The Groves Award: submission deadline is Jan 15

Groves Award

2011 Call for Nominations
Nomination Form

Quoting: http://transect.org/awards.html

The Groves Award recognizes outstanding leadership and vision in the promotion of transect-based planning. The Transect functions as a framework to ensure that development occurs in context with the character of each place, in a walkable, compact, mixed-use, transit-oriented, sustainable fashion. Transect-based planning reverses the damaging, auto-centric development patterns that have dominated growth in North America over the last 60 years.

Transect-based zoning codes often require inspirational and dedicated leaders who can provide a vision of a better community and shepherd the code through the process of adoption and implementation.

This award is named in honor of Ken Groves, the late Planning Director of the City of Montgomery, Alabama. His leadership in using transect-based land development to create better communities is a gift that he left for all. Through his planning and development leadership, Alabama’s capital city began its journey back to prominence and sustainability.

The Groves Award will be given jointly by the Transect Codes Council and the Congress for the New Urbanism. The inaugural award will be presented at CNU19 in June, 2011.

Nomination Process
Nomination Form

Download the Nomination Form and return via email by January 15, 2011 to susan@placemakers.com.

Any public official, elected or staff, except for the sitting jury, is considered eligible for the Award. Nominations may be submitted by either the public or private sector, by members of the CNU, members of the TCC, or any other professional planning affiliation. Nominations submitted with the endorsement of an entire group will be given appropriate consideration by the Jury.