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Understanding Planned Unit Development

Have you read the latest PAS QuickNotes? It will help your planning commission better understand how planned unit development provisions can offer an alternative to conventional lot-by-lot development while advancing smart growth and sustainability principles. Also, keep an eye out for next month's edition, which will discuss low impact development.

PAS Quicknotes

Yikes! There's a Tourist in Town:
Guidance for Local Planners

Have you read the latest PAS Memo? It focuses on local government's role in tourism planning and suggests tools and strategies for sustainable tourism development. Also, keep an eye out for next month's issue, which will discuss community visioning and corridor planning.

PAS Memo

Celebrating 60 Years of Research and PAS

It's been 60 years since the publication of the first PAS Report. APA's Research Department and Planning Advisory Service are honoring this important milestone by posting a series of early PAS Reports online, one per month, through March 2010.

This month's reprint is the January 1952 report The Special District: A New Zoning Development, providing a peek at a cutting-edge zoning development of the early 1950s. These special subcategories of conventional zoning districts began to break down the "airtight" tripartite divisions of residential, commercial, and industrial use.

Read PAS Report No. 34

See the whole series of early reports available online

APA Library

The APA Library is home to a specialized collection of more than 4,500 books on planning and related topics. We also maintain complete collections of APA serial publications, including JAPA, Planning, and various division newsletters.

Learn more and search the catalog

The library welcomes visitors at its Chicago location. Please contact the librarian at library@planning.org to schedule a tour or research appointment.

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