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Galesburg, IL, Code of Ordinances
Updated December 2018The city’s land use code permits small wind energy systems by right as accessory uses in all districts, subject to use-specific standards. -
Worcester, MA, Zoning Ordinance
Updated January 2019The city’s zoning code permits small and large wind energy systems, subject to use-specific standards. -
Carteret County, NC, Code of Ordinances
Updated November 2017The county’s tall structures code defines and regulates small, large, and very large wind energy systems. -
Oregon City, OR, Code of Ordinances
Updated December 2017This city’s zoning code includes two downtown districts that encourage pedestrian-oriented mixed-use redevelopment.Oregon City, OR -
Hinesville, GA, Code of Ordinances
Updated November 2017The city’s zoning code includes a downtown redevelopment overlay district to encourage the restoration, redevelopment, and development of downtown.Hinesville, GA -
Highland, MI, Code of Ordinances
Updated October 14, 2015The township’s zoning ordinance includes a section on outdoor lighting. -
Sarasota, FL, Code of Ordinances
Updated September 10, 2018The city addresses outdoor lighting in the miscellaneous standards division of its zoning code. -
Nashua, NH, City Code
Updated November 28, 2017The city addresses outdoor lighting in its zoning code. -
Ypsilanti Township, MI, Code of Ordinances
Updated August 17, 2018The township addresses outdoor lighting in its zoning code through an ordinance based on dark-sky principles. -
Stafford County, VA, Code of Ordinances
Updated July 10, 2018The county addresses outdoor lighting standards in its zoning code. -
Taylor, MI, Code of Ordinances
Updated June 16, 2015The city addresses outdoor lighting in its zoning code in a 2009 ordinance based on dark-sky principles. -
Montgomery County, PA, Residential Office District: Creating a Transition to Residential Neighborhoods
2009This model ordinance provides a template to help cities create land use designations which serve as transitional buffers between more commercial and more residential zoning districts. -
Winter Haven, FL, Code of Ordinances
Updated March 2018The city’s unified development ordinance permits home occupations by right, subject to use-specific standards. -
Woodstock, GA, Code of Ordinances
Updated June 2019The city’s zoning code sets standards for senior living developments to promote aging in place. -
Edmonton, AB, Vision for an Age Friendly Edmonton Action Plan
Adopted Spring 2011The city’s functional plan for seniors includes innovative goals and a fund for non-profit innovation. -
Livable New York: Sustainable Communities for All Ages
August 2012This guide, part of the Livable New York project, is a comprehensive overview of age-friendly concepts and strategies for local officials. -
Huntington Woods, MI, Housing Options for an Aging Population
Adopted March 2016The city’s functional plan is written for a suburban community that is planning to encourage and enable aging in place. -
Aging in Place Technical Assistance Guide
2007This guide outlines the methods that public officials from local, county, regional, and state governments can use to create livable communities for older residents. -
Beyond 50.05—A Report to the Nation on Livable Communities: Creating Environments for Successful Aging
2005by: Andrew Kochera, Audrey Straight, Thomas GuterbockThis report evaluates the components of livable communities, focusing on community engagement, home and community features, and transportation and mobility. -
Montgomery County, PA, Transit-Oriented Development Model Ordinance
October 2021This model ordinance provides communities with a resource for encouraging development that takes advantages of transit access and helps increase transit ridership. -
Inclusive Healthy Places
2018by: Jennifer Gardner, Andrea Marpillero-Colomina, Larissa BegaultThis guide shares four principles and a healthy places framework that can help communities create conditions that support health. -
Understanding the Basics of Land Use Planning: Guide to Local Planning
2010by: Steve SandersThis guide presents a general-audience overview of the land-use planning system in California. -
Guide to Community Planning in Wisconsin
1999by: Brian OhmThis guide provides extensive general-audience information about local planning in Wisconsin. -
St. Cloud, MN, Code of Ordinances
The city's land development code address compatibility requirements for solar energy systems in historic districts. -
Tuscaloosa, AL, Code of Ordinances
Updated June 2019These regulations belong to the Active Transportation and Form-Based Zoning collections. -
Shared mobility and urban form impacts: a case study of peer-to-peer (P2P) carsharing in the US
Journal of Urban Design, 26(2): 141-158, 2019by: Susan Shaheen, Elliot Martin, Mikaela Hoffman-StapletonThis article explores peer-to-peer carsharing in the United States and its potential to change travel behaviors by encouraging transportation networks consisting of privately owned vehicles. -
Navigating New Mobility: Policy Approaches for Cities
October 2019by: Rebecca Steckler, AICPThis report explores the impacts of new mobility services on communities and the importance of strategies and regulations in ensuring that these services complement the existing transportation system and benefit the population. -
Smart Growth and the Transportation-Land Use Connection: What Does the Research Tell Us?
