The Tennessee chapters of the American Planning Association and the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the Tennessee Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers are coming together for the first time to host a joint annual conference. The conference will be held September 21 – 23, 2005 in Knoxville, TN. The theme is “Looking Back, Moving Forward” and addresses how the past has been borrowed from and adapted for today’s trends in planning, landscape architecture and transportation.

We are pleased to announce a call for proposals to give presentations at the 2005 conference. These proposals can be for a single presenter or for a panel of speakers.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

New Urbanism/traditional neighborhood development
Rural landscape preservation/open space conservation
Community design for active living
Signage issues/regulations
Dealing with big box development
Traffic calming
Planned communities
Safe Routes to School
Air quality issues (impact on regional planning)
State legal cases of interest
Corridor planning

Proposals Due February 18, 2005
Notification to Speakers March 31, 2005
Presentations Due August 15, 2005

If selected as a speaker, the completed presentation must be submitted for the Proceedings CD. This ensures that all conference attendees will have an opportunity to benefit from the information since concurrent sessions prevent attendees from attending all sessions.

Download a proposal application in *.pdf format here.

For more information, contact Kelley Segars at Kelley.segars@knoxmpc.org or (865) 215-3815.

If you have questions about this or other meetings call Steve Allen at (615) 741-2208 or Jeff Hammond at (615) 383-8420. Watch for updates here and in future mailings.