2015 San Joaquin Valley Blueprint Award nominations now being accepted

Nominations for the 2015 San Joaquin Valley Blueprint Awards are open and due Aug. 28.

The awards program encourages quality in planning and development by recognizing exceptional work.

There are two award categories: The Darrel Hildebrand Blueprint Leadership Award, which is given to an individual who has enthusiastically promoted the Blueprint Principles, and the Sustainable Development Projects, with awards for existing projects in five subcategories — residential, commercial, mixed use, revitalization and transportation.

The award is open to all eight of the San Joaquin Valley counties: San Joaquin, Merced, Fresno, Tulare, Stanislaus, Madera, Kings and Kern. Nominations must be based on a project built within the past five years, with anything built prior to January 2011 as inadmissible. Previous Blueprint Award recipients are ineligible.

Eight CDs or DVDs with the complete nomination package must be submitted, with one labeled as the master copy. There must be a separate folder on each CD or DVD for the nomination form, description of the candidate, how the candidate reflects the award criteria, a letter of support from someone familiar with the candidate, and 10 digital images.

Awards will be presented at the Tenaya Lodge near Yosemite National Park on Oct. 8.

More information is at http://www.valleyblueprint.org.

This story was originally published July 22, 2015 at 5:36 PM with the headline "2015 San Joaquin Valley Blueprint Award nominations now being accepted."