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Citizens Academies Component Guide
n.d.This website contains links to guidance materials to help community leaders design and implement citizen academies. -
Heart & Soul Resources
2016This webpage contains links to guidance materials to help planners and community leaders engage community members in local planning activities. -
What Is Urban Planning?
2015This short video presents a general-audience introduction to the practice and profession of planning. -
What Is a Comprehensive Plan?
2016This short video presents a general-audience introduction to the local comprehensive plan. -
Planning 101
2013This series of short videos present a general-audience introduction to basic planning concepts. -
A Citizen’s Guide to Planning & Zoning in Northwest Michigan
n.d.This guide is intended to provide basic information to citizens that would like to shape future changes in their community through the planning process. -
State and Local Governments’ Use of Performance Measures to Improve Service Delivery
AGA CPAG Research Series Report No. 23, 2009by: Harold SteinbergThis briefing paper explores state and local governments’ use of performance measures. -
Models of Performance-Measurement Use in Local Governments: Understanding Budgeting, Communication, and Lasting Effects
Public Administration Review 65(2), 2005by: Julia Melkers, Katherine WilloughbyThis article looks at how performance measurement has been used in local communities and how the budget process affects or is affected by these measures. -
Austin, TX, Performance Measures: Planning and Zoning
2017This webpage for the Planning and Zoning department lists key indicators, mission and goals, and budget for the department. -
Bellevue, WA, Performance Portal
2021The city, an ICMA Certificate of Excellence award winner, collects and shares performance data by department. -
Lessons from Performance Measurement Leaders: A Sample of Larger Local Governments in North America
2013by: Shayne KavanaughThis report explores performance mangement in 10 selected case-study local governments in the U.S. and Canada. -
Transforming Performance Measurement for the 21st Century
2014by: Harry HatryThis report describes the components and history of performance measurement systems and offers recommendations for governments at all levels. -
Performance-Based Budgeting: Concepts and Examples
2001by: Greg Hager, Alice Hobson, Ginny WilsonThis report offers a primer on performance-based budgeting. -
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.