Deadline to Submit Proposals: May 31, 2024

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Deadline to Submit Proposals: May 31, 2024 |

Tackling challenging, but promising, 21st-century issues requires collaboration between engaged citizen planning boards and local planning departments. It takes an “all hands on board” approach to fuel sustainable development, creating vibrant places while protecting Maryland’s natural resources and supporting a healthy economy.

To further this venture, the Maryland Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA MD) the Maryland Planning Commissioners Association (MPCA) and will hold a combined conference on October 20-22, 2024 at Turf Valley Resort in Ellicott City.

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Call for Proposals

Deadline to Submit: May 31, 2024

  • The Maryland Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA MD) and the Maryland Planning Commissioners Association (MPCA) announce a Call for Session Proposals for the 2024 joint planning conference, to be held October 20 through 22 at the Turf Valley Resort in Ellicott City, Maryland.

    Across the state, citizen planning boards work with professional practitioners and state and local planning departments to tackle 21st century planning challenges and to implement change. This year, APA MD and the MPCA have joined forces to celebrate the collaborative work of citizen and professional planners over the course of this two-and-a-half-day event.

    We hope you will be inspired by this year’s theme: Two Tracks, One Destination: Citizen and Professional Planners Working Together to Shape Sustainable Development Across Maryland

    We aim to address current issues, trends, challenges, and solutions that are shaping the work of professional and citizen planners, and we need YOU to make that happen. Attendees will include planning commissioners, board of zoning appeals members, historic district commissioners, professional planners, Maryland county and municipal staff, and planning students.

    We encourage you to propose new ideas, new presentation formats, solutions, tools, interactive sessions, and mobile workshops that engage our state and/or the Howard County landscape.

    Submissions should identify a presentation team (one to five people), focus on a topic that expands on this year’s theme, be formatted for either 15 minutes, 45 minutes, or 1.5 hours, and propose an engaging presentation.

    We also invite participants to consider presenting our Lightning Round sessions, where they join others in a fast-paced series of entertaining 15-minute mini-presentations. Note that the 15-minute Lightning Round proposals will be combined with other Lightning Round proposals into a session of 90 minutes (15 minutes per speaker/topic, 5 speakers maximum).

    If you believe your session could qualify for AICP CM credits, please note this so we can work with you to verify eligibility.

    DOWNLOAD FULL CALL FOR PROPOSALS Document

    Submission Deadlines and Details:

    The deadline to submit your proposal is May 31. The Committee will notify proposal submitters (session chairs) of its decision no later than July 1. The Committee will only accept proposals which are submitted electronically to contact@apamaryland.org.

    Questions? Please send inquiries to contact@apamaryland.org.

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