CRP Students Receive National Award for City of Milpitas Land Use Project
Cal Poly City & Regional Planning Students Receive National Award for City of Milpitas Land Use Project
feb 26, 2015
SAN LUIS OBISPO – A team of undergraduate students from Cal Poly’s City & Regional Planning Department (CRP) received the American Institute for Certified Planners (AICP) Honor Award in recognition of their work for the City of Milpitas, "Urban Planning Visions for Milpitas: California Circle and Main at Serra."
The Cal Poly contingent is the only undergraduate team in the country to receive an award this year. Of the 29 students involved in the project, three were from Santa Clara County: Clarissa Caruso and Diane Tran, both from San Jose; and Stephanie Benzel, from Fremont.
The third-year City & Regional Planning students collaborated with the Milpitas Planning and Neighborhood Services Department to develop a land use and urban design study and visioning process. Over the 10-week quarter, the students engaged in rapid information collection, data gathering, consultation with the city’s planning commission and city staff, and a rigorous planning process. The students developed seven proposals for walkable, memorable, sustainable and energized public spaces.
“The City of Milpitas encouraged the students to develop visionary alternatives that could be actualized strategically in the long-term general plan,” said Hemalata Dandekar, CRP department head. “This liberated the students and made the academic exercise rich and challenging.”
City planning commissioners and city council members described the ideas as “new, innovative, creative, [and] projecting options for the city that they, as residents for the last 30 or more years, had not thought of.”
The AICP Student Project awards recognize outstanding class projects or papers by a student or group of students that contribute to advances in the field of planning. The AICP recognizes student work in four categories: Application of the Planning Process, Contribution of Planning to Contemporary Issues, Applied Research and the Honor Award. Awards are selected by jury and presented at the annual American Planning Association Meeting and Planning Conference.
In addition to the National Honor Award, the student’s work for the City of Milpitas earned the California American Planning Association (APA) Award of Merit for Academic Excellence, the California Northern Chapter APA Award of Academic Excellence, and the California Central Coast Chapter APA Award of Academic Excellence.
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