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Clark County, NV, Performance Management
2017The county manager’s office tracks performance management for all county departments, including Comprehensive Planning. -
Performance Budgeting Resuscitated: Why it is Still Inviable?
Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management 10(2): 151–72, 1998by: Haoran LuThis article examines the failed history of performance budgeting in the U.S. and argues that two obstacles undermine its success. -
Arvada, CO, Operating and Capital Budget: 2017–2018 Biennial Operating and Capital Budget
2017This city has adopted a FOCUS performance management approach to budgeting and city management. -
Homepreneurs: A Vital Economic Force
Small Business Success Index Research Note, October 2009by: Emergent ResearchThis article summarizes research about the characteristics of home-based businesses and their contribution to local economies. -
Omaha, NE, Code of Ordinances
Updated February 2020This regulation belongs to the Green Stormwater Infrastructure and Group Housing collections. -
Johnson City, TN, Zoning Code
2018This regulation belongs to the Group Housing and Outdoor Lighting collections. -
Roseville, CA, Municipal Code
Update May 2020These regulations belong to the Hazard Mitigation and Solar Energy collections. -
Ames, IA, Municipal Code
Updated March 2019These regulations belong to the Environmentally Sensitive Areas, and Solar Energy collections. -
East Lansing, MI, Code of Ordinances
Updated March 2019These regulations belong to the Age-Friendly Communities, Form-Based Zoning, and Solar Energy collections. -
Wilmington, NC, Code of Ordinances
Updated December 2019This regulation belongs to the Green Stormwater Infrastructure and Solar Energy collections. -
Newark, DE, Code of Ordinances
2017The city's subdivision ordinance includes design standards for energy conservation and solar access including general design and construction principles and subdivision plan guidelines and requirements that address solar orientation. -
Orange County, FL, Code of Ordinances
Updated October 2020The county's zoning code attempts to prevent ghost boxes by requiring a written strategy for the maintenance and reuse of the property should it become vacant. -
Strengthening Flood Resilience Through Integrated Water Management
December 2016by: Brad Klamer, AICP, Steve HershnerThis webinar focuses on building flood resilience by using integrated water management practices and discussing example of two different utilities, the City of Cedar Rapids and the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans. -
Putting the LID on Your Community’s Stormwater – Part II: An Overview of Some Basic LID Practices
PlannersWeb.com, February 14, 2013by: James Segedy, FAICP, Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy, AICPThis article provides an overview of LID practices, including stream buffers, permeable paving, bioswales, and rain gardens. -
Putting the LID on Your Community’s Stormwater – Part IV: Local Measures for Implementation
PlannersWeb.com, March 14, 2013by: James Segedy, FAICP, Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy, AICPThis article provides a checklist to help planners determine and effective strategy for LID implantation in their community. -
Putting the LID on Your Community’s Stormwater – Part I: What is LID?
PlannersWeb.com, February 12, 2013by: James Segedy, FAICP, Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy, AICPThis article focuses on the basics of stormwater and challenges of stormwater management in urbanized environments, and provides a definition of LID. -
Integrated Water Management and The City Agenda
July 2016by: Howard Neukrug, Tom RhoadsThis webinar explores how Philadelphia and Onondaga County, NY, are connecting Integrated Water Management to broader agendas and providing benefits to all through improved recreation, job creation, and more. -
Introduction to Integrated Water Management for Cities
May 2016by: Theresa Connor, George HawkinsThis webinar focuses on how cities can introduce integrated water resource management practices in their work with case study of Colorado and the District of Columbia. -
Sewage Pollution as a Catalyst for Integrated Water Management – Creating Multiple Benefits for Your Community and River
September 2016by: MaryLynn Lodor, Chris SturmThis webinar focuses on combined sewer overflow as a driver of integrated water management through examples of communities in Ohio and New Jersey. -
One Water Webinar: Fostering Climate Resiliency with Integrated Water Resource Management
2016by: Radhika FoxThis webinar discusses how communities in Denver and New Orleans are utilizing integrated water management strategies to build resiliency and sustainability. -
Integrated Water Management from City to Watershed
May 2016by: Jonathan Rothschild, Kevin ShaferThis webinar addresses the innovative integrated water management approaches undertaken by the communities of Tucson, Arizona and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. -
Net Blue Webinar Part 1: Supporting Water-Neutral Community Growth
June 2017by: Mary Ann Dickinson, Adam Schempp, Katherine BaerThis webinar provides an overview of the Net Blue ordinance worksheet developed by the Alliance for Water Efficiency. -
The Potential for an Urban Water Market in Los Angeles and Beyond
The Avenue, May 2017by: Joseph Kane, Gregory PierceThis blog article discusses how an urban water market can address several water challenges, accelerate infrastructure improvements, encourage more sustainable and equitable water management. -
Flint’s Water Crisis Highlights Need for Infrastructure Investment and Innovation
The Avenue, January 2016by: Joseph Kane, Robert PuentesThis article discusses the factors that contributed to the Flint crisis, focusing on the role of the city’s aging and deteriorating water infrastructure. It draws lessons for other cities and provides examples of innovative strategies. -
Water Scarcity as a Catalyst for Integrated Water Management – Creating Multiple Benefits for Your Community and River
October 2016by: Michael , John ScarpullaThis webinar focuses on limited water resources as a driver of integrated water management through examples of communities in Washington and California. -
