Texas Planning Awards
Texas Planning Awards
The APA Texas Planning Awards Program recognizes individuals, organizations and communities for outstanding contributions to planning in Texas. Any APA Texas member may nominate plans, projects, programs, individuals, or organizations to several categories. The Awards Committee evaluates nominees based on originality and innovation, engagement, implementation and effectiveness, quality, and promotion of planning.
View 2021 Award Recipients
Awards for Previous Years
- 2020 - Virtual | Recipients (link)| Presentations
- 2019 - Waco | Recipients (link)| Presentations
- 2018 - Galveston | Recipients (PDF) | Presentations
- 2017 - Frisco | Recipients (PDF) | Presentations
- 2016 - San Antonio | Recipients (PDF) | Presentations
- 2015 - Galveston | Recipients (PDF) | Presentations
- 2014 - Frisco | Recipients (PDF) | Presentations
- 2013 - Galveston | Recipients (PDF) | Presentations
- 2012 - Fort Worth | Recipients (PDF) | Presentations
Texas Communities of the Year
2020
Dayton
Dayton has received recognition in multiple arenas due to their recent comprehensive planning efforts. Dayton was highlighted in a presentation at APATX’s Annual Conference. In the Fall of 2019, Dayton won the Texas Masonry Council’s Sustainable City of the Year award. At TML’s Annual Conference, Dayton was honored as a Recognized Scenic City. In 2020, Dayton has hosted workshops for the Houston-Galveston Area Council on Bringing Back Main Street and the Texas Comptroller’s Office on Economic Development tools. Dayton is the Community of the Year because Dayton’s soul was in the planning process from the start.
2019
Mont Belvieu
Mont Belvieu is a city in Chambers and Liberty counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is just north of Interstate 10 along State Highway 146. The population was 2,324 at the 2000 Census, increasing 65% to 3,835 in 2010.
2018
El Paso
El Paso is a city and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, in the far western part of the state. The 2018 population estimate for the city from the U.S. Census was 682,669, making it the 22nd largest city in the United States.
2017
Fort Worth
Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States.
2016
Richmond
Richmond is a city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States. It is the county seat, and is located within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. As of the 2010 U.S. census, the city population was 11,679.
2015
Buda
2014
Plano
2013
Richardson
2012
Tyler
Tyler is a city in eastern Texas. It's known as a center for rose cultivation. In season, thousands of rose bushes line the manicured grounds of the Tyler Municipal Rose Garden.