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In This Email SPOTLIGHT EVENT MEMBERSHIP INTERESTS & EVENTS FREE WEBINARS Section Sponsors   Want to see your company logo here?   Become an ANNUAL SPONSOR   Sun Coast Officers Chair Jay Collins, AICP Vice Chair Vacant Secretary Lauren Matzke, AICP Treasurer Stephen Benson, AICP, CNU-A Professional Development Officers Evangeline "Van" Linkous, PhD, AICP Roger Menendez, CE, AICP University Liaison Chelsey Welden Pasco/Hernando/Citrus Representatives Brad Cornelius, AICP Smita Ambadi, CNU-A, LEED GA Sarasota/Manatee Representatives Courtney Mendez, AICP Kevin McCarthy Chapter Sponsors Theriaque & Spain  Quick Links Sun Coast Chapter APA Florida APA Join Our List   September 18, 2013 Dear Craig,  Save the date! The annual Sun Coast Section Dinner and Awards will be held Tuesday October 29th at Brio Tuscan Grill at International Plaza in Tampa.    The Sun Coast Section is looking for award nominations in the following categories:  Distinguished Service Planner of the Year Distinguished Project or Development Planning Advocate  Nominations are due September 20th and awards will be announced October 29th at the Section's Annual Banquet. Click herefor more information on how to submit an award nomination. For more information about the annual dinner or to RSVP click here.             Sincerely, Jay Collins, AICP Chair     SPOTLIGHT EVENT  October 4 - TBYP Summit - Join hundreds of Tampa Bay's leading young professionals for a half-day of engaging guest speakers covering topics including: The New Economy, Urban Development and Transportation.1:00 - 5:00 pm, The Centre Club, 8th Floor, 123 S. Westshore Blvd, Tampa. Click here for more information.   MEMBERSHIP INTERESTS & EVENTS September 18, Noon to 1:30 p.m. - Watershed Planning: Lessons Learned from Florida's Springs  Register Now! Join Florida Springs experts Jim Stevenson and Bob Knight for informative presentations on challenges facing Florida's springs, workable planning strategies to address those challenges, and how springshed planning approaches can applied to other watersheds throughout Florida.  The presentation will include case studies on Wakulla and Rainbow Springs.  Approved for 1.5 AICP CM - 1000 Friends also has applied for CLE credits for this event. October 4 - TBYP Summit - Join hundreds of Tampa Bay's leading young professionals for a half-day of engaging guest speakers covering topics including: The New Economy, Urban Development and Transportation. 1:00 - 5:00 pm, The Centre Club, 8th Floor, 123 S. Westshore Blvd, Tampa. Click here for more information. October 17 - Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission 31st Annual Design Awards. Click here for more information.  October 23 - Tactical Urbanism Workshop - Mike Lydon, Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative, will visit the Tampa Bay area to lead a Tactical Urbanism Workshop alongside local leaders, planners, advocates, and stakeholders. The intent of the workshop will be to provide an overview of tactical urbanism, and to equip workshop attendees with an understanding of how to plan, fund and implement tactical urbanism projects. Attendees will work together plan and create tactical urbanism interventions for select opportunity sites within Tampa Bay.  For more information about this great event please contact Lauren Matzke.  To RSVP for this event click here.  Time: 8:30am to 12:30pm Location: Beck Group, 3rd Floor 220 W 7th Ave, Tampa, FL 33602 Cost: $25   4 CM Credits pending Click here to read more about Tactical Urbanism.   October 29 - Sun Coast Section Annual Dinner and Awards at Brio Tuscan Grill, International Plaza, Tampa - 6:00 to 9:00 pm Click here for more information. October 30 - Nov. 1 - Florida Redevelopment Association Annual Conference, Marriott Waterside hotel, Downtown Tampa.Click here for more information. Free Webinars!   Here are some great resources for free AICP credits:   Please click here to visit the American Planning Association Utah Chapter for archived material and please click here to see upcoming webinars. Please click here to visit the Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida. Please click here to visit the American Planning Association. Please click here to visit 1000 Friends of Florida.  Are you interested in a YouTube Channel all about planning! Check it out here.  The organizers of this channel due expect some of these videos to be CM eligible at a later date. The next email blast will be Tuesday, September 24.  Content is due by Monday, September 23 (noon) to Jay Collins atcollinsj@plancom.org.

