Welcome to the CCPCA | California County Planning Commissioners' Association

Welcome to CCPCA

Welcome to 85th CCPCA Conference Mono County Supervisor Larry Johnston welcomes attendees at the 85th Annual Conference in June Lake

UC Merced Campus UC Merced, the newest campus in the University of California System, hosts a tour during the 84th CCPCA Conference in 2014.

Levi Stadium under construction Commissioners enjoy a guided tour of the construction of Levi Stadium, at the 83rd Annual CCPCA conference.

Santa Clara's Secondary Water Treatment Plant — Visiting Santa Clara County's newly completed
Advanced Water Purification Facility in 2013

CCPCA Wants You To Know More About Planning

The California County Planning Commissioners Association provides educational resources and events for planning commissioners, staff, elected officials and the general public. To effectively perform their duties, planning commissioners engage in a continual learning process. Assisting in that learning process, CCPCA focuses on California's current and future challenges in planning, land use and resource management.

What is CCPCA?

The CCPCA is a volunteer-based membership association, formed June 28, 1930 at Santa Barbara, and almost exclusively composed of the active planning commissioners from the 58 California counties. Our purpose is to better educate and inform ourselves, the membership, of the issues and circumstances surrounding the field of planning as it relates to the performance of our appointed duties. While there are other entities involved in the training of planning commissioners, the term “training” often implies issuing a set of instructions laying out the procedures and limitations of authority in the execution of their tasks, i.e. "how to follow the rules." The CCPCA does not aim to simply create rule followers, but to inform and educate our fellow commissioners on trends and best practices in the planning environment, and to foster a free exchange of ideas that will ultimately assist our arrival to optimal planning decisions.

A president is elected each year, whose task is to organize a General Conference. The President and his Executive Commitee are responsible for selecting a location and theme for the conference, and engaging presenters who will provide current and relevant information on facets of planning. Field trips highlight real-world examples in the setting of the immediate region where the conference is being held. Rotating our leadership provides that every annual conference focuses on a different planning aspect and geographical area.

Membership

Every county planning commissioner throughout the state of California is a CCPCA member. Our base of financial support comes from membership dues which are paid by the California counties on behalf of their commissioners, whereby voting rights are conferred to the commissioners from their respective counties; and from nominal registration fee contributions, which defray the expenses of the conferences themselves.

Donations

SUPPORT US -- The CCPCA is a 501(c)3 organization and your contributions are deductible. We gratefully accept donations from any who support our mission, but we are not an advocacy organization and we do not form partnerships with those who may be engaged in promoting a specific viewpoint or cause. Likewise, any opinions expressed by the participants at our events must be considered those of the participants themselves, and not officially endorsed or adopted by the CCPCA.