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Laguna Niguel, CA, Code of Ordinances
Updated January 2019The city’s zoning code designates a Senior Managed Care Overlay District (SMC), which may be applied to base districts ranging from residential to industrial. -
Santa Rosa, CA, Code of Ordinances
Updated May 2019The city’s zoning code protects scenic roads through scenic road combining districts. -
Lafayette, CA, Code of Ordinances
Updated October 2018The city’s land use and planning code designates a Senior Housing Overlay District in order to promote senior housing in the underlying residential, business, and commercial districts. -
Equitable Development Principles & Scorecard
Updated 2022This guide was designed to facilitate community visioning, project assessment, evaluation, and policy creation. -
West Hollywood, CA, Aging in Place, Aging in Community: Five Year Strategic Plan 2016-2020
Adopted 2014The city’s functional plan outlines an aging in place strategy, which builds on its perceived strengths, and focuses on issues particular to its community. -
St. Louis County, MO, Age-Friendly Community Action Plan
Adopted June 2015This functional plan recommends age-friendly interventions in four focus areas: Health & Wellbeing, Social & Civic Engagement, Mobility & Accessibility, and Attractive & Safe Neighborhoods. -
Edmonton, AB, Vision for an Age Friendly Edmonton Action Plan
Adopted Spring 2011The city’s functional plan for seniors includes innovative goals and a fund for non-profit innovation. -
Alexandria, VA, The Alexandria of Our Future: A Livable Community for All Ages
Adopted June 2018This functional plan addresses social participation and respect, housing, transportation, communications, community and health services, and civic engagement and employment. -
Suffolk County, NY, Model Universal Design Incentive Local Ordinance
March 2010This model ordinance provides a template to help cities in Suffolk County, New York, improve accessibility through universal design incentives. -
Upper Dublin Township, PA, Comprehensive Plan
Adopted November 2010The township's comprehensive plan calls out transportation and housing as two areas of concern for meeting the needs of the city’s changing demographics. -
New York City, NY, Age Friendly NYC
Adopted 2009The city’s functional plan addresses the unique aspects of planning for an aging population in a very large city. -
Boulder County, CO, A Plan to Create Vibrant Communities
Adopted June 2015The county’s functional plan is the result of an ongoing survey of 200 older adults in the county. -
Pima County, AZ, Pima Prospers: Comprehensive Plan Initiative
Adopted 2017The county’s comprehensive plan includes a Housing and Community Design section that addresses the need to “create livable, viable, multi-generational communities.” -
Holland Township, NJ, Township Code
Updated December 2018This regulation belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities and Solar Energy collections. -
Southampton, NY, Municipal Code
Updated April 2019This regulation belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities and Solar Energy collections. -
Daytona Beach, FL, Land Development Code
Updated May 2019The city’s land development code includes sign regulations amended in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Reed v. Town of Gilbert. -
Where Will the Baby Boomers Go? Planning and Zoning for an Aging Population
Real Estate Law Journal, 32: 181–195, 2003by: Patricia SalkinThis article introduces the demographic changes and resulting housing challenges that will require planners to be more responsive to the needs of older adults. -
Livable New York: Sustainable Communities for All Ages
August 2012This guide, part of the Livable New York project, is a comprehensive overview of age-friendly concepts and strategies for local officials. -
The Maturing of America: Communities Moving Forward for an Aging Population
2011This report is a follow-up to a previous report that outlines various actions that communities are taking to better provide for an aging demographic. -
Huntington Woods, MI, Housing Options for an Aging Population
Adopted March 2016The city’s functional plan is written for a suburban community that is planning to encourage and enable aging in place. -
Orange County, NC, Master Aging Plan, 2017-2022
Adopted 2017This functional plan sets eight goals in line with the WHO’s eight domains of livability, along with corresponding objectives, strategies, and indicators. -
HCD Model Universal Design Local Ordinance (AB 2787)
October 2005This model ordinance provides a template to help cities in California improve accessibility through universal design standards. -
Snellville, GA, Code of Ordinances
Updated June 2019The city’s zoning code designates residential housing for older persons (R-HOP) districts. -
Briarcliff Manor, NY, Municipal Code
Updated July 2018The village’s zoning code designates an Eldercare Community District. -
Massapequa Park, NY, Municipal Code
Updated November 2018The village’s zoning code designates a Golden Age District that aims to provide affordable housing proximate to facilities, services, and transportation. -
Expanding Implementation of Universal Design and Visitability Features in the Housing Stock
Insight on the Issues 121, 2017by: Emily Salomon, Shannon Guzman, Janet ViveirosThis briefing paper discusses universal design and visitability features as important aspects of an age-friendly community. -
