--- Five trends that present challenges and opportunities for planning commissioners and other public officials, from the author of Mastering Change and Customer Service in Local Government.
The Forces Shaping Our Communities
by Joseph F. Coates
--- A noted "futurist" takes a look at how change is coming to communities across the nation.
Rethinking Conventional Zoning
by Joel S. Russell
--- Attorney and planning consultant Joel Russell examines the failings of conventional zoning, and explores a way of incorporating greater flexibility into local zoning.
American Zoning & the Physical Isolation of Uses
by Laurence C. Gerckens
--- Most zoning ordinances segregate residential, commercial, and industrial zones. Planning historian Larry Gerckens tells how this came to be.
The Effective Planning Commissioner:
Customer Service Starts at the Front Door
--- To get an idea of what the public customer really faces, try approaching your planning office as if you were a citizen going there for the first time. Ideas on how to see whether your planning office works for the public, from Elaine Cogan.
The Planning Commission At Work:
Making the Most of Your Meeting Time -- Part I
--- Mike Chandler offers two exercises that can help you make the most of your meeting time.
Talking Transportation:
Parking Lots
--- In his concluding column on parking lots, Greg Dale discusses stormwater runoff and shared parking.
Planning Law Primer:
Planned Unit Developments
by Mary McMaster, Esq.
--- Attorney Mary McMaster provides an overview of "planned unit developments," including considerations in preparing a PUD ordinance.
Insights:
Who Knows What Tomorrow Might Bring?
by Perry L. Norton
--- Everything we see about us is the end result of decisions made, or not made, in all our yesterdays.
Insights:
America's Joka-Machi
by John Stilgoe
--- Why the explosive growth in "secure" developments across the nation harkens back to medieval Japan's joka-machi or gated communities.
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