APA New York Metro Chapter Long Island Section

Need Ethics CM Credits? 

FREE WEBINAR:  Equity Issues in Transportation Planning: Getting More Voices into the Conversation

December 11, 2015 (1:00pm – 2:30pm)

1.5 CM Ethics CM Credits

Cost:  Free

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or…………………….

View a FREE Ethics CM-approved video when it is convenient for you.  Click HERE to view the following ethics session:

• Ethics, Equity and Social Justice: Roles and Implications of Planners – 1.5 CM Ethics Credits (#e.3029372)

  • To locate this event for CM credit, click here or search by the provider, APA Northern New England Chapter

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The City College of New York, Spitzer School of Architecture
&
Long Island Section of the APA Metro Chapter present:

ParkingPLUS: Studio for Designing Suburban Futures
Transit-supportive development along the LIRR in the communities of Baldwin and Valley Stream

Student Presentations

Sip This Coffee House
64 Rockaway Ave Valley Stream, NY 11580

December 11, 2015

5pm – 7pm

Building on the four provocative projects of the ParkingPLUS design challenge (Long Island Index, 2013-14), students enrolled in the CUNY Bachelors of Architecture Program Fall 2015 Design Studio brought the paradigm to two new sites, stops along the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in the hamlets of VALLEY STREAM and BALDWIN. The two communities were selected in Nassau County’s Sustainable Communities grant-funded study of the potential for Transit-Supportive Development (TSD). The 10 students worked to design innovative schemes combining structured parking, public/civic space, and other “plus” uses (housing, retail, community services, recreation) on available parking lots. The designs aim to function both as specific examples of building type, and as prototypes for similar conditions at other sites.

Click on the links below for the student presentations.  Thank you to June Williamson, RA, LEED AP and her CUNY Architecture Program students for some wonderful and creative ideas for downtown Valley Stream and Baldwin!

Student Presentations

• Lyubov_Tsinis – Valley Stream
• Eunice_Jung – Valley Stream
• Jill_Bunyea – Valley Stream
• Milton_Nuala – Valley Stream
• Marija_Gorgievska – Baldwin
• Nick_Napoli – Baldwin
• Ehab_Adel-naby_Chris_Blanco – Baldwin
• 9_Katerina_Marcelja_Baldwin – Baldwin

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Water for Long Island presents:

The 2015 Groundwater Symposium

A Lifetime for Long Island’s Water – An Aquifer Compact?

Friday, December 4, 2015

9:00am – 12:30pm

South Huntington Public Library

145 Pidgeon Hill Road, Huntington Station, NY  11746

You are cordially invited to attend the 2015 Groundwater Symposium.  This forum will host thought-provoking presentations and ideas for protecting, assessing and remediating Long Island’s groundwater.  Water experts, water suppliers, water-dependent business interests, and others will discuss what they are doing to ensure Long Island’s groundwater is sustainable and available, now and into the future. The program will feature a representative from the Delaware River Basin Commission who will discuss the role of managing a shared, regional water resource.

This Program is FREE but registration is required.  To register place visit www.waterforlongisland.org

Click HERE to download the Program announcement.

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The Long Island Geographic Information Systems User Group (LIGIS) 

Annual Fall Conference

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 from 8:30am – 3:30pm

Wang Center, Stony Brook University

The LIGIS Fall Conference will include presentations from GIS innovators on various topics such as geoportal mapping of Long Island, water management and 3D printing of GIS data.  The Conference will also include a showcase of GIS work being performed by local governments here on Long Island.  We hope you can attend!

Click HERE for the Conference Agenda

For additional information, visit www.LIGIS.org

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14th Annual Smart Growth Summit

Friday, November 20th from 8am-4pm

Melville Marriott

As a community, business or government leader on Long Island, Vision would like to invite you once again to join us at the 14th Annual Smart Growth Summit, being held on Friday, November 20th from 8am-4pm at the Melville Marriott.

Last year’s event drew nearly 1,200 civic, chambers, developers, environmentalists, design professionals, business leaders, young people and over 70 federal, state, county, town and village elected officials from Long Island and the region.

