APA Awards 2009: John R. Nolon

National Planning Leadership Award for a Planning Advocate

Professor John R. Nolon
White Plains, New York

Professor John R. Nolon has created the most extensive land use leaders training program in the country. The program, called the Land Use Leadership Alliance (LULA) Training Program is a four-day intensive program in advanced land use strategies and community consensus building designed to inspire respected local land use leaders and planners to be effective agents of change in their communities. The impact of his advocacy work goes well beyond the Hudson Valley in New York where the program began, stretching now to Connecticut and Utah.

He created an online land use training program for local planning and zoning board members that was instrumental in leading the New York State legislature to require that such members take four hours of training each year.

Nolon is currently counsel to the Land Use Law Center at Pace Law School where he is a full-time Professor of Law. He is an advocate through his volunteerism, his demonstrated passion for promoting sound community planning, and through his professional focus on scholarship and program development for students, professionals, and community advocates alike.

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