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A Citizen’s Guide to the Armstrong County, PA, Subdivision and Land Development
Updated February 2019This guide introduces and defines the subdivision and land development ordinance in a question-and-answer format. -
Addressing the Sustainability Gap in the Development Review Process
September 2021by: Michael OrangeThis guide belongs to the Climate Change, Green Building, and Improving Development Review collections. -
Fort Collins, CO, Development Review Guide
2017This comprehensive, user-friendly online development review guide was one outcome of a development review audit process. -
Howard County, MD, Development Process and Procedures
2017The county planning and zoning department offers a series of process explanation documents on its website. -
San Luis Obispo County, CA, Planning Process Guides
2017The county Planning and Building Department's website offers planning process guides. -
Build McAllen, TX: A Development Review Guide
2017This online guide to the development review process in the city walks users through the process step by step. -
Ipswich, MA, Development Guidebook for the Town of Ipswich
1999The purpose of this guidebook is to familiarize users with the process of obtaining necessary development permits in the town. -
Breaking the Code: Off-Street Parking Reform Lessons Learned
September 2023This report details how off-street parking reform can help improve city parking management along with seven case studies looking into parking minimums and maximums. -
Norman, OK, Municipal Code
Amended February 2023This regulation passed by the City of Norman changes the "minimum requirements" to "minimum recommendations" for off street parking. -
Parking Policy Reform: Implications for Social Equity and Housing Affordability
May 2021This fact sheet highlights how off-street parking requirements can lead to inequitable development outcomes and limit housing affordability. -
Parking Policy Reform: Implications for Municipalities
May 2021This fact sheet highlights how excessive parking requirements can work against local policy goals. -
Parking Policy Reform: Impact of Changing Mobility Preferences
May 2021This fact sheet highlights how shifting mobility preferences have decreased demand for dedicated off-street parking spaces. -
Parking Policy Reform: Types of Off-Street Parking Policy Updates
May 2021This fact sheet summarizes four common types of parking policy reforms, including reducing or eliminating parking minimums. -
Parking Policy Innovations in the United States
May 2021This report includes an interactive database of different types of parking reform policies. -
Buffalo, NY, Unified Development Ordinance
Adopted December 2016This regulation belongs to the Form-Based Zoning, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Housing Supply Planning, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, and Zoning Reform and Code Writing collections. -
South Bend, IN, Zoning Ordinance
Updated September 2021The city's zoning code, adopted in 2019, is a citywide form-based code. It requires no off-street parking spaces for any land use, permits missing middle housing types, and generally encourages a pedestrian-friendly mixed-use environment. -
Ithaca, NY, City Code
Updated March 2019These regulations belong to the Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, Urban Livestock, and Wind Energy collections. -
The Pretext Problem: The Pitfalls of Planning While Bargaining
Planetizen, June 9, 2021by: Michael ManvilleThis blog post explains how an over-reliance on discretionary land-use decisions can undermine the primary rationale for zoning. -
Parking: A Livability Fact Sheet
2014by: AARP, Walkable and Livable Communities InstituteThis fact sheet aims to help communities embrace parking reform as an age-inclusive land use intervention. -
Parking Policy for Transit-Oriented Development: Lessons for Cities, Transit Agencies, and Developers
Journal of Public Transportation, 8(5): 79–94, 2005by: Richard Willson, FAICPThis article discusses how parking supply and pricing in transit-oriented development (TOD) areas seldom matches transit ridership goals. -
Minus Minimums
Journal of the American Planning Association, 87(3): 396-408, 2021by: Daniel Hess, Jeffrey RehlerThis article examines how removing minimum off-street parking requirements in Buffalo, New York, affected the amount off-street parking developers supplied. -
Liberty, MO, Code of Ordinances
2017The city’s unified development code includes multiple types of policy-driven off-street parking requirements. -
Hampton, VA, Code of Ordinances
2017The city’s zoning code includes multiple types of policy-driven off-street parking requirements. -
Ipswich, MA, Protective Zoning Bylaw
2016The town’s zoning code exempts all downtown uses and uses within 500’ of municipal parking facilities from minimum off-street parking requirements. -
Ellensburg, WA, Municipal Code
2017The city’s land development code includes multiple types of policy-driven off-street parking requirements. -
Champaign, IL, Code of Ordinances
Updated August 2021These regulations belong to the Food Systems, Group Housing, Housing Supply Planning, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Branson, MO, Code of Ordinances
