Free Planning Academy Gives City Residents And Business Owners An Inside Look Into City Planning Process

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The City of Sacramento Community Development Department volition soon statesman taking applications for its 2022 Planning Academy, which aims to amended and impact Sacramento residents, concern owners, and assemblage leaders successful the city’s readying process.

The free, eleven-week virtual course, which starts connected March 7, 2022, gives participants a instauration successful metropolis readying fundamentals and covers a wide scope of readying and development-related topics and issues.

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“Planning Academy equips Sacramentans to go beardown advocates for a well-planned community,” said Tom Pace, the City’s Community Development Director. “Some of our graduates person gone connected to service connected City commissions and adjacent City Council.”

Affordable housing, biology justice, zoning and onshore use, inclusive economical development, transportation, and clime enactment readying are conscionable a fewer of the topics discussed.

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“This is an breathtaking clip to larn much astir City Planning arsenic the 2040 General Plan is soon to beryllium completed and galore different notable projects are happening successful Sacramento,” said Greg Sandlund, City’s Planning Director. “Planning unit is looking guardant to being backmost successful the schoolroom virtually aft not being capable to supply this learning accidental successful 2021.”

Since its founding successful 2002, the Planning Academy has graduated implicit 300 Sacramento residents, concern owners, and assemblage leaders.

From March 7 done May 16, 2022, classes volition beryllium held online connected eleven weeknight nights and in-person connected 2 Saturday mornings, followed by a graduation and a peculiar presumption to the City Council.

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Applications volition beryllium disposable connected December 13, 2021, and indispensable beryllium submitted by 5 p.m. connected Monday, February 7, 2022. Residents and concern owners successful Sacramento are encouraged to use online. Visit the Planning Academy page for a nexus to the exertion and much accusation astir the Academy.

CBS13 Staff