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Rental inspection plan moves on
Hutchinson News, The (KS)March 05--The Hutchison Housing Commission is sending a draft proposal of the rental registration i...
Hilton Head Island on leading edge of new 'green' certification
Island Packet (Hilton Head, SC)March 05--A new sustainability plan aims to push the Town of Hilton Head Island even closer to the ...
Perceptions at odds in affordable housing dispute
San Angelo Standard-Times (TX)March 05--SAN ANGELO, Texas -- Objections to a proposed affordable housing project for Valleyview B...
Littleton, Colo., Requires Vote to Use Tax Increment Financing
Bond Buyer (Online)DALLAS — Littleton is the first city in Colorado to require voter approval for tax-increment financ...
House passes Amtrak bill that could boost Northeast service
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare burst of bipartisanship, the House moved Wednesday to boost Amtrak's po...
Micro-farm grows out of vacant city lot
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI)March 03--A former factory site on Milwaukee's north side is being cleaned up, with the property be...
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New Publications from APA
Sustaining Places: Best Practices for Comprehensive Plans (PAS 578)
Learn the steps and standards for putting sustainability in its place — at the heart of the long-range plan — in the latest PAS Report to come out of APA's Sustaining Places Initiative. Share experiences from big cities and small towns, plus real-world ideas for meeting the greatest planning challenge of our time. This report is not a recipe. It's a resource with principles, processes, and pointers communities can use to forge their own solutions.
Planning Atlanta
More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil War to the 1996 Olympic boom to the current housing crisis, the city's history is a cycle of rise and fall, ruin and resurgence. In Planning Atlanta, two dozen planning practitioners and thought leaders bring the story to life. They probe the city's economic and environmental growing pains. And they look toward new plans that will shape Atlanta's next incarnation.