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Conservation Subdivision Design Handbook
2006This guide explores how conservation design can protect open space while keeping the density of a conventional subdivision design. -
Albany, NY, Albany 2030
Adopted April 2012This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities, Built Environment and Health, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, Food Systems, Social Equity, and Solar Energy collections. -
Rock Island, IL, Comprehensive Plan
Adopted April 2014This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Built Environment and Health, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, Food Systems, and Solar Energy collections. -
Fort Collins, CO, City Plan
Adopted April 2019The city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities, Capital Improvements Programming, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, Social Equity, and Solar Energy collections. -
Hillsboro, OR, Hillsboro 2020 Vision & Action Plan
2010Updated on a regular basis by the citizen-led Vision Implementation Committee, the city's vision and accompanying action plan was most recently approved by the city council in 2010. -
Corvallis, OR, The Corvallis 2020 Vision Statement
1998The city's detailed vision statement was created to inform a 2000 update of the comprehensive plan and was adopted by the city council. -
Lynnwood, WA, Lynnwood Moving Forward: Our Community Vision
2009The city's vision statement was developed through a 2007–2009 visioning process that gathered more than 4,000 public comments. -
Redlands, CA, A Strategic Plan for the Redlands General Plan Update: Report on Redlands Community Vision
2006by: Dyett & BhatiaThe city's community visioning process was used to identify key themes for the general plan update. -
Portage County, WI, A Vision for the Future of Urban Portage County
2002This vision statement for the "urban areas" of Portage County was developed through several sets of workshops by community residents. -
Equity in Capital Improvement Planning Processes
May 2021This briefing paper highlights opportunities to promote equity through capital planning processes. -
Dig It! A Practical Toolkit: How Local Governments Can Support Community Gardens
2009by: Herb BaboletThis toolkit from British Columbia's Ministry of Community Development provides guidance on how local governments can support community gardens. -
A Conflict Management Tool for Conservation Agencies
Journal of Applied Ecology, Vol. 53, Issue 3, January 2016by: Juliette Young, Des Thompson, Peter Moore, Alastair MacGugan, Allan Watt, Stephen RedpathThis article discusses the creation of a transdisciplinary decision-making tool that utilizes both empirical data and theory to combat natural resource conflicts. -
Breakthrough Collaboration: What Is It and How Do We Help Make It Happen
August 2019by: David Fairman, Stacie SmithThis article discusses what breakthrough collaboration is and how you can utilize the tool to help manage group conflict. -
Agnostic Planning Theory Revisited: The Planner’s Role in Dealing With Conflict
Planning Theory, Vol. 20, Issue 2, September 2020by: Manfred KuhnThis article discusses planning with conflict and its views on conflict as an inherent structure to cultivate power in democracies. -
Community Engagement When Trust Is Low
July 2023by: Elizabeth CooperThis article discusses how trust and community engagement go together and are the basis of conflict management. -
CBI’s Mutual Gains Approach to Negotiation
2023This article discusses a mutual gains approach to negotiate better outcomes when conflict arises. -
Facilitation – The Core Competency Needed In Conflict Resolution
July 2002by: Joan KnutsonThis article discusses facilitation as the primary skill used in conflict resolution and why it is required for planners. -
Land in Conflict: How Planners Can Better Manage an Increasingly Contentious Public Process
June 2013by: Sean Nolon, Ona Ferguson, Patrick FieldThis blog post discusses how land use conflicts often lead to unsatisfying results and describes how mutual gains may be the solution. -
Unearthing The Political: Differences, Conflicts And Power In Participatory Urban Design
Journal of Urban Design, Vol. 25, Issue 1, October 2019by: Camilo CalderonThis article covers how and why the ideas of participation and participatory methods and processes in urban design. -
Understanding and Addressing Conflict: Extension Agents as Facilitators
June 2017by: Marina Denny, Shawn GardnerThis article discusses both aspects of conflict with understanding and addressing the conflict as facilitators. -
A Councilor’s Workbook on Facilitation and Conflict Resolution
October 2017This guide focuses primarily on local governmental employees and how they can use and implement facilitation and conflict resolution techniques. -
Raleigh, NC, 2030 Comprehensive Plan
Updated November 2019This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Built Environment and Health, Capital Improvements Programming, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, Creative Placemaking, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Historic Preservation, Neighborhood Planning, Outdoor Lighting, and Social Equity collections. -
San Jose, CA, Envision San José 2040
Updated September 2023This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities, Capital Improvements Programming, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, and Urban Agriculture collections. -
