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PRESS RELEASE: American Planning Association California Chapter hosts
APA California 2009 Conference on September 13-16 at Squaw Creek
APA California 2009 Conference
September 13-16, 2009
The Resort at Squaw Creek, Lake Tahoe
The California Chapter presents a statewide conference annually that provide networking and educational opportunities for its members. These popular conferences attract planning professionals from throughout California, the United States, and around the world.
Registration and Hotel Information:
The Resort at Squaw Creek is almost sold out. If you cannot reserve a room at the headquarter hotel (RASC) because of sold out status, we are now offering lodging at The Village at Squaw Valley for a 1 bedroom suite at $149 plus $10 Resort fee. Please phone The Village at Squaw Valley USA at 888.767.1907 and ask for APA California Chapter for the group rate. Please reserve your room as soon as possible. Complimentary shuttle will be available to/from the Resort at Squaw Creek for all attendees staying at The Village at Squaw Valley.
Note: A first & last nights room night and tax deposit charge will be added to the registrants credit card. No cancellations/refunds will be accepted 30 days prior to arrival. If registrant does not show up on arrival day or leaves prior to departure day, they will be charged for the room unless it is cancelled within the 30 days prior to arrival.
There is a $15 Resort Fee per day that will be added to your room for internet, USA today, local calls, coffee, shuttle service to Squaw Valley, health club unlimited use, safety deposit use, tennis court access.
The 2009 Conference Committee would like to encourage all attendees to consider using our Chartered Bus Service for travel between Sacramento to Lake Tahoe. This will be a relaxing and comfortable way for you to get to the conference without the stress of traffic and/or renting a car from the airport. It’ll also be a great networking opportunity.
Buses will pick up conference attendees at the Sacramento International Airport (SMF) and the Sacramento Amtrak Station on Sunday, September 13th. At the end of the conference, buses will drop off conference attendees at those two locations on Wednesday, September 16th. Please see Chartered Bus Schedule.
- For those traveling from Southern California, please schedule your flights to arrive at SMF no later than an arrival time of 2:40pm on Sunday. For the return on Wednesday, please schedule your outgoing flight leaving SMF no earlier than 3:00pm. A list of flights from eight California airports is shown on the Flights to Sacramento (SMF) Schedule.
- For those traveling from the San Francisco Bay Area, please use the Capitol Corridor. The Capitol Corridor connects these Bay Area cities to the Sacramento Amtrak Station: San Jose, Santa Clara, Fremont, Hayward, Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley, Richmond, Martinez, and Suisun/Fairfield. Catch train #724, #728, #732, or #734. Please see Capitol Corridor Schedule.
- For those living in the Sacramento area, please utilize the charter bus service by either being dropped off at the Amtrak station or parking your vehicle at the station. The parking rate is $6.50 per day ($26.00 for the entire conference). Cash or credit cards are accepted at the self-serve pay stations.
The buses are currently scheduled to leave SMF on Sunday, September 13th at 12:15pm and 3:15pm. The buses will then pick up passengers at the Sacramento Amtrak Station at 1:00pm and 4:00pm. Conference committee members will be at both locations to direct and assist conference attendees utilizing this bus service. We would like as many conference attendees to sign up for the bus service as possible. If so, we can expand it to three bus runs or even more. Three bus runs would go with this schedule: leave SMF at 11:15am, 1:15pm, and 3:15pm, with pickup at the Amtrak station at noon, 2:00pm, and 4:00pm.
The return trip will be on Wednesday, September 16th. We will go with at least two express buses that will leave the Resort at Squaw Creek at noon with arrival at SMF at 2:00pm and Amtrak also at 2:00pm. Again, please schedule your flights to depart no earlier than 3:00pm that afternoon
The cost for the roundtrip bus fee is $40 per person. You can sign up for transportation using the online registration form. If you have already registered for the conference, you can still go back and sign up for the $40 bus service by going in and clicking the edit link. Once in Tahoe, please click here Local Transportation for local transportation “green” options if you would like to explore around Lake Tahoe. Thanks for making this a green conference!
Schedule and Highlights:
Attention AICP Planners! The 2009 APA California Conference sessions/workshops and keynote presentations have been submitted for AICP credit approval. This generally takes a couple of months, however APA California Chapter is confident that the conference will qualify for over 90% of the submissions as it has in the past years. “Fun Mobile Workshops and Events” that are not educational do not qualify. Currently we estimate up to 20 AICP credits are available to receive at this year’s conference which calculates to over 50% of the needed 32 credits to remain certified. We will keep you posted on our conference website with current AICP information as we receive it.
Socially Responsible Event
The Green Team has worked with the League to Save Lake Tahoe, a Tahoe--based non-profit, to provide conference attendees and their families the opportunity to participate in the 2009 Tahoe Forest Stewardship Day. This is an opportunity to fulfill the social responsibility goals and objectives for the 2009 conference by giving back to the local community and surrounding environment.
Join hundreds of Tahoe Basin residents and visitors for this FREE EVENT as they help to improve forest health and reduce the risk of catastrophic fires on the West Shore of Lake Tahoe. The event will take place on Saturday September 12th at Ed Zberg Sugar Pine Point State Park in Tahoma California. This years event will help in the restoration efforts by focusing community involvement on erosion control, fuels reduction efforts, clean-up, and educational outreach. The event will also include a raffle and lunch for all participants.
Click here for more information.
Volunteers of all activity levels and ages are welcome. All volunteers should wear sturdy shoes and long pants, and bring a water bottle, work gloves, hardhats, rakes, and shovels if volunteers have them available. For more information on the event or to sign-up to volunteer, contact Flavia Sordelet with the League to Save Lake Tahoe at (530) 541-5388 or events@keeptahoeblue.org. Please let her know that you are with the conference. Registration and personal transportation is required.
2010 Conference
The 2010 conference will be held November 1-4, 2010 at the La Costa Resort and Spa, 2100 Costa del Mar Road, Carlsbad, CA 92009.
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