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Altamonte Springs, FL, Land Development Code
Update April 2019The city’s land development code identifies the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification as a category eligible for density bonuses. -
Designing for Affordable and Active Housing
April 2013by: Karen Lee, Gayle Nicoll, Brian PraterThis audio recording shares how affordable housing funders and developers can use New York City’s Active Design Guidelines (ADG) to improve health. -
Bordentown, NJ, City Code
Updated December 2018The city’s codified ordinances establish a Historic Preservation Commission, historic designation and design review processes, and a Historic and Landmarks Overlay Zone. -
Palo Alto, CA, Single-Family Individual Review Guidelines
2005This guide for property owners and developers presents illustrated design principles for new single-family homes and additions in established neighborhoods. -
Accessory Housing Is Part of the Solution
Breakthroughs, January 2004This short article summarizes a number of common regulatory barriers to affordable housing. These barriers include process requirements, design standards, occupancy standards, and lot size and parking standards. -
Building an ADU
Version 1.0, Summer 2017by: Dana Cuff, Jane BlumenfeldThis guide is designed to help property owners in Los Angeles navigate city requirements to design and build new accessory dwelling units (ADUs). -
Athens-Clarke County, GA, Complete Streets Policy
2022This complete streets policy establishes the need to design and construct roadway projects for all users in Athens-Clarke County, Georgia. -
Extended Reality for Planning
PAS QuickNotes 98by: Jennifer MendezThis edition of PAS QuickNotes explores the ways in which planners can use extended reality (XR) for many different aspects of planning work, including visualizations with real-world context, community engagement with vulnerable populations, and planning scenario design.Nonmember price$10.00APA members & PAS subscribers$0.00 -
Iowa City, IA, City Code
Updated July 17, 2018This regulation belongs to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Design Review, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Food Trucks, Housing Supply Planning, Inclusionary Housing, and Transfer of Development Rights collections. -
Oro Valley, AZ, General Plan: Your Voice, Our Future
The Land Use, Community Design, and Open Space and Natural Resources Conservation elements of the town's general plan include solar-related goals and policies.Oro Valley, AZ -
Inclusive Healthy Places Action Guide for Planners
by: David Morley, AICP April 27, 2023This guide serves as an adaptation and extension of Gehl's Inclusive Healthy Places Framework, focusing on actions planners can take to advance inclusion and health equity in efforts to shape public space. Planners can use this action guide to operationalize the Inclusive Healthy Places Framework through research and analysis, engagement and collaboration, plan and policy making, program design a -
Cornelius, OR, Municipal Code
Updated July 2019by: City of Cornelius, WAThe city's municipal code provides a solar design requirement for new single-family developments, solar balance point standards, and a solar access permit process. -
What Role Do Planning and Design Play in a Pandemic? Ann Forsyth Reflects on COVID-19’s Impact on the Future of Urban Life
News, March 19, 2020by: Ann ForsythThis blog post discusses the role of planners in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications for the future of urban life. -
The benefits and needs to engage youth in spatial urban planning: Universal design for social justice and children as "sensitive environmental indicators"
Youth Plan, December 2021This article explains how planning with youth can provide new perspectives and creatively tackle issues communities face. -
MarpleTownship, PA, Township Code
The township's subdivision code includes design considerations for mobile home parks encourages an east-west axis orientation offering southern exposure to their longest wall and roof area.Marple township, PA -
Reclaiming the Right of Way: A Toolkit for Creating and Implementing Parklets
2012by: Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Madeline Brozen, Colleen CallahanThis report introduces the concept of parklets, presents case studies of municipal parklet programs, and provides design guidance for parklet projects. -
Guidebook for Creating a Municipal TDR program
1995This guide provides information to municipalities in Montgomery County, Maryland, to help them design and implement transfer of development rights programs.Montgomery County, PA -
Spotsylvania County, VA, Code of Ordinances
2017The county’s zoning code includes rural viewshed preservation as one of four design alternative optionss for development within planned residential rural district.Spotsylvania County, VA -
Santa Barbara, CA, Climate Action Plan
Adopted September 2012The city's climate action plan calls for solar energy system installations and adoption of a solar access ordinance and solar design guidelines.Santa Barbara, CA -
Differences Between Miami's Form-Based Code and Traditional Zoning Code in Integrating Planning Principles
Journal of the American Planning Association, 81(1): 46-66, 2015by: Ajay Garde, Cecilia Joung Un Kim, Oscar TsaiThis article evaluates the extent to which form-based codes adopted by the City of Miami have integrated important planning and design criteria. -
Bringing the Benefits of Solar Energy to Low-Income Consumers: A Guide for States and Municipalities
May 2017by: Bentham PaulosThis guide is designed to help states and local governments design and implement policies and programs to promote solar access for low-income consumers. -
Housing for Older Adults—Location, Location, Location
PlannersWeb, November 2013by: Jennifer Wallace-Brodeur, Stuart AndreasonThis article stresses the importance of coordinating housing and transportation, improving home design, and protecting affordability for building an age-friendly community. -
Chico, CA, 2030 General Plan
Adopted April 2011This comprehensive plan includes goals, policies, and actions to reduce nonrenewable energy resource consumption by supporting renewable energy technologies and passive solar design principles in new development. -
Urban Nature and Biodiversity for Cities
September 2021by: Jeffrey Smith, Anne Guerry, Eric LonsdorfThis briefing paper provides scientific reasoning for why it is important to incorporate urban design, along with how urban areas can do so. -
