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Issue #29: Winter 1998

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Access Management: An Overview & Guide for Roadway Corridors
by Elizabeth Humstone & Julie Campoli read excerpts from article order and download article

--- What can be done to break the cycle of increased congestion necessitating costly road widenings that result in increased traffic? While there is no single solution, one important - and increasingly used - strategy involves what is called "access management." Planning consultant Elizabeth Humstone and landscape architect Julie Campoli provide an overview of access management, followed by an illustrated guide to strategies that can help control the flow of traffic between the road and surrounding land.

Making Planning Commissions More Effective
by Bruce W. McClendon read excerpts from article order and download article

--- A checklist for making your planning commission more effective.

Video-Conference Training for Planning Commissioners
by Kathleen McMahon read excerpts from article order and download article

--- Providing planning commission training is always a challenge. Time is limited and funds are often scarce. Video-conferencing offers an increasingly popular way of overcoming these obstacles.

Working With Planning Consultants -- Part I
by C. Gregory Dale read full article
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--- Planning consultant Greg Dale outlines ten key elements to successfully getting started on a project that will involve consultants - in part I of a three-part series.

DEPARTMENTS

News, Notes & Quotes

--- Introducing a new PCJ column covering news of interest to citizen planners. Dean Pierce reports on: dealing with violence in New Hampshire; paying more for sprawl in one California city; redesigning an Iowa highway; and more.

The Planning Commission At Work:
Citizen Planning Academies read full article order and download article

--- One of the major challenges facing most communities, and their planning boards, is how to explain planning and the planning process in terms citizens can understand. Mike Chandler looks at how "citizen planning academies" helped in two Virginia counties.

Looking Around:
Billboard Regulation, Part I ("Litter on a Stick") read excerpts from article
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--- Billboards are bad news for communities, argues columnist Edward McMahon.

The Effective Planning Commission:
Just What Is Your Planning Commission's Role read excerpts from article order and download article

--- Elaine Cogan considers three basic variations in the role planning commissions and commissioners can take.

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