2025 Recipients
Texas Planning Awards
Awards For 2025
Planning Awards
Community of the Year
- Gold – City of Cedar Hill
Comprehensive Plan
- Gold – Vision SMTX Comprehensive Plan
Advancing Diversity & Social Change
- Gold - City of Beaumont’s Parks for All: Beaumont’s Playbook for Parks, Recreation, and Greenspace
Planning Advocate
- Gold – Rick Keeler
Journalism Award
- Gold - Sticking to the Plan: Telling the Story of Visionary Planning in Plano
Student Project
- Gold - Listening to Port Arthur: Community Insights for a Resilient Future
Texas Chapter Award – To be announced at Conference
Chapter President’s Award – To be announced at Conference
Texas Planning Legend Award – To be announced at Conference
Planning Achievement Awards
Best Practice
- Gold Award: Plan Your Play
- Silver Award: Places 4 People, Harris County Precinct 4
- Silver Award: Southeast Denton Area Plan
Economic Development Planning
- Gold Award: Pilot Point Downtown Master Plan - Economic Development
- Silver Award: Project Organic: TIRZ Master Plan for the Harlingen EDC
Environmental Planning
- Gold Award: Blanco Gardens Neighborhood Area Plan
- Gold Award: Dallas County Open Space Plan
Grassroots Initiative
- Gold Award: Office of Jason T Hyman Lost Spaces Initiative
- Silver Award: Mansfield Cultural Arts Master Plan
Historic Preservation
- Gold Award: Redevelopment of the Historic Hotel Grim, Texarkana, Texas
- Silver Award: Historic Mansfield Preservation Plan 2035
- Silver Award: Plano Texas Pool
Implementation
- Gold Award: Celina Downtown Master Plan - Implementation
- Silver Award: City of Plano Future Land Use Map Implementation Tools
Public Outreach
- Gold Award: Backyard Cottage Design Competition
- Silver Award: Denton Area Planning Public Outreach
Resilience
- Gold Award: Forward Lockhart Resilience Comprehensive Plan
Transportation Planning
- Gold Award: Safe Streets for All: Action Plan for Safer Amarillo Streets
- Gold Award: Visioning the Hardy Downtown Connector
- Silver Award: Fort Worth Eastside Transportation Plan
Urban Design
- Gold Award: Design Downtown Denton
- Gold Award: Georgetown Downtown Master Plan
- Silver Award: Leander Old Town Master Plan
- Silver Award: Urban Corridor Design and Enhancement Guide - Boerne