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Ontario, CA, Municipal Code
Amended January 2022This City’s code establishes requirements, rules and regulations for the development and operation of recycled water facilities and systems within the City's service area. -
Woodland, CA, Code of Ordinances
Updated September 2022The City’s ordinance provides requirements for discharges and wastewater management pertaining to the water pollution control facility (WPCF). -
Kearny County, KS, Environmental Code
Updated September 2014This county code provides standards for the location, design, construction, maintenance, waste disposal and use of on-site wastewater systems in the county. -
Zoning for Opportunity: A Survey of Home-Based-Business Regulations
March 2020by: Olivia Gonzalez, Nolan GrayThis briefing paper explores how home-based businesses are often not included in zoning ordinances despite a growing role in the economy. -
Enabling Better Places: Commercial Corridors and Shopping Centers
February 2020by: Congress for the New UrbanismThis guide presents planning considerations and potential zoning interventions to help retrofit or redevelop existing auto-oriented commercial strips and shopping centers as pedestrian-friendly mixed-use corridors and nodes. -
What's in Store: Exploring the Future of Shopping Malls in Greater Philadelphia
October 2021This report analyzes market conditions and presents planning considerations to help communities in metropolitan Philadelphia revitalize, repurpose, or redevelop shopping malls. -
Castle Rock, CO, Water Master Plan
2017This town’s functional plan addresses the planning process for expansion and optimization of the water system to meet the water needs of the community. -
Integrated Water Quality Resource Management
January 2022This web page explores key elements of Integrated Water Resource Management. -
Integrated and Adaptive Management of Water Resources: Tensions, Legacies, and the Next Best Thing
Ecology & Society, 16(1), 2011by: Nathan Engle, Owens Johns, Maria Carmen LemosThis article acknowledges the difficulty of using the integrated water resources management framework in practice due to the lack of quantitative data on its success. -
Integrated Water Resources Management: What is it and Why is it used?
June 2013by: Chris WhiteThis blog post discusses how integrated water resources management should be used due to the interdisciplinary nature of water issues. -
Integrated Planning for Municipal Stormwater and Wastewater
March 2023This web page contains an overview of integrated planning for stormwater and wastewater and how it aligns with the requirements of the Clean Water Act. -
Stakeholder Perspectives: Recommendations for Sustaining and Strengthening Integrated Regional Water Management
March 2017This report provides insight on ways to strengthen and sustain regional water management, focusing on collaboration with stakeholders. -
Colorado Springs, CO, Integrated Water Resources Plan
February 2017This functional plan provides comprehensive strategies for water resource planning. -
Integrated Regional Water Management Policy Principles
August 2019This briefing paper outlines the new policy principles on Integrated Regional Water Management created by the Association of California Water Agencies. -
The Economics of Water
September 2021by: Georg Meran, Markus Siehlow, Christain von HirschhausenThis book introduces economic approaches to water scarcity and water management, including a chapter on integrated water resource management. -
Los Angeles, CA, One Water LA 2040 Plan
April 2018This city’s functional plan creates a collaborative approach to planning and managing all the water resources, regardless of the water type. -
Denver, CO, Denver One Water Plan
September 2021This city’s functional plan provides a framework for creating and implementing holistic water management strategies. -
Utah Growing Water Smart: The Water Guide
2022This guide provides resources for water management and land use planning. -
Downtown Success Indicators: A Review of the Literature
August 2014by: Mary Edwards, FAICP, Manish Singh, AICP, Kathleen BrownThis report provides a synthesis and analysis of the existing literature related to successful downtowns. -
Planning to Eat? Innovative Local Government Plans and Policies to Build Healthy Food Systems in the United States
2011by: Kailee Van Brunt, AICP, Samina Raja, Sylvia KellyThis policy brief offers a wide range of innovative public policies that support and strengthen community food systems. -
U.S. Wind Siting Regulation and Zoning Ordinances
August 2022This web page provides a dataset for wind siting ordinances at the state and local level in the United States. -
Water Wise: Strategies for Drought-Resilient Development
June 2022by: Marianne Eppig, Mariane Jang, Emily ZhangThis report provides strategies and best practices for water-smart development and landscaping that can address water scarcity. -
Broward County, FL, Resilient Shorelines
June 2020This fact sheet describes living shoreline options to protect coastal communities from flooding in Broward County, Florida, in alignment with a recent land use policy that aims to improve community resilience in tidally-influenced coastal areas. -
Integrating Land Use and Water Management
February 2022by: Erin Rugland, AICPThis report highlights best management practices for integrating water providers and local governments in order to make better land use decisions. -
Belmont, CA, Code of Ordinances
Updated February 2022This City's ordinance promotes water conservation measures, consistent with a comfortable standard of living and a healthy economy, and enabled through timely implementation practices. -
Frederick, MD, Code of Ordinances
Updated February 2023This regulation belongs to the Age-Friendly Communities and Integrated Water Resource Management collections. -
Mainstreaming Potable Water Reuse in the United States: Strategies for Leveling the Playing Field
April 2018This report discusses strategies aimed at helping municipalities and utilities in overcoming institutional barriers and create successful frameworks for implementation of potable reuse of treated wastewater. -
One Water Webinar: Accelerating Innovation in the Water Sector
December 2016by: Al Cho, Karen PallanschIn this webinar, speakers from the water industry discuss the challenges they faced in undertaking new ideas and technological innovations. -
Advancing One Water in Texas
February 2018by: Carol Howe, Rachel CardoneThis report teaches how advocates can advance a viable shift in Texas towards One Water. -
Advice Worth Drinking: How Today’s Land Use Decisions Can protect Tomorrow’s Water Supply
May 2017This guide discusses the integration of source water protection into regular planning activities, from visioning to zoning, to provide sustainable sources of drinking water. -
Integrated Water Management – What Is It and How Can It Benefit Your Community and River?
