Conferences

Thank you so much for attending the 2025 Fall Conference! Special thanks to APA-NC for hosting us in Charlotte!

Please check this page for post-conference updates. If you have any questions, please reach out to Lance Estep at estepkl@cdmsmith.com and Andrew Babb at andrew.babb@bolton-menk.com.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Click here to view the latest version of the Conference Short Agenda.

CERTIFICATION MAINTENANCE & CONTINUING EDUCATION LOG

For AICP Attendees

AICP Certification Maintenance credits can be entered on the APA website: https://www.planning.org/events/eventmulti/9320428/.

For Non-AICP Attendees

The first deadline for submitting your participation log has passed. You you may still submit your hours, but please be patient as we will try to batch process all latecomers at the same time. Again, you may email scapa@scapa.org with a request to rush, and we will do our best to accommodate.

2025 Fall Conference Continuing Education Log

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

9:50 am to 10:50 am | Opening Plenary Session with Charles Brown - Arrested Mobility | 1.0 Hours

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

11:45 am to 3:30 pm | (Mobile Workshop) Riding the Rails & Rediscovering Place: TOD and the Rail Trail Along Charlotte’s Blue Line (South) | 2.5 Hours

11:45 am to 3:30 pm | (Mobile Workshop) The Davidson Planning Laboratory: Where Advanced Planning Theories Get Tested | 3.0 Hours

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Road to Revitalization: Tracking the Economic Pulse of Yadkinville with Pre- and Post-Project Data | 1.0 Hours

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Two States, Four Counties, Five Communities and One 31-mile Rail Trail | 1.0 Hours

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Community Placemaking in the Upstate | 1.0 Hours

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Linking Land Use and Transit at the Community Level | 1.0 Hours

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | From Vision to Implementation: How Community Area Plans Turn the Big Picture into Action | 1.0 Hours

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Lightning Round 1: 2025 APA-NC Award Winners | 1.0 Hours

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Retaining Culture & Identity in Charlotte’s Corridors: How Preservation and Placemaking Work Together to Celebrate Community | 1.0 Hours

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | (Mobile Workshop) Balancing the Interests of Urban Growth, Character & Tree Preservation: Tryon Street Mall | 1.0 Hours

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

1:00 pm to 4:30 pm | (Mobile Workshop) Pedal Power: Exploring Charlotte’s Emerging Bicycle Network | 3.0 Hours

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

2:15 pm to 3:15 pm | Local, Regional and Watershed Resilience Planning in the Carolinas | 1.0 Hours

2:15 pm to 3:15 pm | Understanding Comprehensive Transportation Plans (CTPs) and Gaston County's Unique Approach | 1.0 Hours

2:15 pm to 3:15 pm | Planning made easy: Resources to prepare your residents for more hot days and nights | 1.0 Hours

2:15 pm to 3:15 pm | Managing Growth in Suburban South Carolina | 1.0 Hours

2:15 pm to 3:15 pm | Beyond Land Use Planning: Re-creation through Recreation | 1.0 Hours

2:15 pm to 3:15 pm | Planning with the Future: Trends Reshaping American Communities | 1.0 Hours

2:15 pm to 3:15 pm | Military Installations and Community Partnerships | 1.0 Hours

2:15 pm to 3:15 pm | It Starts with Kids! Planning for Schools & Communities | 1.0 Hours

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

3:30 pm to 4:30 pm | Haunted Hometown Magic: Conway's Case for Creative and Seasonal Placemaking | 1.0 Hours

3:30 pm to 4:30 pm | Protecting Your History from Hazards: The Beaufort, NC Story | 1.0 Hours

3:30 pm to 4:30 pm | Planners’ Legislative Advocacy: Columbia, Raleigh, Washington, Nairobi | 1.0 Hours

3:30 pm to 4:30 pm | The Price is Right - for Transportation! | 1.0 Hours

3:30 pm to 4:30 pm | Planning Careers Through the Years! | 1.0 Hours

3:30 pm to 4:30 pm | Explosive Growth Needs Solid Infrastructure: A Planners Role in Utility Master Planning | 1.0 Hours

3:30 pm to 4:30 pm | Bona Fide Farms: An Exploration of Scenarios and Practice on North Carolina's Agriculture and Forest Zoning Exemption | 1.0 Hours

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

4:45 pm to 5:45 pm | AICP Ethics on Tap | 1.0 Hours

4:45 pm to 5:45 pm | From Vision to Reality: Strengthening Public Space in Downtown Columbia | 1.0 Hours

4:45 pm to 5:45 pm | Subdividing the (Last) Family Farm: Options for Landowners, Planners, & Farmers! | 1.0 Hours

4:45 pm to 5:45 pm | Three Plans in Three Years: Defining Belmont's Vision for a Safe, Multimodal Community | 1.0 Hours

4:45 pm to 5:45 pm | Derailing Delay: The Assembly Street Rail Project’s Path Through Complexity | 1.0 Hours

4:45 pm to 5:45 pm | Planning at the Speed of Solar: Collaborative Approaches to Renewable Energy Ordinances in the Carolinas | 1.0 Hours

4:45 pm to 5:45 pm | Power Up! Amplifying Constructive Interpersonal Dynamics in the Workplace | 1.0 Hours

Thursday, October 16, 2025

8:30 am to 9:30 am | Planning with Strategic Foresight | 1.0 Hours

8:30 am to 9:30 am | Lightning Round Session 2: All Transportation | 1.0 Hours

8:30 am to 9:30 am | Serve Others or Advance My Career? The Choice You Don't Have to Make. | 1.0 Hours

