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      PAS Memo — November-December 2021
      by: Jonathan Katz
      This PAS Memo identifies strategies to engage people with dementia in planning processes and incorporate dementia-friendly approaches in planning for transportation, housing, public space, urban fabric, and social services.
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    • Planning the Wildland-Urban Interface

      PAS Report 594
      by: Molly Mowery, AICP, Anna Read, AICP, Kelly Johnston, Tareq Wafaie, AICP
      Wildfires pose a growing threat to communities across the country as development in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) accelerates. This PAS Report offers a holistic planning framework helping planners guide land-use decisions to create communities that are safer and more resilient to wildfire.
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    • Dynamic Zoning

      Zoning Practice — October 2021
      by: Patrick Braga       October 01, 2021
      This issue of Zoning Practice explains the need for and fundamental characteristics of dynamic land-use and development regulations. It surveys historical and contemporary precedents and summarizes three approaches communities can use to implement dynamic zoning.
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      Zoning Practice — September 2021
      by: Thomas Smith
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      PAS Memo — September-October 2021
      by: Thomas Fisher       September 01, 2021
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    • Smarter Zoning by Street and by Block

      Zoning Practice — August 2021
      by: John Myers       August 01, 2021
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      PAS QuickNotes 95
      by: Ladd Keith, Sara Meerow
      This edition of PAS QuickNotes explains national trends in extreme heat and describes how planners can enhance urban heat resilience for their communities through planning and implementing heat mitigation and management strategies.
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    • Planning With Diverse Communities

      PAS Report 593
      by: Ivis Garcia, AICP, Andrea Garfinkel-Castro, Deirdre Pfeiffer, AICP       January 01, 2019
      The U.S. will become a “majority-minority” country by the mid-2040s. More than before, planners must serve diverse publics and build inclusive communities. This PAS Report offers the tools planners need to engage people of color and improve quality of life for all in ethnically and racially diverse communities.
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    • Planning With Foresight

      PAS QuickNotes 94
      by: Petra Hurtado, PhD
      This edition of PAS QuickNotes introduces the concept of foresight to help planners imagine and prepare their communities for the future.
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    • Guiding Plan Implementation With Degree of Change

      PAS Memo — July-August 2021
      by: John Zeanah, AICP
      This edition of PAS Memo explores how the city of Memphis used the Degree of Change approach to guide plan implementation and community reinvestment by targeting appropriate actions to designated Accelerate, Sustain, and Nurture areas of the city.
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    • Prioritizing Environmental Justice in Comprehensive Planning

      by: Adin Becker
      Uncovering JAPA: California plans are analyzed for environmental justice (EJ) incorporation, revealing advancements in BIPOC communities while underscoring the absence of an explicit racial focus.
    • Planning for Autonomous Mobility

      PAS Report 592
      by: Jeremy Crute, William Riggs, AICP, Timothy Chapin, Lindsay Stevens, AICP       September 01, 2018
      Autonomous vehicles are poised to disrupt the built environment and planning practices. This PAS Report offers a road map for planners as they develop policy solutions and infrastructure investments for the future of AVs.
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    • Advancing Racial Equity Through Land-Use Planning

      PAS Memo — May-June 2021
      by: Paul Mogush, AICP
      This edition of PAS Memo explains how the city of Minneapolis addressed racial equity issues in their comprehensive planning process and became the first major U.S. city to eliminate single-family zoning.
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    • Boston Takes on Climate Change

      Among the world's most prepared but also the most vulnerable, the city is making big plans to protect itself.
      by: Anthony Flint       April 21, 2021
      Planners, engineers, and others in Boston have been working for years to prepare for the inevitable impacts of climate change – a projected 40 inches of sea level rise, and the creeping storm surge and high-tide flooding that comes with it.
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    • Design Review: Guiding Better Development

      PAS Report 591
      by: Mark Hinshaw, FAICP, Marya Morris, FAICP       July 01, 2018
      Get an update on the time-tested tool of design review and guidance on creating effective design review processes, standards, and guidelines to improve development in local communities.
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    • Zoning, Land Use, and Local Policies for Environmental Justice

