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Planning ABCs
by Laurence C. Gerckens

--- Noted planning historian Laurence Gerckens begins an alphabetical review of key planning topics with a look at: Automobiles, Budgets, and Comprehensive Plan. Note: The Planning ABCs series is available to order in its entirety.

Developing a Sewer Ordinance: One Town's Experience
by Kate Lampton read excerpts from article order and download article

--- As town planner Kate Lampton explains, designating areas where essential services, particularly sewer service, can be used is one of the opportunities local planners have to direct growth to locations that reinforce community goals. Lampton explores how her town developed a sewer allocation ordinance.

Zoning & Changing Lifestyles
by Greg Dale and Michael Chandler read excerpts from article order and download article

--- Mike Chandler & Greg Dale continue their overview of zoning by focusing on the impact that changes in our society are having on local zoning regulation.

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Looking Around:
What's So Bad About Zoning? read excerpts from article free download; click read excerpts

--- Ed McMahon provides a reality check on four "myths" about zoning & land use regulation: 1. Zoning is un-American; 2. Sparsely populated rural areas don't need to control uses of land; 3. Land use controls will increase taxes and reduce property values; and 4. Planning is a bad idea.

The Effective Planning Commission:
Planning Boards Survive a Decade of Change read excerpts from article order and download article

--- PCJ columnist Elaine Cogan reflects on ways in which planning has changed over the past ten years.

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