Title:NPC20 @ Home Opening Keynote: Rebuilding Community
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قسمتی از متن فیلم: Good morning and welcome to a piays first ever entirely digital npc 20 at home it’s our very first digital conference and I have some exciting news for you today we have sold out this event and we have more we have more than 5000 people registered for the conference what an incredible turnout as
President of APA I can’t tell you how happy I am that we’re able to connect in this way during this extraordinary time of covet 19 pandemic we have lost planners let’s share a moment of silence to show a respect for everyone who has been affected by illness who has lost a
Loved one and all for all of those are on the front lines of community response and health services as we begin I want to convey my deepest appreciation to the hard-working volunteers of the national planning conference committee the group has been shared by Paul Ingram who’s provided committed leadership and Paul
Also happens to be a newly minted AICP fellow so congratulations to you on this achievement Paul all of these people worked for months to develop an incredible robust program for NPC 20 Houston and then quickly pivoted with us to recast that experience into a new digital format in the face of the shelter-in-place
Orders to all the committee and subcommittee members to all our loyal volunteers and APA Texas chapter for all their hard work and to the amazing APA staff who made these few next few days possible my heartfelt thank you we are all so grateful to our conference sponsor general code we appreciate your
Supporting this pioneering event today we will be having a candid conversation with my colleagues Joel albedo CEO of APA and Sylvia Vargas chair of the APA z– equity diversity and inclusion committee who is also a recently inducted Fellow into the College AICP College of fellows we’re
Going to cut right to the heart of what’s on every planners mind today as we face a very uncertain future and while no one could predict what the world will look like I’m here to tell you that two things are not going to change number one we’re going to
Maintain the same values as planners that we championed in the past the reality is a post pandemic world may push us in ways we never imagined but our focus and driving mission will continue to be creating great communities for all number two APA is here to listen to you and navigate this
Journey with you providing the new providing the new level of community and support you will need to thrive in a very different environment ahead on that note I’ll invite Joel to share his thoughts Joel Thank You Kurt and welcome we didn’t expect to be meeting this way but
We’re so glad you’re able to join us at this extraordinary time in our lives and in the lives of our communities as Kurt said putting this together in a few weeks was was quite a feat it was a great team effort but what it demonstrated most is our team’s ability
To adapt fast changing circumstances it makes sense of it this combined with our ability to thoughtfully observe what’s happening around us and to draw on our community’s knowledge skills experience and values this this will help us get through the tough months ahead and help us to emerge stronger and more impactful
Over the next three days you hear a wide variety of insights and ideas about planning in the pandemic and beyond they’ll be sobering but hopeful most importantly they’ll provide a active path as you navigate the most extraordinary time of your career I’ve learned that planners are exceptionally creative resourceful and determined
Problem solvers what might seem like an insurmountable challenge to most is just an important problem to be solved often one small step at a time I’ve learned that you’re not just a resiliency profession you are a resilient profession and it’s in your DNA to learn to grow to evolve and change our
Communities for the better and that that is essential work thank you for joining us no matter where the future takes us you can count on APA to be by your side now it’s my pleasure to introduce Sylvia Vargas F AICP Sylvia will moderate a question-and-answer session with Kurt
And I based on what you and your colleagues are asking Sylvia hey still it’s such a privilege to be with you this morning I can’t tell you how excited I am to participate in the first digital MPC I anticipate many thought-provoking conversations occurring throughout the conference and
Beyond before we dive into our own discussion I want to acknowledge that we probably won’t be able to finish in the short time that we have here for all of you watching please use the Q&A feature in zooming to submit your comments and questions as we go along we’re going to
Collect those and address them later this afternoon and a special networking session at 4:45 p.m. Central Time where Joe Kurt and I will be happy to continue our conversation so let’s get started the first question during and after the Great Recession of 2008 2009 many public sector planners lost jobs when local
Government revenue came up short municipalities are now racing for the fiscal impact of 19 sales and gasoline tax revenues nosedive even property tax receipts are expected to be delayed Kurt let me start with you what can be done to ensure that plan is starting once again first on the
Chopping block when it comes time for budget cuts thanks for the Sylvia that’s a great question you know I’ve given a lot of thought about this and one of the things that key to to us surviving this time through budget cuts is to show how essential planners really are you know
One of the things that I’d like to share with you a couple of things that I think right off the bat kind of convey that you know a lot of times when development slows down the fingers pointed at planners that our processes are too complex too long so this is the time now
