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North Dakota Century Code
Updated 2022North Dakota requires some counties, cities, and townships to prepare comprehensive plans. And it authorizes counties, cities, and township to adopt zoning regulations. -
Oklahoma Statutes
Updated 2022Oklahoma requires some counties, cities, and towns to prepare comprehensive plans. And it authorizes counties, cities, and towns to adopt zoning regulations. -
Oregon Revised Statutes
Updated 2021Oregon requires all counties and cities to prepare comprehensive plans. And it authorizes counites and cities to adopt zoning regulations. -
Rhode Island General Laws
Updated 2022These statutes belong to the Planning and Zoning Enabling Acts and Scenic View Protection collections. -
South Carolina Code of Laws
Updated 2022South Carolina requires some counties, cities, and towns to prepare comprehensive plans. And it authorizes counties, cities, and towns to adopt zoning regulations. -
Texas Statutes
Updated 2021Texas authorizes cities, towns, and villages to prepare comprehensive plans. And it authorizes cities, towns, and villages to adopt zoning regulations. -
Virginia Code
Updated 2020These statutes belong to the Capital Improvements Programming, Planning and Zoning Enabling Laws, and Transfer of Development Rights collections. -
West Virginia Code
Updated 2022West Virginia requires some counties, cities, towns, and villages to prepare comprehensive plans. And it authorizes counties, citites, towns, and villages to adopt zoning regulations. -
Wisconsin Statutes
Updated December 2022Wisconsin requires some cities and authorizes counties, towns, and townships to prepare comprehensive plans. And it authorizes counties, cities, towns, and townships to adopt zoning regulations. -
Becoming Utility-Scale Solar Ready
March 2022by: Jeremy Call, AICP, Erin BibeauThis report identifies key principles local governments can follow when considering large solar developments. -
Agrivoltaics Map
September 2022This interactive map shows agrivoltaic installations in the United States. -
Regulating Utility-Scale Solar Projects on Agricultural Land
August 2022by: Hannah Wagner, Tom DanielsThis report discusses the regulatory practices of the development of large solar projects on agricultural land. -
Solar Best Practices Guide: A Guide to Assist Municipalities with Solar Land Use Regulations
2020by: Kenneth Comia, AICP, Eric WeissThis guide intends on helping communities with the regulation and development of solar photovoltaic projects by providing best practices for the development and installation process. -
Alachua County, FL, Comprehensive Plan 2019-2040
Adopted 2019This county's comprehensive plan belongs to the Built Environment and Health, Capital Improvements Programming, Comprehensive Planning, Food Systems, and Solar Energy collections. -
Examining State Planning Enabling Laws Regarding Water Planning Requirements
July 2021by: Cassie Pettit, Sagar Shah, PhD, AICPThis report summarizes the state planning enabling laws in each state and identifies if there are any water planning requirements within them. -
Transfer of Development Rights
2020This guide provides a comprehensive understanding of how TDR programs work. -
Home Occupations
Vermont Land Use Planning Implementation Manual Topic Paper 12, April 2007by: Sharon Murray, FAICP, Michael MunsonThis fact sheet provides communities with strategies for regulating home occupations through land use codes. -
Transfer of Development Rights
Planning Implementation Tools, November 2005This fact sheet describes TDR and its common uses, outlines program creation and implementation, provides a Delphi process evaluation, and two TDR examples from the state of Wisconsin. -
Home Occupations
Seattle Permits Tip 236, February 2015This fact sheet is designed to help residents establish home-based businesses in compliance with Seattle’s home occupation regulations. -
Pinal County, AZ, Comprehensive Plan
Updated January 2021This comprehensive plan belongs to the Solar Energy and Urban Heat Resilience collections. -
Creative Placemaking for Comprehensive Community Developers
2017by: Mia ScharphieThis report focuses on how creative placemaking can be used to activate under-utilized spaces and build community resilience. -
Creative Placemaking: More than Murals
2018by: Frederick Zindell, Mia ScharphieThis webinar reviews the connection between community resiliency and creative placemaking. -
Farmington Hills, MI, Zoning Ordinance
Updated February 2018by: City of Farmington Hills, MIThe city's zoning ordinance allows solar energy collectors in all districts. -
Green Infrastructure
2019This web page contains multiple resources on planning, designing, implementing, and regulating green infrastructure. -
Green Infrastructure
July 2017by: Hannah BrownThis briefing paper provides an overview of green infrastructure planning. -
Green Infrastructure
June 2017This online training includes five speakers who present on green infrastructure and low-impact development (LID) initiatives and projects throughout the country. -
Green Infrastructure
February 2014This video examines the role of parks and other green spaces as green infrastructure. -
Monroe County, PA, Short Term Rental Model Ordinance
