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Smart Planning Our Smart Cities: A Best Practices Guide for Building Our Future Cities
June 2018This guide is designed to help Canadian cities develop and implement smart city master plans. -
Bucks County, PA, EV Charging Station Best Practices and Standards
March 2023by: Evan StoneThis guide provides the best practices and standards for municipalities to both implement and plan for future public electric vehicle charging stations. -
Bucks County, PA, EV Charging Station Use Model Ordinance
December 2023by: Evan StoneThis guide provides recommendations and model ordinance provisions to ensure that Electric Vehicle terms and standards are met by local governments. -
Planning and Zoning Guidance for Electric Vehicle Charger Deployment
August 2023This guide provides recommendations to help cities, towns, and counties plan and deploy electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. -
APA's Planner Perspectives on Climate Report
March 2024by: Jessi Eidbo, AICP, Robert McHaney, AICP, CTP, Em Hall, Alexander Brown, Karla Ebenbach, AICP, Jessica Young, Caroline Dwyer, AICPThis report details the collection of responses and perspectives from a multi-division, and APA-wide survey on climate that totaled 770 responses from practicing professionals. -
Shared Scooter Parking: The Role of Parking Density and Land Use in Compliance and Demand
March 2024by: Anne Brown, Nicholas Klein, Calvin Thigpen, Brandon Haydu, AICP, Sian MengThis report details the intersection and provide guidance on how scooters, scooter parking, parking density, and land use patterns correlate to parking compliance and demand. -
Issaquah, WA, Comprehensive Plan
Updated 2019This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Capital Improvements Programming, Comprehensive Planning, and Food Systems collections. -
Des Moines, IA, Plan DSM: Creating Our Tomorrow
Updated May 2022This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Capital Improvements Programming and Comprehensive Planning collections. -
Cincinnati, OH, Plan Cincinnati
Adopted November 2012This comprehensive plan belongs to the Built Environment and Health and Form-Based Zoning collections. -
Tampa, FL, 2040 Comprehensive Plan: Imagine 2040
Updated April 2023This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Capital Improvements Programming and Comprehensive Planning collections. -
Minnesota Connected and Automated Vehicle Strategic Plan
July 2019This functional plan provides information to help guide connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) programs in the state of Minnesota. -
Longmont, CO, Envision Longmont Multimodal and Comprehensive Plan
Adopted June 2016This city's comprehensive plan achieved Silver-level recognition in APA's Comprehensive Plan Standards for Sustaining Places Recognition Program Pilot in 2016, and addresses food systems issues. -
Plant City, FL, Comprehensive Plan: Imagine 2040
Updated April 2023This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Capital Improvements Programming and Comprehensive Planning collections. -
Fernandina Beach, FL, 2030 Comprehensive Plan
Updated July 2022This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Capital Improvements Programming and Comprehensive Planning collections. -
Monroe, WI, 2015–2035 Comprehensive Plan
Adopted 2016This city's comprehensive plan achieved Bronze-level recognition in APA's Comprehensive Plan Standards for Sustaining Places Recognition Program Pilot in 2016. -
Richmond, VA, Richmond 300: A Guide for Growth
Adopted December 2020This comprehensive plan belongs to the Biophilic Planning, Climate Change, Comprehensive Planning, Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, and Social Equity collections. -
Twentieth Century Land Use Planning: A Stalwart Family Tree
Journal of the American Planning Association, 80(1): 365-385 , 2007by: Edward Kaiser, David GodschalkThis article discusses the history of the comprehensive plan in the 20th century, focusing on its evolution since the 1950s. -
Tucson, AZ, Plan Tucson
Adopted November 2013This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Built Environment and Health, Climate Change, Comprehensive Planning, and Urban Heat Resilience collections. -
General Plan Evaluation Criteria: An Approach to Making Better Plans
Journal of the American Planning Association, 63(3): 329-344, 2007by: William Baer, AICPThis article notes the importance of developing methods of and criteria for evaluating comprehensive plans and offers a list of suggested evaluation criteria to help make plans better. -
Abilene, TX, Super Neighborhood Plan Workbook
2004by: City of Abilene Plng & Dev ServicesThis guide is designed to help neighborhood organizations participate in the city’s neighborhood planning program. -
Autonomous Vehicles: A Policy Preparation Guide
April 2017This guide provides an overview of autonomous vehicle (AV) technology and answers frequently asked questions for city leaders around AV. -
Plano, TX, Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Updated 2021This city's comprehensive plan, which received APA's 2017 Daniel Burnham Award for a Comprehensive Plan, was adopted in 2015 and achieved Silver-level recognition in APA's Comprehensive Plan Standards for Sustaining Places Recognition Program Pilot in 2016. -
Preparing a Nation for Autonomous Vehicles: Opportunities, Barriers and Policy Recommendations
October 2013by: Daniel Fagnant, Kara KockelmanThis report explores the feasible aspects of AVs and discusses their potential impacts on the transportation system. -
Zoning in on Transit-Oriented Development
September 2023by: Ahmed El-geneidy, Aryana Soliz, Lancelot Rodrigue, Christian Peaker, Isabelle BernardThis article analyzes the pathways in which municipalities have changed their land use regulations in Montreal. -
Review of Planning, Land Use, and Zoning Barriers to the Construction of Transit-Oriented Developments in the United States
Case Studies on Transport Policy, Volume 12, June 2023by: Shishir Mathur, Aaron Gatdula, AICPThis article analyzes and conducts a literature review along with a national survey of transit agencies and municipalities and the barriers that don't allow for transit oriented development. -
Tranit-Oriented Development and Gentrification: A Systematic Review