To start to look at those processes and see how we can speed things up without sacrificing Public Health and Safety it’s a time to look at streamlining and trying to move forward so that we can move quickly when the pandemic ends and businesses want to start coming in and
Restarting second thing is in this time of need we’ve come very apparent that the way we conduct public engagement and the way that we do public meetings needs to change we’ve tried to pivot very quickly and do zoom meetings and other platforms for public hearings that we
Can be done at home but we also need to remember that sometimes this disenfranchises our most vulnerable communities people of color people of different social economic backgrounds so we need to take a stronger look at how we do that I think another another thing that needs
To happen is that we need to start looking at our codes on how we design buildings and how we in stablish public space private and public open space within our projects you know things like seating capacity in parking standards and housing units and private open space for people to
Enjoy and then finally I think we need to look at existing programs programs that might be out there that we can tap into to help our businesses come back online whether that be facade improvement programs or some kind of redevelopment incentives to get businesses to come
Back in because a lot of our businesses will be starting from from ground zero after this terrible pandemic we need to be to be include we need to be included in not only the recovery but we also need to be included in the preparing and the strategies for how to deal with this
And I think later on today there’ll be a session on resilient Houston the one hundred and first resilient City and they’ve already looked at and started to develop strategies for pandemic so I think that will be a great session to look into so becoming more with sustainable and resilient and and those
Are just some quick thoughts that I have Thank You Joel do you have any any thoughts on this sure thanks Silvia just building on what what Kurt had had just said you know I think many of us were around during the Great Recession and certainly there are parallels and
Everything but this is different this is really different the to consensus priorities among society if there are any is that until there’s widespread immunity the two priorities are going to be to flatten the curve and to sustain that and restart the economy and of course the two are related and what
We’re seeing across all occupations is that those that are being occupations I would say are being viewed in light of how they can serve those really immediate urgent goals but no question that states and municipalities are already looking at substantial reductions in planners understandably concerned about that so
How can a PA help you and help planning stay strong when money gets tight and a couple of things certainly not an exhaustive list first of all we really can help by advocating on your behalf in Washington DC so that planning is included in federal aid stimulus and when the time comes infrastructure
Legislation we can also help planners to understand how these programs work some of them are very complicated and confusing and obviously this is critically important given the state of local budgets services and ultimately staffing levels we can also work to help planners upskill this is a time to be
Learning and adding new competencies particularly those in the technology area those tools are quickly becoming essential during and certainly post pandemic we will continue to bring you resources that you’ll need to do what we might refer to as contactless or low contact planning and help you do more
With less because that will be a reality for a while I know Sylvia is going to mention a couple of these in just a minute and finally we can provide opportunities like this like NPC at home to connect really great people and great ideas during times when we can’t meet
Face-to-face so just like you APA is is going to need to pivot and adapt and it’s likely that we as an organization will have to make a number of shifts over the next couple of years but like you we’ll do what we need to do to make
Sure that planners and APA stay strong and that we’re looking forward to recovery all right Thank You Joel it’s uh it’s great to know that APA has our back so as Jill mentioned if we can go to the next slide please as we all recognize the evolving circumstances
Around us here are a handful of resources available from APA right now that will help from a new knowledge base for online public engagement to practical tools for planning practice and policy dig into these materials regularly as they are updated in real time and let’s be willing to introduce proactive ideas that
Demonstrate our relevance and our problem-solving potential so for the next question I’d like to turn to the topic of planning in a crisis traditionally planners are less involved in the emergency management side of things and more involved in the recovery phase since we’re looking at an extended crisis period spread over the entire
World what kind of role do you both see for planners as we look to flag the curb and restart the economy let’s start with you again okay well I think that you know one of the things that we need to do is we need to be kind of a global
Community we can learn lessons from all over the world we’re seeing things that are happening differently in other places and I think that you know as I said before these being sustainable and resilient is is key to us recovering and there are great examples of sustainability plans and resilient plans
Out there like I said before I could friend Marissa Houston will be doing a session this afternoon on Houston’s resiliency plan where I think they will be starting to share with you their strategy on pandemics and I also think that as planners you know in the various
