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## **Featured:** 2025 National Planning Awards Celebrating Planning Excellence

Congratulations to this year's National Planning Award recipients, whose achievements highlight planners' best efforts to create stronger, healthier, and more just communities.

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2025 National Planning Awards

## Prioritizing Zoning Reform

Planning-led zoning reform is key to tackling many of the nation's greatest challenges, especially the housing supply crisis. With adequate support, zoning reform can increase housing choice, lower housing costs, bolster local economies, address inequities in our communities, and connect people to opportunity.

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## Fall 2025 AICP Certification Cycle

AICP Certification helps you make an impact in your career, your projects, and your community. The streamlined One Path to AICP Certification enables you to achieve your planning goals. Start assessing your readiness and prepare today!

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## Critical Resources for Members

Access critical resources about the shifting federal landscape, post-disaster recovery materials, and information on applying for reduced dues or CM exemption for members in transition. Resources and materials are available free to APA members.

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## Blog

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- November 14, 2025### Four JAPA Award Winners Honored in Minneapolis
- November 12, 2025### Quinault Indian Nation Engages in Multi-Year Effort to Move Village to Reduce Flood Risk
- November 11, 2025### Advancing Equitable Planning Practices
- November 10, 2025### Beyond the Platform: How Planners Can Get Digital Engagement Right
- November 7, 2025### With Planning We Can!

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## Planning Magazine

Dive deep into the profession's trends, challenges, and voices.

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- November 17, 2025### How a Single Stairway Can Take Affordable Housing to a New Level
- November 14, 2025### Why the Pop, Pop, Pop of Pickleball Needs a Zoning Solution
- November 13, 2025### How My Own Mental Health Inspired Better Park Design
- November 6, 2025### 7 Ways to Encourage Urban Forests in Your City
- October 28, 2025### Challenging Perceptions of ‘Don’t Go’ Neighborhoods Can Create Opportunities

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## Featured Jobs

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- November 13, 2025### Planning Manager 2 - Land Development - Plan Review
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- November 12, 2025### Assistant and / or Associate Professor of Environmental Design
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## Featured Video

## APA Leadership in Focus: Sue Schwartz, FAICP

APA President Sue Schwartz, FAICP, shares her journey as a planner and APA leader, highlighting what challenges planners face currently, and what she's most excited about for the future.

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