Dreaming the Future: Community Vision Planning
by Walter Cudnohufsky
--- A small town in Massachusetts shows how vision planning works.
--- Planning for tourism can help in identifying and making use of a city or region's special character. But successful tourism strategies must first take into account the needs of local residents.
A Heritage Tourism Portfolio
by the Editor
--- Reports on successful heritage tourism programs in: Galveston, Texas; Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Central Wisconsin; The Blackstone Valley of Rhode Island and Massachusetts; and El Paso, Texas.
On the Value of Trees and Open Space
by Elizabeth Brabec
--- Trees and open space not only benefit the environment, but property values as well.
Portals to Our National Heritage
by John Stilgoe
--- Communities don't need national landmarks to create connections to our national heritage.
The Effective Planning Commissioner:
The Planning Commissioner and the "Vision Thing"
--- Elaine Cogan helps you through some planning jargon to understand several key steps in the planning process.
Ethics & The Planning Commission:
The Ethics of Bias
--- Greg Dale on when values becomes biases.
The Planning Commission At Work:
Developing the Comprehensive Plan -- Part II
--- Citizen participation strategies are critical to developing a comprehensive plan, as Michael Chandler describes in his column. The second in a three-part series on developing the comprehensive plan.
--- Attorney and planning commission chairman Carolyn W. Baldwin discusses four different relationships between attorneys and planning commissions.
Insights:
Sprawl Is Like the Weather
by Brent Thompson
--- Sprawl and low density development are closely related, argues Brent Thompson, a planning commissioner from Ashland, Oregon.
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