The North Central Section currently maintains a library of AICP CM CD-ROM's available for loan to its members. Our library consists of 20 different titles with a total of 38.5 CM credits available.
The CM titles are available on a first come first serve basis and will be leant to members for a time not to exceed two weeks. The maximum number of titles that can be leant at one time is five. Please contact Tommy Dalton, Section PDO to request a copy of these CD-ROM's.
1. LEED for Neighborhoods - CM 1.5
The green building movement, which focuses on the environmental quality and impact of the design, construction, and operation of buildings, has expanded to the neighborhood level. Find out how green building practices are being linked to smart growth, urban design, and public health through LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for Neighborhood Development. Learn about tried-and-true practices and new techniques and tools that can improve the environmental quality of your community, making it more sustainable for the future.
2. 2008 Planning Law Review - CM 1.5
In 2007 and 2008, state and federal courts across the country handed down hundreds of decisions affecting the practice of planning and land use law. This program highlights some of the more important decisions and explains their significance. In addition, through the panel members' ongoing analysis of trends in planning law, you will gain insights and practice tips into some of the cutting edge challenges facing planners and lawyers including the integration of green development principles with local planning and zoning. This past year there seemed to be a growing number of federal court cases addressing a wide range of topics such as the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, and signs and billboards (and in particular billboards that frequently flash or change messages). This program satisfies the CM law credit requirement.
3. Comparative Costs of Sprawl (1.25 credits) + Financing Growth Supplement (2.5 credits) - CM 3.75
Do growth controls have the savings they purport to have? New research examines the fundamental question: Has growth been controlled and, along with it, the costs? Learn about the types of studies undertaken and their conclusions.
This program includes the Financing Growth Supplement. This supplement includes two sessions concerning how to pay for growth: "Paying for Growth: An Overview" and "Open Mike: Is Growth Ever Free?" Listen to several views on different approaches to this universal problem. These two sessions are full of ideas, discussion, and information on how to get growth to pay for itself.
4. Ethics in Planning - CM 1.5 Ethics
Hear the AICP Ethics Officer, Executive Director and CEO Paul Farmer, FAICP, and two other panelists discuss issues surrounding ethical behavior in planning practice. Panelists discuss ethics scenarios as encountered on the job. This session is eligible for CM Ethics Credit.
5. Preparing a Downtown Revitalization Plan - CM 1.25
Do you remember spending time downtown with friends and family-shopping, strolling, or going to the movies? You can recapture that vibrancy. Learn how to revitalize your small town downtown through the combination of physical improvements that enhance the historic setting and a targeted marketing effort to recruit new businesses.
6. Mechanics of Code Writing - CM 2.0
Veteran or novice, you'll explore the fundamentals of code writing. Review basic legal standards and case law to recognize the underpinnings of regulations as legal documents. Explore problem identification and solving, project management, resource allocation, and consistent progress. See how to integrate graphics and illustrations. Master the rules of drafting.
7. 2009 Planning Law Review - CM 1.5 Law
Keep current on the Supreme Court, circuit, and state court decisions and legislative changes from the past year. Hear from the experts regarding climate change, RLUIPA, distressed properties, and APA's activities in the courts. This program satisfies the law CM requirement.
8. Planning Law in Perspective - CM 5.5 Law
The legal landscape for planning is ever-changing and this CD-ROM training package covers the past four years of court cases, legislation, and challenges to planning law. Suitable for planners and officials.
Module One (2005): Issues covered include eminent domain (Kelo v. City of New London); clarifications on when a taking has occurred (Lingle v. Chevron); relief and the appropriate court (San Remo Hotel, LP, v. City and County of San Francisco), and other cases that address zoning and the Telecommunications Act, RLUIPA, Oregon's Measure 37, and more.
Module Two (2004): Issues covered include exactions (Town of Flower Mound v. Stafford Estates Limited Partnership); moratoria (Sheffield Development); initiatives and referenda (Shear Homes Ltd. Partnership v. Co. of Alameda); sign regulation; wetlands and federal law; affordable housing; and adult uses.
Module Three (2003): Issues covered include: moratoria (Agins v. City of Tiburon), RLUIPA, anti-exclusionary zoning (Toll Brothers v. Township of Windsor), mineral rights and state constitutions, group homes, adult uses, equal protection, due process, and fair housing.
Module Four (2002): Defensible Moratoria: Lessons Learned from the U.S. Supreme Court's Tahoe-Sierra opinion.