Types of planners that we are we can also help community development and housing issues economic development in the economic development planners who might be able to share knowledge and information about how we can restart you know we can learn lessons from the disasters that we’ve seen while it’s
It’s not in one specific geographical area now it’s all over the world we can look to recovery efforts on hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes and fires and use that information to help us figure out how to navigate these difficult times it’s not necessarily having to reinvent the wheel but in some
Cases we’re going to have to reinvent that wheel but there are a lot of things out there that we can already point to and look at and grab on to and move with this is a time for us to test things out a small test so that we know that you
Know we won’t fail big this is the time to take a chance to reimagine what planning is and reimagine what our communities will look like but also remembering always to keep in mind that whole equity and diversity and inclusion aspect of this profession you know we are the great conveners we’re the people
That that bring everybody to the table and that’s that’s what we’re that’s what we’re excellent at and we need to we need to step into that role and be the leaders of getting people together and and sharing knowledge and information without around the world and within our
Communities how can I be a help us with that monumental task yes yes that I would agree the challenges that that society is facing are really really complex and pervasive it’s not just in one community or one area it’s all over the world as as Curt indicated and we
Need to draw on unfortunately we have great partnerships with the international community of that you know I know Curt and his closing remarks is going to talk about just to to demonstrate that going to introduce kind of a joint project that is related to the challenge we don’t really know what
The full scope of the changes that we’re going to see over the next few years and and so learning is going to become paramount but I would say that to use a metaphor that the pandemic really hasn’t reshuffled the deck gets scattered the deck and I think that planners have a
Unique ability to reassemble that deck so so that it is better than than it was before as a non planner who has a great appreciation of planning I would say that you know I would say that planners see the big picture that you know you are excellent at synthesizing
Information and lots of varied perspectives and balancing computing really planners I think are principled and pragmatic both at the same time these are really your superpowers as they say and I think that now you have an opportunity to find a new way to use them as in Kurt I think pointed out a
Few to address the existential challenges that that we face planners of speaking of multidisciplinary work planners have always been multidisciplinary and you know really now’s the time to double down on that to think creatively about who we need to engage or re-engage public health certainly perhaps we should also be more
Expansive and look to the drivers of the economic restart who are they you know maybe we should take more of an ecosystem view and this is something that Sylvia tier point that APA with its foresight practice is is really and certainly in the research area is is
Looking at very hard bottom line is that you know the pandemic could at once be the greatest challenge in the history of the profession and the greatest opportunity if the profession is able to seize the opportunity to reinvent itself as a profession that helped produce a safe equitable and sustainable economic
Revival and and that would be a great legacy and as I said you know in Kirk APA will be by your side as we look to do that together yes and yes and so V I think one of the things that you know we need to look at and examine more closely
Is this whole idea of equity and diversity and inclusion you know when we’re talking about public engagement and we’re talking about getting information and news about what’s going on in the world there’s still a broadband issue within this country and infrastructure issue that can be solved you know and it’s not just about
The populations of color and it’s not not just about urban versus suburban versus rural and it’s not just about about economics you know the the rich and the poor and those in the middle you know I was into conference earlier in early March just before we had our stay
At home orders Joel and I were in Nebraska and they were talking about that there are places in Nebraska where there is no cell service there is no broadband and you know in today’s society that’s just unacceptable you know to be able to provide people an
Opportunity to do this to engage to see public hearings to gather news and facts and all of that is really important so I think us as the the chair of the diversity inclusion and and divert an equity committee probably can share some pretty interesting things in in that
Realm of how we need to do what we need to do about this in the equity side before I get into that question um Kurt and and I think Joel is well mentioned the session later today about pandemic related considerations that were incorporated into Houston’s new resilience plan also please listen to
The keynotes tomorrow and Friday for sovereign boroughs so refreshing insights from other planning and community leaders about this topic and I think it was Joel who mentioned APA s ability to help us with the iBook is decided and of course we have our evidence network to help us stay
Involved and state of state and federal outreach that impacts in the work we do every day so to jump right into the topic of equity which of course is dear to my heart it is true both the fund emic and the response to attack hiding in the inequities that we
