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Guest Host: APA Urban Design & Preservation Division
Technology is reshaping how preservation professionals document, analyze, and plan for historic places. This webinar explores tools such as GIS, field data collection, mapping, and visualization to support preservation planning and adaptive reuse.Attendees will learn strategies for filling critical data gaps, building actionable datasets, and using technology to inform planning decisions. While digital tools improve efficiency, successful preservation still depends on community engagement, local knowledge, and strong partnerships.CM 1.5

July 17, 2026 | 1:00 - 2:30 PM ET

Guest Host: APA Pennsylvania Chapter
All three Levittowns in U.S. are the prototypical American post-WWII residential development. Do they have anything to teach us after 75 years of existence? This session will explore their impact on suburban development and mixed legacy over the last 8 decades. It will cover Levittown's history (including several riots), its positive and negative planning legacies, and its role as both a model for suburbia and a cautionary tale about car dependency, discrimination and racial intolerance. Levittown remains a living and evolving example of the American suburban landscape.

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Guest Host: APA Private Practice Division
What does it mean for a street or trail to be sustainable and/or resilient? From design for drainage, material selection, to heat mitigation and maintenance regimes, many factors come into play. As climate impacts intensify and communities seek healthier, lower-carbon transportation options, practitioners are increasingly called to deliver infrastructure that performs under stress while supporting everyday mobility. The presentation will discuss sustainability and resilience in the context of multimodal transportation, with consideration for stormwater management, conversion of impervious to pervious surfaces, heat mitigation and trees, and user experience. It will highlight strategies and examples for applying guidance to real world infrastructure, including working across departments and developing consensus on treatments for constrained conditions.

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Guest Host: APA Community Engagement Interest Group

Hybrid engagement has moved from a pandemic workaround to a defining part of planning practice. Yet for many teams, it still feels fragmented, hard to evaluate, and unclear in impact. This webinar introduces the Designing Hybrid Engagement guide and translates its core framework into practical application. The guide presents hybrid engagement as a design challenge that requires intentionally connecting participation across time, place, and format to reduce barriers and strengthen outcomes. Participants will explore how engagement choices shape whose voices are heard, how input is interpreted, and how decisions are ultimately made. Drawing on real-world examples, the session highlights both successful approaches and common pitfalls, including “parallel track” engagement that separates in-person and online participation rather than connecting them.

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Guest Host: APA Northern New England Chapter
The session focuses on the work done by ISO New England, the non-profit entity in charge of managing the power grid, the wholesale electricity markets and long-term transmission grid planning for New England, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. AICP members will gain a practitioner-level understanding of how ISO-NE plans for a reliable, regionwide electric system and how those planning functions intersect with land-use and community planning in the six New England states. The session will explain ISO New England’s three core roles and show how long-range transmission planning, load forecasting, resource adequacy, and stakeholder processes such as the Regional System Plan inform infrastructure investment and system resilience. Participants will learn how electricity reliability, cost, and the clean-energy transition intersect with local and regional planning decisions related to development patterns, housing, transportation, economic competitiveness, environmental goals, and equitable community outcomes. By the end of the session, planners will be better prepared to incorporate energy-system considerations into comprehensive planning, infrastructure coordination, and policy discussions, recognizing that energy is intrinsic to the economic, equity, and environmental issues they address every day.

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Maryland Department of Planning Sustainable Growth Webinar

"Setting the Stage for TOD"  will show how Transit Oriented Development (TOD) can be encouraged and optimized through data, policy, and smart design. By exploring the methods and strategies used by planners, developers, and architects to prepare sites for TOD, this webinar will teach participants to compare existing station area sites that might support development, identify the institutional elements that support added density and livability, and recognize the physical components of a walkable, transit centered community.

• Meagan Fairfield-Peak from the Maryland Department of Planning will demonstrate Maryland's Transit State Area Profile Tool and how it can be used to identify the strengths, needs, and possibilities for TOD sites.

