The Ohio Planning Conference (OPC) is an

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s and planners that promotes city and regional planning in the state of

Ohio Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...

. OPC is a chapter of the

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(APA) and is APA's second-oldest chapter. In 2010, the group changed its name to APA Ohio. OPC was founded in October 1919 in

Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–United States border, Canada–U.S. maritime border ...

for the "interchange of ideas upon, and to promote the cause of, city, town and regional planning in the State of Ohio" as the Ohio State Conference on City Planning. Among OPC's founders and its second president was Alfred Bettman, a

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-based attorney who later wrote the

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brief in

Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. ''Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.'', 272 U.S. 365 (1926), more commonly known as ''Euclid v. Ambler'', was a United States Supreme Court landmark case argued in 1926. It was the first significant case regarding the relatively new practice ...

, a 1926

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decision that paved the way for the use of

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throughout the U.S. OPC provided Bettman the

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to file the brief. A second notable early leader and president of the organization was Ernest J. Bohn, a pioneer in

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in the Cleveland area. Both Mr. Bettman and Mr. Bohn, along with another founder, Charlotte Rumbold, have been recognized through APA's national planning pioneer program. In light of OPC's legacy as the first statewide association of citizens and planners, APA recognized the founding of OPC as one of 88 national planning landmarksNational Planning Landmarks, 1986-2007
,

. Accessed 2007-04-25. OPC publishes a bimonthly

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, ''The Ohio Planners News'', and conducts an annual statewide conference as well as other educational and training activities. In addition to the state organization, OPC has six regional sections: Akron, Central Ohio, Cleveland, Greater Cincinnati, Miami Valley, and Northwest Ohio.

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Ohio Planning Conference
Professional planning institutes Organizations based in Cleveland 1919 establishments in Ohio