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Tech for Scenario Planning
October 01, 2019Scenario planning has grown in acceptance and impact over the past decade, fueled in part by innovations in software. -
Water: Cities' Biggest Risk?
by: Jason JordanAggressive advocacy will be needed to build public support and transform the politics of water. -
Protecting Historically Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Neighborhoods and Business Districts
Zoning Practice — August 2023Establishing protective measures for historically disadvantaged and vulnerable neighborhoods and business districts requires a proactive, community-based approach. This issue of Zoning Practice outlines clear steps those who write, administer, and enforce zoning regulations can take to proactively protect these neighborhoods and business districts. -
Using Faith-Based Land for Affordable Housing
Zoning Practice — July 2023This issue of Zoning Practice explores the growing trend of developing transitional and permanent affordable housing on underused faith-based land. It examines the relationship between land supply and the housing crisis, the reasons why religious institutions are increasingly interested in development partnerships, and the zoning standards that can limit development opportunities. -
APA Policy Guide on Historic and Cultural Resources
APA Policy Guide on Historic and Cultural Resources adopted in 1997. -
Smart City Digital Twins
PAS QuickNotes 89A smart city digital twin (SCDT) — a living digital replica of a city that is continuously updated with real-time data and analytics on interactions between humans, infrastructure, and technology — offers a holistic view of the changes that take place in a city. -
Salt Lake City, UT, City Code
Updated September 2021The city's code belongs to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Active Transportation, Affordable Housing Programs, Food Trucks, Group Housing, Home Occupations, Housing Supply Planning, Residential Infill Development, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, Solar Energy, Transit-Oriented Development, Urban Agriculture, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Computer Vision for Planning
PAS QuickNotes 111Computer vision, a form of artificial intelligence that enables computers to interpret and process visual data from images and video to extract insights about our world, has much to offer planning practitioners. -
Urban Heat Management and the Legacy of Redlining
by: Laier-Rayshon SmithUncovering JAPA: Neighborhoods that were once targets of redlining now have higher land surface temperatures than other neighborhoods in the same city. Planners need to correct past policy errors to make cities more equitable, including in urban heat management. -
Creative Placemaking for Community Health
Planning Approaches to Encourage Physical Activity in Small and Rural Communitiesby: Johamary Pena, AICP, Sagar Shah, PhD, AICPThis blog post provides an overview of community events as a planning approach to increase physical activity in small and rural communities through everyday destinations. It is part of the Everyday Destinations series. -
High and Dry on the Waterfront
Zoning Practice — November 2013by: James Schwab, FAICPThis issue of Zoning Practice discusses how coastal communities, such as New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey, are reforming development regulations to maintain the attractions of the urban shoreline while adequately protecting those areas from coastal storms and flooding.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Aesthetics, Community Character, and the Law
PAS Report 489/490by: Christopher Duerksen, Matthew Goebel, AICP March 01, 1999Land-use planners and citizens will learn about the law of aesthetics and what legal tools are available to help their communities maintain their sense of place. This PAS Report was cosponsored by Scenic America.List Price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Lessons From Transportation Planners' Pivot to Virtual Engagement
Forced to innovate by the Covid-19 pandemic, experts say these public participation innovations are here to stay.by: Marisa Denker, Adrienne Zicklin Kanter, MSUP October 01, 2021Planners share their experience of shifting to virtual public engagement during the pandemic, noting that some of the changes are here to stay. -
Reno, NV, Code of Ordinances
Updated February 2022This regulation belongs to the Grayfields Reuse and Redevelopment, Marijuana-Related Uses, Solar Energy, Transit-Oriented Development, and Urban Heat Resilience collections. -
Cottage Home Program
With the adoption of the 2016 Clovis Central Area Plan, the city now permits 400-square-foot cottage homes (i.e., ADUs) on the rear portion of single-family lots in the Old Town Clovis neighborhood. -
Cognitive Assessment of Present Scenario of Urban Heritage: The Strand, Chandannagar, West Bengal, India