9. Complete Streets - CM 1.5
Make room for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users on your auto-oriented roads. Learn how the complete streets movement provides safe and convenient user access and more choice in transportation modes, and how it has become a major tool for planning to improve communities. Through programs that rethink the physical design of streets, complete streets make cities and towns more livable and appealing to all residents. Learn how communities overcome resistance and how some communities have funded these programs.
10. Design Graphics for Planning - CM 1.5
Hear an expert discussion of how to use accurate, clear, and well-designed graphics to communicate planning concepts to the public and other nonplanners. Learn how to address elements outside the building envelope, from individual lots, subdivisions, and neighborhoods to towns, cities, and regions. Experienced panelists provide case studies detailing graphics tailored to a specific audience and explain how to convey planning and urban design concepts and plans effectively.
11. Design Guidelines for Small Towns and Rural Communities - CM 1.5
Planners often must turn traditional urban design principles inside-out to develop design guidelines for small towns and rural communities. This CD-ROM training package explores those unique approaches planners are using to develop commercial and residential guidelines that are mindful of small-town and rural character.
12. Designing for Water Conservation - CM 1.5
Protect diminishing water resources at the site and neighborhood levels with conservation desgin. Find out how to use local hydrology and knowledge of groundwater resources to protect the environment and private investment. Incorporate appropriate landscaping regulations to control runoff, minimize water usage, and maximize the effectiveness of water that is used. Cosponsor: American Society of Landscape Architects.
13. Impact Fees and Exactions (1.25 credits) + Financing Growth Supplement (2.5 credits) - CM 3.75
Impact fees and ad hoc development exactions are a means of financing the public facilities necessitated by new development. What is the legal authority to impose legislatively adopted fees and exactions, and how can they be used together? Examine the legal implications and pitfalls. Explore recent innovations and techniques for merging the use of impact fees and exactions.
This program includes the Financing Growth Supplement. This supplement includes two sessions concerning how to pay for growth: "Paying for Growth: An Overview" and "Open Mike: Is Growth Ever Free?" Listen to several views on different approaches to this universal problem. These two sessions are full of ideas, discussion, and information on how to get growth to pay for itself.
14. Improving the Development Review Process - CM 1.25
Learn practical tips and guidelines for improving the development review process. Hear how communities of virtually any size can improve the flow of the review process without compromising on design quality or community standards for development.
15. Informed Decisions - CM 1.0
Good decisions are based on strong supporting facts and evidence. Learn to gather the facts efficiently on site visits, from staff reports, and through testimony. Find out when site visits are legal and advisable as well as how to effectively organize and document site visits. Knowledgeable presenters discuss what should be included in staff reports. Learn techniques to maximize the efficiency of hearing and recording public testimony. Staff must prepare legally sound reports, and you'll learn how. Co-sponsored by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
16. Infrastructure, CIP, and Alternative Transportation - CM 1.5
In an era of shrinking budgets for all infrastructure expenditures, discover how to update the transportation plan to maximize existing assets and create a practical future vision for your community. Integrate highway, corridor, and arterial road priorities with alternative transportation modes including walking, cycling, and transit. Find out how to create a capital improvements program that fits the community's goals and focuses on preserving and enhancing existing assets.
17. Maintaining Neighborhood Character - CM 1.0
Many historic neighborhoods are experiencing rapid teardowns and the rebuilding of monster homes or other buildings that undermine smart growth principles. For historic and conservation districts this is a pressing issue. Learn how communities have developed codes and guidelines, as well as community visioning programs, that respond to these incompatible developments. As communities grow and change, explore how historic preservation can be successfully linked to new development. Cosponsor: National Alliance of Preservation Commissions.
18. Project Management - CM 1.5
Learn the five-phased process for managing projects, from initiating to closing. Learn about the scope of projects, stakeholders, estimating costs and effort, and evaluating risk. Panelists provide insight into governmental, consulting, and nonprofit project management. Good project management is a key to professional success, as well as effective planning, and this is an opportunity to hone your management skills.
19. Writing Better Staff Reports - CM 1.25
The content of a planning staff report is most often determined incrementally, but is that appropriate? Learn to convey the most pertinent information and prepare reports properly. See examples from different communities and review the research on current practice. This CD-ROM is suitable for new professionals and their supervisors.
20. Zoning for Transit-Oriented Development - CM 1.50
Transit-oriented design results from deliberate planning and code provisions drafted to produce a mix of uses in close proximity to transit that facilitates access to transit. Learn how to create active walkable streets, to regulate the intensity of development to support transit, and to properly integrate transit into the landscape and within surrounding projects. Speakers present illustrated case studies of successful TOD and review the principles that led to their success.
