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Wauwatosa, WI, Municipal Code
Updated September 2021This regulation belongs to the Grayfields Reuse and Redevelopment, Solar Energy, Urban Agriculture, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Butte County, CA, Zoning Ordinance
Updated July 2021This regulation belongs to the Agritourism, Farmland Protection, and Solar Energy collections. -
Rock Island, IL, Comprehensive Plan
Adopted April 2014This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Built Environment and Health, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, Food Systems, and Solar Energy collections. -
Portland, OR, City Code
Updated June 2022This regulation belongs to 18 Research KnowledgeBase collections. -
Hillsboro, OR, Municipal Code
2018The city's unified development code belongs to the Food Trucks, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, Transit-Oriented Development, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Laramie, WY, Municipal Code
Updated March 2019This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation, Food Systems, Solar Energy, Urban Livestock, Wind Energy, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Aurora, CO, Code of Ordinances
Updated August 2019This regulation belongs to the Housing Supply Planning, Marijuana-Related Uses, Residential Infill Development, and Transit-Oriented Development collections. -
Montgomery County, MD, County Code
Updated August 2019This regulation belongs to the Green Building, Inclusionary Housing, Short-Term Residential Rentals, Transfer of Development Rights, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Flagstaff, AZ, Code of Ordinances
Updated July 3, 2018This regulation belongs to the Biophilic Planning, Form-Based Zoning, Outdoor Lighting, Wildland-Urban Interface, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
San Luis Obispo County, CA, Code of Ordinances
Updated April 30, 2018This regulation belongs to the Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Inclusionary Housing, and Transfer of Development Rights collections. -
Tacoma, WA, Municipal Code
Updated March 2020This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation, Affordable Housing Programs, Housing Supply Planning, Residential Infill Development, Solar Energy, and Transfer of Development Rights collections. -
Denver, CO, Comprehensive Plan 2040
Adopted April 2019This comprehensive plan belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Age-Friendly Communities, Climate Change, Comprehensive Planning, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, and Housing Supply Planning collections. -
Santa Fe, NM, City Code
Updated October 2019This regulation belongs to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Green Building, Historic Preservation, Housing Supply Planning, Short-Term Residential Rentals, and Wildland-Urban Interface collections. -
Planning for Public Health
Across the U.S., local governments are beginning to include goals and objectives that promote public health into their comprehensive plans. These long-term plans impact how people make choices of where to live and how to get around, their ability to access healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity, and affect broader issues of social equity, clean air and water, and more. -
Minneapolis, MN, Minneapolis 2040
Adopted October 2019The city’s comprehensive plan belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Climate Change, Complete Streets, Housing Supply Planning, Shared Mobility, Social Equity, and Urban Heat Resilience collections. -
Hartford, CT, Zoning Regulations
Updated June 2020These regulations belong to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Food Systems, Form-Based Zoning, Housing Supply Planning, Tiny Houses and Micro-Apartments, Transit-Oriented Development, Urban Agriculture, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Pattern Zones and Pre-Reviewed Homes
Zoning Practice — January 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. -
The Built Environment, Bicycling, and Mental Wellbeing
by: Jiwon ParkUncovering JAPA: Exploring the impact of the built environment and mental wellbeing of bicycling as a form of transportation. -
Denver, CO, Zoning Code
Updated July 2021This regulation belongs to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Form-Based Zoning, Group Housing, Housing Supply Planning, Short-Term Residential Rentals, Solar Energy, Urban Agriculture, Urban Livestock, Wind Energy, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