• Darron Cooper from the Maryland Department of Transportation will present how zoning, infrastructure, and transportation policy can benefit TOD and enable it to reach its potential.

• Cecily Bedwell from Design Collective will present how developments centered around transit can be designed to create a strong sense of place and positively impact communities.

• Brooks Phelps from MDP will focus on Transportation strategies and policies. 

Following the webinar, attendees will be able to… Recognize the physical components of a livable, transit-oriented development site. Identify the elements that support a walkable, transit centered community. Compare existing station area sites that might support transit-oriented development.

1.5 AICP credits are available for this webinar and accommodations are available upon request. Please email joseph.griffiths@maryland.gov with any accommodation needs.  

June 18, 2026 | 1:00 - 2:30 PM ET *Thursday*

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Guest Host: APA County Planning Division
Recent federal accessibility updates have elevated the importance of compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA for counties and local governments. These standards apply to a wide range of public‑facing digital materials, including websites, online documents, multimedia content, mobile applications, and social media platforms used to deliver government services. This webinar will provide planners and local government professionals with an overview of WCAG 2.1 Level AA, clarify what types of digital content are covered, and examine how accessibility requirements intersect with planning, communications, and public‑facing service delivery. Drawing on coordination with the National Association of Counties (NACo), the session will also explore implementation considerations, emerging best practices, and the evolving legal and policy context shaping accessibility expectations for counties. The webinar is intended to support informed decision‑making and professional understanding of accessibility requirements relevant to planning practice.

Join us for a joint APA Maryland Chapter / APA Delaware Chapter site visit and networking event focused on the MD-272 Corridor Plan.

Participants will learn about key elements of this transportation plan in downtown North East, including:

• Converting Maudlin Avenue from one-way to two-way traffic

• Installing two roundabouts

• Identifying pedestrian and bicycle improvements

• The plan’s robust public engagement process

• The committee working to advance implementation

• And more

Following the presentation, participants will walk through downtown to visit the streets and intersections identified for improvement and discuss the proposed changes in greater detail with planners and Town staff.  The event will conclude with networking at Woody’s Crab House.

Session speakers:

• Wayne Martin, PE, Senior Project Manager

  Wallace Montgomery

• Bill Swiatek, AICP, Principal Planner

  Wilmington Area Planning Council

• Betsy Vennell, Director of Planning

  Town of North East

• Grant Handley, Assistant Town Administrator

  Town of North East

  Questions? Email: Bill Swiatek, AICP (bswiatek@wilmapco.org)

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Guest Host: APA Ohio
Access to city or neighborhood-level data is essential for refining public health strategies, but communities feel stuck relying on state- and county-level data to understand what’s happening locally. In this webinar, you'll learn how to access more granular data via the City Health Dashboard and Congressional District Health Dashboard, two freely available and interactive websites that provide data on over 40 measures of health and the factors that shape health, including Frequent Mental Distress, Broadband Connection, Air Pollution, and more. Participants will also learn how to use visualizations—like engaging metric maps—to identify, connect, and tackle neighborhood challenges. With this information, planners can foster meaningful community dialogue, support informed decision-making, and design health‑focused interventions that address the needs of the residents they serve. Learning objectives include: accessing and leveraging local-level data through the City and Congressional District Health Dashboards; utilizing Dashboard technical assistance; and learning how other communities have used Dashboard data to strengthen community health and well-being.CM 1.5

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Guest Host: LGBTQ & Planning Division
How can planners and downtown leaders cultivate Main Streets where LGBTQIA+ people feel visible, welcome, and celebrated? Join the APA LGBTQ & Planning Division for a panel conversation featuring practitioners from communities across the country who are advancing inclusive downtown initiatives through programming, partnerships, placemaking, and storytelling.

Are you preparing to take the AICP Exam this year? Join APA Maryland for an in-person study session designed to help you feel confident and prepared!

