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Food Systems Planning

This PAS QuickNotes provides planning commissioners, public officials, and engaged citizens with an overview of the components, challenges and opportunities related to community food systems, and outlines the role of planning practice in the development of healthy, sustainable local and regional food systems.

Low-Impact Development

This PAS Quicknotes will help public officials and engaged citizens learn how Low-Impact Development (LID) offers ecological and economic advantages over conventional site planning approaches for managing the volume and quality of stormwater.

Understanding Planned Unit Development

This PAS QuickNotes will help your public officials and engaged citizens better understand planned unit development. Learn how a PUD provision can offers an alternative to conventional lot-by-lot development while advancing a number of smart growth principles and sustainability objectives.  

Planning for Transit-Oriented Development

This PAS QuickNotes will help your planning commission better understand transit-oriented development. Learn how to plan for TOD projects from start to finish and how the planning, implementation, and evaluation phases add greatly to producing successful project outcomes.