The Great Escape:
Return to Prescott !
Escape from hot weather, air pollution, congested traffic, telephones, and work pressures! Saddle-up and return once again to Prescott for the 2005 Arizona Planning Association Conference. It’s time to relax, Western style, mingling with new and old friends and associates. It’s time for fun events and meaningful sessions that encompass a wide variety of planning-related issues. The conference is entirely within Prescott’s downtown, which, having been designed to be pedestrian friendly, is a fitting place for our theme, “Walk the Talk”. Put on your comfortable walking shoes, sandals or cowboy boots and traverse Prescott’s historic downtown between sessions and special events.
Walk-the-Talk sessions appeal to new and long-time planners and commissioners, urban and rural:
- Water–shortages, supplies, state/national issues, and climatic effects
- Transportation and Traffic Alternatives–roundabouts, calmers, transit, bikes/peds
- Planners Toolboxes–funding mechanisms and new technologies
- Residential Issues–density, design and neighborhood compatibility
- Downtowns–creating and revitalizing
- Historic Preservation–the new tourism partnerships
- Rural Lifestyle–suburbanization or preservation
- Tribal Lands–development and land use
- State Standards–floodplain and storm water quality management
- Law and Legislation–statutes, court cases and Supreme Court decisions
- Growing Smarter –guiding principles for planning
Keep wearing those walking shoes, and walk on over to all the special fun events:
- Opening Reception at Arizona’s Sharlot Hall Museum
- Gourmet Box Lunch and One-Act Play at the historic Elks Opera House
- The Roast of Roasts Awards Program
- Planners’ Bazaar/Reception at the Hassayampa Inn
- Creekside bar-b-que banquet at Granite Creek Park
- Three different historic neighborhood walks
- The Peavine Trail hike or bike
- Tri-City Tour and Arcosanti Mobile Workshops
- Golf Tournament at Antelope Hills Golf Course
You can wear those walking shoes throughout the conference if you register early and reserve one of the rooms that are blocked for AzPA at special rates in downtown Prescott hotels. The whole Prescott-Prescott Valley area is extending itself to welcome AzPA. A list of Prescott area motels and bed and breakfasts is also provided.
Don’t miss this conference! It’s one conference that’s designed for good food, good fun and loads of information! Enjoy the pleasantries, scenery, cool weather and have a great time! The 2005 Conference Committee
PHOTO CREDITS - All vintage images courtesy of Sharlot Hall Museum. Peavine Trail - Jim Warrick.
Indian Fire, Sunset, Wilson Block, and Phippen Museum, - Mike Bacon.