If You Plan It
Just seven years after its approval, San Francisco's ambitious plan for the downtown Transbay district is close to reality.January 01, 2019San Francisco's Transit Center District Plan is being built out quickly, bringing commercial space, residences, and a new transit center. -
Street Graphics and the Law: Fourth Edition
PAS Report 580by: Daniel Mandelker, John Baker, Richard Crawford September 01, 2015The fourth edition of "Street Graphics and the Law" will help you steer your street graphics program in the right direction. This PAS Report delivers the latest on the evolution of digital signs and the last word on legal points.List Price$0.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Defining and Measuring Community Character
Zoning Practice — December 2010by: Bret Keast, AICP December 01, 2010This issue of Zoning Practice lays out a framework to describe the general characteristics of different classes and types of community character and suggests means and metrics communities can use to define character in local plans and zoning.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Building Better Urban Forests
April 01, 2017In the Viewpoint from Planning's April 2016 issue, Nick Overall looks at the value of the urban forest and says urban forestry should not be an afterthought. -
Vertical City in a Garden
January 01, 2016Singapore is a model of biophilic urbanism, incorporating plants and nature into all aspects of its urban fabric. -
Complete Streets: Best Policy and Implementation Practices
PAS Report 559by: Barbara McCann, Suzanne Rynne April 01, 2010Drawing on lessons learned from more than 30 communities around the country, this PAS Report provides insight into successful policy and implementation practices that have resulted in complete streets.List Price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Combating Climate Change Through Vacant Lot Restoration
by: Sagar Shah, PhD, AICPA success story of how vacant lots in Philadelphia were transformed into climate-resilient pollinator gardens to combat climate change. -
Building a Participation Ladder With Youth
by: Laier-Rayshon SmithUncovering JAPA: What possibilities would we have if youth could participate more fully in planning? Read about three new rungs of youth participation. -
Putting a 'There' There
Decade by decade, a Denver suburb is transforming itself into a more inviting urban center. It’s even building a downtown from scratch.by: John Carpenter December 01, 2016Westminster, a Denver suburb, is transforming itself into an inviting urban center, even building a downtown from scratch. -
Hiding in Plain Sight: Build-to-Rent and Multigenerational Housing
Zoning Practice — November 2024This issue of Zoning Practice explores how development regulations affect opportunities for build-to-rent and multigenerational housing development. It begins with a summary of suburban housing supply challenges before examining the key features of and potential zoning approaches for two emerging types of subtle mixed-residential development. -
Fast-Growing Vegas Races Toward Energy Efficiency
An unexpected leader in climate innovation, the desert city takes a full-spectrum approach to fortifying water and energy sources.by: Marco Velotta, AICP August 29, 2022An unexpected leader in climate innovation, the desert city takes a full-spectrum approach to fortifying water and energy sources. -
Distinguishing Between Detrimental and Benign Nonconformities
Zoning Practice — November 2009by: Gail Easley, David Theriaque November 01, 2009This issue of Zoning Practice takes a look the differences between detrimental and benign nonconformities and recommends a two-tiered approach to regulating legal nonconformities.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Zoning to Improve Health and Promote Equity
Zoning Practice — March 2015by: Elizabeth Whitton, AICP March 01, 2015This issue of Zoning Practice discusses how communities can use zoning and other development regulations to promote healthy living environments. It highlights a number of potential regulatory changes in support of reducing health disparities by increasing affordable housing options and improving access to care.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Resurfacing Our Cities
May 01, 2018In our efforts to make cities greener and wilder, we have the chance to rethink and redesign other spaces. Every facade or vertical flat surface — above and below water — can be doing more. -
What's Blocking an ADU Boom?
