Online Learning from the Center for REALTOR® Development (CRD)
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Note: Continuing Education (CE) credit is not available for this course.
Date:
8/6/2025
Cost:
$75
Time: The course is scheduled in Central Time
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Shape Communities. Strengthen Your Business.
Earn your Planning and Zoning Certificate and become a knowledgeable advocate for smart, sustainable growth
Planning and zoning are the foundations of every thriving community. This live, virtual, interactive course equips real estate professionals with essential knowledge to understand how development decisions are made and how smart growth principles influence both neighborhoods and businesses. You will learn how to navigate the planning process, interpret zoning practices, and advocate for responsible and equitable growth that benefits both your clients and your community.
Through practical examples and strategic insights, this course empowers you to contribute to the long-term health of your market while elevating your professional value in real estate.
What You Will Learn
Why This Course Matters
- Understanding planning and zoning fundamentals. Examine how local decisions on land use impact real estate activity, development, and quality of life.
- Exploring smart growth principles. Learn how smart growth strategies promote sustainability, equity, and resilience in real estate and community planning.
- Applying planning strategies. Identify zoning tools and planning trends that influence current and future development.
- Connecting growth to opportunity. See how aligning with smart growth practices can differentiate your services and strengthen your business.
- Advocating with impact. Position yourself as a resource for clients and communities by understanding how to support responsible planning efforts.
- Provides foundational knowledge to support your role in community and regional development
- Helps position your business in alignment with sustainability and equity trends shaping real estate
- Offers actionable strategies to grow your influence and value in your local market
- Delivered live in a virtual, instructor-led format for real-time learning and interaction
Instructor
Brian Woods
With nearly two decades of diverse experience in real estate, Brian has worked with investors and agents across residential and commercial sectors, focusing on investing, financing, insurance, association and property management, and project management. Brian’s passion lies in helping people build wealth through real estate, and his IT background combined with global travel experience gives him a unique edge in working with both domestic and international clients. Brian specializes in business process improvement, project management, and a wide range of creative real estate solutions, including short sales, lease options, seller financing, hard and private money lending, multifamily and commercial property acquisition, and global investment strategies.
- Duration: 6 hours (live, virtual course)
- Minimum time spent in course to be marked as complete is 90% (not including lunch and breaks).
- No CE credit is available for this course.
- International students can register at the member price by becoming an International REALTOR® Member.