1998 Awards were presented at the Western Planner Conference in Wenatchee in July of 1998. 1998 APA/PAW Joint Planning Awards were presented on July 29th in Wenatchee at the Western Planner/PAW Conference. The 12 winning examples of exemplary planning in Washington State and the categories in which they won are as follows:

Implementation

• Honor Award: Neighborhood Design Review Program, Seattle Department of Construction and Land Use.

Transportation

• Honor Award: Pedestrian Facilities Guidebook, Washington Department of Transportation & Otak, Inc. (consultant).

Citizen Involvement

• Honor Award: Buena Citizen Participation Strategy, Yakima Planning Department;
• Honor Award: Neighborhood Action Planning Project, City of Vancouver Growth Management Division.

Physical Plans

• Honor Award: Columbia Basin Scattered Tracts Resource Management Plan, US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation &
• Honorable Mention: Tacoma Smelter Site Master Plan, Asarco, Inc.; city of Tacoma; Tacoma Metropolitan Park District; town of Ruston and Merrit + Pardini (consultant).

Research Studies

• Honor Award: Industrial Land Supply and Demand in the Central Puget Sound Region, Puget Sound Regional Council; University of Washington's Center for Community Development and Real Estate;
• Honorable Mention: The Threshold Family Wage Jobs Project, Clark County Commissioners; Threshold Family Wage Jobs Project Committee;
• Honorable Mention: Economic Assessment for the Asset Stewardship Planning Process, Resource Planning and Asset Mgt. Division, DNR and Deloitte & Touche (consultant).

Student Work

• Honor Award: Our Lady of Lourdes Fifth Grade Yearlong City Project, Our Lady of Lourdes School; Hewlett-Packard/ Vancouver; city of Vancouver Growth Management Division;
• Honorable Mention: Comprehensive Plan Update for Galena, Alaska, Design Studio, University of Washington Department of Urban Design & Planning.

Partnering

• Honor Award: Columbia Street Warehouse District Project, Wenatchee Downtown Association; Columbia Street Task Force; city of Wenatchee; Link (Chelan-Douglas Public Transportation Benefit Area); Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad; Washington Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration.

The six judges were Dan Milich (planning consultant, Milich & Associates, Colbert), Lisa Parks (planning director for the city of Leavenworth), Gene Peterson; (senior planner, RH2 Engineers), Paul Rogerson; (city of Shelton planning director), Geraldine Poor, AICP (senior planner, Sea-Tac Airport, Seattle) and Jenifer Sadowski-Young (senior planner, CH2Mhill, Bellevue).

Dee Caputo (Adams County planning director/building official), indeed@moseslake-wa.com, and Lloyd Skinner (Director of Environmental Services, Adolfson Associates, Inc.), lskinner@adolfson.com, co-chaired the 1998 awards program.