by: Abhishek RaoChandannagar’s heritage faces neglect and mismanagement. Key issues include building neglect, unauthorized development, and low awareness. Solutions include a Conservation Fund, incentives for owners, adaptive reuse, heritage trails, cultural events. -
Benefits of Compact, Mixed Use Development
This collection catalogs synthesis and original research articles and reports that illustrate what researchers have learned to date about the costs and benefits associated with compact, mixed use development. -
Grayfields Reuse and Redevelopment
Currently, many cities and counties across the U.S. have a large supply of vacant or underutilized auto-oriented commercial properties. This collection catalogs resources that provide background, policy guidance, and examples of local plan recommendations and zoning standards to facilitate the reuse or redevelopment of abandoned or underutilized commercial properties. -
Inclusionary Housing
Inclusionary housing programs link affordable housing provision to private development by requiring or incentivizing developers to construct affordable housing units as part of market-rate residential projects. This collection catalogs resources that provide background and policy guidance or demonstrate how localities are using plans and development regulations to promote inclusionary housing. -
Neighborhood Planning
A neighborhood plan presents a vision and a strategy to guide change within a discrete, contiguous, predominantly residential subarea of a city. This collection catalogs resources that provide background and policy guidance on planning for discrete, contiguous, predominantly residential subareas of cities, as well as examples of locally adopted neighborhood plans. -
Small Wireless Facilities and Wireless Facilities in the ROW
This collection catalogs resources that provide background, policy guidance, model ordinances, and examples of local development regulations for small wireless facilities and wireless facilities in public rights-of-way. -
Tree Preservation and the Urban Forest
A healthy urban forest provides environmental, social, and economic benefits. This collection catalogs resources that provide background, policy guidance, and examples of how cities and counties are using plans and regulations to protect trees and expand urban tree canopies. -
Wildland-Urban Interface
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is defined as the area where human development borders or intermingles with forests or other wildlands. This collection catalogs resources that provide background and policy guidance or demonstrate how communities are using plans, regulations, and programs to address wildfire and other challenges in the WUI. -
Albany, NY, Albany 2030
Adopted April 2012This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities, Built Environment and Health, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, Food Systems, Social Equity, and Solar Energy collections. -
Raleigh, NC, 2030 Comprehensive Plan
Updated November 2019This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Built Environment and Health, Capital Improvements Programming, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, Creative Placemaking, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Historic Preservation, Neighborhood Planning, Outdoor Lighting, and Social Equity collections. -
Fairfax County, VA, Zoning Ordinance
Updated July 2021This regulations belong to the Content-Neutral Sign Regulation, Inclusionary Housing, Outdoor Lighting, Short-Term Residential Rentals, Transit-Oriented Development, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Virginia Beach, VA, Code of Ordinances
Updated June 2019This regulation belongs to the Content-Neutral Sign Regulation, Inclusionary Housing, Short-Term Residential Rentals, and Small Wireless Facilities and Wireless Facilities in the ROW collections. -
Evanston, IL, Code of Ordinances
Updated February 2022This regulation belongs to the Climate Change, Food Trucks, Inclusionary Housing, Short-Term Residential Rentals, Solar Energy, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Davis, CA, Municipal Code
Updated October 2021This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation, Farmland Protection, Inclusionary Housing, and Solar Energy collections. -
San Jose, CA, Municipal Code
Updated September 2021This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation, Affordable Housing Programs, Built Environment and Health, Group Housing, Housing Supply Planning, Shared Mobility, and Solar Energy collections. -
Raleigh, NC, Unified Development Ordinance
Updated January 2020This regulation belongs to the Food Trucks, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Historic Preservation, Housing Supply Planning, Residential Infill Development, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Form-Based Zoning
