Washington Parking Study received the APA-NC Student Project Award

The Washington Parking Study for the City of Washington, North Carolina, received the American Planning Association North Carolina Chapter’s Marvin Collins Student Project Award. The award recognizes high-quality student work that increases the understanding of the value of planning. Three students attended the APA-NC Conference in Winston-Salem on September 14, 2022, and received the award on behalf of the class.

Partnered with Keith Hudson, the Director of the Pamlico Business Resource Center, the project was completed in the Spring semester of 2022 by students in Transportation Planning class (Instructor: Misun Hur). The Community and Regional Planning program actively engages student-centered, project-based learning in its curriculum. Most upper-level undergraduate coursework offer hands-on projects for students like this project. 

* Students involved in this project were (alphabetic order by last name): Star Brantley, Ty Clark, Shannon Clough, Leila Coe, Ricky Cypher, Kendall Daniels, Ethan Hageman, Tanner Hayslette, Ian Jethro, Madeline Lipscomb, Brenden Lucas, Chris Medina, Christopher Normile, Love Ott, Millicent Ott, Blake Privette, Jackson Van Ness, and Terry Worley.
** Graduate students in Transportation Planning Policy contributed to the case studies as an assignment. Students were (alphabetic order by last name): Blair Carrington, Gilbert Combs, Margaret Peth, Gianna Venero, and Brandon Wrenn.