Have known existed for a long time but the crisis that’s also exacerbated the previous gaps as well as reveal troubling new disparities I think all of us know and you mentioned this Curt that the crisis is having it is promote disproportionate impact on vulnerable groups some of which many of which
Actually overlap during the low-income populations elderly immigrants people caller rural communities so I think a heightened focus on health equity including mental health is one of the areas where planners could and should work in partnership with health and public health related professions another issue which has become apparent
Which you both were talking about in the past couple of months is the need to address inequities in not only in in access to community focused digital infrastructure but also digital literacy and because that’s that’s as an issue maybe not so much with younger generations who live on phones where
They have them but with others even though at the same time to switch to online meetings has also opened up engagement opportunities for other populations and typically are underrepresented in community conversations about planning such as younger adults and parents another interesting example is what’s being called the gendered dimension of carbon
۱۹ dealing with all the emerging evidence that in lockdown women across every walk of life are shouldering the brunt of the pandemic as they try to keep up with remote work domestic responsibilities home schooling childcare and elder care with a specific concerns that also come with that many
Of these women’s may not even be able to return to work when the economy reopens if schools remain closed women also portion utley hold jobs that don’t offer protections like paid leave which are in industries particularly threatened by the show such as service workers like restaurants
Hotels center and women also make up a higher percentage of health care workers around the world and as you mentioned part none of these issues are just us issues they’re global crop problems so maybe this calls for a coordinated strategy with international planning organizations and other partners but I
Could be talking about this topic all day so let me turn it to you both real quick for your comments on on this topic you know I think this is a great time for us to be looking at these issues during this period of time and as you
Mentioned Sylvia you know it shows the gaps and these widening gaps in in equity and diversity this this virus is hitting our populations of color much harder than it is hitting other populations it’s hitting populations in in rural or low-income areas because of health care you know this is a great
Time for us to start looking at trying to to resolve or at least start to discuss these issues with our communities to try to come up with some kind of solutions our pathway forward so that we can stop widening this gap and starting to narrow it you know whether
It be being able to be in a public meeting or listening to public input on a project or providing you know park space in an area that has no parks you know if you look back at the awards that we held on Sunday you’ll see two different awards that really you should
Go back and look at one was city of New York’s parks department and their initiative to increase the amount of park space in communities that have very little and there was another project that came in during the awards that talked about food Islands you know during this pandemic
You know supermarkets and fresh food is not always available to the Disadvantaged communities because it’s not profitable the supermarket’s say to have supermarkets or grocery stores in in those areas so it’s time for us to start looking at that as well you know planning is so closely tied to to planning and health and and health and
Issues so I mean this is our this is our opportunity to start to to highlight what these inequities are and try to move our path forward to narrowing that gap a very – Joel I’m going to move forward to the next slide I want to this
Is a topic we could go on all day as far as I’m concerned and I want to invite our audience to actually continue the conversation about EDI in our EDI focus networking event which is taking place later today and of course if you haven’t already read it everyone should download
The planning and equity policy guide check out the resources were released in our new social equity knowledgebase I would also like to recognize the work of the EDI steering and advisory committees who are currently holding their own conversations about what we need to do what information we need to gather what
Tools we can prepare to effectively help our members in our communities in this area and finally our APA foundation provides scholarships to advance diversity and inclusion goals for the profession and if you are able please consider supporting the Foundation’s work I want to jump into the next question because I think it’s an
Important topic right now and it’s about planning as a career and specifically about the situation that our graduating students are finding themselves and are entering the job market and one of the most challenging periods since the Great Recession Kurt how can we how can these new professionals stay positive and engaged
And Joel what can a PA do to help navigate the next 24 months well I think that that the students need to prepare themselves with during this uncertain time I mean none of us know what’s going to happen we’ve already heard that some cities are starting to look at furloughs
Or layoffs because of revenue generation not coming in but one thing that I will tell students is just you know be strong and and go out and volunteer make sure that you stay connected with APA you know we’re here to help you and we have a network of 46,000 people across the
Country that that can help you navigate this difficult time you know when I was running for president in my in my candidates team and I used to quote by Walt Disney which resonates today even more so it it goes like this times and conditions change so rapidly