2017The city’s zoning code includes multiple types of policy-driven off-street parking requirements. -
Ashland, WI, Unified Development Ordinance
2017The city’s unified development code includes multiple types of policy-driven off-street parking requirements. -
Smart Parking Model Bylaw
Smart Growth/Smart Energy Toolkit, 2007This model bylaw provides a template to help municipalities in Massachusetts draft context-specific parking regulations. -
KCMTD, WA, Right Size Parking Model Code
December 2013by: VIA ArchitectureThis model code belongs to the Housing Supply Planning, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, and Shared Mobility collections. -
Milwaukee, WI, Code of Ordinances
Updated November 2019These regulations belong to the Complete Streets, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, Solar Energy, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Tempe, AZ, City Code
Updated July 2021These regulations belong to the Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, Solar Energy, and Urban Agriculture collections. -
Rochester, NY, City Code
Updated July 2018The city's zoning code belongs to the Downtown Revitalization, Form-Based Zoning, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, and Solar Energy collections. -
Grand Rapids, MI, Code of Ordinances
Updated June 2019This regulation belongs to the Food Trucks, Outdoor Lighting, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, Solar Energy, Transit-Oriented Development, Tiny Houses and Micro-Apartments, and Urban Livestock collections. -
Eugene, OR, Municipal Code
Updated May 2019This regulation belongs to the Accessory Dwelling Units, Active Transportation, Housing Supply Planning, Residential Infill Development, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, and Solar Energy collections. -
Albuquerque, NM, Integrated Development Ordinance
Updated May 2018This regulation belongs to the Form-Based Zoning, Housing Supply Planning, Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, and Solar Energy collections. -
Fargo, ND, Municipal Code
Updated January 2020This regulation belongs to the Rethinking Off-Street Parking Requirements, Small Wireless Facilities and Wireless Facilities in the ROW, and Solar Energy collections. -
Georgia Supplemental Planning Recommendations
2018This web page from the State of Georgia offers links to resources to help communities develop their comprehensive plans. -
Best Practices in Geographic Scoping and Tiering of Inclusionary Housing Policies
August 2016This briefing paper highlights lessons learned from U.S. cities that have implemented housing policies to both produce new affordable housing and support economic revitalization in urban neighborhoods with weaker housing markets. -
31 Flavors of Inclusionary Zoning: Comparing Policies From San Francisco, Washington, DC, and Suburban Boston
Journal of the American Planning Association 75(4): 441-56, 2009by: Jenny Schuetz, Rachel Meltzer, Vicki BeenThis JAPA article uses a unique dataset to examine the prevalence, structure, and housing output of inclusionary zoning programs in the San Francisco and Washington metropolitan areas and in suburban Boston. -
Inclusionary Housing in California: The Experience of Two Decades
Journal of the American Planning Association, 64(2): 150-69, 1998by: Nico Calavita, Kenneth GrimesThis JAPA article examines 75 inclusionary housing programs in California and reports on how inclusionary housing has evolved and adapted to changing economic and political conditions. -
Inclusionary Housing Programs
Journal of the American Planning Association, 49(1): 3-21, 1983by: Seymour Schwartz, Robert JohnstonThis JAPA article evaluates the early inclusionary housing programs of Petaluma, Davis, Palo Alto, and Orange County, California, analyzing economic and political responses to the programs and discussing effectiveness and political feasibility of these programs. -
Advancing Racial Equity in Inclusionary Housing Programs
February 2021by: Stephanie Reyes, Amy KhareThis guide is designed to help planners and local officials design inclusionary housing programs that support racial equity goals. -
Walnut Creek, CA, Municipal Code
Updated September 4, 2018The city's zoning code addresses inclusionary housing in a 2004 ordinance updated in 2018. -
Highland Park, IL, City Code
Updated October 3, 2018The city addresses inclusionary housing in its zoning code through a 2009 ordinance amended in 2015. -
Lewisville, NC, Unified Development Ordinance
Updated October 8, 2018The town offers incentives for the voluntary provision of affordable housing in its unified development ordinance. -
Tarrytown, NY, Code of Ordinances
Updated September 17, 2018The village's zoning code addresses inclusionary housing. -
Narragansett, RI, Code of Ordinances
Updated May 9, 2018The town's zoning code addresses inclusionary housing. -
Manteo, NC, Zoning Code
Updated November 17, 2107The town addresses inclusionary housing in its zoning code. -
Brevard County, FL, Code of Ordinances
Updated February 2020These regulations belong to the Affordable Housing Programs, Housing Supply Planning, Inclusionary Housing, and Tiny Houses and Micro-Apartments collections.