Form-based zoning is an approach to zoning that emphasizes built form over land use. This collection catalogs resources that provide background and policy guidance on form-based zoning, as well as examples of local form-based codes. -
Plan4Health
Coalitions made up of APA chapters, APHA affiliate groups, and others will work to set a new paradigm for healthy planning. By leveraging complementary expertise and influence, this project seeks to expand innovative tactics to addressing tough problems. -
Guthrie Historic District: Guthrie, Oklahoma
Rural Guthrie, Oklahoma, has the largest historic urban district in the state with more than 2,000 buildings. The town has used it as a catalyst for innovative health-focused initiatives, such as a complete streets ordinance. -
Community Food System Assessments
PAS Memo — November/December 2015A community food system assessment provides a clear picture of the food system resources, assets, challenges, and opportunities in a community. An assessment provides a solid grounding in the existing conditions of food access, food production and consumption, and food-related industry and employment. -
The Baltimore Planning Academy: Community Empowerment through Civic Education
PAS Memo 112The Baltimore Planning Academy is a cohort-based, six-week program designed to build community leadership around urban planning, zoning, and development topics. -
The Art of Learning by Example
Planning for a future when computers can see: practical intersections of planning practice and AI.October 01, 2020Computer vision, a rapidly growing area of Artificial Intelligence dedicated to creating insights from images, has significant implications for the future of planning. -
Cheering on the Birds
December 01, 2018In Portland, Oregon, cat lovers and bird lovers come together to learn about enclosed cat patios and safer habitats for migrating and local birds. -
A Guide to Community Planning Academies
PAS Report 605by: Donna Carney August 01, 2023Community planning academies offer a model for authentic public engagement, creating an informed and involved constituency of residents who support local planning.Nonmembers$25.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Integrating Planning and Public Health: Tools and Strategies to Create Healthy Places
PAS Report 539/540by: Marya Morris, FAICP October 01, 2006Is the form of American cities to blame for obesity and poor health? This PAS Report shows how to incorporate public health goals into comprehensive planning.List Price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Emerging Trends in Regional Planning
PAS Report 586by: Rocky Piro, FAICP, Robert Leiter, FAICP, Sharon Rooney, AICPToday’s planning issues don’t respect boundaries. Rising tides don’t stop at the county line. Transit systems roll from city to city. Jobs and housing are joined at the hip. This PAS Report offers real-world answers to the regional quandaries planners face.List price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Green Infrastructure: A Landscape Approach
PAS Report 571by: David Rouse, FAICP, Ignacio Bunster-OssaGreen infrastructure cleans the air and water, replenishes aquifers, reduces flooding, and moderates the climate. This PAS Report presents six principles for successful green infrastructure projects.List Price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Preservation Planning Comes of Age
Fifty years after the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act, planners play a role in saving our treasured historic places.October 01, 2016Fifth years after the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act, developers have invested more than $78 billion in more than 41,250 projects. -
Got Contaminants?
A simple chart lets you pick the green infrastructure solution that meets your pollution removal needs.August 01, 2020Many people recognize that green infrastructure can help reduce stormwater runoff, but fewer understand how to select an appropriate system to improve water quality. -
Dementia-Friendly Public Participation
Accessible public engagement tools are key to ensuring the built environment meets the needs of community members with dementia and other disabilities.by: Samantha Biglieri, PhD, M.Pl. June 17, 2021People living with dementia have the right to be included in the communities in which they live. Fortunately, there are several easy, low-cost accommodations practicing planners can make to better engage them in the planning process. -
Recycling to the Max
Earthship structures cause conundrums for planning departments.March 01, 2015Local planning departments face challenges when residents seek permission to build earthships, which often don't fit current development and zoning standards. -
Zoning at 100
New York City celebrates a century of zoning — and gets ready for the next one.January 01, 20172016 marked the hundredth anniversary of New York City's comprehensive zoning law, considered by most academics and urban planners to be the first of its kind.