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Smart Tech to Help Build Your City’s Digital Twin
APA’s Technology Division recommends datasets planners can use for these powerful scenario planning tools.by: Andrew Buck, AICP, David Wasserman, AICP March 21, 2024APA’s Technology Division recommends datasets planners can use for these powerful scenario planning tools. -
Henderson, NV, Development Code
Updated July 2019The city's development code belongs to the Group Housing, Marijuana-Related Uses, and Solar Energy collections. -
Louisville-Jefferson County, KY, Land Development Code
Updated July 2018This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation, Form-Based Zoning, Outdoor Lighting, and Short-Term Residential Rentals collections. -
Environmentally Sensitive Areas
Environmentally sensitive areas (ESAs) are environmental features that are susceptible to adverse impacts from new development. This collection catalogs resources that provide background, policy guidance, or examples of local plans and regulations aimed at protecting environmentally sensitive areas. -
Tactical Urbanism
The term tactical urbanism refers to any temporary, low-cost intervention in the built environment. This collection catalogs resources that provide background and policy guidance related to or examples of local programs and policies for temporary, low-cost interventions in the built environment. -
Savannah, GA, Code of Ordinances
Updated October 2019This regulation belongs to the Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Historic Preservation, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Birmingham, AL, Comprehensive Plan
Adopted October 2013This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities, Capital Improvements Programming, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, and Green Building collections. -
Lowell, MA, Sustainable Lowell 2025
Adopted 2013This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Built Environment and Health, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, Social Equity, and Solar Energy collections. -
Troy, MI, Zoning Ordinance
Updated March 2023These regulations belong to the Green Building, Solar Energy, Wind Energy, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
New Orleans, LA, Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance
Updated 2019This regulation belongs to the Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Food Trucks, Historic Preservation, Short-Term Residential Rentals, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Memphis-Shelby County, TN, Unified Development Code
Adopted August 2010This regulation belongs to the Outdoor Lighting, Urban Agriculture, Urban Livestock, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Portsmouth, VA, Code of Ordinances
Updated July 2019This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation, Green Building, Solar Energy, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Milwaukee, WI, Code of Ordinances
Updated November 2019These regulations belong to the Complete Streets, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, Solar Energy, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Rochester, NY, City Code
Updated July 2018The city's zoning code belongs to the Downtown Revitalization, Form-Based Zoning, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, and Solar Energy collections. -
Bloomington, MN, Code of Ordinances
Updated December 2019This regulation belongs to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Active Transportation, Affordable Housing Programs, Creative Placemaking, Green Building, and Housing Supply Planning collections. -
Seattle, WA, Seattle 2035
Updated December 2018This comprehensive plan belongs to the Affordable Housing Programs, Age-Friendly Communities, Creative Placemaking, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Housing Supply Planning, Neighborhood Planning, and Social Equity collections. -
Decatur, GA, Code of Ordinances
Updated December 2020These regulations belong to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Food Systems, Housing Supply Planning, Tree Preservation and the Urban Forest, Urban Agriculture, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Hailey, ID, Municipal Code
Updated October 2022This regulation belongs to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Green Building, Housing Supply Planning, Outdoor Lighting, Solar Energy, Tiny Homes and Micro Apartments, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Gainesville, FL, Code of Ordinances
Updated May 2022This regulation belongs to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Biophilic Planning, Green Building, Housing Supply Planning, Outdoor Lighting, Shared Mobility, and Wildland-Urban Interface collections. -
Completing the Streets
Zoning Practice — February 2013by: Carol Gould, AICP, Mike Morehouse February 01, 2013This issue of Zoning Practice looks at what it means to complete the streets and provides some examples of how communities are doing this. It then explores how zoning can be used as a means to help communities facilitate the complete streets process.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Portola Valley, CA, General Plan
The Sustainability, Land Use, and Housing elements of the town's general plan encourage the protection of solar access and the use of solar energy systems.Portola Valley, CA -
Milton, WI, Code of Ordinances
The city's zoning code provides supplemental regulations for solar energy systems and provides for solar access permits; the historic preservation ordinance provides review criteria for proposed solar energy installations.Milton, WI -
