Awards

APA Virginia Awards

• Current Year

• 2010 Awards Summary
• 2010 Awards Program - Nominations closed January 27th

• Previous award winners

• 2009 Awards Winners
• 2008 Awards Winners
• 2007 Awards Winners
  2010 Awards Summary
• 2006 Awards Winners
• 2005 Awards Winners
• 2004 Awards Winners
• 2003 Awards Winners
• 2002-1999 Awards Winners

If you would like to serve on the Awards Jury please contact the Awards Chair.

The Awards

The APA Virginia Awards Jury will make final selections from submissions within the following categories*:

• Outstanding Plan Award
• Planning Leadership Awards
• Professional Planner
  2010 Awards Summary
• Citizen Planner
• Local Elected Official
• State Elected Official
• Outstanding Private Sector Award
• Planning Innovation Award
• Student Planning Project Award
• Public Outreach and Engagement Award

*There may be only one winner per category. However, in exceptional circumstances, the Awards Committee may award an Honorable Mention.

The Awards Jury may also provide support to this year’s APA Virginia Planning Award winners or applicants in their own submission for national APA and AICP awards programs. The APA Virginia Awards Program is open to APA Virginia members and non-members.

Awards Eligibility

• All Award Nomination Forms must be complete and must be signed by the nominator/entrant.
• Applications must be condensed to fit on the application sheet. The Application Package should include: two sets of paper copies and seven CDs of each application and one copy of the original plan and associated graphics/maps. Incomplete applications may be disqualified.
• Nominations must be received by Wednesday, 2 PM EST, January 27, 2010. Late submittals will not be considered.
• The number of pages for the nomination may not exceed 50 (does not include the application page and does not include the one copy of the original plan and associated graphics/maps). Pages over the limit will not be included in jury evaluation and excessive overages may invalidate the nomination. Attachments may include photos, news articles, a PowerPoint presentation, maps, drawings, etc.
• When making a nomination for Outstanding Plan, Outstanding Private Sector Plan, Planning Innovation Award or Public Outreach and Engagement Award, the jury may not review the original document. The submission should draw out portions of the tool, practice, program, project, process or plan that should be considered by the jury and explain what the significance of it is.
• Any project submitted for the Student Project Award must have been prepared during the 2007-2008 or 2008-2009 school years.
• Any nomination for consideration as an Outstanding Plan, Outstanding Private Sector Plan, Planning Innovation Award or the Public Outreach and Engagement Award must have been published or completed within two (2) years of the date of submission.
• Nominators must select the most appropriate category for the submission. No changes will be allowed by the nominator after the submission deadline. The Awards Jury, by unanimous vote, may move a submission from one category to another.
• Submissions are ineligible to receive an award more than once. Non-winning entries from last year may be resubmitted this year if they meet the time frame criteria.
• Any person, regardless of membership in the American Planning Association, or the Virginia Chapter may submit an award nomination.
• Members of the APA Virginia Awards Jury and the APA Virginia Board of Directors are not eligible to enter or be nominated to receive individual awards. The exception to this is that they may nominate an individual for outstanding local or state elected official or citizen planner, as long as the local official is not in their chain of command. However, nominations may be submitted from employers of Jury or Board members for projects in which they or their jurisdictions played a part. These individuals may not attempt to influence or affect the outcome of the selection process for projects nominated in other award categories, and Award Jury members may not participate in the discussion or selection of a nomination in which they played a part.
• Communications with the Awards Jury for the purpose in influencing the selection on behalf of nominee or submission is considered cause for disqualification.
• All submitted material becomes the property of APA Virginia and will not be returned.
• If the jury feels that none of the nominations in a particular category meet all the requirements, the jury is not obligated to give an award in that category.

If you have questions about the awards, please contact the Awards Chair.