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Land-Use Policy Could Help Solve the American West’s Water Crisis
As the twin pressures of water shortages and massive growth run the Colorado River dry, planners explore innovative solutions.by: Patrick Sisson June 15, 2023As the twin pressures of water shortages and massive growth run the Colorado River dry, planners explore innovative solutions. -
Integrating Land Use and Water Planning for a Sustainable Future
Planners and allied professionals should know that when you plan for one, you have to plan for both.by: Heather HansmanIn communities across the U.S., water managers and planners are emerging from the silos they've traditionally operated in to find new ways to work together. The urgency of collaborating to develop resilience in the face of climate change threats is becoming increasingly clear. -
Overlay Zoning for Source Water Protection
Zoning Practice — July 2020by: Matthew AllenThis issue of Zoning Practice answers a series of questions toward the goal of forwarding an understanding of how land-use regulation — particularly zoning — can and should be used for source water protection.List price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Putting the LID on Your Community’s Stormwater – Part II: An Overview of Some Basic LID Practices
PlannersWeb.com, February 14, 2013by: James Segedy, FAICP, Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy, AICPThis article provides an overview of LID practices, including stream buffers, permeable paving, bioswales, and rain gardens. -
Putting the LID on Your Community’s Stormwater – Part IV: Local Measures for Implementation
PlannersWeb.com, March 14, 2013by: James Segedy, FAICP, Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy, AICPThis article provides a checklist to help planners determine and effective strategy for LID implantation in their community. -
Putting the LID on Your Community’s Stormwater – Part I: What is LID?
PlannersWeb.com, February 12, 2013by: James Segedy, FAICP, Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy, AICPThis article focuses on the basics of stormwater and challenges of stormwater management in urbanized environments, and provides a definition of LID. -
The Potential for an Urban Water Market in Los Angeles and Beyond
The Avenue, May 2017by: Joseph Kane, Gregory PierceThis blog article discusses how an urban water market can address several water challenges, accelerate infrastructure improvements, encourage more sustainable and equitable water management. -
Flint’s Water Crisis Highlights Need for Infrastructure Investment and Innovation
The Avenue, January 2016by: Joseph Kane, Robert PuentesThis article discusses the factors that contributed to the Flint crisis, focusing on the role of the city’s aging and deteriorating water infrastructure. It draws lessons for other cities and provides examples of innovative strategies. -
Water Rights and Markets in the U.S. Semiarid West - Evolution of Property Rights Related to Land and Natural Resources
Conference Papers, November 2011by: Gary LibecapIn this paper, the author explores water in the semiarid western United States - a region in which many of the intensifying demand and supply problems regarding fresh water are playing out-as a mixed private/public resource. -
Linking Growth and Land Use to Water Supply
Land Lines Magazine, April 2003by: Matthew McKinneyThis article provides a brief review of alternative policy options to develop the link between land use and water supply. It also offers suggestions for further research, education and policy development. -
Putting the LID on Your Community’s Stormwater – Part III: The Top 10 Benefits of Low Impact Development
PlannersWeb.com, February 21, 2013by: James Segedy, FAICP, Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy, AICPThis article presents benefits of implementing LID practices, including environmental, economic, and quality of life implications. -
Integrated and Adaptive Management of Water Resources: Tensions, Legacies, and the Next Best Thing
Ecology & Society, 16(1), 2011by: Nathan Engle, Owens Johns, Maria Carmen LemosThis article acknowledges the difficulty of using the integrated water resources management framework in practice due to the lack of quantitative data on its success. -
Facing Water-Based Challenges with Sustainable Development Codes
Zoning Practice — August 2019by: Jonathan RosenbloomThis issue of Zoning Practice discusses how development codes encourage gray infrastructure that increase the impacts of water-related hazards such as flood and drought, and outlines a variety of strategies and code revisions to help address these challenges.List price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Collaborating on Water and Planning: A Perspective for Planners
PAS Memo — May-June 2018by: Vicki Elmer, Carol Howe, Philip Stoker, Gary PivoThe May/June 2018 issue of PAS Memo explores the many ways in which planners can collaborate with water professionals in the water supply, wastewater, and stormwater fields to solve problems and better manage this vital resource.List Price$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Water-Smart Development Regulations
Zoning Practice — September 2015by: Elizabeth Garvin, AICPThis issue of Zoning Practice explores how communities can better address the use of water through local regulations. It briefly explores how water use can be influenced by pricing and then looks at the range of regulations, particularly in the areas of lot design and landscaping, available at the local level to encourage and require water conservation.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Integrated Urban Water Management for Planners
PAS Memo — September-October 2014by: John Whitler, Jennifer WarnerThe September/October 2014 issue of PAS Memo explores the challenges and opportunities of Integrated Urban Water Management.List Price$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Deep Trouble
What role is there for planners in solving this crisis?What is planners' role in solving the Flint, Michigan, drinking water crisis? -
The Effectiveness of Green Infrastructure for Urban Stormwater Management
PAS Memo — May-June 2012by: Martin JaffeThe May/June issue of PAS Memo explores the effectiveness and some of the economic implications of many common green infrastructure practices that are used to manage the water quality and flood risks associated with urban stormwater runoff.List Price$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Regulating Green: Is Your Municipality Promoting Green Infrastructure?
