Previous Editions: Ask the Author

Read past questions and answers from Zoning Practice's Ask the Author

2009

January 2009

V. Gail Easley, FAICP: "Overhauling Your Zoning Code"

July 2009

Todd Litman: "Parking Management Best Practices: Making Efficient Use of Parking Resources"

February 2009

Donald Shoup, FAICP: "Graduated Density Zoning to Encourage Land Assembly for Infill Redevelopment"

August 2009

James Brindell: "Regulating the Architectural Character of a Community"

April 2009

Daniel R. Mandelker, FAICP: "Decision Making in Sign Codes"

September 2009

Scott L. Reichle: "Local Zoning and Water Rights"

May 2009

Gail Feldman and Dan Marks, AICP: "Balancing the Solar Access Equation"

October 2009

Rick Pruetz, FAICP, and Noah Standridge: "Is Your Community TDR-Ready?"

2008

January 2008

Tom Daniels: "Zoning for Successful Transferable Development Rights Programs"

August 2008

Erica Heller: "Urban Wind Turbines"

February 2008

Elisabeth Holler: "Monitoring Local Land Markets"

September 2008

Lora Lucero, AICP: "The Consistency Doctrine: Merging Intentions with Actions"

March 2008

Robert Parker: "A National Survey of Development Standards and the Impact on Housing Affordability"

October 2008

Adam Kingsley and Thomas Smith: "The Zoning of Religious Institutions in the Wake of RLUIPA — A Guide for Planners"

May 2008

Marya Morris, AICP: "Looking Ahead: Regulating Digital Signs and Billboards"

November 2008

Don Elliott, FAICP: "Better Zoning on the Web"

July 2008

Jim Schwab, AICP: "Better Foliage Through Zoning

December 2008

Tom Daniels: "Rural Zoning: Return to the Village"

2007

January 2007

Jeffrey Lubell: "Zoning to Expand Affordable Housing"

July 2007

Daniel R. Mandelker, FAICP: "Planned Unit Developments and Master Planned Communities: Review and Approval Processes"

February 2007

Rebecca Retzlaff, AICP: "Habitat Loss: Global Crisis with a Local Solution"

August 2007

Gerrit-Jan Knaap and Megan Rhodes: "Is Zoning a Barrier to Multifamily Housing?"

March 2007

Dwight Merriam, FAICP: "Ozzie and Harriet Don't Live Here Anymore: Time to Redefine Family"

November 2007

Jeff Hirt and Joe Sellars: "Goodbye Main Street?"

May 2007

John R. Nolon: "The Quiet Revolution in Training Citizen Planners"

December 2007

Leslie Pollock and Arista Strungys: "Why Do Site Plan Review?"

2006

January 2006

Jennifer Evans-Cowley, AICP: "Regulatory Strategies for Big Boxes"

June 2006

Gail Easley, FAICP: "Conditional Uses: Using Discretion, Hoping for Certainty"

February 2006

Donald Shoup, FAICP: "The Practice of Parking Requirements"

August 2006

Christopher Duerksen: "Got Trees?"

March 2006

Tony Smith, AICP, and Steve B. Friedman, AICP: "Market Analysis: A Zoning Necessity"

September 2006

S. Mark White: "Development Codes for Built Out Communities"

April 2006

David R. Godschalk, FAICP: "Buildout Analysis: A Valuable Planning and Hazard Mitigation Tool"

November 2006

Eric Damian Kelly, FAICP, and Connie Cooper, FAICP: "Regulating Sex Businesses"

May 2006

Jennifer Evans-Cowley, AICP: "Zoning for Universal Design and Visitability"

December 2006

Lisa Nisenson: "Stormwater Regulation and Urban Design"

2005

January 2005

Steve Price: "Visualizing Change: Photo-reimaging America's Built Landscape"

October 2005

S. Mark White, AICP: "Classifying and Defining Uses and Building Forms: Land-Use Coding for Zoning Regulations"

February 2005

James van Hemert: "The Development Review Process: A Means to a Noble and Greater End"

November 2005

Erin Sass Eastman and Jerry Anderson: "Reducing Bias on Zoning Boards"

July 2005

Arthur Ientilucci, AICP: "Monitoring and Evaluating a Zoning Code"

December 2005

Brian Ohm: "Let the Courts Guide You: Planning and Zoning Consistency"

2004

January 2004

Harvey S. Moskowitz and Carl Lindbloom: "Why Definitions"

August 2004

David L. Crawford: "Bright Days, Dark Nights: Regulating Light"

April 2004

Rebecca Retzlaff: "Agritourism Zoning Down on the Farm"

September 2004

Hank Dittmar and Ellen Greenberg, AICP: Two articles on transit oriented development

June 2004

Cynthia Bowen: "Landscape Ordinances: To Define and Protect"

October 2004

Nicholas J. Brunick: "The Inclusionary Housing Debate"

June 2004

David Rouse and Nancy Zobl: "Form-Based Development Codes"

November 2004

Nicholas J. Brunick: "Inclusionary Housing, Part II: Proven Success in Large Cities"

December 2004

Stuart Meck and Marya Morris: "Formatting and Writing the Staff Report"