Training and Webinars

Upcoming Events - 2025

All at 10 AM Pacific (UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED):

  • July 18 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

AI in Action: Practical Uses in County Planning

Artificial intelligence is reshaping county planning, offering powerful tools to streamline processes, improve decision-making, and enhance public engagement. This session explores how AI is being successfully implemented in planning practice and the legal considerations that come with it. AI-driven automation is transforming permit reviews and inspections, reducing processing times while ensuring compliance with local regulations. Predictive analytics is revolutionizing zoning and land use decisions, helping planners anticipate development trends and optimize land allocation. Discussions will focus on land-use law, environmental regulations, and constitutional law considerations that impact AI-based planning decisions. Speakers will explore the practical effects of recent legislation, including regulatory efforts and court decisions within the last 10 years that shape planning policies. Additionally, the session will highlight key legal challenges—such as procedural conflicts, policy interpretations, and how different levels of law (federal, state, and local) apply to AI-driven planning innovations.

APA County Planning Division

CM | 1.5 + LAW

  • July 25 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Assistants for Planners: Consistency, Transparency, and Trust

This webinar showcases how two industry innovators are reshaping planning practice by fusing domain expertise with purpose-built technology. Rico will describe the cultural and procedural shifts that occur when environmental-effects reviews are transformed into a guided, form-based workflow: by translating expert logic into step-by-step prompts, the platform leads planners—regardless of experience—through contextual considerations, mandatory rules checks, effect assessments, and defensible justifications, creating consistent, machine-readable outputs that accelerate decision-making and improve AI validation. Complementing this perspective, Houseal Lavigne & Associates will discuss EuclidHL, a large-language-model assistant that taps directly into municipal plans, zoning codes, and GIS layers to deliver rapid, graphics-supported answers to questions from residents, developers, and staff, thereby enhancing transparency, shortening research cycles, and building public trust.

APA Technology Division

CM | 1.5

  • August 1 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Use By Right and Administrative Approvals

Permitting uses by right and implementing administrative approvals can connect a community vision that is based on meaningful community engagement and articulated in a plan with more appropriate zoning review processes, creating more opportunities for investment and growth. This session discusses ways to shift responsibility for administrative development decisions toward the administrative professionals, freeing up elected and appointed officials to set policy and develop broad guidance while reducing gratuitous friction in the review process.

APA Michigan Chapter

CM | 1.5

Click on the title links to register. You can see the current listing of all webcasts at www.ohioplanning.org/planningwebcast.

CM credits can be claimed by looking up the sponsoring Chapter or Division as provider

2025 Distance Education: The following are available for CM credit on demand until 12.31.25:

https://www.ohioplanning.org/aws/APAOH/pt/sp/webcast_ondemand