8:30 am to 9:30 am | Balancing the (Regional) Scale: Lessons Learned from the RISE Program | 1.0 Hours

8:30 am to 9:30 am | From Corner Stores to Caregiver Homes—Implementing Health Equity in Chatham County, NC | 1.0 Hours

8:30 am to 9:30 am | Regulatory Reform and the NC Housing Crisis | 1.0 Hours

Thursday, October 16, 2025

9:45 am to 11:15 am | NC Legislative & Legal Update Plenary Session: UNC School of Government | 1.5 Hours

Thursday, October 16, 2025

9:45 am to 10:45 am | The Gullah Geechee Heritage Preservation Project: A Community-Building Approach to Cultural Heritage Preservation | 1.0 Hours

9:45 am to 10:45 am | GVL2040 In Action: Five Years of Implementing Greenville's Comprehensive Plan | 1.0 Hours

9:45 am to 10:45 am | Lightning Round 3 | 1.0 Hours

9:45 am to 10:45 am | Generational Transformation at Two Different Scales - Inman, SC and Chapel Hill, NC | 1.0 Hours

Thursday, October 16, 2025

11:30 am to 1:30 pm | Planning Policy Together: Building APA NC's Policy Platform | 2.0 Hours

Thursday, October 16, 2025

11:30 am to 12:30 pm | Ethics and Ethical Issues in Planning | 1.0 Hours

11:30 am to 12:30 pm | RTP 3.0: Innovative Design & Regulations for the Future of North America's Largest Research Park | 1.0 Hours

11:30 am to 12:30 pm | SouthPark Forward: Moving Towards a Vision in Charlotte’s SouthPark Neighborhood | 1.0 Hours

11:30 am to 12:30 pm | Mind the Gap: Real Talk on Creating Better Connected Communities | 1.0 Hours

11:30 am to 12:30 pm | Charlotte ThinkBike Workshop: Bringing the Dutch Cycling Approach to Challenging Urban Arterials for a People First Approach | 1.0 Hours

Thursday, October 16, 2025

12:30 pm to 4:00 pm | (Mobile Workshop) Bike Down the Sugar Creek Greenway | 2.5 Hours

Thursday, October 16, 2025

1:00 pm to 4:30 pm | (Mobile Workshop) Carolina Thread Trail Tour: Parks & Trails from Belmont to Cramerton | 3.0 Hours

Thursday, October 16, 2025

2:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Fall Sports Camp: Economic Development Incentives | 1.0 Hours

2:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Tailored Engagement and Data-Driven Planning: Updating Georgetown County’s Land Use Element | 1.0 Hours

2:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Planning Under Pressure: Growth Management Tools for a Changing Carolina Landscape | 1.0 Hours

2:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Lightning Round 4 - Career Development | 1.0 Hours

2:30 pm to 3:30 pm | Where the Sidewalk Ends: Incorporating Multimodal Safety into Traffic Analysis Studies | 1.0 Hours

Thursday, October 16, 2025

4:00 pm to 5:15 pm | Sustainability & Resilience Plenary: Low Country at High Tide: A History of Flooding, Drainage | 1.25 Hours

Friday, October 17, 2025

8:30 am to 9:30 am | AICP Updates, Code of Ethics and Ethics Cases of the Year | 1.0 Hours

8:30 am to 9:30 am | Connecting Our Region: How MPOs Power Local Progress | 1.0 Hours

8:30 am to 9:30 am | Citizen Planners: Leadership and Engagement for Positive Community Transformation | 1.0 Hours

8:30 am to 9:30 am | Leveraging Hurricane Helene Data to Inform Policy and Action: Evaluating Flood Mitigation Strategies for a Resilient Future | 1.0 Hours

8:30 am to 9:30 am | Impact Fees and Concurrency in the Carolinas | 1.0 Hours

8:30 am to 9:30 am | Planning for Transit 101: Bus Stops Ain't So Easy | 1.0 Hours

Friday, October 17, 2025

9:45 am to 10:45 am | SC Legal and Legislative Update 2025 Plenary Session | 1.0 Hours

9:45 am to 10:45 am | Lightning Round Session 5 | 1.0 Hours

9:45 am to 10:45 am | Streetscape Design and Implementation: Newton’s Successful Downtown Transformation | 1.0 Hours

9:45 am to 10:45 am | Beyond the Bus: Microtransit Solutions for Suburban Communities | 1.0 Hours

9:45 am to 10:45 am | Combating NIMBYism for Workforce Housing in Tourism Destinations: Case Study of Dare County, NC | 1.0 Hours

9:45 am to 10:45 am | Furniture to Pharma: How Lenoir is using comprehensive planning to revitalize neighborhoods and create housing to support new economic drivers | 1.0 Hours

Friday, October 17, 2025

11:00 am to 12:00 pm | Closing Plenary - Battle of the Planners: A Dialogue Across Generations | 1.0 Hours

Consent(Required)

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PRESENTATIONS

Conference presentations are available for download here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14MSbKg8FEe3kID_TGeHCUtqOynuHTR1l

A few notes:

The directory will have the sessions divided up by day and each day, the session directories will be in alphabetical order.

If there is only the session title, a pdf file or files will be available in the session directory.
If the session title ends in …- NEED, the speaker(s) did not provide slides.
If the session title ends in …- NO SLIDES USED, the speaker(s) did not use slides in the presentation.
If the session title ends in …- DID NOT GIVE PERMISSION, the speaker(s) did not provide slides due to protection of intellectual property.