The 2019 Alaska Chapter of the American Planning Association State Planning Conference was a huge success. The following awards were presented and celebrated: Comprehensive Plan Award - Sitka 2030 Comprehensive Plan; Award for Planning Leadership - Planning Advocate of the Year—Sara Jansen; Award for Planning Team - Municipality of Anchorage Long-Range Planning Division; and Award for a Leader, Planner of the Year - John Czarnezki, Director of Economic Development and Planning for the City of Soldotna, AK. by Jon Cecil, AICP, Anchorage, AK

The North Dakota Planning Association (NDPA) hosted its annual conference this year in Grand Forks on September 13, 2018. See photos and the presentations from the conference.

Join APA Colorado in Keystone, Colorado for the 2018 APA Colorado State Conference as attendees work towards "Defining the Keystone of Planning."  Planning for this annual event has just begun so check http://www.apacolorado.org/2018-conference for updates.

WYOPASS's spring conference will be held in Riverton on May 10 & 11.

The American Planning Association Alaska Chapter presented several awards at its conference in November 2017. Congratulations to the winners!

The 2017 APA Arizona Conference is now behind us and we want to extend a warm thank you to our 328 attendees and 24 sponsors!

Last year Colorado Senate Bill 15-008 became a law concerning the promotion of water conservation in the land use planning process.