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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. -
Mundelein, IL, Code of Ordinances
2017These regulations belong to the Tactical Urbanism and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Santa Clara County, CA, Code of Ordinances
Updated August 2018These regulations belong to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Home Occupations, Scenic View Protection, Solar Energy, and Wildland-Urban Interface collections. -
Greensboro, NC, Land Development Ordinance
2017The city’s land development code belongs to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Housing Supply Planning, and Scenic View Protection collections. -
Bellingham, WA, Municipal Code
Updated October 2020These regulations belong to the Housing Supply Planning, Residential Infill Development, and Solar Energy collections. -
El Paso, TX, Plan El Paso
Adopted March 2012The city’s comprehensive plan belongs to the Complete Streets, Form-Based Zoning, and Solar Energy collections. -
Riverwoods, IL, Village Code
Updated October 2024The village's zoning regulations include a chapter on renewable energy that provides standards for building-mounted and free-standing solar energy systems. -
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. -
Santa Cruz, CA, Municipal Code
Updated September 2019This collection belongs to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Green Building, Housing Supply Planning, and Inclusionary Housing collections. -
Fresno, CA, Municipal Code
Updated August 2021This regulation belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities, Housing Supply Planning, Residential Infill Development, Shared Mobility, Tiny Houses and Micro-Apartments, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Decoding Zoning: How Machine-Readable Zoning Data Bridges Housing Gap
Open Zoning is democratizing zoning codes, allowing anyone to access them as simple visuals for any property or city in seconds, crowdsourcing new ways forward for the bottom-up response to the housing crisis.- Nneka Sobers
- Elizabeth Christoforetti
- Alyssa Brandt, AICP
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Revitalizing Communities: Housing as a Powerful New Tool
Case studies drawn from “struggling” communities—from a Florida suburb to rustbelt and gateway cities—demonstrate how proactive policies to expand mixed-income housing can serve as a powerful tool to achieve challenging equity, economic development, environmental, and placemaking community-wide goals.- Alison LeFlore, AICP
- David Dixon
- Eric Johnson
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The OTHER MN Code Everyone Is Talking About
This session will feature Rochester’s Unified Development Code and will provide strategies around how to reform local zoning to successfully encourage housing affordability/availability along with a real example of how to gain public support to advance planning best practices.- Ryan Yetzer
- Jenny Baker
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A Practical Guide to Updating Local Regulations for Climate Resilience
Building and zoning codes are a powerful way to advance local climate goals. Try these tactics for proven results.by: Bella Purdy, AICP February 17, 2023Building and zoning codes are a powerful way to advance local climate goals. Try these tactics for proven results.
Pattern Zones and Pre-Reviewed Homes
Zoning Practice — January 2024by: Richard Murphy, AICP, Melissa Milton-Pung January 01, 2024This issue of Zoning Practice explores how a pattern approach to zoning, incorporating pre-reviewed building plans, may help communities expand housing choice and affordability. It begins with a brief examination of historical precedents before outlining the key components of a pattern zoning program and highlighting potentially complementary strategies.List price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00
Implementing Complete and Green Streets for All
This Case Study showcases how to transform local decision making by incorporating equity, health, and accountability into transportation policies. Illustrating how small-scope studies and demonstration projects can advance implementation of complete streets.- Leigh Ann Von Hagen, AICP
- Elise Bremer-Nei, AICP
- Peter Bilton, AICP
- Cassidy Boulan, AICP
#9275199CM | 1Santa Fe County, NM, Sustainable Growth Management Plan
Adopted 2015This comprehensive plan belongs to the Home Occupations and Solar Energy collections.West Hollywood, CA, Municipal Code
Updated August 2019This regulation belongs to the Green Building and Solar Energy collections.Scottsdale, AZ, Code of Ordinances
Updated September 2019This regulation belongs to the Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Green Building, and Solar Energy collections.Portland, ME, City Code
Updated August 2022This regulation belongs to the Food Systems, Green Building, Historic Preservation, and Urban Livestock collections.
Measuring Community Character
PAS QuickNotes 72by: David Morley, AICPThis edition of PAS QuickNotes provides a primer on the key objective physical and social characteristics that affect public perceptions of community character.List price$10.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00Seattle, WA, Municipal Code
Updated April 2025This regulation belongs to 22 different Research KnowledgeBase collections, ranging from Accessory Dwelling Units to Youth in Planning.
