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2020 Award Winners

December 15, 2020
We are very happy to announce our 2020 API Award Winners!




Physical Plans and Design


The Award goes to Mills & Wright Landscape Architecture on behalf of the City of Corner Brook for the Great Trail Feasibility Study.

Submissions in this category include:

  • Physical land-use plan or project

  • Guidelines for implementation

  • Design elements for a specific site or area, such as

    • Site-design Plans

    • Mixed-use Development

    • Business/Industrial Park

    • Park/Trail Plans

    • Historic Site/Resource Plans

    • Revitalization Plans, or

    • Downtown-improvement Plans





Comprehensive Policies and Plans


The Award goes to the Halifax Regional Municipality Planning and Development for the Old South Suburb Heritage Conservation District Plan.

Submissions in this category include:

  • A strategic, long-range policy plan for a municipality, a portion of a municipality (e.g. neighbourhood, downtown) or multiple municipalities (a region);

  • A regional plan, municipal-development plan, neighbourhood plan, rural plan, area-structure plan, area-redevelopment plan, including a land-use/zoning by-law.

  • A special plan that addresses the environment, housing, economic development, recreation and/or parks, social planning, transportation and infrastructure of a municipality or region.




Volunteer Awards


We are also thankful and pleased to announce our 2020 Volunteer Award Winners. Those that volunteer their time play a very vital role in keeping the organization running smoothly and constantly developing. They are also instrumental in helping to drive the planning profession forward in the public eye.

This year we would like to congratulate:

Jamie Burke, RPP, MCIP with the New Brunswick Association of Planners / L'Association des urbanistes de Nouveau-Brunswick

Elaine Mitchell, MCIP with the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Professional Planners

Leticia Smillie, LPP, MCIP with the Licensed Professional Planners Association of Nova Scotia

Thank you for your dedication to your provincial institutes, to API and the planning profession!




We would also like to thank our 2020 Awards Committee for their hard work and flexibility due to the 2020 pandemic.
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