We are pleased to announce that we are in production of a distance learning course which will be offered by The Ohio State University, Planning Education At A Distance (PED) program.
Planning Education at a Distance is an Internet based distance learning program tool that provides planners and government officials with on-line urban and regional planning related continuing education opportunities. Through the integration of audio/video components, PowerPoint slides, and reading materials, PED provides participants with hands-on training to strengthen skills needed to both manage land development through planning. The program can bring new planning techniques to your community. Courses focus on current and emerging issues facing the planning community in Ohio and the rest of the country. The result is a web-based learning experience very similar to the physical classroom but in a much more “on-demand” framework.
PED is sponsored by the City and Regional Planning Program in the Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
The program is coordinated by:
Prof. Jennifer Evan-Cowley, Phd, AICP
The Ohio State University
190 W. 17th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
614.247.7479
Contact the program coordinator at
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Zoning and Landscape Laws will be available to planning practitioners, landscape architects, and public officials who are interested in learning about the fundamentals of landscape codes and green laws. This course is expected to be available for you to access in the spring of 2004. Landscape and tree regulations may very well be the fastest growing area of zoning law. Spurred on by the environmental movement of the 70’s, new urbanism and conservation planning in the 80’s and smart growth in the 90’s, landscape regulations and the way they are administered are becoming society’s way of ensuring that urban, suburban and mixed use communities maintain nature as an important element of community design. Collectively called “green laws,” the various landscape and tree regulations found in zoning ordinances, unified development codes or community comprehensive plans are preserving urban forest canopy, harmonizing objectionable land uses, screening conflicting views, controlling site clearing, regulating post construction planting and providing strategies for on-site storm water capture, water conservation and green parking lot design. Green laws are the part of zoning that preserves, protects and rebuilds nature in our cities and towns. In this course, you will learn about the green law aspects of zoning, learn what a landscape code is, the basic vocabulary of landscape codes, how landscape, tree and clearing laws are structured, and how they are administered. Follow up courses are planned which will teach about the geography of development sites, technical code language and how to draft landscape regulations into zoning law. The course instructor is D.G. Buck Abbey, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University. The price for this course is $50. This course qualifies for two hours of Kentucky Planning Continuing Education Credit, as well as two hours of AICP Continuing Education Credit. This courses may qualify for Tennessee Continuing Education Credit, contact your employer to find out. This course may qualify for CEU credit through the Florida Board of Landscape Architecture. Please contact them for information about Course Number: 0007704 For more information Zoning and Landscape Laws, contact Jennifer Evans-Cowley or call (614) 247-7479. To register for this course select the registration form. |
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