2019by: Monroe CountyThis model ordinance provides a template to help townships and boroughs in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, draft regulations for short-term residential rentals. -
Design for America Process Guide
Version 3.2, 2020This guide explains how interdisciplinary teams can use design thinking to solve complex problems in communities. -
Design Thinking — Project in a Day
Toolbox of Smart Urban Innovation Participatory Methods & Tools, 2017This guide explains how planners can use information and communication technology (ICT) tools to engage participants in design thinking. -
Design Thinking Handbook
May 2017by: Eli WooleryThis guide presents a five-step design thinking framework to help designers better understand their end users and create lasting and meaningful change. -
An Introduction to Design Thinking Process Guide
January 2010This guide briefly introduces a five-part design thinking framework and offers suggestions for putting each part into practice. -
The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design
2015by: IDEOThis guide presents extensive recommendations for using design thinking to solve collective problems. -
Video Series: Three Design Thinking Lessons for Building Smart Cities
Stories, June 2020This video series discusses design thinking in the context of smart cities and how cities can utilize technology and resident feedback to better service and prevent congestion. -
Learning Brief: Design-Thinking to Accelerate Solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals
July 2020This briefing paper explains how teachers and other community stakeholders can use design thinking concepts to engage youth in projects to advance the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. -
Design Thinking for Inclusive Community Design: (How) Does it Work?
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018, June 2018by: Stefanie Panke, Thilo HarthThis article analyzes how a workshop on inclusive community development in Germany used design thinking. -
Explainer: What Is “Human-Centered Design”?
Bloomberg Cities, January 2019by: Bloomberg CitiesThis article explains that concept of “human-centered design” and examines how and why cities should be using it to garner wider and more meaningful engagement. -
Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo
Harvard Business Review, September 2018by: Natasha IskanderThis article critiques the use of design thinking in many risk-averse organizations. -
Human-Centered Design and Community Engagement
National Civic Review, Spring 2019by: Michelle CrandallThis article explores the concept of human-centered design in the context of local governmental community engagement processes. -
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2010by: Tim Brown, Jocelyn WyattThis article provides a brief overview of design thinking and its applications to social enterprises. -
Harnessing Design Thinking to Transform Organizations and Inspire Innovation
ICMA, May 2013This article briefly explores the potential benefits of applying design thinking to local governmental processes. -
Design Thinking: Utilizing Hand Graphics to Explore Ideas
APA Chapters and Divisions Planning Webcast Series, April 2021by: Kona GrayThis webinar explores how planners can use hand drawings and computer graphics to explore and communicate important nonverbal ideas. -
Driving Down Emissions: Transportation, Land Use, and Climate Change
October 2020This report evaluates the role of car-oriented land use and design on the nation’s transportation emissions and the impact on climate change. -
A Practical Guide to Implementing Integrated Water Resources Management & the Role of Green Infrastructure
May 2016This guide aims to help municipalities with the creation and implementation of integrated water resource management. -
Guide to Climate-Smart and Water-Wise Cities
Policy Brief, March 2023by: Malin Ingemarsson, Jakob Schabus, Maria SkoldThis briefing paper highlights the threat that cities in the 21st century are currently facing due to climate change and the impact it is having on water management. -
Re-Legalizing Middle Housing
2023This model state act presents statutory alternatives to help states develop and adopt laws that authorize medium-density, or middle, housing types, such as duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, townhouses, and cottage courts. -
Fannie Mae: Green Building Certifications
2019This web page lists all green building certification systems for multifamily buildings eligible for preferential pricing on loans. -
Active Transportation and Real Estate: The Next Frontier
March 2016This report argues that off-street active transportation facilities spur economic development. -
Mitigation of Urban Heat Islands: Community-Wide Summary
Updated November 2021This web page provides a summary of local-level actions to address the urban heat island effects. -
Cycling Towards Sustainability: The Transformative Potential of Urban Design Thinking in a Sustainable Living Lab
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 9: 100269, 2021by: Julian AlexandrakisThis article discusses how multi-sectoral partnerships that engage users in innovation to advance sustainable living can use urban design thinking to analyze problems and implement solutions.