effects of sex businesses while conforming with constitutional requirements under the First Amendment.

61 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
The Ethics of Office Administration, Part 2

The Ethics of Office Administration, Part 2

Instructor: Carol D. Barrett

The second course in the "Ethics of Office Administration" series discusses how to identify, evaluate, and resolve difficult scenarios that might arise in a planning office.

64 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
The Ethics of Office Administration, Part 1

The Ethics of Office Administration, Part 1

Instructor: Carol D. Barrett

The administration of a planning office—whether in the private or public sector—can raise ethical questions. This course introduces these questions and presents tools for analyzing them.

61 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
Planning and the Law: Procedural Due Process

Planning and the Law: Procedural Due Process

Instructor: Thomas Hawkins

The United States Constitution protects rights to "due process." In a land use law context, due process is why local governments must treat legislative and quasi-judicial decision making differently. At the end of this course, students will be able to differentiate between legislative and quasi-judicial decisions and to understand the due process implications of the distinction.

69 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
Planning and the Law: The Takings Clause

Planning and the Law: The Takings Clause

Instructor: Thomas Hawkins

This course will help students understand and explore three legal concepts borne of the United States Constitution's Takings Clause: eminent domain, regulatory takings, and exactions. By the end of the course, students will be able to identify whether a particular government action is at risk of violating the Takings Clause.

69 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
Healthy Urban Food Systems: Planning Production Facilities

Healthy Urban Food Systems: Planning Production Facilities

Instructor: Lauren Dunning

This course examines the role for planning in addressing various forms of urban agriculture as well as many examples from around the country of the statutes, policy, and practices implementing interventions in food production at urban scales.

43 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
Healthy Urban Food Systems: Planning Retail Facilities

Healthy Urban Food Systems: Planning Retail Facilities

Instructor: Lauren Dunning

This course introduces information from legal and public health perspectives on the retail side of food systems entities, such as farmers markets, grocery stores, and mobile vending.

55 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
Planning Ethics

Planning Ethics

Instructor: Carol D. Barrett

The work of planning for communities is rooted in values, often unexpressed, about the role of government in working for a better future. This course reviews the expectations expressed in the AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and then explores the application of the code in a number of planning ethics case studies. This conversation about building and sustaining an ethical planning organization sets out to define what makes an ethical planning organization and describes steps that planners can take to improve the ethical climate of their organizations.

157 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
Ethics: Balancing a Business Friendly Planning Environment

Ethics: Balancing a Business Friendly Planning Environment

Instructor: Carol D. Barrett

Over the past few decades and increasingly over the past several years, the private sector, led by developers, has increasingly courted, conflicted and collaborated with planning departments amid shrinking budgets. As business interests engage and influence public agencies and planning strategy, the role of ethics is of increasing importance for the practicing planner. This is the first of a two-part series that evaluates and analyses the role of planners, from public window staff to department heads, in an increasingly business-friendly environment.

59 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
Code Drafting and the Law

Code Drafting and the Law

Instructor: Mark White

In our complex legal society, understanding the basis of planning law and governing legislation is a must. The course begins with the building blocks of understanding codes, and goes on to explore how statutory authority and constitutional issues impact your everyday decisions. It concludes with a discussion of contemporary legal, quasi-legal and administrative practices. 

66 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
Ethics: Balancing a Business Friendly Planning Environment, Part 2

Ethics: Balancing a Business Friendly Planning Environment, Part 2

Instructor: Carol D. Barrett

Over the past several years, the private sector, led by developers, has increasingly courted, conflicted and collaborated with planning departments amid shrinking budgets. As business interests engage and influence public agencies and planning strategy, the role of ethics is of increasing importance for the practicing planner. This is the second of a two-part series that evaluates and analyses the role of planners, from public window staff to department heads, in an increasingly business-friendly environment.

56 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD
Legal Issues for Form-Based Codes

Legal Issues for Form-Based Codes

Instructor: Mark White

Form-based codes (FBCs) have made a big splash in re-zoning, general plan updates and among land use professionals and stakeholders. Learn what form-based codes are from a legal definition, and the authority for form-based codes. Instructor Mark White evaluates the nuances of due process issues, takings, suburban uses of FBCs and exclusionary zoning.

80 Mins
AICP CM
CNU-A

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