      Zoning Practice — March 2021
      by: Ana Baptista
      This issue of Zoning Practice reviews the relationships among zoning, land use, and environmental justice. It highlights local strategies that illustrate the diversity of approaches cities and counties across the country are using to protect traditionally overburdened areas from noxious land uses.
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    • Partnering with Health Systems on Affordable Housing Investments

      PAS Memo — March-April 2021
      by: Alyia Gaskins       March 01, 2021
      The March/April 2021 edition of PAS Memo explains why and how planners can partner with hospitals and health systems to create more equitable communities through affordable housing development.
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    • Reconsidering the Role of Consistency in Plan Implementation

      Zoning Practice — February 2021
      by: John Zeanah, AICP       February 01, 2021
      This issue of Zoning Practice considers how consistency is used in plan implementation to align zoning regulations and land use decisions with local plans. It makes recommendations based on examples from across the United States for how planners and municipalities can build consistency by building stronger links between local codes, regulatory mechanisms, and existing local planning processes.
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    • Urban Air Mobility

      PAS QuickNotes 91
      by: Alexsandra Gomez       February 01, 2021
      This edition of PAS QuickNotes explores the opportunities and challenges of using urban air mobility (UAM) — aerial vehicles, either crewed or automated, with the capability to maneuver in and across cityscapes — for passenger transportation.
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    • Local Food Systems Key to Healthy, Resilient, Equitable Communities

      From the economy and environment to health and food access, local and regional food systems can help address a wide range of community concerns.
      by: Mary Hammon, Cynthia Currie       February 01, 2021
      As pressures on the U.S. agriculture and food businesses grow, governments across the country are experimenting with local and regional food systems models to better need their communities' needs.
    • The Market Factors That Make Transferable Development Rights Work

      Zoning Practice — January 2021
      by: Lane Kendig
      This edition of Zoning Practice highlights the distinct market challenges of targeted and rural TDR programs. It explores the key determinants of targeted TDR success and presents six potential alternatives to conventional rural TDR systems.
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    • Design Thinking

      PAS QuickNotes 90
      by: Thomas Fisher       January 01, 2021
      This edition of PAS QuickNotes defines design thinking and suggests how planners can use this five-step process to help improve systems, processes, and policies.
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    • Building Resilience Through Plan Integration

      PAS Memo — January-February 2021
      by: Joseph DeAngelis, AICP, Johamary Pena, Alexsandra Gomez, Philip Berke, Jaimie Masterson, AICP
      The January/February 2021 edition of PAS Memo explains how planners can use the Plan Integration Resiliency Scorecard (PIRS) method to ensure local plans are consistent with each other in supporting greater community resilience.
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    • Strategies for Family-Oriented Densification

      Central cities aren’t just for the childless. Parent-friendly policies can revitalize urban neighborhoods.
      by: Louis Thomas, AICP       January 01, 2021
      Vancouver, Canada, is the North American policy pioneer for high-density, family-oriented urbanism.
    • Federal Zoning Reform Funding Available Now

      by: Emma West
      A new federal competitive grant program – totaling $85 million – is now available to help local governments develop and implement policies that create and preserve housing options by breaking down barriers to zoning reform.
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      In planning, city digital twins can be used for experimentation and simulation, to test policy options, to enhance cross-departmental collaboration, and to improve community engagement. Learn how to get started with examples from Columbus, Georgia, and Boston.
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    • Smart City Digital Twins

      PAS QuickNotes 89
      by: John Taylor, Neda Mohammadi       December 01, 2020
      This edition of PAS QuickNotes defines smart city digital twins and explains how this emerging tool can be used to support better decision making, more effective stakeholder engagement, and more robust scenario planning processes.
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    • Climate Action and Transferable Development Rights

      Zoning Practice — December 2020
      by: Richard Pruetz, FAICP       December 01, 2020
      This edition of Zoning Practice makes the case for why communities should consider adding TDR to their climate action toolbox, and explores 10 TDR programs in municipalities across the United States that have used TDR for both mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change.
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    • Downtown Revitalization in Small and Midsized Cities

      PAS Report 590
      by: Michael Burayidi
      Demographic shifts and growing interest in walkable, convenient urban experiences have put a spotlight on city centers. This PAS Report shares strategies that have proved successful in transforming the downtowns of small and midsized cities.
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    • The Use Variance: Zoning Savior or Annihilator?

