Correction 2017-01-12:
This notification corrects lodging (motels) listing for block rates and the block rates assigned for the 2017 NE Annual Planning Conference, Kearney, NE March 8-10, 2017.
La Quinta > (308) 237-4400
Standard ~ $94.95 per night / Suite ~ $114.95 per night
Comfort Inn > (308) 236-3400
Standard ~ $94.95 per night / Suite ~ $114.95 per night
Fairfield Inn > (308) 236-4200
Standard ~ $104.95 per night / Suite ~ $124.95 per night
All other deadlines for reservations remain unchanged and making reservations are your responsibility. The rates are for Tuesday March 7- Thursday March 9, 2017.
The lodging rates for the room blocks were incorrect in the flyer on page 4. This has been corrected on the web site (https://npza.org/conference), we apologize for the confusion.
2017 Nebraska Annual Planning Conference Announcement
Register and Mark it on Your Calendar…Notify your planning commissioners, administrators, attorneys, and elected officials.
March 8-10, 2017 - Younes Conference Center, Kearney, NE
Annual offering you do not want to miss out on this opportunity:
Planning Institutes for Planning Commission Fundamentals and Legal: Learning opportunities are provided by attorneys and planning administrators with professional and practical experience in community planning and regulations in Nebraska.
This NPZA training event is keyed to providing local planning officials from commissioners to elected officials to appointed officials to citizens to attorneys, which are rookies or veterans committed to the continuous development of sound planning principles for their counties and municipalities. It also offers many choices for the professional planners, which assist the volunteer planners, in expanding their knowledge of planning disciplines through NE APA.
This year’s sessions offer continuing legal credits for attorneys as accredited through the Nebraska Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) Commission. The conference is accredited as activity 133315 for 14.75 CLE with 2.0 CLE professional responsibilities. https://mcle.wcc.ne.gov/ext/SearchCleEvent.do
The 1st day offers a choice of topics: planning commission fundamentals, legal issues, urbanism, flood risk, hazard mitigation, drones, telecommunications, UNL student session, transportation design, landscape considerations, ethics, and others. Presenters include planners and lawyers experienced in practical application in Nebraska and National arenas from Nebraska and the national American Planning Association.
The 2nd and 3rd days offer track choices with sessions: park planning, livestock, streets design, watershed based storm-water, web-based community, agriculture, problem properties, ethics, board of zoning, conflict of interest, open meetings act...plus more.
Your community/organization is encouraged to support NPZA as a 2017 member by clicking here.
Additional Information…contact: treasurer@npza.org.
Steve Charleston, NPZA membership secretary/treasurer.
402.471.3757 npza.org