Kearny County, KS, Environmental Code
Updated September 2014This county code provides standards for the location, design, construction, maintenance, waste disposal and use of on-site wastewater systems in the county. -
Solar Powering Your Community: A Guide for Local Governments
January 2011This guide is designed to help local government staff and officials design and implement a comprehensive strategy for growing the local solar market. -
Cities and Ageing
GCIF Policy Snapshot 2, September 2013This report considers the impact that rapid urbanization and aging will have on cities and introduces the Age Friendly City Policy, Planning & Design framework and its indicators. -
Planning for Children in New Vertical Communities
2017by: City of Toronto Planning DivisionThis guide is meant to ensure that the design plans of dense, multi-unit residential developments in Toronto, Canada are family-friendly. -
Green Building Economic Impact Study
September 2015This report outlines the direct and indirect economic impacts of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification system and green building construction by state. -
Lighting Quality and Acoustic Quality in LEED-Certified Buildings Using Occupant Evaluation
Journal of Green Building, 6(2): 139-155, 2011by: Young LeeThis article includes a study on the relationship between Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification and lighting and acoustic quality in the workplace. -
Unintended Consequences: How the Use of LEED Can Inadvertently Fail to Benefit the Environment
Journal of Green Building, 1(4): 152-165by: Jeremy Bray, Natasha McCurryThis article discusses how some Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) projects fail to be as environmentally beneficial as intended. -
Improving the Link Between the LEED Green Building Label and a Building’s Energy-Related Environmental Metrics
Journal of Green Building, 3(2): 85-105, 2008by: G. Wedding, Douglas Crawford-BrownThis article offers several recommendations for improving the environmental benefits of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification system. -
Regional Green Building Case Study Project: A post-occupancy study of LEED projects in Illinois
October 2009This case study analyzes the performance, costs, and benefits of several Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) projects according to several metrics. -
Northbrook, IL, Code of Ordinances
Updated August 2019The village's code of ordinances requires new public buildings, and provides incentives for private buildings to, receive Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. -
A Local Government Guide to LEED for Neighborhood Development
April 2012This guide presents the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) certification system as a resource for municipalities to achieve their sustainability goals. -
Technical Guidance Manual for Sustainable Neighborhoods
2013by: Meg Byerly, Jennie Nolon Blanchard, John NolonThis guide presents several avenues for municipalities to use the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design- Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) certification to promote sustainable neighborhoods. -
Arlington County, VA, Green Building Density Bonus Incentive Policy
Adopted November 2014This standalone policy describes a voluntary green building incentive that allocates Floor Area Ratio (FAR) density bonuses relative to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification levels. -
The Built Environment and Health: An Evidence Review
November 2013by: Russell Jones, Gregor YatesThis briefing paper considers the connections between the built environment and health to help guide the design of urban space in the UK. -
Oneida Nation, WI, Reservation Comprehensive Plan
Updated October 2008The Oneida Nation’s comprehensive plan incorporates strategies for improving health into its Health Care, Community Design, Parks and Recreation, Agriculture, and Environmental Protection goals and objectives. -
Louisville-Jefferson County, KY, Code of Ordinances
Updated July 2019The city-county’s codified ordinances create the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Historic Landmarks and Preservation Districts Commission assigned with designation and design review responsibilities. -
Norfolk, VA, A Green Infrastructure Plan for Norfolk Building Resilient Communities
Adopted July 2018This functional plan assesses natural assets to design green infrastructure for community resilience and effective integration with gray infrastructure in Norfolk, Virginia. -
Driving Down Emissions: Transportation, Land Use, and Climate Change
October 2020This report evaluates the role of car-oriented land use and design on the nation’s transportation emissions and the impact on climate change. -
St. Paul, MN, Strategic Stormwater Solutions for Transit-Oriented Development
2013This plan presents a series of recommendations to guide policy, design, and public investments related to stormwater infrastructure along a new light-rail line. -
Rhode Island Transfer of Development Rights Manual
2015This guide provides recommendations to state and local officials in Rhode Island to help them design and implement transfer of development rights programs. -
Pennsylvania Land Choices: An Educational Guide
2009by: Estelle RuppertThis guide is intended to help planners, teachers, and other local leaders design and implement educational activities for students and citizens. -
NCDOT Complete Streets Evaluation
July 2018This report evaluates the success of North Carolina Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT) Complete Streets Policy and Complete Streets Planning and Design Guidelines. -
Contribution of Urban Design Qualities to Pedestrian Activity
February 01, 2016Researchers have started to look into how D variables impact walkability and pedestrian activity. -
Irvine, CA, General Plan
The Energy Element of the city's general plan includes goals and a range of specific policies encouraging solar design and solar energy system use.Irvine, CA -
Elmira Town, NY, Municipal Code
Updated October 2018by: Town of Elmira, NYThe town's zoning code establishes a number of design guidelines for siting and maintaining buildings and vegetation to maximize solar access for the use of solar energy systems. -
Los Angeles, CA, Municipal Code
Updated December 2021This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation, Affordable Housing Programs, Design Review, Grayfields Reuse and Redevelopment, Housing Supply Planning, Residential Infill, Solar Energy, and Urban Heat Resilience collections.