📅 Date: Saturday, March 21, 2026
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
📍 Location: Morgan State University, Center for the Built Environment and Infrastructure Studies (CBEIS)
📌 Who Can Attend? APA Members and APA Maryland Chapter Members

This interactive session will cover key exam topics, test-taking strategies, and insights from our Professional Development Officer (PDO) who is an AICP Certified Planner. Not an APA member yet? Students can join APA for free and take advantage of this valuable study session!

Got questions? Reach out to us at contact@apamaryland.org. We look forward to helping you achieve AICP certification.

Special Notes: A light lunch will be provided. Please feel free to bring snacks and/or lunch that best suits your dietary needs. More information about meeting room, parking, and what to expect the day of will be provided to registrants.

Find more AICP Resources Here: https://apamaryland.org/professional-development

Guest Host: APA Water & Planning Network

The Colorado Water Plan is a statewide planning document created first by legislation, and then refined through years of robust stakeholder input and complex modeling to provide a data-driven understanding of our current water supply and potential future scenarios. This plan highlights Colorado’s water vision, assigns work to the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) and its sister state agencies, and provides a framework for the critical efforts requiring collaboration from partners across the state. The 10-year schedule set forth in the Water Plan allows time to work on these important issues while setting a deadline for its update before it becomes outdated. The CWCB leads this collaborative action through guiding principles, funding, and technical support, but cannot do the work alone. This webinar will open with a summary of water and land use planning requirements in the 50 states, and will then feature presentations explaining how the Colorado Water Plan is organized and implemented from the state level to the boots-on-the-ground partners, resulting in a statewide cooperative effort -- developed over many years -- to both develop and conserve water resources.

Title: Land Use Decisions for Healthy Landscapes
Date/time: Thursday March 12, 2026 12pm - 1:30pm

Speakers: 

• Peter Claggett, USGS

• Jeff Lerner, EPA

• Jackie Pickford, USGS

Description: The well-being of the Chesapeake Bay depends on the health of the lands that make up its watershed. As communities within the region continue to grow or intensify their activities, the demand for land and resources can add pollutants to the system and put our waters and habitats at risk. Many of these lands support not only water quality but also provide other economic, recreational, cultural and ecological benefits we do not want to lose. That's why the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement was recently updated with a revised Healthy Landscapes goal and outcome related to land use planning. Come hear what planners should know about these changes, how your community can be involved and what new or updated data and tools are available to support your communities goals and future planning.

Guest Host: APA Sustainable Communities Division

This session introduces professionals to the LEED v5 framework through real-world planning and design examples aligned with its core priorities. By analyzing projects that predate or operate outside of LEED v5 certification, the session highlights how many of the framework’s key themes—such as decarbonization, resilience, equity, and human health—are already embedded in practice. Through case-based discussion, participants will build foundational LEED skills, learn how to identify and translate these principles into future projects, and better understand how the framework builds on existing approaches in the field. This session is designed as an introductory, skills-building opportunity for those new to LEED.

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The Maryland Department of Planning (MDP) is presenting the webinar, “Incorporating Maryland's Planning Principles into Comprehensive Plans: A Rural Western Maryland Perspective". Panelists will present various perspectives and insights concerning the incorporation of the Planning Principles into local comprehensive plans. The webinar will address MDP’s Technical Advisory Group (TAG) process, along with insight from panelists; each in different phases of their comprehensive plan development processes, including early-development, late-development, and implementation. MDP will be joined by planning partners from Garrett County Planning and Zoning, the City of Cumberland/ Calvert County Planning and Zoning, and Smith Planning & Design.

Following the webinar, attendees will be able to ….

1. Explain each Planning Principle to staff members, community members, planning colleagues, etc.

2. Recognize the importance of the inclusion of the Planning Principles in their respective jurisdiction’s planning efforts/documents.

3. Effectively compose and revise comprehensive plans, with the intent of ensuring their jurisdiction’s plan incorporates the Planning Principles.

4. Apply the planning principles through their daily work via sound planning practices.

5. Measure progress toward successful planning principles implementation using MDP’s Sustainable Growth Implementation Guide.

