Planning Workshop (URPL 912)
Each year, the Department offers a planning workshop to provide graduate students with training in planning practice. The planning workshop also serves an outreach function by connecting communities across Wisconsin with the resources of the University for addressing applied planning problems.
Current Workshop
Jefferson County Land Use Plan - The Fall 2007 Workshop was a Farmland Preservation Report for Jefferson County, and was lead by Professor Kurt Paulsen.
Past Workshops
- Fall 2006: Village of Norwalk, Strategic Action Plan
• Presentation to the Community - Fall 2005:
- Jefferson County
Parks, Recreation and Open Space Planning in Jefferson County: Socio-economic and Physical Design Elements
- Superior
Recreation Planning for Whiteside Island and the Superior Municipal Forest: An Assessment of Economic and Fiscal Impacts - Spring 2004: EcoPlanIT Madison: An Ecological Blueprint for the City of Madison, WI
- Spring 2003: Developing a Model "Smart Code" for Dane County
- Spring 2002: Dane County Planning Workshop
Commuter Rail in Dane County: Analysis and Planning for Transit Oriented Development - Spring 2001: Towns of Brothertown and Stockbridge, Calumet County Workshop Integrating Environmental Planning and Policy into a Local Land Use Process
- Spring 2000: City of Lodi Planning Workshop: Lodi Vision 2025, and A Development Impact Assessment of a proposed development in Lodi
- Spring 1999: Town of Verona Planning Workshop Development Impact Assessment
- Spring 1998: Columbia County: County wide comprehensive and growth management planning
- Spring 1998: Village of Twin Lakes: Comprehensive planning
The 2005 Fall Workshop included two separate projects – one dealing with open space and land use planning in Jefferson County and the other dealing with recreation planning in Superior. Follow the links below to read more about each individual project.