Albuquerque/Bernalillo County, NM, Comprehensive Plan
The Community Resource Management section of the plan discusses the importance of solar energy, and goals and policies for Land Use and Energy Management address solar energy use.Albuquerque, NM -
Mammoth Lakes, CA, Municipal Code
Updated November 1, 2017This regulation belongs to the Outdoor Lighting and Solar Energy collections. -
Ames, IA, Municipal Code
Updated March 2019These regulations belong to the Environmentally Sensitive Areas, and Solar Energy collections. -
Solano County, CA, General Plan
Updated May 2015The Resources element in the county's general plan includes several policies and implementation programs encouraging on-site solar energy use; the Land Use and Housing elements also address solar energy. -
Holyoke, MA, Code of Ordinances
Updated February 2020The city's zoning code permits accessory solar energy systems by right with a building permit in all districts and permits large-scale ground-mounted solar facilities by right in all districts with site plan review. -
Vail, CO, Town Code
Updated November 2019The town code provides regulations for scenic view protection and solar energy devices. The town’s zoning code also includes Hazard Regulations designed to reduce flood, geological, and wildfire hazard risks. -
Culver City, CA, Municipal Code
Updated June 2019This regulation belongs to the Green Building and Solar Energy collections. -
Caln, PA, Municipal Code
Adopted January 2019by: Township of Caln, PAThe township's municipal code permits accessory solar energy systems in all districts by right and allows primary-use systems as a conditional use in the institutional district with standards; it also provides for solar access protections. -
Boynton Beach, FL, Code of Ordinances
Updated September 2018The city's code of ordinances provides standards for various types of solar arrays and offers historic preservation requirements that guide solar panel placement on historic buildings. -
Bellingham, MA, Town Bylaws
Updated March 2019The town's bylaws permit large-scale ground-mounted solar system installations as-of-right in the industrial district and provides standards; accessory roof-mounted solar system installations are allowed in all districts. -
Harmony, NJ, Municipal Code
Updated December 2018by: Township of Harmony, NJThe town's zoning code permits small accessory solar energy systems by right in all districts except the historic district and provides conditional use regulations for commercial solar production systems. -
Dallas, OR, Development Code
Updated January 2019This regulation belongs to the Green Stormwater Infrastructure and Solar Energy collections. -
Del Mar, CA, Municipal Code
Updated December 2021by: City of Del Mar, CAThis regulation belongs to the Climate Change and Solar Energy collections. -
Las Vegas, NV, Unified Development Code
Updated October 2018These regulations belong to the Marijuana-Related Uses, Solar Energy, and Wind Energy collections. -
Colorado Springs, CO, Code of Ordinances
Updated January 2022The city’s planning, development, and building code belongs to the Biophilic Planning, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, and Short-Term Residential Rentals collections. -
Connecticut General Statutes
Updated January 2021These statutes belong to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Form-Based Zoning, Planning and Zoning Enabling Laws, and Transfer of Development Rights collections. -
Los Angeles County, CA, Code of Ordinances
Updated March 2022This regulation belongs to the Built Environment and Health, Food Systems, Food Trucks, Scenic View Protection, and Urban Heat Resilience collections. -
Oakland, CA, Code of Ordinances
2018The city’s codified ordinances belong to the Food Systems, Food Trucks, Micro-Apartments, and Transit-Oriented Development collections. -
Cedar Rapids, IA, Municipal Code
Updated January 2019This regulation belongs to the Historic Preservation, Solar Energy, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Northampton Township (Bucks County), PA, Code of Ordinances
Updated September 2022The township's zoning code permits accessory solar energy systems by right in compliance with standards and provides for civil solar access protections. -
Shreveport-Caddo, LA, Master Plan 2030: Great Expectations
Adopted December 2010This city and parish's comprehensive plan belongs to the Capital Improvements Programming, Community Visioning, and Comprehensive Planning collections. -
Carlsbad, CA, Municipal Code
Updated May 2019This regulation belongs to the Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Housing Supply Planning, Inclusionary Housing, and Solar Energy collections. -
Houston, TX, Code of Ordinances
Updated May 2024This regulation belongs to the Brownfields Redevelopment, Climate Change, Green Building, Housing Supply Planning, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
Memphis, TN, Memphis 3.0
Adopted December 2019This comprehensive plan belongs to the Autonomous Vehicles, Climate Change, Comprehensive Planning, and Housing Supply Planning collections. -
Tempe, AZ, City Code
Updated July 2021These regulations belong to the Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, Solar Energy, and Urban Agriculture collections. -
Fargo, ND, Municipal Code
Updated January 2020This regulation belongs to the Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, Small Wireless Facilities and Wireless Facilities in the ROW, and Solar Energy collections.