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Meetings to cover 30-year transit plan for the area
Blade (Toledo, OH)March 03--A series of five meetings to discuss a long-term transportation plan for the metropolitan...
Twin Falls City Council Opposes Bill that Amends Eminent Domain
Times-News (Twin Falls, ID)March 03--TWIN FALLS -- Council also took an official stance on Senate Bill 1044, which amends exis...
Critics raise questions over Uinta water plan
Deseret News (UT)SALT LAKE CITY - A pair of meetings are scheduled tonight to get feedback on the Uinta Basin Water ...
Kennewick planning commission shoots down proposed hillside rules
Tri-City Herald (Kennewick, WA)March 03--Kennewick should not meddle with its rules for developing hillsides purely for aesthetic ...
Early city reservoir reclaimed as a park
Oregonian (Portland, OR)A lot of Portlanders are unhappy that the Mount Tabor and Washington Park reservoirs are likely to ...
Burlington City Council to vote on $5 per vehicle tax to fund bus system
Times-News (Burlington, NC)March 02--The Burlington City Council will consider a $5 per vehicle tax and a proposed timeline to...
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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.