Maine
MAP 2025 Awards Celebrating MAP Award Winners
CONGRATULATIONS to MAP 2025 AWARDEES!
CO-PLANNERS OF THE YEAR: Eli Rubin & Jennie Franceschi
CITIZEN PLANNER OF THE YEAR: Kaela Gonzalez, Raymond, ME
PROJECT OF THE YEAR: City of Portland, ReCode- Land Use and Zoning Ordinance
PLAN OF THE YEAR: Lakes Region Homeless Services Study for Cumberland County
SPECIAL RECOGNITION FOR EXTRAORDINARY CONTRIBUTIONS AND ADVOCACY RELATED TO THE GROWTH MANAGEMENT ACT: Eli Rubin, Jennie Franceschi, Judy East, Joan Walton, Genevieve McDonald, Rep. Amanda Collamore, Rep. Tiffany Roberts, Rebecca Graham, and the Growth Management Act Committee
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Mark Lapping
Read the Press Release for more information about the 2025 Awards.
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NNECAPA CONFERENCE - MARK YOUR CALENDARS
The MAP Board looks forward to seeing many of you at the NNECAPA Conference at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland this November 3 through 5! Registration is open. We are working toward offering a pre-NNECAPA get together in the fall for additional educational and networking opportunities!
Thank you!
Maine Association of Planners Board
Questions may be forwarded to Erin Zwirko, MAP's Professional Development Officer, at mappdo@nnecapa.org.
How to join...... MAP Listserv
The MAP Listserv is a great resource for tapping the knowledge of fellow planners and sharing information about relevant planning news, events, and opportunities.
MAP uses Google Groups for it's Listserv. If you'd like to join the Listserv, here are the instructions to participate in MAP's GOOGLE GROUP:
To Join the Google Group:
1. Visit https://groups.google.com/g/maine-association-planners. You may want to bookmark this URL as you can return here to view and search archived messages once you are a member.
2. Click “Ask to join group”
3. When you request to join, you will be given the option to select email preferences from the following options:
a. No Email: You won't receive messages to the group in your Inbox. You can visit the group's discussion archive to read messages.
b. Abridged Email: Once a day, you'll get a summary of new messages.
c. Digest Email: Once a day, you'll get full email messages bundled into a single message.
d. All Email: You'll receive each message sent to the group separately.
4. You can link to your Google profile, if you have one.
To post to the listserv:
1. Email maine-association-planners@googlegroups.com.
a. Please add this address to your address books and safe sender lists
2. Only members of the group can post messages. Spammers will be removed.
TBD