Zoning Practice — September 2010by: Mami Hara, AICP, David Rouse, FAICPThis issue of Zoning Practice provides and overview of the regulatory context for green infrastructure and uses case studies of Atlanta and Philadelphia to illustrate how planning, policy, and regulation can be used to promote green infrastructure at the local level.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Puget Sound Partnership Low Impact Development Local Regulation Assistance Project
Zoning Practice — August 2010by: Wayne Carlson, FAICPThis issue of Zoning Practice explores the land-use and engineering requirements that often serve to inhibit or preclude the use of LID techniques and how the Puget Sound Partnership has been helping communities in Washington State integrate LID techniques and requirements into local codes and requirements.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
The Tricky Business of On-Site Water Treatment and Reuse
It's time to rethink old assumptions about what can and can't be done.In many cities, water-management policies can get in the way of integrating water reuse into new developments. This article covers the unique ways in which cities solve these problems and adopt sustainable water practices. A sidebar explores how, faced with drought, California and other Western states navigate issues with water supply, storage, and reuse. -
Low-Impact Development
PAS QuickNotes 23by: Larry CoffmanThis edition of PAS QuickNotes provides a primer on how low-impact development (LID) offers ecological and economic advantages over conventional site planning approaches for managing the volume and quality of stormwater.List price$10.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Local Zoning and Water Rights
Zoning Practice — August 2009by: Scott ReichleThis issue of Zoning Practice discusses the factors local governments must consider when drafting zoning ordinances regulating docks, piers, or other water-based structures.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Fighting the Water Wars on a Different Front
It takes conservation and creativity to get the job done.Droughts, floods, decaying infrastructure, and a two-decades-long dispute with Alabama and Florida have all been triggers for conservation and creativity in water use in north Georgia, from airport terminals to breweries to new home construction. -
In China, Rethinking a Resource
Jintang County shows the way on water resource management.Party Secretary Wang Bo of Jintang County, located in China's Sichuan Province, raised many questions during his three-week Mayor's Training Study Tour to the U.S. in 2011. He was especially interested in how American Planners manage waterfronts, streams, and rivers. -
The Water Demand Revolution
We're using less water — but we've been so successful that there are transition challenges.Given the immensity of water resource and infrastructure challenges in the U.S., one might think that we’re collectively and individually unable to rise to the occasion. In fact, we already are. Right now water providers across the country are adjusting to ongoing success in water demand management, a quiet revolution that is affecting the use of one of our most precious resources. -
Integrating Stormwater Regulation and Urban Design
Zoning Practice — November 2006by: Lisa NisensonThis issue of Zoning Practice explains new federal requirements for stormwater management and offers some words of caution about the potential unintended results of merging land-use and water regulations.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
How Thirsty Is Your Community?
Zoning Practice — May 2005by: Paula Van LareThis issue of Zoning Practice shows how urban form affects the demand for and cost of drinking water. It draws on a variety of studies that illustrate the relationship between lot size and water consumption.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Green City, Clean Waters, Philadelphia
Green City, Clean Waters in Philadelphia is the winner of the 2015 National Planning Excellence Award for Implementation.
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