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AI Governance for San Jose
March 2024This page includes resources for AI governance in San Jose, California. -
Newark, NJ, Newark360 Master Plan
September 2022This master plan primarily addresses land use recommendations in Newark, New Jersey. -
Louisville Metro, KY, Plan 2040
Adopted November 2018The city’s comprehensive plan includes multiple policy recommendations that support complete streets. -
Lancaster County, PA, Complete Streets Guidebook
April 2015This guide is designed to help municipalities in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, adopt complete streets policies and programs. -
The Elements of a Complete Streets Policy
2018This guide explains how the National Complete Streets Coalition evaluates the completeness of complete streets policies. -
Reading, PA, Executive Order 2-2015: Complete Streets
Adopted August 2015This standalone policy establishes the city’s commitment to complete and green streets. -
West Hartford, CT, Complete Streets Policy
Adopted July 2015This standalone policy establishes the town’s commitment to complete streets. -
New Jersey Guide to Creating a Complete Streets Implementation Plan
December 2012This guide is designed to help municipalities in New Jersey create complete streets implementation plans. -
Pemberton Township, NJ, Complete Streets Policy & Plan
Adopted February 2016This functional plan presents a vision and strategy for complete streets implementation. -
San Mateo, CA, Sustainable Streets Plan
Adopted February 2015This functional plan presents a vision and strategy for implementing complete and green streets. -
Winona, MN, Complete Streets Policy and Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan
Adopted December 2017This functional plan presents a vision and strategy for complete streets implementation. -
Amherst, MA, Complete Streets Policy
Adopted March 2018This standalone policy establishes the town’s commitment to complete streets. -
Cleveland Heights, OH, Complete and Green Street Policy
Resolution No. 37-2018 (HT), Adopted April 2018This standalone policy establishes the city’s commitment to complete and green streets. -
Missoula, MT, Complete Streets Policy
Resolution No. 8098, Adopted September 2016This standalone policy establishes the city’s commitment to complete and green streets. -
Madison, CT, Complete Streets Policy
Adopted May 2018This standalone policy establishes the town’s commitment to complete streets. -
Youth Engagement and Action for Health (YEAH!)
2019Youth Engagement and Action for Health (YEAH!) is a 14-week curriculum to engage youth in planning and projects designed to create healthier neighborhoods. -
Broadening Public Participation Using Online Engagement Tools
2015by: Susan Stuart ClarkThis briefing paper discusses how to choose and use online tools for local public participation in decision-making processes. -
Oak Park, MI, Complete Streets Plan
2018This plan helps the City of Oak Park, Michigan, and its agencies in implementing complete streets strategies. -
SNHPC, Complete Streets Toolkit
November 2023This toolkit provides resources to implement complete streets in the Southern New Hampshire region. -
Casper, WY, Complete Streets Plan and Policy
2022This plan builds upon Casper, Wyoming’s goals to provide safe, connected, and comfortable transportation options for all current and future users. -
Complete Streets Handbook
June 2018This handbook assists communities who are either “just getting started,” “moving forward,” or “building upon successes” in complete streets policy and implementation. -
Milwaukee, WI, Complete Streets Handbook
September 2023This guide is a policy manual to create safe, comfortable, and convenient streets for all users in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. -
Madison, WI, Complete Green Streets Guide
December 2022This guide aims to consistently and equitably apply complete green streets principles to Madison, Wisconsin’s street network. -
Planning for Trees: Viewing Trees as an Integral Part of the Infrastructure
Planning Commissioners Journal, January/February 1992by: Henry ArnoldThis article provides a broad overview of the benefits of urban trees and discusses how cities and counties can prepare and implement tree plans. -
The Role of Arboriculture in a Healthy Social Ecology
Journal of Arboriculture, 29(3): 148-155, 2003by: Frances KuoThis article’s literature review linked urban trees with various social ecosystem indicators. -
A Technical Guide to Developing Urban Forestry Strategic Plans & Urban Forestry Management Plans
2011This guide provides budgeting instructions and sample outlines for both strategic and management plans to cities and counties in Wisconsin. -
Scenario Planning – an Overview
