Outdoor Learning can provide a dramatic contrast to the indoor classroom and provides learners with innumerable benefits. However, stimulating outdoor learning environments require special planning with awareness of and reference to learning goals. This course will identify design framework and planning principles to inform the creation of effective outdoor learning spaces.

SCENARIO PLANNING TO INCREASE COMMUNITY RESILIENCE Understanding the impacts of climate change and other future events is complex, uncertain, and can be daunting. This session introduces and demonstrates the utility of scenario planning as a participatory tool to explore potential futures, identify resilient responses, and inform decision-making.

ETHICS FOR PLANNERS AND PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD MEMBERS: BEYOND GIFTS AND FRUIT BASKETS We all know that accepting gifts is problematic; but what other ethical considerations should board members be concerned with besides the gift basket? In addition to covering the legal requirements associated with planning and zoning boards, this session will discuss more nuanced ethical issues.

RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA IMPLICATIONS FOR PLANNING AND ZONING IN NYS The panel will provide an overview of the provisions of the law that will impact planning and zoning decision making, highlight discretion communities have implementing the law, foreshadow the regulatory landscape and explore lessons learned from other states that have initiated recreational marijuana.

LAND USE STRATEGIES FOR FLOOD RESILIENCE Current programs regulating how to develop in mapped floodplains are not preventing increased flood damages across NYS. Municipal comprehensive plans and land use regulations provide opportunities for protecting lives and property by managing the amount and kinds of uses in flood-prone areas.

INNOVATIVE ZONING CODES FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING TIMES Historically, zoning codes have been difficult to access and have required specialized knowledge or interpretation to understand and implement correctly and fully. Code practitioners can change this by employing new practices and technologies that improve access and clarity for all users.

EXPLORING TODAY’S HOUSING CRISIS AND EXPLORING SOLUTIONS This session will outline the current challenges, including pandemic impacts, identify policy solutions for planners and local, state, and federal elected officials that address these dire housing challenges — including accessibility, affordability, and availability.

Science indicates that play naturally generates cooperative inquiry and collaborative problem solving. This session explores how using social science and play in the design process fosters meaningful public participation and supports community empowerment. This interactive webinar will be a unique opportunity to both participate and observe these unique techniques, rooted in play.

LAND USE CASE LAW UPDATE This session will focus on new judicial decisions that are relevant and useful to Planning and Zoning Boards and professional planners in deciding to approve or disapprove projects. In addition, it will provide up-to-date information on how the state and federal courts are ruling on land use issues.

AGE FRIENDLY PLANNING: TOMPKINS COUNTY AND BEYOND Many communities across NYS seek to become more age friendly. This session will focus on the Tompkins County Age Friendly Initiative and its involvement with local planning and zoning boards. We will also provide context with results from a national survey on Planning for All Ages.

WHAT IF? EXPLORING STAKEHOLDER COMPENSATION FOR EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND REPARATIONS Compensating historically marginalized stakeholders for public participation is an opportunity to advance the principles of equity and inclusion. But what does this look like in practice? This session will challenge participants to consider the key questions associated with paying for participation.

ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS AS AFFORDABLE HOUSING With ongoing and increasing housing affordability issues in New York, communities must now utilize more creative strategies to tackle the problem. One promising approach is the use of Accessory Dwelling Units or AUDs.

SUNY ESF Dept of Landscape Architecture: Spring 2021 Speaker Series

David Rubin

Principal and Founding Partner, Land Collective

SUNY ESF Dept of Landscape Architecture: Spring 2021 Speaker Series

Meg Calkins

Department Head and Professor, Dept of Landscape Architecture, North Carolina State University

Join us for a special virtual lecture by Abra Lee! Whether as plant experts, academics, or in business, Black people in America have a rich horticultural legacy. In this conversation we will discuss profiles of success, controversy, stereotypes, and nuance to gain a better understanding of their incredible contributions and complex history. Abra Lee is a national speaker, writer, and owner of Conquer the Soil a platform that combines Black garden history and current events to raise awareness of horticulture. She has spent a whole lotta time in the dirt as a municipal arborist, extension agent, airport landscape manager, and more. Lee is a graduate of Auburn University and alumna of the Longwood Gardens Society of Fellows, a global network of public horticulture professionals.

Join LGV and the Friends of the Genesee Valley Greenway to officially kick-off the 2021 Genesee Valley Trail Town initiative!

Agenda Highlights:
Difference between non-native honey bee and native species
Importance of native bees
Bee diversity
How bees and other pollinators live their lives
Bee life history and how it plays into creating habitat (sociality,
specialist vs generalist species, body size, different species-different foraging times)
Plants for bees, flies and butterflies
Planning your habitat and habitat management
Planting and landscape management plan
Importance of underlying wetland hydrology