The Market Factors That Make Transferable Development Rights Work
Zoning Practice — January 2021by: Lane KendigThis edition of Zoning Practice highlights the distinct market challenges of targeted and rural TDR programs. It explores the key determinants of targeted TDR success and presents six potential alternatives to conventional rural TDR systems.List price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00
Coastal Hazards and Smart Growth
Zoning Practice — January 2011by: John Jacob, PhD, Thomas PacelloEvery coastal city or town to one degree or another faces the dilemma of having to be in a place that no city should be in. This issue of Zoning Practice explains how smart growth principles embodied by places such as the French Quarter in New Orleans and the Strand in Galveston can support resilience to coastal hazards.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00
Designing Everyday Spaces for Playful Learning
PAS Memo 119by: Jennifer Vey, Juanita Morales December 01, 2023This edition of PAS Memo explains the concept of Playful Learning Landscapes and its impact on learning, public space revitalization, and social and civic engagement, highlighting cities that lead on playful learning and offering guidance to help planners implement playful learning throughout their own communities.Nonmembers$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00
Practice Gentle Density
Zoning Practice — February 2023by: Jacqueline Berg, AICP, John Houseal, FAICP February 01, 2023This issue of Zoning Practice explores zoning strategies that balance the concerns of residents and the demands of the housing market by accommodating gentle density increases in a context-sensitive manner. From historic downtown neighborhoods to modern residential subdivisions, the tools presented can be used by planners throughout the country to implement housing policy through regulation.List price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00Tiburon, CA, Municipal Code
The city's zoning code requires new single-family dwellings to install solar PV capacity calculated using either a prescriptive or a performance method.Tiburon, CATulare, CA, General Plan
The Conservation and Open Space Element of the city's general plan includes a goal and several policies supporting solar energy system installations and solar orientation in new development.Tulare, CAPlainville, MA, Master Plan
This master plan addresses renewable energy in its land use recommendations, including a recommendation to review local regulations to identify obstacles to renewable energy.Plainville town, MAPortland, OR, Solar Water Heating and Photovoltaic Electric Generators Installed on Commercial Buildings
This guidebook provides guidelines and permitting requirements for installing solar hot water or PV systems on commercial construction.Portland, ORLower Paxton Township, PA, Comprehensive Plan for Community Resources
This comprehensive plan includes an objective on applying energy conservation techniques and practices as standards for new development.Lower Paxton township, PAAlameda County, CA, Staff Report: Amend Chapter 12.08, Roadway Use Regulations
Alameda County Public Works AgencyStaff Report, December 21, 2010This staff report recommends adoption of an ordinance regulating telecommunication facilities in the county right-of-way.Alameda County, CASunnyvale, CA, Staff Report: Amend Regulations for Telecommunication Facilities Located in Public Right of Way
Report to Mayor and Council, November 13, 2012This staff report analyzes the city's proposed regulation of telecommunications facilities in the public right-of-way.Sunnyvale, CASt. Helens, OR, Comprehensive Plan
The Natural Factors and Local Resources goals and policies section recommends the revision of land development standards to promote solar energy use.St. Helens, OREnvironmental Best Management Practices for Urban and Rural Land Development in British Columbia
2004This guide discusses strategies and considerations for environmental protection and stewardship during land-use planning and development processes in British Columbia.Scottsdale, AZ, Citizen’s Guide to Environmentally Sensitive Lands
June 2004This guide summarizes components of the Scottsdale, Arizona environmentally sensitive land ordinance.Scottsdale, AZConservation Subdivision Handbook
2011by: Steve Allen, Susan Moore, Leslie MoormanThis guide introduces conservation subdivisions as an approach that can help protect North Carolina from loss of farmland and wildlife.North CarolinaModel Zoning Ordinance for Rural Cluster Development
2014This model ordinance provides a template for communities interested in preserving environmentally sensitive natural features using an overlay for rural cluster development, or open space subdivisions.Western Pennsylvania Rooftop Solar Challenge Final Solar Zoning Ordinance
This model ordinance for accessory solar energy systems is intended for use by a wide range of Pennsylvania communities.PennsylvaniaTransfer of Development Rights Turns 40
Planning & Environmental Law, June 2007by: Richard Pruetz, FAICP, Erica PruetzThis article provides background on establishing a transfer of development rights (TDR) program and discusses TDR success factors and legal considerations.Mammoth Lakes, CA, General Plan 2007
The Energy Conservation section within the Resource Management and Conservation element establishes goals and policies for increasing the use of active and passive solar energy.Mammoth Lakes, CASpringboro, OH, Codified Ordinances
The city's planning and zoning code provides supplemental standards for solar energy systems.Springboro, OHMastic Beach, NY, Village Code
The village code allows accessory solar systems in all residential districts subject to standards and offers fast-track permitting.Mastic Beach, NYModel Regulations and Plan Amendments for Multimodal Transportation Districts
2004by: Kristine Williams, AICP, Karen Seggerman, AICPThis document provides model comprehensive plan language and development regulations to help cities and counties in Florida support transit-oriented development (TOD).FloridaLindsborg, KS, City Code
2017by: City of Lindsborg, KSThe city's subdivision regulations encourage solar orientation and allow for solar skyspace easements.Lindsborg, KS