Planning Commissioners Guide: Processes for Reasoning Together

This step-by-step guidebook gets new commissioners off on the right foot and helps experienced commission members navigate their roles. The authors, all practicing planners, have worked extensively with planning commissions for decades. They have watched commissioners scramble up a steep learning curve, sit in the hot seat of controversy, and strive to make sound decisions for the places they call home. In this helpful handbook, the authors share ideas, insights, and information to help commissioners succeed. Eight detailed chapters cover everything from the nuts and bolts of development applications to the nuances of legal issues to the part commissioners play in long-range planning. Readers will learn how to prepare for their first commission meeting, review a development plan, invite productive public input, and steer clear of ethical dilemmas.

The Planning Commissioners Guide: Processes for Reasoning Together

Allor, David J.

Reference

APA Planners Press

In this book, the author believes that planners should place a higher priority on winning and be less willing to accept ineffective roles. The objective of this book is to help planners learn from the successful experiences of others and to identify, develop, and promote strategies and tactics for achieving excellence that results in more effective planning. It provides an outline of patterns and characteristics as well as guiding principles that can help planners to accept change and push the profession and their organizations to make a difference.

Mastering Change: Winning Strategies for Effective City Planning

Politics & Social Sciences

McClendon, Bruce W.

Quay, Ray

Social Sciences

Forward-looking communities have attained a competitive edge by strengthening clusters of related and supporting industries, not courting individual firms. How will your community know which clusters to strengthen as it negotiates this fundamental shift in development strategy? This book shows you how to conduct local economic analysis to support such strategic planning decisions. You'll learn how to use basic economic analysis techniques to analyze changes in the local economy and evaluate the signifigance of these changes for economic development policy. They show how to structure an analysis; assess local economic performance; analyze the structure and dynamics of a local economy; evaluate local growth prospects; assess local human resources; evaluate nonlabor resources; and link analysis to strategic planning. Understanding Your Economy also includes a summary of data series and sources that will trim hours from your search for information necessary to conduct your analysis. Understanding Your Economy does not assume an extensive background in statistics or data management. It can serve as a stand-alone manual for anyone who wants to learn more about the functions and dynamics of an area's economy.

Understanding Your Economy: Using Analysis to Guide Local Strategic Planning

Business & Money

McLean, Mary L.

Voytek, Kenneth P.

Economics

For America's suburbs, small cities, and rural areas, new challenges demand new solutions. Author Randall Arendt meets them in an entirely new edition of Rural by Design. With 80 percent new material, the second edition of this planning classic shifts the focus to infilling neighborhoods, strengthening town centers, and moving development closer to schools, shops, and jobs. New chapters cover form-based codes, visioning, sustainability, low-impact development, green infrastructure, and more, while 70 case studies show how these ideas play out in the real world. Readers â€” rural or not â€” will find practical advice about planning for the way we live now.

Rural by Design: Maintaining Small Town Character

Arendt, Randall

Sociology

What do planners do? To find out, Charles Hoch interviewed 29 practicing planners and observed how they interacted with staff, citizens, and public officials. In What Planners Do, he tells their stories. The most effective planners have more than just technical skills. They also possess political and organizational savvy. You'll learn how planners employ the arts of resistance, innovation, and persuasion while working in the trenches of local government; how they respond to the moral and political conflicts that pervade their profession; and how they balance individual autonomy and social responsibility. Written in an accessible style, this book is must reading for all those intrigued by what planners do.

What Planners Do: Power, Politics, and Persuasion

Hoch, Charles

Whether you're planning a major new public transit project, expanding an existing system, or simply evaluating the needs of your current system, ?Better Public Transit Systems ? provides the tools you need to define your goals and conceive and analyze design alternatives. It is a complete primer for performance and investment analysis of public transportation.This book will give you a solid foundation in analysis methods and public transportation system design, along with ideas for incorporating unquantifiable social costs and benefits and measures of sustainability into your analysis.The analysis methods presented have sufficient depth to help you draw meaningful conclusions, yet require only a hand calculator or spreadsheet program. You'll learn how to use simple mathematical models and how to interpret more complex models.Case studies demonstrate how goals are weighted, how objectives are measured, and the significant omissions that can occur in analyses in the real world. A glossary clarifies key terms.

Better Public Transit Systems: Analyzing Investments and Performance

Engineering & Transportation

Bruun, Eric

Transportation

For decades community activists, bureaucrats, and even elected officials have consulted the pages of The Citizen’s Guide to Planning for solutions to their planning problems. Now in its fourth edition, the volume has been completely rewritten for the twenty-first century with new chapters that address the challenges of planning for a sustainable world.
Like its predecessors this new edition, aimed at nonprofessionals, is a broad-ranging general introduction to the field of planning. The volume’s easy-to-read language and organization make it ideal for answering specific questions as they arise in meetings. Authors Duerksen, Dale, and Elliott have maintained favorite sections—such as the list of key planning law cases and the full text of APA ethical considerations—and provided readers with new chapters emphasizing energy conservation, energy generation, and land efficiency. This volume is ideal for citizen activists wanting to influence planning decisions in their communities, citizens appointed to planning boards, and newly elected officials facing difficult planning-related decisions.

The Citizen's Guide to Planning (Citizens Planning Series)

Dale, C. Gregory

Duerksen, Christopher J.

Elliott FAICP, Donald L.

The Evolution of Urban Form: Typology for Planners and Architects

Arts & Photography

Scheer AICP, Brenda Case

Architecture

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