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Issue #17: Winter 1995

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Coping With Superstores
by Constance E. Beaumontread excerpts from articleorder and download article

--- How planning commissioners can come to grips with superstore development, and reach an outcome that the community wants.

What Every Planning Commissioner Should Know About Demographics
by Judith Waldropread excerpts from articleorder and download article

--- Understanding why demographics is an important tool in local planning.

How to Make Decisions People Will Accept
by Otis Whiteread excerpts from articleorder and download article

--- In the second of his series on community leadership, Otis White explains why there's more to making a good planning decision than just reaching the right result.

Planning and Conflict: The Story of Otaru, Japan
by Kunio Yamaguchiread excerpts from articleorder and download article

--- Japanese planner Kunio Yamaguchi describes how the issue of growth versus preservation brought conflict, and then consensus, to the small city of Otaru.

DEPARTMENTS

The Effective Planning Commissioner:
There's Help for Dysfunctional Meetingsread excerpts from articleorder and download article

--- Elaine Cogan offers "first aid" for meetings that don't seem to work.

Ethics & The Planning Commission:
Behind the Scenes Advocacyread excerpts from articleorder and download article

--- When planning commissioners become "behind the scenes" advocates. Some cautionary advice from Greg Dale.

The Planning Commission At Work:
Are You Organized For Business?read excerpts from articleorder and download article

--- Mike Chandler provides a 20-question exercise that can help your commission see how well it's organized for business.

Insights:
The Emerging American Tribe
by Perry L. Nortonread excerpts from articleorder and download article

--- Homogeneity; telecommunications; e-mail; and planners.

Insights:
How to Mess Up a Town
by James Howard Kunstlerread full articleorder and download article

--- The degradation of Saratoga Springs, New York -- and what it says about our society.

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