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Issue #31: Summer 1998

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Procedural Due Process in Practice
by Dwight H. Merriam, Esq., AICP and Robert J. Sitkowski, Esq., AIA read excerpts from article order and download article

--- No person shall be deprived of property "without due process of law." A primer on what this Constitutional requirement means for the process planning commissions and zoning boards need to follow in handling land use permit applications.

Putting Growth in Its Place with Transfer of Development Rights
by Rick Pruetz, AICP read excerpts from article
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--- Transfer of development rights offers communities a way of saving environmentally sensitive areas, farmlands, historic landmarks, and other important resources. Planner Rick Pruetz examines how transfer of development rights programs work, and what makes some more successful than others.

Planning Law Primer: Transferable Development Rights
by Peter Buchsbaum, Esq.

--- A quick look at some of the issues raised by transferable development rights programs, by New Jersey attorney Peter Buchsbaum.

DEPARTMENTS

The Effective Planning Commission:
What's Your PMQ (Public Meeting Quotient)? read excerpts from article order and download article

--- Elaine Cogan offers some guidelines for designing and carrying out effective public meetings.

The Planning Commission At Work:
21st Century Comprehensive Plans read excerpts from article
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--- Mike Chandler focuses on five ways in which local comprehensive plans are already starting to change as we near the new century.

Looking Around:
Bicylists & Pedestrians Belong! read excerpts from article order and download article

--- Bicyclists and pedestrians belong in our communities, advocates Edward McMahon in his look at the economic, health, and environmental benefits of biking and walking.

News, Notes & Quotes

--- Brief updates from Dean Pierce on: TEA-21, the new federal transportation law; Columbus, Ohio's comprehensive street lighting plan; "neo-traditional" development in Florida's panhandle; and more.

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