Chapter Awards
Minnesota Planning Awards
The Chapter's Planning Awards Program recognizes individuals, organizations and communities for outstanding contributions to planning in their area. Any Chapter member may nominate plans, projects, programs, individuals, or organizations to several categories. The Awards Committee evaluates nominees based on originality and innovation, engagement, implementation and effectiveness, quality, and promotion of planning.
APA Minnesota 2021 Award Winners
Lifetime Achievement Award
Lifetime Achievement Award
Kathryn Aanenson, City of Chanhassen
Outstanding Student Project
AREA OF CONCENTRATED ATTACK
Robbie Seltzer, Student at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Success Stories in Implementation
MARKET STREET REDEVELOPMENT
- Buhl Investors
- The City of Edina
- Edina Housing Foundation
- Edina Housing & Redevelopment Authority
- Saturday Properties
- 50th & France Business Association
Innovation in Planning
ST. LOUIS PARK SPEED LIMIT EVALUATION
City of St. Louis Park
Planning in Context
THIRTY-EIGHTH STREET THRIVE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Breyonne Golding, City of Minneapolis
Runner Up for Planning in Context
OPUS AREA PLACEMAKING AND URBAN DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE
- Asakura Robinson
- City of Minnetonka
- Hennepin County
Excellence in Community Engagement
RICE STREET VISIONING PROJECT
- Forecast Public Art
- 4RM + ULA
- Bolton & Menk
- Ramsey County
APA Minnesota 2019 Award Winners
Red Wing 2040 Community Plan
City of Red Wing and HKGi
https://www.red-wing.org/354/Red-Wing-2040
Vision Zero and Pedestrian Crash Studies
City of Minneapolis and Kimley-Horn
http://www.minneapolismn.gov/publicworks/TransportationPlanning/WCMSP-216604
The Artery Hopkins
City of Hopkins, Metropolitan Council, Hennepin County, Three Rivers Park District, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins Historical Society
https://www.hopkinsmn.com/990/The-Artery
Downtown & Riverfront Master Plan
City of Fergus Falls
https://www.ci.fergus-falls.mn.us/downtownplan
Sidewalks in St. Louis Park: Understanding Resident Perceptions and Behaviors, Effects on Property Values and Accessibility
Austin Hauf, Erin Daly, Leoma Van Dort, Haley Sevening, and Alena Degrado
William C. Weber, AICP
Bill Weber's planning career spans 46-years and reflects the criteria established for this award. His broad range of professional expertise includes land use, transportation, zoning, comprehensive plans, commercial and industrial redevelopment, downtowns, riverfronts, parks and bike systems, urban design guidelines, rail transit-oriented development, environmental impact documents and expert witness testimony. This expertise includes over two dozen comprehensive plans in eight states, zoning ordinance amendments and rewrites for 17 cities, and code administration in Vadnais Heights for 19 years.
Bill has been a member of APA and AICP since 1978. He has served on the Board of APA Minnesota and directed a state planning conference. He has mentored students at the Humphrey Institute and through APA MN and is currently reviving the Chapter's Brown Bag Lunch professional development seminars.
Corrin Hoegen Wendell, AICP
Corrin is passionate about giving back to the planning community and serves as Chair of the Executive Board for the Women & Planning Division of the American Planning Association (APA), various involvement in the APA Minnesota Chapter including member of the Women in Planning Committee and an ex-officio member as the Youth Engagement Planning Coordinator. She also serves as an AICP (CPE) Certified Planning Exam Contributor, APA National Planning Conference Session Proposal Reviewer, AICP Planning Accreditation Board.
(PAB) Site Visitor, Peer Reviewer for the Journal of Planning Education and Research, and a mentor to planning students and young professionals from Ohio State University and APA.
Corrin is a Sector Representative and Senior Planner for the Metropolitan Council, which means that the last year has been hectic, tiring, and extremely busy; yet Corrin has excelled in her profession and dedicated numerous hours to advancing the planning profession outside of work. She is a member of APA Minnesota and the Chair of Women in Planning Division of the National APA.
Corrin is so dedicated to advancing the profession of planning and garnering a more diverse and informed workforce that she created her own non-profit: YEP! Youth Engagement Planning. YEP! Youth Engagement Planning held a successful interactive workshop at the 2018 National APA Conference in New Orleans with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Southeast Louisiana, introducing over 100 children in the area to urban planning. Corrin is inspiring the youth of today and giving back to communities.
Oforiwaa Pee Agyei-Boakye
University of Minnesota
College of Liberal Arts
Pursuing a PhD in Transportation Geography
Elliot Mohler
University of Minnesota
Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Pursuing a Masters Urban and Regional Planning