2022 Annual Conference - Tour Registration

Alys Beach Walking Tour* 

Thursday, August 11th 2:00 – 5:00 PM | Registration: $55

3 CECs, DBPR and LACES Approved, Course # 13109 

*Walking tour will cover about 1 mile

Marieanne Khoury-Vogt, AIA, the town architect for Alys Beach® will lead the FC/ASLA walking tour of the iconic town, which was founded in 2003, based on a master plan by the renowned new urbanist-town planning organization, Duany-Plater-Zyberk and better known as DPZ. Alys Beach was the third resort community on the now famous 30A corridor designed by DPZ beginning with Seaside® founded in 1981 and followed a decade later by Rosemary Beach which was founded in 1991. The tour will highlight the master plan and the over-arching town planning, placemaking design principles and the corollary codes upon which Alys Beach was built and which also helped community development adhere to fortified and Florida green standards.

In addition, Patrick and Marieanne will discuss the influence that the climate risks of the Gulf Coast (which in addition to normal aesthetic considerations) demand the use of an ecological approach that prioritizes the resilient design principles. These principles have informed the design and execution of the town’s architecture as well as its functional and social infrastructure, i.e., stormwater management facilities, public areas, and pagates the normally harsh conditions associated with this coastal environments. 

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Seaside Walking Tour*   

Friday, August 12th 8:00 – 11:00 AM | Registration: $55

3 CECs, DBPR and LACES Approved, Course # 13100

AIA Credits: NWASLA22SS (3 HSW/LU)

*Walking tour will cover about 1 mile

Ty Nunn, the town architect for Seaside ® will lead the FC/ASLA tour of the iconic town founded in 1981, which at that time was based on an early master plan which was later revised,  improved and made famous by Andres Duany the founding principal of the renowned New Urbanist-Town Planning Organization known as DPZ. Ty possesses a considerable breadth of knowledge of all things Seaside® and will discuss the over-arching town planning and placemaking design principles and the corollary codes upon which Seaside® was built. In his capacity as town Architect, Ty  has refined and modified these codes since assuming his role in 2009.

In addition, the tour will feature a special presentation of the recently completed reinvention of the Motor Courts, now known as The Court. Project Manager, Micah Davis and Landscape Architect, Isaac Stein, will focus their discussion during this portion of the tour on how the climate risks of the Gulf Coast have affected their sustainable approach to making  design decisions. The discussion will spotlight how prioritizing resilient design principles and sustainability informed the design and execution of the project’s stormwater management facilities, plant selections, and complementary maintenance regimes which all work together to mitigate against the normally harsh conditions associated with coastal development as well the less frequent but inevitable onslaught of high winds and heavy rains associated with tropical storms and hurricanes.

Instructors: 

• Isaac Stein, Design Director of Dept
• Micah Davis, Vice President of Seaside Community Development Corporaion in Seaside
• Ty  Nunn, Seaside Town Architect

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Friday, August 12th 12:30 – 3:30 PM | Registration: $65

3.5 CECs, DBPR and LACES Approved, Course # 13101 

AIA Credits: NWASLA22PC (3.5 HSW/LU)

Mark McQueen, City Manager for Panama City, will lead a tour that starts with a boat trip from the Sheraton Beach Resort and carries the group across the bay to Downtown Panama City and tours the coastline up to St. Andrews Marina giving a brief history of the generational impacts of Hurricane Michael and the progress of current recovery efforts that have led to a resurgence in population growth and real estate redevelopment for the city.  Topics will include storm response, recovery, and rebuilding while visiting the streetscape and waterfront redevelopment currently underway along with the resurgence of locally own business and new residents.

Next the tour will take the bus towards Sweet Bay, which is the redevelopment of the former Panama City airport into a Neotraditional Master Planned community. After arriving at Sweet Bay, the tour will discuss the relocation of the former airport and the site’s redevelopment into a large-scale master planned community through master planning, permitting and construction.  Participants will learn about the record growth trends, demographics and challenges of responding to the demands expected to last over next couple of decades.  Almost across the street, the tour guests will walk to the outfall of the regional stormwater conveyance into Robinson Bayou and the new challenges of addressing regional stormwater, flooding, and the impacts from the loss of canopy on stormwater on a regional scale.

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