SPRING/SUMMER 2012
Pat Blackshear Inducted as Northwest Florida’s first AICP Fellow! INSIDE THIS ISSUE
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Eco-Tour
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Pat Blackshear, FAICP was inducted into the 2012 AICP College of Fellows on April 14th at the National Planning Conference in Los Angeles. The Emerald Coast Section is so proud of Pat. Her FAICP Application included numerous letters of support detailing examples of the her exemplary accomplishments that had a positive impact on the profession of planning. It is hard to summarize all of Pat’s works in a few sentences, but here is an example of what her supporters had to say: “Pat Blackshear has brought about real change in state and intrastate planning for more than three decades. She has been a leader for statewide natural disaster planning and a strong advocate for intergovernmental coordination. She led the way for the protection of 100,000 acres of floodplain along the Choctawhatchee, Apalachicola, and Escambia rivers in Northwest Florida. In the 1980s she led and successfully coordinated discussions between cities and counties along the Apalachi- Pat Blackshear, FAICP (pictured left) with Dr. Bruce cola/Chattahoochee/Flint River and Bay System of Florida, Stiftel, FAICP was inducted into the 2012 AICP College of Fellows in April 14th in Los Angeles. Dr. Stiftel, Alabama, and Georgia to develop a coordinated drought FAICP is a professor and Chair of City and Regional at Georgia Institute of Technology. He was management strategy. Her legacy provides for clean drink- Planning professor of Urban and Regional Planning at FSU for 25 years, serving as the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies ing water and helps save lives and property. “ and Chair of DURP.
We asked Pat a few questions about herself and the future of planning in Florida. See Page 2 for what she has to say to Coast Lines.
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Section Members Get a “Behind the Scenes” Tour of Pensacola’s New Community Maritime Park A program for a pre-opening lecture and tour of the mixed use development, Vince Whibbs Sr. Community Maritime Park and Blue Wahoos Stadium in Pensacola was attended by 19 members on February 24th. The mixed use stadium holds over 5.000 people, and will be used for a number of events year-round, including baseball, soccer, football, festivals, graduations and similar events. The multi-use stadium will host the Cincinnati Reds double-A affiliate the Pensacola Blue Wahoos.
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Members tour the New Community Maritime Park.
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