Urban Planning and Design Branch, June 2012This article explains what scenario planning is and the difference between normative and exploratory approaches to scenario planning. -
Ogdensburg, NY, City Code
Updated August 2024The city’s streets and sidewalks code establishes a commitment to complete streets. -
Bradenton, FL, Form-Based Code
Updated February 2016The city’s zoning code is a mapped mandatory form-based code. -
Transit-Oriented Development Overlay District Model Bylaw
Smart Growth/Smart Energy Toolkit, 2008This model bylaw provides a template to help municipalities in Massachusetts adopt a zoning overlay to support transit-oriented development (TOD). -
Hammond, IN, Zoning Ordinance
Updated October 2020The city's zoning code addresses urban agriculture. -
The Commissioner — October 2017
In The Commissioner's October 2017 issue: "Setting the Stage for Our Urban Public Spaces," "Recognizing Climate Change as a Planning and Law Challenge," "Planning Equitable and Safe Routes to Healthy Food," "The Father of the National Wildlife Refuge System," and food access resources.List price$5.00Members & subscribers$0.00 -
Confronting Systemic Inequity With Institutional Change
New initiatives and offices are pushing for more equitable policy outcomes — and holding cities accountable for the impacts of their decisions.July 01, 2020Planning and other city departments are creating initiatives and offices to institutionalize racial and income equity and justice concerns. -
Michigan Joins Small Number of States With Self-Driving Car Laws
by: Jeffrey BatesNew state laws allowing for the testing of autonomous vehicles look ahead to the possibilities of the technology and the role of planning. -
Fire Changes Everything
April 01, 2019As planners and local government decision makers in California, we thought we adequately understood wildfire hazards and planned accordingly. We were wrong. -
Achieving Vision Zero in Practice
PAS Memo 118by: Elias Guseman, AICP, Michael Manzella, AICP, Lyndsey Scofield, AICP November 01, 2023This PAS Memo examines how Jersey City achieved its Vision Zero goal of zero traffic deaths in 2022 using mostly tactical, quick-build tools and a safe-system approach that engages multiple disciplines in instituting change.Nonmembers$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Model Zoning for the Regulation of Solar Energy Systems
March 2014This model zoning ordinance for Massachusetts cities and towns offers various amendments to local ordinances to facilitate development of solar energy systems at small, medium, and large scales. -
Barnstable, MA, Muncipal Code
Updated January 2020This regulation belongs to the Solar Energy and Grayfields Reuse and Redevelopment collections. -
Santa Ana, CA, Code of Ordinances
Updated July 2020The city's zoning code addresses form-based zoning, grayfields reuse and redevelopment, and transit-oriented development. -
Davis, CA, Climate Action and Adaptation Plan
Adopted June 2010This functional plan identifies solar energy production as a main objective and provides several solar-supportive action items. -
Gladstone, MO, Comprehensive Plan
Updated February 2011This comprehensive plan includes belongs to the Green Building and Solar Energy collections. -
Fort Collins, CO, Downtown Plan
Adopted March 2017This subarea plan belongs to the Downtown Revitalization and Green Building collections. -
Eagle Mountain, UT, Municipal Code
Updated August 2019This regulation belongs to the Solar Energy and Tiny Houses and Micro-Apartments collections. -
Calabasas, CA, Municipal Code
Updated September 2019This regulation belongs to the Small Wireless Facilities and Wireless Facilities in the ROW, Green Building, and Solar Energy collections. -
Pinal County, AZ, Comprehensive Plan
Updated January 2021This comprehensive plan belongs to the Solar Energy and Urban Heat Resilience collections. -
Woolwich Township, NJ, Code of Ordinances
This zoning ordinance includes a section on solar energy systems.Woolwich township, NJ -
Longmont, CO, Code of Ordinances
2016The city's land development code defines and regulates small-cell wireless and addresses solar, as does its mandatory green building code.Longmont, CO -
Santa Cruz County, CA, 1994 General Plan
This comprehensive plan includes policies and objectives that encourage the use of solar energy and protection of solar access.Santa Cruz County, CA -
Prince William County, VA, Code of Ordinances
This ordinance includes solar devices in the definition of a structure, and includes regulations for rooftop installations and solar collectors in historic districts.Prince William County, VA -
View to the Mountain: A Scenic Protection Manual
2011by: Noelle Mackay, Seth Jensen, Dana FarleyThis guide documents actions taken by Jericho and Essex, two towns in Vermont, to protect scenic views along selected roads and provides guidance to other communities seeking to protect scenic resources.Essex town, VT