The Tennessee Chapter of the American Planning Association (TAPA) is a professional organization of over 500 members representing city, county, and state planners and related professions across Tennessee. The mission of our organization consists of three bullet points:

• Offer professional leadership and resources for the development of inclusive, livable communities across Tennessee by providing up-to-date training programs on current planning issues
• Provide professional development opportunities
• Advocate for a highly qualified and diverse network of professional planners

To accomplish this, our website contains numerous resources for our members including:

Find upcoming events and log CM credits 

Post a job or Find a job

Watch training sessions on demand

Learn about upcoming conferences and retreats

On Monday, June 13th the State of Franklin Section of the Tennessee Chapter of the American Planning Association had a hybrid in-person/virtual training session with planning commissioners and BZA members across the state. This training is now available to watch on-demand whenever on our Recorded Sessions page.

We are pleased to invite nominations for the 2022 TAPA Planning Awards, to be presented at the Annual Conference in Knoxville on October 26-28, 2022.  This is a celebrated opportunity to showcase distinguished individuals and successful planning projects from all over the state. 

The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County Planning Department (Metro) seeks the professional services of highly qualified consulting firms or teams of firms to perform planning and infrastructure studies and develop land plans and strategic plans for a variety of Nashville neighborhoods and geographic areas.

Metro Planning seeks to retain the services of two (2) or more professional planning, architecture, or engineering consulting firms to provide expertise in planning and infrastructure studies on a continuing contractual basis. Metro’s intent in the IDIQ method of procurement is to make multiple contract awards. This way Metro may acquire services from pre-qualified, pre-selected consultants when future project details emerge without precise times and quantities of services.

The contact for this RFQ is Christina Alexander (christina.alexander@nashville.gov). 

TAPA is proud to announce that the 2022 Fall Conference will be a joint effort with the Tennessee Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Chapter (TSITE). This year's theme will be Inclusive Infrastructure for Today and Tomorrow. More information is available on the conference webpage below.

TAPA is announcing the Tennessee Chapter Great Places Award for Tennessee. This award celebrates neighborhoods, districts, streets, and public spaces that required good planning to become the places they are today. The Tennessee Chapter is accepting awards until July 15th, 2022.