Penn State Extension’s Land Use & Decision Making Education Team will present a series of webinars to help planners, elected officials, and concerned citizens come together to make better land use decisions.

Through this Land Use Decision Making Educational Webinar Series, you can learn more about planning and current planning issues; about local regulations and how and why they are created; about planning tools and resources available to decision-makers in Pennsylvania; and about how you can engage in planning to benefit your community.

The webinars include--

-- January 16: Planning in PA: Land Use, Communities & Beyond (12:00 - 1:00 p.m.) and (7:00 - 8:00 p.m.)

-- February 20: How Preemption of Zoning & Other Local Controls Impacts Planning

(12:00 - 1:00 p.m.) and (7:00 - 8:00 p.m.)

-- March 20: Renewable Energy Implementation & Land Use Regulations – Is There Conflict? (12:00 - 1:00 p.m.) and (7:00 - 8:00 p.m.)

-- April 17: Developing More Effective Citizen Engagement: A How to Guide for Community Leaders (12:00 - 1:00 p.m.) and (7:00 - 8:00 p.m.)

-- May 15: Low Impact Development and Smart Growth: How are they best integrated and utilized in our communities? (12:00 - 1:00 p.m.) and (7:00 - 8:00 p.m.)

Please share and forward to your local municipal officials and staff, planning commission members, zoning hearing boards, watershed groups, water systems, EACs, interested community members, etc.

Online registration is available. Fee $25 for as many webinars in the series as you want. 

1/14/2013