California County Planning Directors Association (CCPDA)

CCPDA Winter Conference - Save the Date:  The CCPDA Members conference will be February 2-3, 2012 in Sacramento.  Please stay tuned for more information...AGENDA <exciting updates to the speaker list>

- Job Announcements <one new job posted 2011-01-20>

Special Project #1: 

Solar Energy - Power your home, your business...Power California

In order to create a consistent strategy in California for counties to issue approvals/permits for small and large scale photovoltaic installations, CCPDA is coordinating a committee with a variety of stakeholders to write a CA Model Solar Energy Facility (SEF) Ordinance.  Our growing Working Group (over 70 individuals) meetings were May 19, 2011 and June 02, 2011.  Our SubCommittee (the smaller group) held conference calls/WebExs on June 13, 20, 27th, 2011 and completed the task of writing the first draft of the Model SEF Ordinance.  Now, it is back to the Working Group for review.  The Working Group met on July 06, 15, 20, August 03 and September 16, 2011...the last meeting was December 09, 2011 in Sacramento at the CA Energy Commission.  Work continues to finalize our Guidance Document and Model Ordinance...please stay tuned for public release of these documents on Feb 3, 2012.  <for the latest info, click here>

• December 09, 2011 meeting info...
• CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUR PROGRESS
• View All SEF Info
• Sacramento Bee Article
• View Solar Documents <updated 2011-11-15>

Special Project #2:  CCPDA are assisting in the review of the FloodSafe CA Administrative Draft documents.  For the latest, CLICK HERE. 

CCPDA MEMBERS ONLY - The February 10-11, 2011 Winter Conference was a great success - Members, please login to view info presented at the conference - AGENDA | Registration Information 

Are you a California County Planner with a question that you'd like to ask other Planners in CA?  If so, visit our CCPDA Planners Forum.

Check out to see if there are any Job Announcements for great Job Opportunities

Who is CCPDA?  We are the California County Planning Directors Association.  We coordinate local government Land Use Planning for the 58 counties in California.  [More Info]

Benefits of THIS WEBSITE to our MEMBERS:

1. This will be a place where all CA County Planning Directors will be able to login and have access to MANY resources. 
2. You will also be able to upload your resources (or links to your resources) that you want to share with other County Planning Departments.
3. You will be able to edit your roster information and keep it current.
4. You will have access to the Documents section, where you can view public and private documents.
5. You will have access to the Planning Directors Members ONLY section where we will keep important and helpful information.
6. You will have input into the future development features of our new website.
7. You will have access to the GoogleGroups CA County Planning Directors listserv so that you can blast out a question/issue to your peers and get some help.

We are open to your suggestions.  Please email them to our webmaster.