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OPPI in the media: OPPI Chair featured on MW Shares podcast

OPPI Chair on Municipal World Podcast

Claire Basinski talks OPPI’s recommendations to further improve the planning system, the importance of public engagement, and how good planning plays a role in making housing more affordable.

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Exciting New Educational Opportunities

A dynamic lineup of Continuous Professional Learning (CPL) opportunities.

2025 Education Calendar

Digital public participation, the complicated ways that technology platforms both help and challenge planners

Informing Choices.

Inspiring Communities

case study:

An analysis of how new digital tools are impacting the quality and quantity of public participation in the planning process.

Digital public participation, the ways that technology impacts planners

Learn more about how digital tools can both empower and restrict public participation and engagement.

Informing Choices.

Inspiring Communities

case study:

If neighbourhood streets are not safe for all pedestrians including students, then they are not safe for the community

Safer streets for students create healthier neighbourhoods for everyone

Learn how communities can implement safe, effective, and active school travel so more children can walk/wheel to school safely

Artificial intelligence and urban and regional planning

Informing Choices.

Inspiring Communities

case study:

Professionals in all industries are finding ways AI tools like ChatGBT can help their career, including regional and urban planners.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Planning:

ChatGBT does not replace human planners but can be used as a tool that can assist them in their work.

Informing Choices.

Inspiring Communities

case study:

Waterloo's Market Trail is a 1.5 km pathway that connects directly to St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market.

Market Trail:

RPPs mitigate traffic and parking demands on market days while supporting local businesses, tourism, and access to local foods.

Saturated image of lakefront Ottawa. Planners looking at a relief map of downtown Ottawa

Informing Choices.

Inspiring Communities

the issue:

How do cities chart a course for achieving a long-term vision in a world of accelerating change?

the solution:

RPPs with the City of Ottawa created a progressive process to develop guidance informed by plausible futures that looked beyond trends.

Registered Professional Planners (RPPs) have the education, ethics and experience to help guide the public, elected officials and the private sector on the journey to inspired communities. The Ontario Professional Planners Institute is the recognized voice of RPPs and the planning profession and has the mandate to grant the RPP designation.