APA New York Metro Chapter Long Island Section

Transit Network Design: An Interactive Short Course

This two-day course is designed to give anyone a grasp of how transit network design works, so that they can form more confident and resilient opinions about transit proposals.
The course is ideal for people who interact with transit planning in their work but don’t do it themselves — including land use and transportation planners, urban designers, developers, traffic engineers, and people who work on transportation or urban policy generally.

Through an interactive, iterative game, attendees will learn how transit planning and network design works, and what costs and consequences result from particular decisions.

Attendees will be eligible for 15 AICP certification maintenance credits.

Dates and times: February 6 & 7, 2014; 9:30 am – 6:00 pm on Thursday, and 8:30 am – 5:00 pm on Friday.

Location: Centre for Social Innovation, walking distance from Penn Station, 601 W. 26th St., NY, NY

Cost: $333 per person, with some discounts, thanks to a generous sponsorship by the Transit Center

For more information and to register online, visit http://jarrettwalker.com/courses/

25th Annual Nonpoint Source Pollution Conference:

The 2014 Annual Nonpoint Source Conference will be held April 29 & 30, 2014 at the Newport Harbor Hotel in Newport, Rhode Island. Please visit the conference website for additional information and the call for abstracts.

APA LI Section Downtown Walking Tours 2014:

Our first walking tour in the Village Patchogue was a great success and we are looking for more locations in 2014. If you live or work in a great Downtown on Long Island and would like to work with the LI Section to set-up a walking tour in 2014, please email your ideas to APALongIsland@gmail.com                 

Congratulations to Steve Jones!  Steve was awarded the APA Andrew Haswell Green Award which recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the field of planning for a period of at least 15 years!

Please note that  the conference has been relocated  to the

H. Lee Dennison Bldg. Media Room 100 Veterans Memorial Highway, Hauppauge October 17th from 3 pm – 10 pm.

All attendees should enter through the plaza entrance on the east side of the building and check in at the security desk.

Please note that there will be no 1:00 mobile workshop.

All other aspects of the conference and registration will remain as planned.

Nassau County Executive Candidate Forum on Sustainability

      With Ed Mangano and Tom Suozzi

Date: Wednesday, October 2^nd, 2013

Time: 7:00-8:30pm

Location:  Hofstra University

                    Student Center Theater

                    North Campus

                    900 Fulton Avenue

                    Hempstead, NY 11550

 Price: Free and open to the public (please pre-register)

 Hosted by: New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and Hofstra University 

Click HERE for Details and to Register

A symposium by the

APA Long Island Section & Long Island Regional Planning Council

Other states and countries have developed innovative solutions to water and shoreline management.
We bring experts from the Netherlands, our neighboring states, and the Gulf
for dialogue that will help us meet the challenges of climate change.

Date: September 12th

Time: 12-5pm, Luncheon included

Location: Allegria Hotel on the Boardwalk, City of Long Beach

PLEASE NOTE: Parking availability- at the hotel ($25) or on the surrounding streets

hotel: 80 West Broadway l Long Beach, NY 11561, Ph: 516.889.1300

For Long Island elected officials, municipal staff, community leaders, planners, engineers, architects

BECAUSE OF OUR SPONSORS- THIS EVENT IS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU!

THE PROGRAM

for tickets, please scroll down

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Registration

11:10 AM- 11:50AM: Optional Bus Tour of Long Beach- Recovery Updates (preregistration needed to secure the seat)

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM:  Luncheon Plenary: New York Rising

The Coastal Reconstruction Program. 

• Welcome:                  Jack Schnirman , City Manager, City of Long Beach
• Introduction:           Jon Kaiman , Special Advisor for Long Island Storm Recovery
• Featured Speaker:   James Rubin, Director, NY Rising Community Reconstruction Program

1:15 PM – 2:45 PM: Session 1- Protecting Whole Communities

Can Levees, Barriers, and Pumping Protect Long Island from Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise?

• Moderator:  John D. Cameron, Jr. PE, Chair, Long Island Regional Planning Council; Managing Partner, Cameron Engineering & Associates

• Panelists:  
  • Malcolm Bowman, PhD , Professor, Marine & Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University
  • Daniel Hitchings, PE,  Vice President, Arcadis US, Jacksonville, Florida
  • Ellen Monchen,  Planning Department, City of Amsterdam, Netherlands
  •  Joseph Vietri, Director, National Planning Center, Army Corps of Engineers, North Atlantic

2:45 PM-3:15 PM :   Break- Networking and refreshments

3:15 PM – 4:45 PM:  Session 3-Urban Water Management, Flood Prevention, and Green Infrastructure. 

How Can We Accommodate More Intense Rain Storms and Reduce Flooding?

• Moderator:  Dorian Dale, Chief Recovery Officer/ Director of Sustainability,   Dept. Economic Development/Workforce Housing, Suffolk County

• Panelists:   
  • Maureen Krudner, Green Infrastructure Program, USEPA, Region 2
  • David Waggonner, III, FAIA , President, Waggonner & Ball Architects, New Orleans
  • Paul van Wijk, Principal, Stijlgroep, Rotterdam, Netherlands

5 pm – Optional networking at the Allegria Bar or dinner at the Allegria or other Long Beach restaurants

TICKETS:

• APA member: $35; Non-APA member: $45; Student: $25; At door: $60

For Immediate Release – Pine Barrens Historical Exhibit Opens – 7-22-13

Historic Pine Barrens Exhibit on Display Now until September 30, 2013 at the Riverhead County Center, 210 Center Drive, Riverhead, NY 11901.

Exhibit Open at the County Center 8:30am-4:30pm Monday-Friday.

See above Link for more details.