Zoning for Agritourism – A View from the Trenches

[CM Credit Pending]
 This webinar explores zoning for agritourism from the viewpoints of a land use planner and an agritourism operator. The different perspectives will give the participants further insights into how to effectively engage stakeholders in the planning process and the pitfalls to avoid in regulating agritourism activities. The webinar will focus on regulating agritourism based on scale – small operations versus large operations – and regulating special events, like weddings. The participant will learn how to craft regulations which encourage agritourism in their communities while protecting neighbors and the community from negative impacts.

Join Greg Miller, Executive Director of the Center for Land Economics, and Josie Faass, PhD., Executive Director of the Progress and Poverty Institute, for a discussion on how property taxes can be leveraged in innovative ways to improve communities and spur growth.

Participants of this live webinar are eligible for 1.5 AICP CM credits

The Maryland Department of Planning is presenting a webinar, “Designing Adequate Public Facilities Ordinances (APFOs) for Sustainable Growth”. APFOs ensure that infrastructure and community facilities can keep pace with growth, but if not designed or applied correctly, they can hinder the type of development needed to ensure thriving and affordable communities. Panelists will describe how APFOs work in Maryland and share insights gained from recent research completed in partnership with the National Center for Smart Growth, including an updated inventory of APFOs in the state. Representatives from Charles County and Annapolis will share lessons learned over decades of school, transportation, and recreational APFO implementation. The panel will also detail best practices for designing APFOs that can help jurisdictions address Maryland’s housing crisis. 

Register Here

Attendees will learn how to:

1. Describe:

   • APFOs in Maryland and access available APFO resources.

   • the APFO modification process and lessons learned from municipal and county jurisdictions.

2. Design APFOs that:

   • facilitate housing supply and affordability with adequate infrastructure.

   • enable improved mobility.

   • enhance recreational amenities.

3. Navigate the complexities of school APFOs. 

This webinar will guide emerging planners in transitioning from academic theories to successfully navigating real-world planning profession. It will focus on practical skills, problem-solving strategies and professional growth in the early stages of their career. Join in the conversation with three planners as they discuss their transition from school to a career.

November 20th: 12:00 - 1:00 pm 

Register: https://forms.gle/ZbWSz3dLACXVvdz79 

Learn about what's hot in the world of planning ethics from the AICP Ethics Officer and members of the AICP Ethics Committee! This session will include a refresher on key points related to the AICP Code of Ethics most recently updated in January 2022. Hear firsthand how the AICP Code of Ethics emphasizes a commitment to equity and inclusion, to protecting the public interest, and to supporting AICP planners from frivolous complaints. Understand how the Code sets certified planners apart from others by focusing on integrity, appearance of fairness, and commitment to supporting fair and just communities.

Next, several real-life ethical scenarios that came before the AICP Ethics Office in 2024 will be presented and discussed. Participants will be engaged to answer several questions related to ethical dilemmas faced by planners in the various scenarios. Learn how to use the AICP Code of Ethics as a guide to ethical behavior in your planning practice and understand how the Code is designed to support all certified planners through challenging situations as long as their behavior is Code-consistent.

Following the refresher of the AICP Code of Ethics and the presentation of real-life cases from 2024, attendees will participate in a round of Ethics Jeopardy! You can test your knowledge of the AICP Code of Ethics against your colleagues. Participants will respond to a series of questions on the AICP Code of Ethics to demonstrate their understanding of how the AICP Code applies to circumstances and trends in the practice of planning. Key points on the AICP Code of Ethics will be expounded upon to help explain answers to key questions. Join in with your colleagues and test your knowledge to see if you have what it takes to become an AICP Code of Ethics champion!

Attend our Annual Business Meeting.
Discover what Maryland’s Renewable Energy Certainty Act means for your community, and hear insights from solar experts across legal, industry, and local government sectors during this engaging panel discussion. 1 CM credit

*Networking and Happy Hour 5pm @ B&O Brasserie- 2 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 includes a cocktail and appetizers with your ticket.

Full Agenda here