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PAS ReportsEach quarter APA's Planning Advisory Service publishes a new PAS Report providing authoritative guidance on current issues and innovative practices. Subscribing organizations automatically receive each new PAS report as it is published. Subscribers may borrow past reports and purchase them at a 50 percent discount from APAPlanningbooks.com. Latest ReportSustaining Places: The Role of the Comprehensive Plan
In the latest PAS Report, authors David R. Godschalk, FAICP, and William R. Anderson, FAICP, show how cities, towns, and regions can work together to meet the challenge. These leading planners put forward eight principles for developing comprehensive plans that address today's needs without compromising the needs of the next generation. Case studies demonstrate sustainability planning at work in cities including Seattle and San Diego and smaller communities like Keene, New Hampshire, and Union County, Pennsylvania. Sustaining Places gives planners, local officials, and involved citizens a practical framework for understanding the most crucial contemporary planning concerns and a roadmap for moving toward a better future. The report is the culmination of APA's multiyear, multifaceted Sustaining Places Initiative. PAS subscribers will receive the report in January. Additional copies are available through APAPlanningBooks.com. Chronological List of ReportsWhatever issue you're working on, chances are there's a PAS Report that covers it. Since 1949, PAS has published more than 550 reports on a wide range of planning topics. Take a look at the PAS Reports list to see all the titles in this vital resource series. PAS subscribers: Is the title you want not on your department's bookshelf? Contact us for a loan copy, or purchase your own from the bookstore with your 50 percent PAS discount. Historic Reports
Information Report No. 194, January 1965 Standards for Outdoor Recreational AreasHow many acres of parkland should a city have? Planners have been thinking about park and recreation area guidelines since the early 1900s. This month's historic PAS report summarizes mid-century development and design standards for playgrounds and parks ... as well as golf courses, ski areas, and other outdoor recreational facilities. Selected Reports OnlineLooking for land use definitions? Need some examples of parking standards for a certain use? PAS Subscribers, we've provided you with digital access to the popular reports below. Jobs-Housing BalancePAS Report 516
Community IndicatorsPAS Report 517
A Planners DictionaryPAS Report 521/522
Parking StandardsPAS Report 510/511
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Planning for sustainability is the defining challenge of the 21st century. More than any other single endeavor, it confronts the critical perils to our future, from energy shortages and environmental stress to climate shifts and population surges.
PAS published its first Information Report in 1949. To celebrate this history, each month we're presenting a new report from the archives. We hope you enjoy these fascinating snapshots of planning issues of yesteryear.
This report examines a controversial concept — jobs-housing balance. Some have argued that the market is the mechanism that will achieve such balance. Jerry Weitz, in his research of four types of jobs-housing imbalance, concludes that the market has failed to achieve balance in three of the four scenarios he lays out. He provides case studies to support his findings, including one from King County, Washington, showing that increases in housing costs are more gradual in areas with a jobs-housing balance. This report counters the skeptics and points to those actions planners can take to help bring appropriate housing, jobs, and workforces together, resulting in overall community improvements.
Community indicators help planners evaluate and monitor the full range of factors — social, environmental, economic, and more — that affect the well-being of a community or region. This report reviews the use of indicators in planning practice and explores their relationship to citizen participation, quality of life, and sustainability. It summarizes the types and scale of indicators and describes how to identify, select, and develop indicators that are appropriate for a particular community. Rural and urban examples show how planners have used indicators in their practice. Includes an annotated list of resources and web links.
This dictionary, a revised and updated edition of the Planning Advisory Service's best selling Glossary of Zoning, Development, and Planning Terms, contains more than 4,200 terms used by planners around the nation. This new edition contains an introduction by Harvey Moscowitz, FAICP, chief editor of The Illustrated Book of Development Definitions, and Carl Lindbloom, AICP. Contributors include many APA Research Department staff, who culled through hundreds of ordinances, plans, and planning documents to offer readers choices of definitions and commentaries that add depth and value to the dictionary.
This report, an expanded and updated version of a previous best seller, contains an exhaustive set of parking standards and an exploration of the complexities of creating practical standards. There is general agreement that when the supply of parking greatly exceeds typical demand, the results are detrimental to a range of stakeholders. Benefits may come from minimizing off-street parking, but downsizing requirements can be tricky because many communities fear the impact on overall community development. This report addresses that quandary and explores techniques such as shared parking, maximum parking standards, downtown parking standards, and more.