August 2016by: Theresa Connor, Lynn BroaddusThis webinar provides a detailed overview of Integrated Water Management. -
Austin, TX, Water Forward: Integrated Water Resource Plan
November 2018This city’s functional plan creates a long-term integrated water resource plan. -
Westmoreland County Integrated Water Resources Plan
July 2019This county’s functional plan includes best practices for water resource conservation management for urban planners, officials, and residents. -
Sugar Land, TX, Integrated Water Resources Plan
March 2019This functional plan acts as an integrated water resource plan to address many water supply and demand management options. -
Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, Water Resources Management Plan
December 2022This functional plan creates an integrated water resource management plan that combines water supply and conservation, wastewater management, and watershed management strategies. -
Surprise, AZ, Integrated Water Master Plan
Adopted 2022This plan provides a long-term guidance document for the orderly improvement and growth of Surprise’s water supply portfolio and drinking water, wastewater, reclaimed water, and groundwater recharge infrastructure. -
Pomona, CA, Integrated Water Supply Plan
Adopted 2011This plan addresses potable and non-potable water demand of Pomona through 2035 and aims to meet the State of California's water challenges. -
Colorado Water Plan
Updated January 2023This plan articulates collaborative, balanced solutions to Colorado’s water challenges. -
The Benefits and Challenges of Green Roofs on Public and Commercial Buildings
May 2011This report investigates the costs, benefits, challenges, and opportunities of using green roofs on public and commercial buildings. -
Illinois Solar Model Ordinance
August 2020This model ordinance provides a template to help planners in Illinois draft land-use and development regulations that permit solar development at different scales and in different land-use contexts. -
Iowa Solar Model Ordinance
August 2020This model ordinance provides a template to help planners in Iowa draft land-use and development regulations that permit solar development at different scales and in different land-use contexts. -
Wisconsin Solar Model Ordinance
August 2020This model ordinance provides a template to help planners in Wisconsin draft land-use and development regulations that permit solar development at different scales and in different land-use contexts. -
Minnesota Solar Model Ordinance
August 2020This model ordinance provides a template to help planners in Minnesota draft land-use and development regulations that permit solar development at different scales and in different land-use contexts. -
Kentucky Model Solar Zoning Ordinance
September 2020This model ordinance provides a template to help planners in Kentucky draft land-use and development regulations that permit solar development at different scales and in different land-use contexts. -
New York Solar Guidebook for Local Governments
August 2020This guide includes several tools and resources to support municipalities with the development, installation, and maintenance of solar energy projects. -
Model Site Plan Regulations and Conditional Use Permits to Support Solar Energy Systems in Maine Municipalities
February 2020This model ordinance provides a template to help planners in Maine draft land-use and development regulations that permit solar development at different scales and in different land-use contexts. -
Siting Utility-Scale Solar and Wind in Iowa: A Guide for Local Governments
April 2020by: Jenna Greene, Brian Ross, AICP, Jessica WyattThis guide is designed to help local government staff and officials understand the market potential of and opportunities to support large-scale wind and solar development. -
Solar Energy: SolSmart's Toolkit for Local Governments
2020This guide is designed to help local government staff and officials identify and take advantage of opportunities to grow local solar markets. -
State Pollinator-Friendly Solar Initiatives
January 2020by: Georgena TerryThis briefing paper is designed to help state officials and policy advocates understand existing state policies and initiatives aimed at protecting or expanding pollinator habitat through solar development. -
Anatomy of Brownfields Redevelopment
June 2019This briefing paper provides a high-level overview of brownfields redevelopment issues.