Oak Park, IL, Envision Oak Park
Adopted September 2014This village's comprehensive plan belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities, Built Environment and Health, Community Visioning, and Comprehensive Planning collections. -
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. -
Norfolk, VA, PlaNorfolk 2030
Updated August 2022This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Climate Change, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, and Hazard Mitigation collections. -
Lincoln-Lancaster County, NE, LPlan 2040
Adopted December 2016This city and county's comprehensive plan belongs to the Capital Improvements Programming, Community Visioning, and Comprehensive Planning collections. -
Pagosa Springs, CO, Comprehensive Plan
April 2018The town's comprehensive plan includes a broad vision statement and 13 supporting themes, corresponding to plan elements. -
Columbia, MO, Imagine Columbia's Future: Community Vision and Action Plan
2007The city embarked upon a citizen-driven visioning process to create its community vision, adopted in 2007. -
Carlsbad, CA, Envision Carlsbad: Carlsbad Community Vision
2009The city engaged in an intensive two-year process called Envision Carlsbad to develop a vision statement, finalized in 2010. -
Antioch, IL, Vision Statement
n.d.The Antioch Community Vision was developed as a principle component of the village's first strategic plan. -
Planning In The Face of Conflict: Negotiation And Mediation Strategies In Local Land Use Regulation
Volume 53, Issue 3, 1983by: John ForesterThis article discusses why planners are not only negotiators but also mediators in land use regulation conflict. -
How Cities Are Adapting to the Mobility Revolution
January 2020by: David MorrisThis audio recording discusses how innovative technologies change the mobility landscape for cities and how cities need to rethink the use of public space to allow for shared mobility services. -
Principles to Plan, Design, & Implement Innovative Mobility Pilot Project
April 2023This guide details and supports technical assistance for mobility projects funded by FTA research that outlines nine primary principles. -
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. -
Olathe, KS, Plan Olathe
Adopted 2010This city's comprehensive plan includes an overall vision statement and additional vision statements for each of its 10 elements, as well as a policy and action promoting solar and alternative energy development. -
Boise, ID, Blueprint Boise
Updated June 2018This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Active Transportation, Community Visioning, Comprehensive Planning, Hazard Mitigation, and Neighborhood Planning collections. -
Jackson/Teton County, WY, Comprehensive Plan
Adopted April 2012This joint town-county's comprehensive plan includes a three-part vision statement, as well as a goal and several policies encouraging use of solar energy resources. -
Planning for the Future: A Handbook on Community Visioning
Third Edition, 2006This guidebook is designed to help Pennsylvania communities plan their futures through a four-workshop process. -
Building Our Future: a Guide to Community Visioning
2000by: Gary Green, Anna Haines, Stephen HalebskyThis guidebook from University of Wisconsin Extension provides an extensive overview of the community visioning process. -
The New Oregon Model: Envision – Plan – Achieve
Journal of Futures Studies, 15(2): 163–166, November 2010by: Steven AmesThis brief article provides an overview of the visioning process and describes the five-part "Oregon model" process of visioning. -
Community Visioning Handbook: How to Imagine – and Create – a Better Future
2003This guide book by the Maine State Planning Office guides communities step-by-step through a process involving three preparatory planning meetings and a one-day visioning session. -
St. Louis County, MO, Residential Tiny Houses Checklist & Guide
February 2023This fact sheet explains how St. Louis County, MO, regulates tiny houses. -
Brownfields Revitalization Plan
November 2018This fact sheet outlines the basics of creating a plan for brownfield redevelopment. -
The Myth of Social Capital in Community Development
Housing Policy Debate, 12(4): 781-806, 2001by: James DefilippisThis article critiques Robert Putnam’s interpretation of social capital, which is foundational for much community development practice today. -
Defusing Conflict With Strong Reflection
July 2023by: Dorit Price-LevineThis article discusses how reflection on conflict can create conflict resolution solutions in public meetings. -
Land Use Problems and Conflicts: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions
2005by: Stephan Goetz, James Shortle, John BergstromThis book identifies and analyzes both land use problems and conflicts and the solutions that address these. -
The Handbook of Conflict Resolution
Second Edition, 2006by: Morton Deutsch, Peter Coleman, Eric MarcusThis book analyzes conflict resolution at both the interpersonal level but also dives into the psychological side of the concept. -
Getting the Most Out of Public Hearings: Ideas to Improve Public Involvement
2005This guide lays out how and why public hearings are not only necessary but also beneficial to the planning and local government process. -
Connected & Directed: A Guide For Managing Conflict In the Participatory Process
2023by: Rosanne Lubeck, Stephanie FuentesThis guide puts the participatory process as the answer to managing conflict in both planning and in general.