Deadline Approaches for Groves Award Nominations
Nominate a public official from public or private sector - planning professional, agency, firm or non-profit
Submitted on 12/2/2014. Tags for this image:Nominations for the 2015 Groves Award for outstanding leadership and vision in the promotion of Transect-based planning close on January 30, 2015.
The Award, given jointly by the Transect Codes Council (TCC) and the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), honors the late Ken Groves.
Groves was the planning director of Montgomery, Alabama, where he is credited with leading one of the most ambitious redevelopment efforts in recent American history. First awarded in 2011, a year after the death of Groves, the Award has gone to Miami 21, the innovative rezoning effort in Miami, Florida, to Mathew McElroy, deputy planning and economic development director for the City of El Paso, Texas, to the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council, a public agency in Florida instrumental in reversing sprawling development patterns within the region, and to Richard Bernhardt, the Planning Director for the City of Nashville, who has help generate over a billion dollars of development under Nashville form-based codes during and since the Great Recession.
Any public official – elected or staff, including planning departments – is eligible for the Award. Nominations are welcome from any public or private sector planning professional, agency, firm or non-profit. Self-nominations are not permitted.
The winner will receive the Award at the annual gathering of the Congress for the New Urbanism, scheduled for April 29-May 2 in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.
For more information about the award and nominations procedures, go to: http://www.cnu.org/award/groves or download the full announcement. Or contact Nathan Norris at nathan@downtownlafayette.org or Susan Henderson at susan@placemakers.com at the emails above.