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Conferences and Speaking Engagements

SEE US IN NEW ORLEANS AND WIN AN iPAD!

To all those packing their bags for an extended weekend in New Orleans, we look forward to making new acquaintances and greeting long-time friends at the 2010 APA National Planning Conference. You can find our KKC exhibit booth this year near the Exhibit Hall entrance and toward the APA Planners Book Service display area.

Bring those business cards with you as we will have a sure-to-be-popular drawing for the brand new Apple iPad!
 

Kendig Keast Collaborative Website on Ipad


Please also stop by for a demo of KKC’s innovative ZoningPlus software (which is fully iPad compatible), which is an internet-based editing and presentation system used for authoring, displaying, and managing all aspects of zoning or land development codes, including display of text, tables, graphics, and zoning maps (installed in over 25 communities across the nation). We can also update you on the latest highlights of our national consulting practice in community planning, including recent and ongoing KKC projects in California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas.

It’s definitely easy to feel at home in the Big Easy.  But Louisiana is especially comfortable for KKC given our comprehensive planning and development code experience with clients in Bossier City-Parish, St. Mary Parish, Tangipahoa Parish, and the City of Zachary.  To our other colleagues and those not able to make the APA conference this year, watch for our next full e-newsletter edition coming soon.

Rural Planning Perspectives

Lane Kendig, Strategic Advisor at KKC, will be a participant in the Rural Planning Perspectives panel during the APA National Planning Conference in New Orleans. This session is scheduled for Monday, April 12 at 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM. Lane will be discussing a KKC ordinance drafted for the City of Chattahoochee Hill Country, a still largely rural new city located 25 minutes southwest of the Atlanta Airport.

He will discuss a single district zoning ordinance which meets the city’s objectives to preserve their rural character. The challenge that was faced was a County ordinance that was based on TDR, villages and hamlets, but had limitations. He will explain the rationale for a single district ordinance and the use of performance standards to make the system workable for lot splits, small landowners, and larger developers who could do hamlets and villages.

Advice for Students and Young Professionals

Gary Mitchell, AICP, Vice President of KKC, will participate as a panelist in the Student and New Planner Career Roundtable session during the APA National Planning Conference in New Orleans. This session is on Monday, April 12th, in the 10:30-11:45 time slot. Gary plans to emphasize preparedness for -- and adaptability to -- the rapid pace of technological change, with its many implications for planning practice and personal task and time management. He will also offer insights on the pros and cons of remaining a generalist, eager for variety, versus honing in on a particular specialty over the course of one's career.

During the upcoming conference, Gary will also serve as a Texas Chapter representative to the 2010 APA Delegate Assembly. This gathering provides for local and regional input into key policy issues and APA advocacy priorities. Surface transportation policy will be a particular focus this year.

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Selected Publications

Too Big, Boring or Ugly: Planning and Design Tools to Combat Monotony, the Too-big House, and Teardowns
American Planning Association, PAS Report Number 528. December 2004.

“Traffic Sheds, Rural Highway Capacity, and Growth Management”
with Stephen Tocknell, American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service, Report Number 485, March 1999.

“Computerized Zoning: The Future is Now”
with Brian Blaesser, Land Use Law and Zoning Digest, American Planning Association, April 1996. (Vol.48, No. 4)

“Tomorrow's Planning Tools Today ”
with Marc Mylott, Z Management Ideas, Zucker Systems’ Management Info Services, July 1995, (Issue 31).

“Stop the Insanity!”
Land Use Law and Zoning Digest, American Planning Association, January 1995, (Vol. 47, No.1).

“Pipe Dreams”
Planning, American Planning Association, June 1989.

“Performance Zoning for Sensitive Land in Queen Anne’s County, Maryland”
Urban Land, August 1988. New Standards for Nonresidential Uses
American Planning Association, PAS Report Number 405, 1987.

“Why Consider Fishing in Urban-Suburban Planning”
Urban Fishing Symposium Proceedings, The American Fisheries Society, 1984. “Performance Guaranties”
Land Use Law and Zoning Digest, February 1983, Vol. 35, No.2.

“Developers and Performance Zoning”
Urban Land, January 1982, (Vol. 41, No.1).

“Designer’s Notebook”
Nature Scape, September 1981, January 1982, May 1982.

Performance Zoning
Lane Kendig, et al. Planners Press, Chicago, Illinois,1980.

“Transfer Development Rights”
with Hershel Richman The Urban Lawyer, Summer 1977 Volume 9, Number 3.

Performance Zoning
Bucks County Planning Commission, 1973. Revised and reprinted, 1976.

Meeting Procedures and Liability Issues for Public Officials, Guide to Urban Planning in Texas Communities

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