Spring Cleaning or Hanging On: Facilitating Housing Production

Friday, April 25, 2025

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM CT

Location: Channel 2

CM: .75

Moderator and Speaker(s)

Al Zelinka, FAICP (he/him/his)

Director
Baker Tilly US
Orange, CA

Speaker(s)

Jacquelyn Y. McCray, PhD, AICP

Director
Baker Tilly Advisory Group
Cincinnati, Ohio
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Rafael Guzman

Riverside, California
Madhuri Mohan, AICP, LEED Green Associate

Planning Director
City of Celina
Celina, Texas

Many U.S. planners are working hard just to keep up with both the day-to-day responsibilities of current planning and the overdue strategic needs of long-range planning. They work in jurisdictions trying to manage a high volume of regulatory changes and laws focused on increasing housing supply or “hot housing market” regions where the pace of planning and development applications exceeds the capacity to keep up. This presentation offers ready-to-apply approaches.

Panelists include a national expert who has helped more than 30 cities improve their development review processes, a successful public-sector community-development professional, and a seasoned planning director who has helped put in place the policy and procedures needed to rapidly scale up from small country town to significant suburban city. Take part in a Q&A and identify specific issues via Menitmeter.

Learning Objectives:

Learn to build a step-by-step approach to improve planning and development review processes.
Identify opportunities for improving local planning, building, and development systems to respond to state-driven requirements for increasing housing production.
Assess and implement local improvements in policy, programming, and staffing to manage the volume of planning applications and development review processes in fast-paced housing markets.