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Dallas, NC, Code of Ordinances
2017The town's animal code was amended in 2013, 2016, and 2017 to address urban beekeeping. -
Dade City, FL, Code of Ordinances
2017The city's animal code was amended in 2012 to allow the keeping of hens within the city limits. -
Montpelier, VT, Master Plan 2010
Adopted September 2015This city's comprehensive plan belongs to the Comprehensive Planning and Food Systems collections. -
Columbia, SC, Code of Ordinances
2017The city’s zoning code defines and regulates food trucks as a distinct use. -
The Constellation of Plans: Towards a New Structure of Comprehensive Plans in US Cities
Land 2022; October 2022by: Christine Quattro, Thomas DanielsThis article details how US cities are structuring their comprehensive plans around smaller neighborhoods, special topic, and sub plans to greater reach/expand the scope of their focus. -
Implementing Creative Placemaking in Real Estate
2016This factsheet focuses on the relationship between creative placemaking and real estate. -
West Chicago, IL, Adelante West Chicago Forward
Adopted 2021The city’s comprehensive plan was adopted on April 2021, organizes its core outcomes in 3 main pillars and 14 sub sections. -
Colorado Department of Local Affairs: Comprehensive Plans
Community Development and PlanningThis web page, maintained by the Colorado Department of Local Affairs: Division of Local Government details examples of both County and Municipal plan samples from selected for different attributes. -
Wake County, NC, PLANWake
Adopted April 2021The county’s comprehensive plan was adopted on April 2021, organizes its core outcomes in 3 main pillars. -
Maine Department of Agriculture, Conversation & Forestry: Comprehensive Plans
Municipal Planning Assistance ProgramThis web page provides links to local comprehensive plans in Maine. -
The Future of the Comprehensive Plan
Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy; Volume 5; Issue 1; 2022by: David RouseThis article explores how comprehensive plans will need to evolve in response to broad social, environmental, technological, and economic trends. -
Hawaii Office of Planning and Sustainabile Development: Hawaii State Planning Act
Hawaii State Planning ActThis web page, maintained by the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, details the State Plan and Statewide Planning System. -
What Are Comprehensive Plans?
Planopedia; April 2020This article provides a brief overview of the history, scope, and function of comprehensive plans in the U.S. -
The Case for Climate-Informed Zoning: A Study of Fiscal Impact in Norfolk, VA
June 2023by: Katherine Burgess, Michael Rodriguez, Jordan Howard, Jared Klukas, Megan WrightThis article belongs to the Climate Change and Hazard Mitigation collections -
Cool Walkability Planning
June 2023by: Todd LitmanThis report belongs to the Active Transportation, and Urban Heat Resilience collections. -
Divided by Design
Transportation for America; July 2023This report details how low income communities and communities of color have historically and continue to be disproportionately affected by transportation design and implementation. -
Upward Mobility Framework
2023This website details a framework and methodology on how to boost upward mobility for local communities. -
Green Infrastructure & Economic Development
March 2013by: Brendan Mcewen, Tara Aubuchon, Harriette CrawfordThis report explores the use of green infrastructure as an economic development strategy. -
Phoenix, AZ, Municipal Code
Updated April 2019This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation, Food Trucks, Solar Energy, and Transit-Oriented Development collections. -
North Kingstown, RI, Revised Ordinances
Updated August 2021These regulations belong to the Solar Energy and Urban Agriculture collections. -
Arvada, CO, Municipal Code
Updated November 2021The city's codified ordinances address urban agriculture. -
Wauwatosa, WI, Municipal Code
Updated September 2021This regulation belongs to the Grayfields Reuse and Redevelopment, Solar Energy, Urban Agriculture, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Hoboken, NJ, Municipal Code
Updated December 2020These regulations belong to the Food Trucks and Solar Energy collections. -
Huntsville, AL, Code of Ordinances
Updated September 2020These regulations belong to the Food Trucks and Solar Energy collections. -
Crested Butte, CO, Municipal Code
Updated April 2019This regulation belongs to the Food Trucks and Solar Energy collections. -
East Stroudsburg, PA, Municipal Code
Updated August 2019This regulation belongs to the Solar Energy and Urban Agriculture collections. -
Marion County, OR, County Code