That we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future don’t look at what’s going on today think about what can happen tomorrow and what and how you can be a member of the future you know there are job opportunities I think I saw the Texas chapter announced that
They were looking for jobs or people to do testing for the antivirus – to look at how we would track and monitor this this disease that’s a job that is closely related to what we do in population and data and gathering you know the Census Bureau is going to be
Looking for people as well to help gather the census data from the people that have not responded yet there are ways that are not traditional so might not be working in a municipality or a state or local or federal government position or even a consulting firm it might be a
Non-traditional place such as an Economic Development Corporation or a nonprofit that has ideals with affordable housing there are so many aspects of what we do that can be translated into so many other professions so don’t despair there are things to do and and you know I think
Sylvia will talk about this in a minute but we have a very exciting announcement about about next week that really deals with this this topic actually I don’t know if maybe Joel wants to talk about this why don’t we switch to the next slide and maybe you can you can tell us
A little bit about what’s happening next week so yes next week I’m just going to that slide myself so yeah you know APA has a we are committed as we said to helping you to adapt to uncertain and changing times and you know obviously right now if you’re a graduating student
Or nearing graduation your your mind is on on the job market and one of the things that we’ve been able to do is next week to to to introduce what we call the APA at-home career zone and this will it’s an online virtual event obviously it will happen on next
Wednesday May the 6th from 9 to 5:30 p.m. Central Time and you can find it on planning org forward slash career zone it’ll be a day-long opportunity to to learn a network and it it is included with your registration here and there is also as
You can see on the slide a great session that you’ll want to attend on Friday in the morning from 10:00 to 10:45 central so and obviously as Kurt mentioned there are always jobs posted on on on APA website on our job on our job site and that will continue to be
Case over the next two years the one thing I would just also add Silvia is sort of a philosophical thing and a very practical thing first of all you know while you know you’re coming out of school without a lot of planning experience you have a great advantage in
That you are in learning mode and the value of learning and adapting is greater and will be greater than it’s ever been in our lifetimes and so those of us who have had many many years of experience well that’s all helpful what we’re able to learn from here on out is
Even more valuable and then finally if you haven’t considered it yet I would consider pursuing your AICP one of the things I have a pretty extensive credentialing and licensing background and one of the things that we’ve seen year after year after year and through recessions is that having a credential
Respected credential like AICP is a valuable asset in a recession so and it’s also a you know might be a good you might have a time to do it as well so just a couple of thoughts Sylvia and by the way thank you for plugging my session Friday and we’re very excited to
Be bringing this topic which is the topic that was on the original program before we knew this was going to happen it seems more relevant now we’re going to be talking about how to make the transition to gate based work and I think that this is one of the ways in
Which we can start thinking sort of out of the box about what you know what the work of a planner can be so I think that I’m just getting our time check yep it’s about telling you thank you yeah Thank You Sylvie and Joel I just want to
Remind everyone out there that you don’t have to sit behind your snow or your computer for for three straight days you have access to all of these sessions for one year as part of your registration fee you’re one of 5,000 people that have have that ability
So I just want to thank you Silvia and Joel for sharing your this time with me and thanks to everyone online I hope this discussion has resonated with you and that it expires your next steps in this conference and beyond as we close I’ll leave you with this one
Question this is a collective project of the planning institutes around the world to help focus our learning with the future and address this global crisis every nations planning community is anxious about the future and wants to better understand what can be done over the next couple of years to ensure that
Planning remains relevant and helps solve new problems that have been created or exacerbated by the pandemic planning in statistic cross the world we’ll be asking their members this question and we’ll be sharing the results before this conference experience ends I hope you can give this some thought and share your answer with
Us for those of you who are interested in continuing the discussion join us this afternoon at 4:45 where Joel myself and Silvia will be for the focus networking sessions there’ll be a series of networking sessions that you’ll be able to participate in at the end of each day I highly recommend that you
Take part in these you’ll be able to connect with your colleagues all over the country and all over the world as we have international people on these on these part of our registration and thanks again and remember no matter where the future takes us you can count
On APA to be at your side thank you for joining I’m really excited about the beginning of this conference and enjoy what we put together for you thank you
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