Ask the Author Archive

March 2008
Robert Parker: A National Survey of Development Standards and the Impact on Housing Affordability"

February 2008
Elisabeth Holler: "Monitoring Local Land Markets"

January 2008
Tom Daniels: "Zoning for Successful Transferable Development Rights Programs"

December 2007
Leslie Pollock and Arista Strungys: "Why Do Site Plan Review?"

November 2007
Jeff Hirt and Joe Sellars: "Goodbye Main Street?"

August 2007
Gerrit-Jan Knaap and Megan Rhodes: "Is Zoning a Barrier to Multifamily Housing?"

July 2007
Daniel R. Mandelker: "Planned Unit Developments and Master Planned Communities: Review and Approval Processes"

May 2007
John R. Nolon: "The Quiet Revolution in Training Citizen Planners"

March 2007
Dwight Merriam, FAICP: "Ozzie and Harriet Don't Live Here Anymore: Time to Redefine Family"

February 2007
Rebecca Retzlaff, AICP: "Habitat Loss: Global Crisis with a Local Solution"

January 2007
Jeffrey Lubell: "Zoning to Expand Affordable Housing"

December 2006
Lisa Nisenson: "Stormwater Regulation and Urban Design"

November 2006
Eric Damian Kelly, FAICP, and Connie Cooper, FAICP: "Regulating Sex Businesses"

September 2006
S. Mark White: "Development Codes for Built Out Communities"

August 2006
Christopher Duerksen: "Got Trees?"

June 2006
Gail Easley, FAICP: "Conditional Uses: Using Discretion, Hoping for Certainty"

May 2006
Jennifer Evans-Cowley, AICP: "Zoning for Universal Design and Visitability"

April 2006
David R. Godschalk, FAICP: "Buildout Analysis: A Valuable Planning and Hazard Mitigation Tool"

March 2006
Tony Smith, AICP, and Steve B. Friedman, AICP: "Market Analysis: A Zoning Necessity"

February 2006
Donald Shoup, FAICP: "The Practice of Parking Requirements"

January 2006
Jennifer Evans-Cowley, AICP: "Regulatory Strategies for Big Boxes"

December 2005
Brian Ohm: "Let the Courts Guide You: Planning and Zoning Consistency"

November 2005
Erin Sass Eastman and Jerry Anderson: "Reducing Bias on Zoning Boards"

October 2005
S. Mark White, AICP: "Classifying and Defining Uses and Building Forms: Land-Use Coding for Zoning Regulations"

July 2005
Arthur Ientilucci, AICP: "Monitoring and Evaluating a Zoning Code"

February 2005
James van Hemert: "The Development Review Process: A Means to a Noble and Greater End"

January 2005
Steve Price: "Visualizing Change: Photo-reimaging America's Built Landscape"

December 2004
Stuart Meck and Marya Morris: "Formatting and Writing the Staff Report"

November 2004
Nicholas J. Brunick: "Inclusionary Housing, Part II: Proven Success in Large Cities"

October 2004
Nicholas J. Brunick: "The Inclusionary Housing Debate"

September 2004
Hank Dittmar and Ellen Greenberg, AICP: Two articles on transit oriented development

August 2004
David L. Crawford: "Bright Days, Dark Nights: Regulating Light"

June 2004
David Rouse and Nancy Zobl: "Form-Based Development Codes"

June 2004
Cynthia Bowen: "Landscape Ordinances: To Define and Protect"

April 2004
Rebecca Retzlaff: "Agritourism Zoning Down on the Farm"

January 2004
Harvey S. Moskowitz and Carl Lindbloom: "Why Definitions"

December 2003
James M. "Mike" Davis: "Military Installations Under Pressure from Urban Sprawl"

November 2003
Garner Stoll: "Be Unique: A Model for Anti-Monotony in Residential Development"

September 2003
Lynn M. Ross: "Zoning Affordability: The Challenges of Inclusionary Housing"

August 2003
John Gann: "Sign Control in Cuyahoga Falls: Regulating Outside the Box"

July 2003
Jim Schwab and Michael S. Giaimo: "Faith-Based Planned Developments: Sorting Out the Uses"

June 2003
Lora Lucero: "Ballot-Box Zoning: Good Planning or Vigilantism?"

May 2003
Arthur Ientilucci: "Pigs in the Parlor or Diamonds in the Rough? A New Vision for Nonconformity Regulation"

April 2003
Stephen Svete: "Combating 'Sameness' with a Formula Business Ordinance"

March 2003
Mark Wyckoff: "Planning and Zoning for Wind Power Facilities"

February 2003
Jason Wittenberg: "Parking Standards in the Zoning Code"

January 2003
Barry Hogue: "Unified Development Ordinances: A Coordinated Approach to Development Regulations"

December 2002
John Bredin: "Common Problems with Zoning Ordinances"

November 2002
Shannon Armstrong: "GIS at Work in the Building and Zoning Department"

September 2002
Jason Wittenberg: "Garages: Not Just for Cars Anymore"

June 2002
Craig Raborn: "Coping with Colleges: How Communities Address the Problems of Students Living Off-Campus"

January 2002
Willa Pettygrove: "Child Care in Residential Zones"

December 2001
David Rouse, Nancy Zobl, Graciela Caviccchia: "Beyond Euclid"