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NEW CHAPTER LEADERS
Meet the Nine New Statewide Officers
APA Florida is pleased to announce its newly elected statewide officers, including President-Elect, Treasurer, Secretary, and six vice presidents. Their terms begin on Jan. 1, 2025.
Call to Eligible AICP Members and Mentors
College of Fellows Nomination Process
Are you ready to be recognized for making exceptional and sustained contributions to the field? The nomination guidelines for the 2026 Class of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP) are now available.
Fellows of AICP are honored in recognition of the achievements of the planner as an individual, elevating the Fellow before the public and the profession as a model planner who has made significant contributions to planning and society. Fellowship is granted to planners who have been members of AICP and have achieved excellence in professional practice, teaching and mentoring, research, public and community service, and leadership.
WORKING FOR YOU
Welcome to APA Florida!
Thank you for visiting our website and allowing us the opportunity to provide you information to learn more about us. We hope you find this site easy to navigate, but if you need additional info please don’t hesitate to reach out.
As a professional organization averaging 3,000 members, we believe that planning for our communities is paramount to the health of our places in Florida. Whether that relates to economic opportunities, environmental protections, mobility alternatives, or other practices that support measures to enhance our future, we work to responsibly care for our natural and built environment systems. We are comprised of a mixture of private and public sector dedicated planning professionals, more than half of whom are guided by an ethics code through a professional certification by the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).
APA Florida provides many services to our members, including two annual professional and career development opportunities. These include our annual conference held each fall, and our Public Policy Workshop (PPW) held in Tallahassee early in the calendar year.
We also annually host Florida’s Great Places competition, a public effort to recognize places within Florida that provide a model for amazing standards of community; those with a sense of place that attract visitors and residents alike. Please check here for past winners, with descriptions of their dynamic stories.
To better serve our membership, and because we are such a large state, we instituted geographical sections within APA Florida. There are twelve (12) sections in total, each of which also hosts events and professional opportunities on a regional level.
We also recently initiated a program to assist disadvantaged communities to better their future. The Community Planning Assistance Team (CPAT) is a collaboration of volunteer planners from Florida that come to a community to partake in work sessions and presentations with local stakeholders. In doing so, the CPAT provides achievable results through an action plan with implementable solutions. The final output is a document of strategies to assist the community in moving toward success by achieving an identified goal.
We also adopt a legislative platform, budget, and strategic plan to guide our mission as an organization.
If you have any questions about APA Florida, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me. I look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
Allara Mills-Gutcher, AICP
APA Florida President 2025-26