Next City Newsletter

Join us for a benefit centered around storytellingon November 15 in New York. Plus, if you missed Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference, check out our liveblog for strategies your community can implement to mitigate land vacancy.

CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF URBAN CHANGE & SUPPORT 10 MORE

This November will mark Next City’s 10-year anniversary. Over the past decade, we’ve continually spotlighted the work of urban advocates, provided in-depth reporting on politics, economies, infrastructure, livability and culture in cities around the world, gathered the best and brightest young urban leaders at our Vanguard conferences, and pushed for progressive urban policies to reshape cities. We’ve decided to commemorate this anniversary with a special evening of storytelling at the renownedJoe’s Pub in New York. Proceeds from ticket sales will support Next City in continuing to publish quality journalism about urban affairs, organizing future Vanguard conferences and producing events in cities across the country. This fundraiser won’t be another panel discussion, but rather a benefit centered around powerful first-person stories from inspiring individuals whose work continues to transform urban America. Toby Barlow, Majora Carter, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Choire Sicha, Sudhir Venkatesh, Darren Walkerand others will share reflections on work and life in our changing urban world. Join us on November 15 and mingle with the speakers, as well as Next City’s friends, supporters and staff, over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres before the program begins. Space is limited. Purchase your ticket today.

NEW APPROACHES FOR MANAGING LAND VACANCY The Reclaiming Vacant Properties conference hosted 33 sessions, seven seminars and seven mobile tours last week in Philadelphia. Representatives from the public, private and voluntary sectors came together to discuss and outline possible solutions for abandoned properties in cities across the country. Our bloggers tracked the symposium on Twitterand on nextcity.org. See our liveblog for recaps, strategies, analysis and interviews from #RVP2013.

STORIES FROM THE 2013 RECLAIMING VACANT PROPERTIES CONFERENCE

When Trash Bags and Gardening Tools Can Help Fight Crime The work of the Philadelphia Land Care Program and the rewards of greening, cleaning and maintaining vacant lots. Baltimore’s Three-Part System for Dealing With Vacant Properties The simple formula that has cut the city’s number of vacant properties by 20 percent in just five years. “A Lot of Tiny Pieces Lost” Preservationists argue that rehabilitation and adaptive reuse can help shrinking cities become more desirable and healthier places to live.

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More Walkable Development

St. Louis Aims to Get More Walkable Development Out of Its Rail System

by Angie Schmitt

A before and after rendering of the proposed mixed-use neighborhood for the Delmar Loop Metrolink Station in St. Louis. Image: NextSTL

St. Louis is one of the rare, lucky Midwestern cities with light rail. The city seeded its Metrolink system in the 1990s and underwent a pretty large expansion in the early 2000s. It now has 37 stations.

Unfortunately, a weak local real estate market has hindered growth near stations, and ridership hasn’t reached its potential. But with help from a HUD grant, the city of St. Louis has been putting together some ideas to spur walkable, mixed-use development near stations, including the elimination of parking minimums.

Click to read more on Streets Blog

http://streetsblog.net/2013/09/17/st-louis-aims-to-get-more-walkable-development-out-of-its-rail-system/

http://chi.streetsblog.org/

Photos Stacking Techniques

Click for more photos and the story.

http://petapixel.com/2012/11/10/stacked-photos-in-which-clouds-look-like-brush-strokes-across-the-sky/

Memories are Made of These Songs

Memories are made of these songs.

Bill Kamenjarin

The #1 Summer Hits of the Mid-1960s! Fifty Years Go Bye-Bye!

http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/list-of-the-day/1-summer-hits-1960s-232454185.html

The Case Against Rebuilding the Coastline

The Case Against Rebuilding the Coastline After Superstorm Sandy

• KLAUS JACOB
• SEP 12, 2013

Reuters

"One year after Sandy, many of the affected communities remain vulnerable to another storm because of indecision about how best to respond. There are three basic options to mitigate risks from sea level rise and storm surge: 

Protect against the rising tides with engineered structures, 

accommodate the rising waters and make structures as resilient as possible, 

or retreat from risky low shorelines to higher ground. 

Our challenge is to tailor these options to particular locations, and to balance this with cost-effectiveness and sustainability over the long run.Retreat needs to be considered not as a defeatist last-resort, but as proactive strategy needed in some places."

Interesting article in The Atlantic Cities. Click to read the full article.