Acknowledgements
Foreword
Disclaimer

1. Introduction
Why this publication was prepared and how to use it • The sources of our ethics • Internal • External • The role of the planning commission in establishing the ethical climate • How to recognize an ethical planner • The role of the planning commission in establishing the ethical climate • Tools for learning about ethics • Reading and responding to the scenarios • Sample scenario {What are you willing to do to keep your job?}• How to react to a possible ethical lapse • Procedures under the code of ethics • Using the scenarios • As a reader • In a workshop • A word about the moderator • Is it worth the effort to try and uphold ethical principles?

2. Scenarios and Community
When the planning director wants affordable housing • Temporary toilets • Using the zoning ordinance to eliminate feeding programs for the homeless • Public decision-making without public input • Planner wonder if community understands • Development's potential impact • Where have all the affordable rental houses gone? • Being responsive to Hispanic community values • A simple office conversion • Annexation analysis blues • Sending the sex shops next door • Street vendors vs. corporate America • Balancing compassion and enforcing the sign ordinance • Moving the airport • Annual birthday dinner • Developer offers summer employment to planners' children • Being offered confidential information • When an appointed official seeks permit aproval • Planner suspects developer influence on planning commissioners • No home for group homes • Making time for planning on the planning commission agenda • Off the job social relationships affecting on the job performance • Senior planner questions competence of director • Do you have a duty to report and publicize suspicious conduct? • Doing outside professional work on office time • A planner works part time in real estate sales • Can you be a consultant to the public agency for which you once worked? • Private enterprise seeks a public official • Dealing with allegations of sexual harassment • Window dressing minority contracting • Planning director browbeats consultants • What happens when a consultant takes on too much work? • The consultant's new staff • The consultant's brochure • Preserving Indian artifacts • Negative comments about consultant work • Giving credit where credit is due • Grocery store market analysis • Who determines the real numbers • Pricing the comprehensive plan • What's the difference between exactions and extortion? • When the rules for the game seem to change • Using the planning process to stop an unpopular land use • Is something serious really going on? • Planner spies endangered species • Are wetlands an ethical issue? • Does historic preservation overrule religious rights? • Disclosing your employer • Damson preserves • When your personal values clash with a planning assignment

3. Discussion Scenarios
When a university flexes its muscle • An exercise in damage control • Whistle blowing or blowing in the wind • Prioritizing non work that occurs at the office • Arnold oil company conditional use application

Appendix
Scenarios organized by applicable code elements • AICP code of ethics and professional conduct • AICP advisory rulings • AICP/APA ethical principles in planning • Answer sheet for ethics workshop • The social responsibility of the planner • ICMA code of ethics with guidelines and declaration of ideals

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