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Lexington, KY, Complete Streets Action Plan
December 2023This plan builds off Lexington, Kentucky’s approved Complete Streets Policy in 2022 to create an inclusive, well-balanced, safe, and sustainable transportation system. -
Hillsborough County, FL, Fletcher Avenue Complete Streets Redesign
April 2020This case study highlights the use of complete streets to reduce pedestrian crash rates on a busy corridor in Hillsborough, Florida. -
Making the Case for Complete Streets Local Factsheets
2025These fact sheets highlight the benefits of implementing complete streets in communities. -
Complete Streets Flourishing in Washington
November 2022This post highlights the complete streets movement in Washington state. -
AI Governance for San Jose
March 2024This page includes resources for AI governance in San Jose, California. -
AI County Compass
December 2024This toolkit provides county governments with the necessary resources and tools to create policies and guidelines for generative artificial intelligence (AI). -
GenAI for Local Governments
2024This page includes three published resources for local governments to use when creating policies for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). -
Automating Zoning Data Collection
February 2023This report highlights the use of text analysis and natural language processing to automate the data collection process for zoning codes. -
NACo Primer for Counties: The Transformative Power of Artificial Intelligence
February 2024This report summarizes artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI in county governments, the work of the National Association of Counties (NACo) Artificial Intelligence Exploratory Committee, and a list of resources. -
Artificial Intelligence Handbook for Local Government
September 2024This guide aids local governments in using artificial intelligence (AI) safely and effectively. -
Local Government AI Strategy Workbook
March 2024This toolkit provides local governments the tools and information to develop their own artificial intelligence (AI) strategy. -
The Role of AI in Streamlining Municipal Services and Operations
October 2024This post highlights the ways artificial intelligence (AI) can help local governments run more efficiently and apply different planning methods. -
How Cities are Using AI: Balancing the Benefits and Risks of Artificial Intelligence
The Magazine of the LOC, September 2024This magazine features an article on how cities are using artificial intelligence (AI) but cautions the risks that come with using it in planning processes and local government. -
Exploring AI Applications in City Government: The Promise and the Risks
Minnesota Cities Jan-Feb 2024 IssueThis article summarizes key takeaways from a virtual event in 2023 titled “Introduction to AI in Municipal Government.” -
Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector
Business of Government, 2024This article highlights how artificial intelligence (AI) can help government programs serve the public more efficiently. -
Indianapolis, IN, 2050 Scenario Planning
2025This page highlights the use of scenario planning in developing a preferred scenario for how the community wants Indianapolis, Indiana, to grow in the next 30 years. -
Sowing Seeds: How Scenario Planning Can Help Agricultural Communities Plan for a Resilient Future
July 2023This video highlights the use of exploratory scenario planning in Mesa County, Colorado, to help guide the community in resilient practices. -
Exploratory Scenario Planning with Multi-Stakeholder Platforms in Food Systems: A Toolkit
November 2023This toolkit provides resources and tools on how to conduct an exploratory scenario planning workshop on food systems. -
LegacySP A Scenario Planning Toolkit for Shrinking Regions
January 2022This toolkit provides communities experiencing declines in growth with scenario planning tools and resources that are flexible, practical, and collaborative. -
Exploratory Scenario Planning, Explained
January 2020This short video summarizes what exploratory scenario planning is and how it helps planners prepare for an uncertain future. -
PIA PlanTech Best Practice Guidelines
May 2024This guide highlights best practices for the latest technologies used in urban planning. -
Practical AI Insights for Local Leaders
January 2025This report assesses ways local governments implement artificial intelligence (AI) and identifies challenges and opportunities. -
Virginia Beach, VA, FloodVISION-AI Network of Web Cameras with Artificial Intelligence Monitor Water Levels, Support Flood Resiliency
April 2024This post highlights Virginia Beach, Virginia’s use of FloodVISION-AI technology to aid in its flood resiliency initiatives. -
Briefing Note on Risks of AI Generated Content in Community Engagement
July 2023This article highlights the concerns about using artificial intelligence (AI) in online public engagement. -
Shaping the Future of AI in Your City
Minnesota Cities May-Jun 2024 IssueThis article discusses the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in local governments and policy. -
EP41 Immediate Impact of AI on Local Government
Voices in Local Government, February 2024This podcast episode of Voices in Local Government discusses the immediate impact and application of artificial intelligence (AI) in local government. -
The Ethical Concerns of Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning
Journal of American Planning Association, July 2024by: Thomas Sanchez, AICP, Marc Brenman, Xinyue YeThis article analyzes the ethical risks that come with using artificial intelligence (AI) in urban planning. -
Could AI Make City Planning More Efficient?