Water Rights and Markets in the U.S. Semiarid West - Evolution of Property Rights Related to Land and Natural Resources
Conference Papers, November 2011by: Gary LibecapIn this paper, the author explores water in the semiarid western United States - a region in which many of the intensifying demand and supply problems regarding fresh water are playing out-as a mixed private/public resource. -
Linking Growth and Land Use to Water Supply
Land Lines Magazine, April 2003by: Matthew McKinneyThis article provides a brief review of alternative policy options to develop the link between land use and water supply. It also offers suggestions for further research, education and policy development. -
Palm Beach County, FL, Comprehensive Plan
Updated August 2020This comprehensive plan belongs to the Built Environment and Health and Transfer of Development Rights collections. -
Greeley, CO, Imagine Greeley Comprehensive Plan
Adopted February 6, 2018The city’s comprehensive plan calls for minimizing light trespass from developed areas and reducing sky glow to maintain night sky visibility. -
Bellevue, WA, Comprehensive Plan
Updated August 2015This comprehensive plan belongs to the Active Transportation and Shared Mobility collections. -
Bemidji, MN, Greater Bemidji Area Zoning and Subdivision Ordinance
2015This multijurisdictional development code defines and regulates tiny houses and tiny house subdivisions. -
Saint Paul, MN, Code of Ordinances
Updated November 2019This regulation belongs to the Creative Placemaking and Historic Preservation collections. -
San Marcos, TX, Code of Ordinances
2017The city’s streets and sidewalks code establishes a licensing process for parklets. -
Pueblo, CO, Code of Ordinances
2017The city’s zoning code permits multiple medical- and recreational-marijuana-related uses by right, subject to use-specific and licensing requirements. -
Tuscaloosa, AL, Code of Ordinances
Updated June 2019These regulations belong to the Active Transportation and Form-Based Zoning collections. -
Boca Raton, FL, Code of Ordinances
Updated February 2019The city’s zoning code has a provision for Planned Mobility Development, which prioritizes both pedestrian and bicycle modes. -
Integrating Land Use and Water Resources: Planning to Support Water Supply Diversification
2018by: Katie Henderson, Rebecca FedakThis project aims to communicate the current state of water supply diversification, opportunities and challenges of an IWRM approach, and the development of user-friendly resources to advance the integration of water resource and land use planning. -
Paving Our Way to Water Shortages: How Sprawl Aggravates the Effects of Drought
2002by: Betsy Otto, American Rivers, American Rivers, Deron Lovaas, National Resources Defense Council, Smart Growth AmericaThis report from the National Resources Defense Council, Smart Growth America, and American Rivers looks at groundwater loss and the degree to which sprawling development, such as single family homes with lawns, impacts metropolitan area water usage. -
Where We Want to Be: Home Location Preferences And Their Implications For Smart Growth
November 2018by: Todd LitmanThis report from the Victoria Transport Policy Institute found that consumer demand for housing in sprawl contexts is declining, while demand for housing in smart growth areas is increasing. -
Protecting Water Resources With Higher Density Development
EPA 231-R-06-001, January 2006This report from the EPA outlines the effects development has on watersheds and examines the differences in impacts stemming from urban form. -
Is Density Detrimental?
Cape Cod Commission Myth or Fact Series, 2009This fact sheet finds that higher density helps to reduce transportation costs paid directly by consumers as well as costs borne by the general public and that higher density is needed to make public transportation efficient. -
Valuing Downtowns: Upward Not Outward is a Smart Revenue Strategy for Local Governments
2013This fact sheet compares tax revenues from public assessors for different types of development in central California. -
Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Smart Growth Policies
July 2008by: Sonoran InstituteThis report is a literature review of the economic impacts of different aspects of urban form. -
The Health Impacts of Urban Form: A Review of Reviews
October 2008This report reviews literature on the relationship between urban form and public health. -
Relationship between urban sprawl and physical activity, obesity, and morbidity – Update and refinement
Health & Place, 26: 118-126, 2014by: Reid Ewing, Gail Meakins, , Arthur Nelson, FAICPThis national study quantified the relationship between urban form and physical activity, obesity, and health. -
The Impact of Urban Form on U.S. Residential Energy Use
Housing Policy Debate, 19(1): 1–30, 2008by: Reid Ewing, Milken InstituteThis article measured how urban form affects energy use by looking at energy requirements of different housing stocks and electric transmission and distribution losses, as well as heating and cooling requirements accompanying urban heat islands. -
Urban Sprawl and the Cost of Public Services
Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 30: 503–522, 2003by: John Carruthers, University of WashingtonThis article looked at data from 283 counties from 1982-92 and created an empirical model to estimate the costs of 12 different expenditures. -
Were Home Prices in New Urbanist Neighborhoods More Resilient in the Recent Housing Downturn?
Journal of Planning Education and Research, 35(1): 5-18, 2015by: Hongwei DongThis article attempts to determine whether or not the great recession had different impacts on home values due to urban form. -
Effects of Built Environments on Vehicle Miles Travelled: Evidence From 370 US Urbanized Areas
Environment and Planning A, 42: 400-418, 2010by: Robert Cervero, Jin MurakamiThis article used structural equation modelling to better understand how different built environments affect vehicle-miles travelled (VMT) per capita in 370 U.S. urbanized areas. -
Conventional Development Versus Managed Growth: The Costs of Sprawl
American Journal of Public Health, 93(9): 1534–1540, 2003by: Robert Burchell, Sahan MukherjiThis article estimated the infrastructural and fiscal savings that can result from “managed growth.”