Outstanding Award for Best Planning Practice
Any planning agency, planning team or firm, community group, or local authority helping civic leaders and citizens play a meaningful role in creating communities that enrich people's lives may submit a nomination. No restrictions or priorities are placed on the size of the jurisdiction. The Awards Committee will apply the criteria below in selecting the honoree. Please share how your nominee embodies this criteria.
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Originality and Innovation: Document how your entry presents a visionary approach or innovative concept to address specific needs. Specify how planning principles have been observed, especially in consideration of your entry's effects on other public objectives. *
Implementation and Transferability: Address what steps have been taken to build momentum and public support for your entry. Illustrate how entry has potential application for others and how use of your entry's components and methodology would further the cause of good planning. *
Participation: Explain how various public interests were involved and the extent diversity and inclusion played in that involvement. Demonstrate how entry obtained public and private support. Define the role and significance planner(s) played in the process and how this planning effort has or will increase awareness in the community of planners and planning. *
Effectiveness and Results: State how your entry addressed the need or problem that promoted its initiation. How have the results made a difference in the lives of the people affected? Describe the level of effectiveness your entry can have over time and rational for such. *
Quality: To what extent does the nominated effort show excellence of thought, analysis, writing, graphics and the application of ethical planning principles? How ere available resources used in a well-conceived and appropriate format? How effectively is the overall plan presented? I its presentation, does the submittal consider those who will use the plan, from professional planners to the general public? *
Comprehensiveness: How have planning principles been observed, especially in consideration of the nominated entry's effects on other public objectives? To what extent does the effort address diversity and inclusion and other elements important to the local community? *
Education: Is there evidence that the nominated effort has encouraged the decision-makers and leaders involved to revise their opinions about the varied uses and board applications of the planning process? Has the initiative raised public awareness beyond those immediately affected? *
Community Acceptance/Support: How has the longevity of this effort assisted others to understand the value of the planning process and to pursue similar initiatives? What impact, if any, has the effort had beyond the intended study area with regards to promoting best planning practices, promoting the planning professional, or influencing other areas of expertise (architecture, social services, law, landscape architecture, real estate, etc.) *
Additional Requirements: In addition to the above, each nominee shall provide the following information; a) Total cost of the plan and percentage of the plan covered by a grant (if applicable); b) Population size to which the plan directly applies, and c) The extent at which an outside consultant was utilized. *
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