Planning for Intergenerational Communities

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Lancaster County Planning

This session’s presenters will make a case for incorporating intergenerational community practices into municipal planning initiatives.

Planning Room A, Planning Department Offices, Suite 320

<h3>This event is an in-person screening of this webinar; there is no virtual component.</h3> Planning for Intergenerational Communities This session’s presenters will make a case for incorporating intergenerational community practices into municipal planning initiatives. <ul><li>David Rouse, FAICP will define intergenerational community planning and placemaking and make the case for why it is important for planners to address it in their work. He will then address the extent to which comprehensive plans currently address intergenerational issues, using the Lancaster, PA Comprehensive Plan as a case study. David will conclude with recommendations for how planners can apply an intergenerational lens to the comprehensive planning process, substantive contents of the plan, and plan implementation.</li><li>Dr. Matt Kaplan, Professor of Intergenerational Programs and Aging at Penn State University, will describe lessons learned from engaging multigenerational residents in a variety of community improvement projects. This work involved developing and testing initiatives in community settings that function as intergenerational activity hubs and support intergenerational civic engagement and placemaking. The process includes generating ideas, prioritizing them by community interest and capacity, and mobilizing local champions to co-lead implementation.</li></ul>Learning Objectives<ul><li>The growing intergenerational movement and its importance to planners</li><li>Applying an intergenerational lens to the comprehensive plan</li><li>Creating a cross-sector, interdisciplinary network to support a continuum of intergenerational community-building strategies</li></ul> <h4>AICP Credits: 1.25 ASLA Credits: 1.25</h4>Group viewing brought to you by Lancaster County Planning.Lancaster County Planning strives to provide educational opportunities for our planning partners – professional planners, municipalities, consultants, designers, engineers, local planning commissions, and interested citizens. In 2026, we will continue to provide an opportunity for our partners to join us at our office to view a mix of live and recorded webinars we have purchased or registered for from various sources on a variety of planning topics. Many of these programs will provide AICP CM and ASLA continuing education credits. Due to site license restrictions, we are not able to share our webinar access information with interested parties. For independent access, please contact the webinar provider directly.For questions related to this event, please contact 717-299-8333 or email lcpceducation@lancastercountypa.gov.

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