A record 64 million Americans live in multigenerational households
April 2018This blog post outlines findings by Pew Research on the demographics of multigenerational households. -
Cohousing for Older Adults
Fact Sheet 175, March 2010by: Keith WardripThis fact sheet begins by defining co-housing—an arrangement where “intentional neighborhoods” are created with shared ownership—and observes its trend among seniors in certain states. -
The Village: A Growing Option for Aging in Place
Fact Sheet 177, March 2010by: Jean AcciusThis fact sheet explains an aging in place measure: “The Village.” -
Aging in Place and Smart Growth
November 2005This fact sheet explains aging in place from a Smart Growth perspective, and lists challenges and solutions -
AARP Public Policy Institute: Livable Communities
Updated 2019This web page contains resources from AARP’s Public Policy Institute related to Livable Communities. -
Center for Universal Design
2008by: North Carolina State UniversityThis web page includes links to resources that explain universal design principles. -
Lifelong Communities Handbook: Creating Opportunities for Lifelong Living
2012This guide includes a checklist of interventions designed to further the goals of the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Lifelong Communities Initiative at the building, street, community, and regional scale. -
Loudoun County, VA, Revised General Plan
Updated September 2018This comprehensive plan belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities and Outdoor Lighting collections. -
Municipal Implementation Tool #12: Aging in Place
July 2007This guide relates the research about Baby Boomers aging in place to the communities served by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission. -
Growing smarter, living healthier: A guide to smart growth and active aging
Report EPA 100-K-09012, 2009This guide is written for older adults and offers direction on how they might help build age-friendly communities. -
Aging in Place Technical Assistance Guide
2007This guide outlines the methods that public officials from local, county, regional, and state governments can use to create livable communities for older residents. -
Aging in Place: A Toolkit for Local Governments
2005by: Scott BallThis guide discusses a number of programs and zoning practices that expand the alternatives available to older adults living in the community. -
Livable Communities: An Evaluation Guide
2005by: Mary Kihl, FAICP, Dean Brennan, FAICPThis guide shares how to conduct a community survey that gathers data about transportation, walkability, safety and security, shopping, housing, health services, recreation and cultural activities, and caring community. -
Guide to Elder-Friendly Community Building
June 2004This guide defines the characteristics of an elder-friendly community, lays out the steps to becoming an elder-friendly community, and offers a self-evaluation of the factors that promote this type of community. -
Davidson, NC, Comprehensive Plan
Adopted August 2010by: Davidson, NCThis comprehensive plan belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities, Food Systems, and Scenic View Protection collections. -
Aging in Place Successfully with Affordable Housing and Services
March 2007by: Suzanne Leveille, Roberta Rosenberg, Erica SandmanThis report looks at the demand for services in independent, affordable senior housing and considers what impact this demand has on aging-in-place. -
Housing for Older Adults—Location, Location, Location
PlannersWeb, November 2013by: Jennifer Wallace-Brodeur, Stuart AndreasonThis article stresses the importance of coordinating housing and transportation, improving home design, and protecting affordability for building an age-friendly community. -
Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities and Neighborhood Villages
Office of Legislative Oversight Report 2009-11, June 2009by: Leslie Rubin, Jennifer Renkema, Sarah DownieThis report discusses multiple strategies to support naturally occurring retirement communities (NORC) in Montgomery County, Maryland. -
Beyond 50.05—A Report to the Nation on Livable Communities: Creating Environments for Successful Aging
2005by: Andrew Kochera, Audrey Straight, Thomas GuterbockThis report evaluates the components of livable communities, focusing on community engagement, home and community features, and transportation and mobility. -
Baby Boomers and the New Demographics of American Seniors
Generations, 34(4): 28-37, Fall 2010by: William FreyThis article explains the author's demographic research and what it says about where Baby Boomers will live in the future. -
Visitability: A Major “No-Step” Towards Inclusive Housing
Planning Commissioners Journal, 66: 1-6, Spring 2007by: Jordana MaiselThis article introduces the concept of visitability as a solution to the lack of accessible housing for older adults. -
Aging in Place White Paper
June 2016This report addresses the primary issues of planning for an aging population from the perspective of a metropolitan area that will see an aging in place trend over in-migration. -
3 Generations Under One Roof
AARP Bulletin, April 2013by: Sally AbrahmsThis article notes the increase in multigenerational households and describes housing designs to accommodate them. -
Smithtown, NY, Municipal Code
Updated May 2019This regulation belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities and Solar Energy collections.