Planning and Zoning Commissioner Workshop Series
The Planning and Zoning Commissioners Workshop Series builds on the work of MARC's Creating Quality Places initiative, which fosters the creation of quality places and a better quality of life in neighborhoods and communities throughout the Kansas City region.
| Dates: | March 12 (MO) or March 19 (KS) April 16, 2008 May 14, 2008 |
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| Time: | 6-8:30 p.m. |
| Location: | MARC Conference Center (map) |
| Fee: | $120 per person (for 3 courses) $105 per person (for 3 or more for 3 course) |
What you'll learn:
The 2008 Planning and Zoning Commissioners Spring Workshop Series offers three sessions that are designed for volunteer planning commissioners — new and veteran — who want a better understanding of how to build successful communities. Participants may attend three sessions or pick and choose the ones that are right for them.
View the PDF flier.
Roles & Responsibilities for Planning & Zoning Commissioners
March 12, 2008 - Session for Missouri
March 19, 2008 - Session for Kansas
Instructor: Steve Chinn
Steve Chinn will explain the duties, responsibilities and powers of planning commissioners under state law in two workshops, one focusing on Missouri and the other on Kansas. The sessions will cover topics such as advisory versus decision-making authority, ethical considerations, quorums, votes and abstentions, open meetings and public records, ex parte contacts, and best practices for running a public meeting. The sessions will be interactive with opportunities to ask questions, propose hypothetical situations, discuss common issues and share ideas.
Retaining Natural Resources
April 16, 2008
Instructor: Patti Banks
Planning commissioners are increasingly concerned with natural resources in their communities as they develop land-use plans and review zoning proposals or site plans. Destruction of valuable natural areas — woodlands, wetlands or wildlife habitat — can pose risks to life and property and greatly increase the cost of development. This session will focus on methods for communities to identify and evaluate natural resources and tools that communities can use to protect reserves while supporting new development.
Reading and Interpreting Site Plans/GIS Resources to Support Planning
May 14, 2008
Instructor: Brian Parr
Planning commissioners regularly review site plans for proposed developments. This session will help commissioners understand the physical components of a site plan, site layout principles, and the right questions to ask when evaluating a plan. The workshop will also highlight how geographic information system (GIS) resources can support planning commissions through displaying geographic information in various formats. GIS can help evaluate specific development proposals and shape long-term planning objectives for a community.
Instructors:
Stephen Chinn is chairman of Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP's Public Law/Finance Division. Focusing on land-use issues, Chinn has represented public sector entities for 30 years. He has chaired the International Municipal Lawyers Association Land Development, Zoning & Planning Section, and is a member of both the City Attorney Association of Kansas and the Missouri Municipal Attorneys Association. He currently serves as city attorney for Fairway and Mission Hills and advises the Roeland Park Planning Commission and Board of Zoning Appeals.
Patti Banks is the president of Patti Banks Associates (PBA), a community and environmental planning and landscape architectural consulting firm whose work focuses on public participatory and ecologically based planning and design. PBA has assisted many communities in the Kansas City region to evaluate their natural resources and develop protection strategies that achieve important environmental goals while enhancing the quality of the built environment. PBA assisted MARC in the development of a regional Natural Resources Inventory (NRI), a series of GIS data layers providing information on the region’s most important natural resources, and in the application of the NRI to update the region’s greenway trails plan, MetroGreen.
Brian Parr, GIS Manager, Mid-America Regional Council
Registration:
- Register online and pay with a credit card (workshop with MO class, individual)
- Register online and pay with a credit card (workshop with MO class, 3 or more)
- Register online and pay with a credit card (workshop with KS class, individual)
- Register online and pay with a credit card (workshop with KS class, 3 or more)
- Register online and pay with an agency purchase order
- Register for Roles & Responsibilities for Planning & Zoning Commissioners only
- Register for Retaining Natural Resources only
- Register for Reading and Interpreting Site Plans/GIS Resources to Support Planning only
- Call 816/701-8234
- E-mail gti@marc.org
The series is sponsored by MARC and the Kansas City Metropolitan Section of the Kansas and Missouri Chapters of the American Planning Association. A limited number of scholarships are available on request, provided by the Kansas City Metropolitan Section of the Kansas and Missouri Chapters of the American Planning Association. For more information, call 816/701-8234.