Updated August 2020The county's zoning code regulates three categories of agritourism uses and addresses accessory solar energy systems and solar PV power generating facilities. -
Richmond, CA, General Plan 2030
Adopted April 2012This comprehensive plan belongs to the Built Environment and Health, Solar Energy, and Urban Agriculture collections. -
Marin County, CA, Countywide Plan
Adopted 2007, amended through 2013The countywide plan includes policies that promote food systems and solar energy. -
Dunwoody, GA, Code of Ordinances
Updated November 2021This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation, Solar Energy, and Urban Agriculture collections. -
Guilford County, NC, Development Ordinance
Updated June 2015This regulation belongs to the Agritourism and Solar Energy collections. -
Loudoun County, VA, Zoning Ordinance
2018The county's zoning ordinance allows agritourism uses and permits solar panels as accessory uses in residential districts. -
Butte County, CA, Zoning Ordinance
Updated July 2021This regulation belongs to the Agritourism, Farmland Protection, and Solar Energy collections. -
Greenville, MI, Code of Ordinances
Updated July 2021This regulation belongs to the Solar Energy and Urban Agriculture collections. -
Hillsborough County, FL, Comprehensive Plan
Adopted August 2008The Future Land Use Element in the county's comprehensive plan establishes a future land use category for renewable energy production. -
St. Petersburg, FL, Code of Ordinances
Updated November 2021This regulation belongs to the Food Trucks, Transfer of Development Rights, Urban Agriculture, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Ypsilanti, MI, Code of Ordinances
Updated August 2020This regulation belongs to the Marijuana-Related Uses and Urban Agriculture collections. -
Leon County, FL, Code of Ordinances
Updated September 2021This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, and Urban Agriculture collections. -
Louisville, CO, Code of Ordinances
2017The city’s zoning code permits multiple medical- and recreational-marijuana-related uses either by right or with a discretionary use permit, subject to use-specific standards. -
Springfield, MO, Code of Ordinances
Updated October 2021This regulation belongs to the Tiny Houses and Micro-Apartments and Urban Agriculture collections. -
Naperville, IL, Code of Ordinances
2017The city's zoning ordinance addresses accessory solar energy systems; the animal control ordinance addresses fowl and livestock as well as beekeeping. -
Will County, IL, Code of Ordinances
2017The county's zoning code addresses solar energy systems and animal keeping in residential districts. -
Land Preservation Under the Transfer of Development Rights Program
Journal of the American Planning Association, 87(2): 228-238, 2021by: Li FangThis article examines the effectiveness of transfer of development rights (TDR) programs. -
Estimates of Transaction Costs in Transfer of Development Rights Programs
Journal of the American Planning Association, 84(1): 61-75, 2018by: Sina Shahab, Peter Clinch, Eoin O'NeillThis article examines the transaction costs associated with transfer of development rights (TDR) programs in an attempt to understand the impact of these costs on landowners' participation in farmland preservation programs. -
Targeting Spending for Land Conservation: An Evaluation of Maryland's Rural Legacy Program
Journal of the American Planning Association, 78(1): 34-52, 2012by: Rebecca Lewis, Gerrit KnaapThis article examines the performance of the Rural Legacy Areas program in Maryland, a targeted preservation effort to address urban sprawl in rural areas. -
Tompkins County, NY, Agriculture and Farmland Protection Plan
Updated June 2015This functional plan contains actions aimed at supporting the agricultural sector within the jurisdiction. -
Berkeley County, WV, A Quick Guide to Conservation Easements
2021This guide provides an overview of conservation easements as tools to help protect farmland. -
Pennsylvania Agricultural Resources Evaluation Handbook
March 2016This guide presents actions that can help transportation planners and other decision-makers identify resources throughout the several phases of transportation projects to avoid or minimize the impacts on agricultural resources. -
Waukesha County, WI, A Comprehensive Development Plan for Waukesha County
Updated July 2011This county's comprehensive plan contains an appendix with the county's farmland preservation plan. -
Indiana Model Agricultural Zoning Ordinances
November 2014by: Indiana Land Resources CouncilThis compendium of model ordinances sought to offer guidance to counties wanting to establish or update their zoning ordinances to include strategies to minimize conflicts between agricultural activities and non-agricultural uses.