July 2023by: Miguel Paderio, Ana Louro, Nuno CostaThe article analyzes concerns that TOD induces gentrification and potential displacement of low income communities. -
The Role of Equitable Transit-Oriented Development in Promoting Economic Opportuntiy
2017by: Brett BarkleyThis article discusses the existence of the debate around transit accessibility and economic viability and the connection of finding and maintaining a good-paying job. -
Promoting Transit-Oriented Communities in Los Angeles
October 2021The article discusses the transit oriented community guidelines and how these guidelines pertain to housing development within a half-mile radius. -
Los Angeles' Housing Crisis and Local Planning Responses: An Evaluation of Inclusionary Zoning and the Transit-Oriented Communities Plan as Policy Solutions in Los Angeles
Cityscape Volume 23, Number 1, 2021by: Richard Green, Linna Zhu, Evgeny Burinskiy, Jorge De la Roca, Marlon BoarnetThis article discusses the housing crisis facing Los Angeles and how city officials and voters implemented inclusionary zoning programs around Transit Oriented Communities. -
Kellogg, MN, Municipal Code
Updated September 2020by: City of Kellogg, MNThe city's zoning code permits solar energy systems in all districts subject to standards, and establishes a solar access right within a defined space on each residential lot. -
Influence of Transit Station Proximity on Demographic Change Including Displacement and Gentrification with Implications for Transit and Land Use Planning After the COVID-19 Pandemic
January 2023by: Robert Hibberd, Arthur NelsonThis article analyzes the validity of the correlation of transit oriented development and its main selling point of attracting people and household to live near and around stops. -
How to Implement Transit-Oriented Development
august 2021by: C40 Knowledge Hub, C40 Cities Climate Leadership GroupThis article discusses how cities and practitioners can implement and monitor transit oriented development projects. -
Exploring the Cross-Sectional Association Between Transit-Oriented Development Zoning and Active Travel and Transit Usage in the United State, 2010-2014
June 2016by: Julien Leider, Jamie Chriqui, Emily ThrunThis article analyzes the zoning codes that promote pedestrian-friendly areas and allow for increase access to public transportation. -
Encouraging Transit-Oriented Development
2023by: Vicki Been, Alex Jonlin, Noah KazisThis briefing paper talks about how state legislature has potential legislation that would require denser housing to be developed around transit station. -
Best Practices For TOD Zoning
October 2023This case study looks at the best practices for TOD zoning that promote increased density, mix of uses, parking, and building designs to promote walking. -
The City of Chicago Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (ETOD) Policy Plan
June 2021This functional plan discusses the City of Chicago's plan around Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (ETOD) and their push to implement plans for South and West sides of Chicago. -
Spokane, WA, South Logan TOD Plan
January 2024The City of Spokane after implementing their first Bus Rapid Transit Route in 2023 began to plan for transit oriented development in their South Logan neighborhood. -
Raleigh, NC, Equitable Development Around Transit
April 2024This functional plan details Raleigh's plan to implement development around the cities first Bus Rapid Transit. -
PRT Transit-Oriented Development Action Plan
2023This functional plan was created to promote a transit oriented action plan that strives to create policies and guidelines for equitable and sustainable development. -
Transit Oriented Communities Study
2023This functional plan presents a transit oriented study around enacting transit oriented communities outlining guiding documents and practices. -
Morrisville, NC, Transit Oriented Development
2021This function plan is a continuation of the Town of Morrisville's 2021 Land Use plan that outlined specific transit oriented development sites that were broken into three different phases. -
Bellevue, WA, City Code
2017The city's land-use code regulates developments near environmentally sensitive areas, installation of wireless facilities in the public right-of-way, and transit oriented development. -
Denver, CO, Transit Oriented Development Strategic Plan
2014This plan presents a typology of station areas in Denver and includes policy recommendations to support transit-oriented development (TOD) in each station area. -
Metro [Los Angeles County, CA] Transit Oriented Communities Implementation Plan
October 2020This functional plan outlines how Los Angeles County will help communities thrive with the integration of Transit Oriented Communities with policies, focus on equity, and relationships with other Metro plans. -
A Guide To Community-Driven Transit Oriented Development Planning
February 2021This guide details the efforts of local non-profits and their efforts to redevelop the Rolland Curtis Gardens which is a 48 unit affordable housing development. -
Transit Supportive Development Strategies Briefing Guide
May 2021This guide outlines what transit oriented development is, what does it mean for towns, and why its important for cities to implement. -
Equity Forum: Advancing Equitable Transit-Oriented Development
January 2023by: Iman MekonenThis online training details a forum directed towards Equitable Transit Oriented Development (ETOD) wherein they discussed how to change the system in the DC Region. -
Montgomery County, PA, Transit-Oriented Development Model Ordinance
October 2021This model details why we should encourage transit oriented development, and the TOD trends that are taking place in Montgomery County, such as land development activity, and transit expansion efforts. -
Lehi, UT, Development Code
January 2015This regulations purpose is to codify and promote TOD zones (§38) which are described as self sustaining, walkable neighborhoods where residents, walk, bike, and have access to mass transit. -
Transit-Oriented Development and Zoning in Cities with High-Frequency Transit
June 2023This report details the examination of transit oriented development development and the policy and zoning codes in the Twin Cities that have current or planned high-frequency transit.