Wait out the traffic, mingle, and congratulate this year’s award winners!

Celebrate the season with APA Utah at Luminaria, the breathtaking holiday light display at Thanksgiving Point. Bring your family and experience the wonder of this dazzling event together. We’ve reserved a special warming tent where you can enjoy cookies, hot cocoa, and great company.

We encourage proposals from all planners and all subject matters. While we are still finalizing the theme for the spring conference, we aim to emphasize the balance between embracing change and honoring our heritage. Given Cache County’s strong agricultural roots, we hope to see some sessions align with this theme as well.

Join us for an interactive online class to explore the new APA UT Forum! Learn how to access and navigate the platform, utilize its features, troubleshoot common issues, and get your questions answered

MI’s Child Care Readiness Toolkit which guides municipalities to better integrate child care into planning efforts, zoning codes, economic development strategies, and local policies and procedures, to become more child care ready.

Join APA UT’s Planning Commission Chair and other experts for a monthly online networking, discussion, and problem-solving Session. This will be help on the first Monday of each month at noon. 

This session will introduce planners to the fundamentals of AI, the ethical implications of using AI in local government. *Must be an APA UT member to attend.

Join us on February 19 for an in-depth discussion on The Other Side Academy Development and the role of modular housing. This webinar will provide a 360-degree view from the perspectives of a consultant, developer, and city representative.

Healthy food walk audits provide a dynamic way to assess the food landscape in neighborhoods, evaluating availability, proximity, routes, and infrastructure needs. *Must be an APA UT member to attend.

What is planning’s relationship to design? In this lecture, I will argue for the necessity and efficacy of urban planning as a form of “strategic design”, moving past traditional design’s focus on discrete solutions — be it a building or a landscape — but borrowing traditional design’s principles and methods to tackle systemic challenges like inequality, unaffordable housing, and climate change. CM Available