The Smart Growth movement is busy approving 10,300 units of transit oriented development, revitalization programs in over 50 Long Island downtowns, 40 traffic calming projects, new Main Street office space,  lively restaurants/bars nightlife, and countless events featuring the arts, culture and live music.  Recent increased Federal, State and County infrastructure investment in our sewers, rails, buses and roadways has also been critical to the success of the redevelopment projects.
The Summit is the event where we share ideas, network on projects, financing, regulations and spotlight successes while managing roadblocks.

The 14th Annual Smart Growth Summit will feature networking, a trade show, nearly 20 workshops, a youth summit and plenary sessions on regional and local issues facing mixed-use development. Some sessions may include: downtown revitalization, wastewater infrastructure, financing Smart Growth, transit-oriented development, clean energy, youth leadership, regional projects, fair housing/segregation, off Island case examples, solid waste and many others to be announced in the coming weeks based on input from the broader movement.

Click HERE for Registration Information

Click HERE for Additional Information

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“The future belongs to those who prepare for it” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are the future of planning and tomorrow’s leaders.  Check out this featured video from APA National…..

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The APA LI Section, Town of Babylon and the Suffolk County Downtown Citizens Committee are co-sponsoring a walking tour of downtown Wyandanch on October 26, 2015 from 4:30pm – 5:30pm.  We hope you can join us!  Space is limited so please RSVP soon to Eric Zamft, AICP, Project Manager, ToB Office of Downtown Revitalization at ezamft@townofbabylon.com.

[1 CM Credit has been requested]

Tour Details and Itinerary

The Tour will begin at the southeast corner of 40 Station Drive (the completed new construction just north of the train station) at 4:30pm. Participants may park in the off-street parking behind 40 Station Drive in any of the stalls marked ‘2 HR parking or Wyandanch Village Resident Parking’ – these are located towards the back of the parking lot.  Greetings and Introductions at 40 Station Drive –

Speakers: Regina Zara (Chair of the Suffolk County Downtown Citizens Advisory Panel), Jonathan Keyes (Director of Town of Babylon Office of Downtown Revitalization), Sean Sallie (Director of the APA Metro Chapter Long Island Section)

• Walk to Wyandanch Parking Facility (4:35 – 4:45)
• Walk to LIRR Overpass (4:45 – 4:55). Photo op!
• Walk west on Long Island Ave to Wyandanch Community Resource Center (4:55 – 5:02)
• Continue to Wyandanch Post Office (5:02 – 5:05)
• Cross Straight Path to Straight Path Medians (5:05 – 5:07)
• Continue across Straight Path to George Sims Plaza. Walk north up Garden City Avenue. Turn right onto Long Island Avenue. Turn left on Straight Path back across the tracks, and proceed to redevelopment Site. (5:07 – 5:12)
• Tour Plaza, 10 Station Drive, 40 Station Drive area (5:12 – 5:25)
• Q&A at 40 Station Drive, led by Jonathan (5:25 – 5:30)

For additional information, please also feel free to contact Eric Zamft, AICP, Project Manager, ToB Office of Downtown Revitalization at ezamft@townofbabylon.com.

We look forward to seeing you on the 26th!!

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The USGBC-LI is co-sponsoring the Environmentally Distressed Property Seminar on October 29, 2015 from 7:30am – 10:30am at Molloy College, 7180 Republic Airport, East Farmingdale, NY  11735.

Please click HERE for more details.

RSVP’s can be sent to Jade Plaschka at jplaschka@usgbc-li.org or 631-418-6808 by Monday, October 20, 2015.

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SUFFOLK COUNTY PLANNING FEDERATION

Autumn Planning Conference

In collaboration with
American Planning Association
New York Department of State
and the
Suffolk County Planning Commission

October 14, 2015
3:00 PM

CM Credits have been requested!

Online Registration Form (Registration ends Friday, October 9, 2015)

Click for Conference Program and Course Descriptions

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Please join us for the APA New York Metro Chapter 2015 Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony – Shaping the New York Metropolitan Region: Planning Innovations and Disruptors, on Friday, October 30, at Lerner Hall, Columbia University.

For more details including the Conference Agenda and Online Registration Form, please CLICK HERE

We hope to see you there!!

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