Community Planning

Chapter 1

Chapter 1 | Some Overarching Issues: Sustainability, Sprawl, and Human Health

This chapter introduces these subjects and places them in the context of modern planning practice; extensive references in the chapter lead to more information for those who want to explore these topics further.

Chapter 1, Part I: The Comprehensive Planning Process

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adequate public facilities, affordable housing, brownfield, brownfield plan, brownfield strategy, capital facilities plan, capital improvements plan, capital improvements program, citizen participation, city planning, combined sewer overflows, community planner, community planning, complete streets, comprehensive plan, comprehensive plan housing element, concurrency, consolidated housing plan, corridor plan, CPTED, crime prevention through environmental design, disaster planning, district plan, downtown plan, earthquakes, economic development plan, evacuation plan, fire protection, floodplain map, floodplains, future land use, gateway plan, general plan, GIS, green infrastructure, green network, greenways, growth management, historic district plan or historic neighborhood plan, historic preservation, home builders, homebuilders, hospitality and entertainment district, interactive maps, land developers, land use plan, landscape standards, landslide hazard areas or maps, level of service, master plan, master plan housing element, metropolitan planning organization, MPO, multi-modal, neighborhood plan, on-line mapping, open space plan, parking design, parking standards, parks plan, planning, planning commission, planning commissioner, planning maps, plat, public facilities design, public facilities plan, public participation, public-private partnerships, real estate developers, redevelopment plan, regional plan, regional planner, renewal plan, revitalization plan, rezoning, rural planner, sign ordinance, sign regulation, site design, site lighting, small area plan, smart growth, stormwater, subdivision ordinance, subdivision plat, subdivision regulation, targeted industry study, tornado safety, tourist district, town planner, town planning, trails plan, transportation plan, urban planner, urban planning, urban redevelopment, urban renewal, wastewater, water quality, wildfire hazard area or maps, zoning, zoning map, zoning map amendment, zoning ordinance, zoning variance

Chapter 1

Chapter 1 | Some Overarching Issues: Sustainability, Sprawl, and Human Health

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