The Michigan Association of Planning (MAP) has several excellent educational opportunities coming up:

Transforming Transportation

November 4, 2009 (8:30 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.)
Lansing, MI - Radisson Hotel

6.5 or 8 AICP CM credits (pending approval)

MAP is bringing together state and national experts to showcase how successful communities link health, land use, and innovative transportation solutions, such as:

  • Safe Routes to Schools,
  • Context Sensitive Solutions, and
  • Complete Streets.

Current thinking in the fields of health,  transportation, and planning is transforming decade-old community practices and policies which shaped daily life.  Community engagement and a strong focus on walkable/bikeable/mass transit alternatives to automobile travel are common elements of emerging strategies to build healthy, vital communities.

Who Should Attend?

  • Professional planners
  • Citizen planners and elected officials
  • School officials from principals, to administrators, to teachers
  • Community health professionals
  • Transportation planners and engineers
  • State agency employees with a stake in transforming the built environment (DEQ, MDOT, DELEG, MSHDA, MDA, MDE, and others)
  • Design professionals like landscape architects and architects
  • Representatives from the development community

Register now for only $35, includes lunch, refreshments and handouts.

MAP partners with NWMCOG to host Randall Arendt

October 28, 2009 (9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Traverse City, Michigan
$80 [6.5 CM credits (pending approval)]

Protecting Community-Wide Open Space Networks AND Reclaiming the Strip - Redevelopment Design Strategies for Transforming Highway/Road Corridors into Mixed-Use Centers

MAP presents: Social Equity and Ethics Webinar

December 11, 2009 (12:50 - 2:30 p.m.)
1.5 CM (pending approval) for ethics requirement

Visit the MAP website at http://www.planningmi.org to register, or for more information on these and other educational opportunities.

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