      Zoning Practice — November 2020
      by: Josh Whitehead, AICP       November 01, 2020
      This edition of Zoning Practice reviews the history of the use variance, with a special focus on how states and local communities have refined their approaches in response to key court decisions. And it highlights approval criteria and procedures that Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee, and other communities use to curb use variance abuses.
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    • Eliminating Food Insecurity With Aquaponics

      by: Dina Walters
      Equity in Practice: East Oakland partners to address food insecurity.
    • Zoning for a Post-COVID World

      Zoning Practice — October 2020
      by: Donald Elliott, FAICP       October 01, 2020
      This edition of Zoning Practice highlights short-term zoning adjustments that can minimize economic damage and promote economic recovery from the pandemic, and it analyzes how COVID-19 may reinforce or disrupt long-term zoning trends related to housing diversity, flexible use permissions, built form, and the public realm.
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    • Creating Planning Documents

      PAS Report 589
      by: Allyson Mendenhall, Claire Hempel, AICP CUD, Emily Risinger, Stephanie Grigsby, AICP       November 01, 2017
      Planners routinely create plans, reports, and guides. This PAS Report is a guide to recommended practices, including field-tested tools and strategies to help planners manage the process of creating planning documents from concept to delivery.
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    • Ventura, CA, Municipal Code

      2017
      The development code protects environmentally sensitive habitat areas and recommends sustainable design features, including solar readiness.
      San Buenaventura (Ventura), CA
    • Solar Energy Standards - Urban Communities

      Updated 2014
      by: Brian Ross, AICP
      This model solar energy system ordinance with commentary for Minnesota communities addresses standards for accessory solar energy systems, provides for solar access protections, prohibits private covenants from restricting solar energy use, and offers incentives for solar energy system installations and solar access protections.
      Minnesota
    • U.S. Forest Service Urban Research

      2017
      This clearinghouse website provides links to a wide variety of research related to urban forestry policies, practices, and benefits.
    • i-Tree

      2017
      This website provides links to a software suite that enables planners and urban forestry program managers to quantify various aspects of their programs.
    • Renewable Energy Ordinance Framework – Solar

      2015
      This document provides municipalities with a framework for drafting their own ordinances for small-scale accessory solar energy systems, offering a menu of sample ordinance language options to build a customized ordinance that addresses local issues.
      Philadelphia, PA
    • Sustaining America’s Urban Trees and Forests

      General Technical Report NRS-62, 2010
      by: David Nowak, Susan Stein, Paula Randler
      This report from the U.S. Forest Service provides an overview of existing urban forests in the U.S. and discusses challenges facing them.
    • Watershed Forestry Resource Guide

      2008
      This clearinghouse website provides high-level summaries and links to resources that provide additional information about a wide range of urban forestry related topics.
    • Human Dimensions of Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

      2017
      by: Kathy Wolf
      This clearinghouse website provides links to numerous articles, reports, guides, and fact sheets with information about human perceptions and behaviors regarding urban trees.
    • Urban Forestry South

      2017
      This clearinghouse website provides links to research, policy guidance, and analysis tools to help state and local forestry programs develop and implement urban and community forestry plans.
    • Municipal Tree Care and Management in the United States: A 2014 Urban and Community Forestry Census of Tree Activities

      Special Publication 16-1, 2016
      by: Richard Hauer, Ward Peterson
      This report provides extensive information about how local urban forestry programs are organized, funded, and operated across the U.S.
    • Benefits of the Urban Forest

      Fact Sheet #1, 2001
      by: James Geiger
      This fact sheet cites several specific environmental and economic benefits associated with trees in urban areas.

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