Accessory dwelling units are gaining national momentum, but these regulatory and financial hurdles still need to be cleared.by: Adina Solomon September 09, 2021Accessory dwelling units are gaining national momentum, but these regulatory and financial hurdles still need to be cleared. -
Centering Wellbeing in Community Co-Creation: WIATT and C4C
PAS Memo 121Two new planning tools offer innovative methods to structure community engagement, distribute capital project funds equitably, and advance projects that increase access to wellbeing for individuals and communities. -
Augmented: Planners in an Era of Generative AI
by: David Wasserman, AICP, Michael FlaxmanUnderstand the implications of generative AI and learn three steps for planners to take today. -
Stronger Today, More Resilient Tomorrow
California and Bay Area cities are raising the bar for climate and hazard adaptation.January 01, 2019Bay Area communities are adapting to the climate changes that pose a serious threat to California’s economic well-being, public health, natural resources, and the environment. -
Commercial Corridor Redevelopment Strategies
PAS Report 598by: Luis Nunez February 01, 2021All commercial corridors have the potential to be vibrant, compelling, and sustainable assets to communities. But planners can face multiple challenges to making this idea a reality, especially for declining auto-oriented, retail-focused strips. This PAS Report provides planners with a comprehensive suite of market-based strategies to improve their communities’ commercial corridors.Nonmember price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
On the Gold Coast
Just across the Hudson from Manhattan, New Jersey’s cities aren’t quite what you remember them to be.January 01, 2017New Jersey cities are shaking off their old manufacturing backgrounds and somewhat sketchy reputations and are becoming chic places to live. -
A Green Infrastructure Vision for Harford County, Maryland
Community Planning Assistance Team ReportHarford County, Maryland, engaged the CPAT program to execute and organize a community visioning workshop that engaged regional leaders and community groups on green infrastructure and resiliency planning. This report focuses on identifying and prioritizing opportunities to use green infrastructure to enhance resilience in two subwatersheds. -
Aligning Development Codes with the Law
Zoning Practice — November 2014by: Mark White, AICP November 01, 2014This issue of Zoning Practice provides planners and zoning professionals with guidance about the legal issues to consider when drafting a development code. It includes tips about how to put the code together in a way that considers issues of statutory authority and constitutionality and describes how to write in a way that avoids “legalese.”List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Your Guide to NFTs, Cryptocurrency, and the Blockchain
The blockchain could have a big impact on city services — and the environment. Here's what planners need to know.by: Patrick Sisson June 27, 2022The blockchain could have a big impact on city services — and the environment. Here's what planners need to know. -
Decision Making in Sign Codes
Zoning Practice — March 2009by: Daniel Mandelker March 01, 2009This issue of Zoning Practice reviews the legal concept of prior restraint as it relates to discretionary sign permitting decisions and explains how sign codes can steer clear of problems associated with prior restraint.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
The Commissioner — Spring 2011
In The Commissioner's Spring 2011 issue: "Urban Agriculture’s Popularity on the Rise"; "Planning for and Regulating Medical Marijuana"; a profile of the Bernalillo County, New Mexico, planning commission; "Avoid Hazards with Coordinated Planning"; the history of the Appalachian Regional Commission; and more.List price$5.00Members & subscribers$0.00 -
How to Uncover and Honor LGBTQ+ History in the Built Environment
Kentucky and Maryland are the first states to use historical context studies to highlight places influential to the LGBTQ+ community — and drive planning efforts.by: Tatiana Walk-Morris May 20, 2022Kentucky and Maryland are the first states to use historical context studies to highlight places influential to the LGBTQ+ community — and drive planning efforts. -
Partnerships and Federal Funding Build an Oasis in a Food Desert
Tulsa Economic Development Corporation and partners leveraged federal grant dollars and made community and equity the core of a new grocery store.by: Gary Hamer, AICP March 16, 2023Tulsa Economic Development Corporation and partners leveraged federal grant dollars and made community and equity the core of a new grocery store. -
Automated Vehicles and the Next Great Transformation of the Built Environment
by: Timothy Chapin, Lindsay Stevens, AICP, Jeremy CruteResearchers at Florida State University and the Florida Department of Transportation document how automated vehicles may transform the built environment in coming decades. -
Shifting Social Consequences of Climate Change
by: Laier-Rayshon SmithUncovering JAPA: Understanding the shifting social consequences of a changing climate. -
The Commissioner — Winter 2011
In The Commissioner's Winter 2011 issue: "APA in Multiple Media"; "Nonconforming Uses: Part Two"; a profile of the Brookline, Massachusetts, planning board; "Planning Commission Absenteeism" and sample commission attendance provisions; Lady Bird Johnson's conversation efforts; and more.List price$5.00Members & subscribers$0.00 -
Creating Planning Documents
PAS Report 589by: Allyson Mendenhall, Claire Hempel, AICP CUD, Emily Risinger, Stephanie Grigsby, AICP November 01, 2017Planners routinely create plans, reports, and guides. This PAS Report is a guide to recommended practices, including field-tested tools and strategies to help planners manage the process of creating planning documents from concept to delivery.List price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00