You’re Invited to the 2007 “Growing Together - Through Planning” Conference

The 2007 conference planning committee invites you to attend the 2007 Arizona Planning Association conference at the new Renaissance Glendale Hotel and Spa located in the Westgate City Center in Glendale, Arizona on November 7-9, 2007. The sessions will be held at the new Glendale Convention Center connected to the hotel. Conference participants will experience one of America’s most unique sports and entertainment districts containing outstanding restaurants and nightspots, shops, hotels, AMC movie theatre and Jobing.com Arena. Also, the weather will be COOL!

The 2007 conference committee selected “Growing Together - Through Planning” as the conference theme due to the amazing physical development that is occurring in both urban and rural areas. The growth has placed pressure on cities, towns, counties, tribes and the state to provide for adequate public services and maintain an acceptable quality of life. It’s not easy being a citizen or professional planner in Arizona. The pressure to effectively guide the immense physical growth is unbelievable. It is a challenge that planners are facing daily.

The 2007 Arizona Planning Association conference is exactly what the planning doctor ordered for citizen and professional planners in Arizona. It will provide each of you with valuable information and tools that you can take back to your community to be even more effective in guiding growth. This year, for the first time, there are six tracks and thirty sessions in anticipation of nearly 500 participants.

• Nuts and Bolts
• Sustainability
• Homeland Security
• Economic Development
• Development Dynamics
• Professional and Housing

We will have tremendously talented speakers including Dr. Michael Crow, President of the Arizona State University as plenary keynote speaker, AICP President Graham Billingsley, AICP, and State Attorney General Terry Goddard as our awards luncheon speaker. All sessions will provide timely and interesting information through excellent presenters. There will be a variety of mobile tour opportunities for visiting the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Plant, Verrado, Vistancia, Historic Glendale, Jobing.com Arena/Westgate and the University of Phoenix Stadium. The opening reception will take place at the dancing fountains of Westgate City Center. The awards luncheon will have a different twist in presentation of the awards winners.

Don’t miss this fantastic planning event of the year that participants will be talking about for years to come. Come and celebrate planning achievements and collaborate with others to guide Arizona’s future growth.

Sincerely,

Ronald N. Short, FAICP
Chair, 2007 Arizona Planning Association Conference

2007 Conference Committee

Ronald N. Short, FAICP Conference Chair, Deputy Director for Long Range Planning, City of Glendale

Jon M. Froke, AICP Sponsorship Coordinator, Planning Director, City of Glendale

Harvey H. Krauss, AICP Nuts and Bolts Track Coordinator, Community Development Director, City of Goodyear

Leslie Dornfeld, AICP Sustainability Track Coordinator, HDR

Michelle Dodds, AICP Economic Development Coordinator, Principal Planner, City of Phoenix

Matthew Holm, AICP Homeland Security Track Coordinator, Principal Planner, Maricopa County Planning & Development

Steve Hohulin Development Dynamics Track Coordinator, Director of Planning, RBF Consulting

Robert Bushfield, AICP Palo Verde Generating Plant Mobile Tour Coordinator, Community Development Director, Town of Buckeye

Glen Van Nimwegan, AICP Vistancia Tour Coordinator, Community Development Director, City of Peoria

Jill C. Kusy, AICP Verrado Mobile Tour Coordinator, Director of Entitlements, DMB Associates, Inc.

Farhad Tavassoli, AICP Pre-Conference Workshop and AICP Sessions Coordinator, Planner III, City of Goodyear, Community Development

Erin O'Neil Sponsorship and Mobile Tour Coordinator, Management Assistant, City of Glendale

Dean J. Svoboda, AICP Planning & Building Services Director, City of Avondale

Scott R. Chesney, AICP Community Development Director, City of Surprise