City Tech, September 2024This article looks at the opportunities for artificial intelligence (AI) in completing mundane tasks in city planning. -
Navigating Generative AI in Government
Business of Government, 2024This article highlights strategies for local governments to adopt to minimize risks from using generative artificial intelligence (AI). -
Consortium for Scenario Planning
2024This page provides planners and other professionals with scenario planning technical assistance, educational resources, and a network of other professionals. -
Developing and Applying Scenarios
Assessment ReportsThis page provides information on scenario planning and the different types of scenarios to plan for climate change. -
Shifting Perspectives About Housing in Rural Communities: Scenario Planning for Housing Development
August 2024This toolkit provides information, case studies, and resources for small rural communities to use scenario planning to meet housing supply needs. -
Triboro EcoHousing Futures: Scenario Planning for Housing Affordability and Resilience
August 2024This toolkit highlights the use of exploratory scenario planning to create an affordability framework for housing needs. -
Pathways for Affordable Housing Initiatives: A Community-Led Scenario Planning Toolkit
August 2024This toolkit provides tools, frameworks, and strategies to solve housing challenges in underserved communities through exploratory scenario planning. -
Design Lights Consortium Sample Language for Light Pollution Mitigation Bylaws and Ordinances
April 2023This model ordinance provides a framework to help cities, towns, and counties draft outdoor lighting regulations. -
Park City, UT, Municipal Code
November 2023This regulation is to regulate the lighting practices and systems that promote and create light pollution for a uniformed ordinance in §15-5-5.J. -
Design Lights Consortium Outdoor Lighting Ordinances
April 2024This interactive map details which cities in all 50 states have enacted outdoor lighting ordinances. -
Los Angeles, CA, Slauson Corridor Transit Neighborhood Plan
2022This sub area plan is to improve and identify land use, zoning, and urban design strategies along the Blue, Silver, and Crenshaw lines to further the Transit Neighborhood Plan. -
State Funded Outdoor Lighting Regulations
2022This model code dictates local ordinances and codes regulating outdoor lighting regulate for codes to use the Texas Model Outdoor Lighting Ordinance as a basis. -
ITDP What is TOD?
2024This web page is meant for planners and residents to understand and score transit oriented development as well as define TOD. -
From Transactional to Transformative: The Case for Equity in Gateway City Transit-Oriented Development
May 2020by: Tracy Corley, PhD, Ben Forman, Elizabeth Haney, AICP, Catherine TumberThis report details how uneven growth patterns and investment by businesses and cities have deepened inequities across race, class and cultures can be rectified by Transformative Transit Oriented Development (TTOD). -
Does Zoning Help or Hinder Transit Oriented (Re)Development?
March 2016by: Jenny Schuetz, Genevieve Giuliano, Eun Jin ShinThis report analyzes the Los Angeles built environment as well as city zoning codes to see whether these are hindering or helping transit oriented development around its existing rail lines. -
Financing Transit Oriented Development by Value Capture
June 2019by: Erwin Krabben, Ary Samsura, Jinshuo WangThis report details how transit oriented development was garnered as the savior for cities that were auto-dependent, but cities are struggling to finance and effective integrated policy for TOD. -
Promoting Transit-Oriented Developments by Addresssng Barriers Related to Land Use, Zoning, and Value Capture
October 2020by: Shishir Mathur, Aaron Gatdula, AICPThis reports main focus is to promote and advance transit-oriented development by identifying land use, zoning and value capture barriers that impede TOD development. -
Financing the Development in Transit-Oriented Development
April 2018by: Leiha EdmondsThis report details how Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI's) can help promote and implement Transit Oriented Development for cities. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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.