June 2002by: Susan HandyThis report investigates four common assumptions of the transportation – land use connection. -
The Connection Between Neighborhood Walkability and Life Longevity in a Midsized City
Focus, 13(1): 30-41, 2016by: William Riggs, AICP, John GilderbloomThis article investigates the connection between walkability and health, showing that walkable built environments are predictors of longevity. -
Density, Distribution and Costs
April 1970by: A.J. DiamondThis report advocates for preserving diversity in the housing stock and for expanding low-rise, high-density options in Toronto, Canada. -
An Empirical Study of the Efficacy of Mixed-Use Development: The Seattle Experience
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, August 22–26, 2011by: James DeLisle, Terry GrissomThis article considers how to evaluate the success of a mixed use development. -
Austin, TX, 2014 Bicycle Master Plan
Adopted November 2014This comprehensive plan element is a supplement to the 2012 Imagine Austin comprehensive plan and applies leading-edge thought to facilities across the entire network. -
Ten Urban Planning Principles Every Humanitarian Should Know
Urban Matters, November, 10, 2015by: Samer SalibaThis blog post links humanitarian efforts in urban areas with the core principles of urban planning. -
A Review Study on Urban Planning & Artificial Intelligence
International Journal of Soft Computing & Engineering, 1(5): 101–104, 2011by: Kamal JainThis article examines how artificial intelligence may induce changes in the process of urban planning. -
Artificial Intelligence and Smart Cities
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 45(1): 3-6, 2018by: Michael BattyThis article reviews the possibility of disruptions caused by artificial intelligence in the “smart city” of the future. -
Downtown Success Indicators: A Review of the Literature
August 2014by: Mary Edwards, FAICP, Manish Singh, AICP, Kathleen BrownThis report provides a synthesis and analysis of the existing literature related to successful downtowns. -
Broward County, FL, Resilient Shorelines
June 2020This fact sheet describes living shoreline options to protect coastal communities from flooding in Broward County, Florida, in alignment with a recent land use policy that aims to improve community resilience in tidally-influenced coastal areas. -
Model As-of-Right Zoning Bylaw: Allowing Use of Large-Scale Ground-Mounted Solar Photovoltaic Installations
December 2014This model bylaw from Massachusetts offers zoning standards to facilitate development of large-scale ground-mounted solar photovoltaic installations. -
Mendon, MA, Zoning By-Laws
Updated June 2020The town's zoning code defines and permits accessory and primary-use "solar photovoltaic facilities." -
Milwaukee, WI, Sustainability Plan
Adopted July 2013This functional plan discusses the challenges and successes of green building and presents several goals and targets. -
An Ordinance for a Conservation Subdivision
December 2000by: Brian Ohm, Carrie Hirsch, James LaGroThis model ordinance provides background information and a template to help communities regulate conservation subdivisions. -
Fishers, IN, Fishers 2040
Adopted June 2016The city’s comprehensive plan encourages the use and preservation of greenways, green infrastructure, and low-impact development (LID) in park space. -
Douglas County, CO, Comprehensive Master Plan 2040
Adopted August 2019The county’s comprehensive plan includes extensive hazard mitigation policy recommendations in its Environmental Quality section. -
Searching for the Good Plan: A Meta-Analysis of Plan Quality Studies
Journal of Planning Literature, 23(3): 227–240, 2009by: Philip Berke, David Godschalk, FAICPThis article discusses plan quality evaluation, an emerging methodology for assessing the quality of plans. -
Draft Comprehensive Plan Model Policies for Transit Oriented Development
2010by: Tampa Bay Area Regional Planning AuthorityThis model policy document is Appendix A in SMART Connect: Sarasota-Manatee Area Regional Transit Study by the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority Land Use Working Group. -
South Salt Lake, UT, Code of Ordinances
Updated October 2020The city's zoning ordinance permits solar utilities as conditional uses in all nonresidential districts; PUD regulations encourage solar panel use and solar-ready development. -
Salisbury, NC, Land Development Ordinance
Updated September 2020The city's land development ordinance's appendix A provides a regulatory framework for the East Innes Street Gateway Plan, a subarea plan intended to encourage and facilitate redevelopment of vacant and underutilized parcels. -
The End of the Strip?
Planning Commissioners Journal, 82, 2011by: Edward McMahonThis article explains the forces causing conventional car-oriented strip development to become less viable. -
Oak Harbor, OH, Code of Ordinances
Updated March 2020The village's zoning code permits roof-mounted solar energy systems in all districts subject to standards; ground-mounted and commercial solar energy systems require conditional use approval in all districts. -
Beyond the Basics: Best Practices in Local Mitigation Planning
September 2019This guide is designed to help communities develop local hazard mitigation plans.