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Planning and [Your Community]

Planning and [Your Community] What is planning? Helps guide how a community grows and develops U.S. population expected to increase 100 million by 2043. Considers all resident needs Looks at the “big picture” What are the community’s current and future needs?

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Planning and [Your Community]

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  1. Planning and [Your Community]

  2. What is planning? • Helps guide how a community grows and develops • U.S. population expected to increase 100 million by 2043. • Considers all resident needs • Looks at the “big picture” • What are the community’s current and future needs? • Examines issues from all angles • Social, environmental, hazard, physical

  3. What is planning? • Planning is comprehensive and • community-focused, and enables • greater choices for residents.

  4. Let’s look at how planning impacts you.

  5. How do you get to work? • Do you: • Drive (solo or car pool) • Take mass transit • Walk • Bicycle • Other

  6. Where do you live? • Do you live in an: • Urban setting • Suburban neighborhood • Rural community

  7. What is your residence? • Stand-alone home • Apartment • Condominium • Town house • Other

  8. Planning gives you choices • Where you want to live • How you want to commute • The type of house you live in • Where you play or spend your leisure time

  9. Planning benefits your community • Maintains neighborhood character • Reduces environmental impacts • Provides protection from natural and man-made disasters • Preserves parks and open space • Helps determine where buildings, businesses, homes, and roads will be located (or sited)

  10. Who are planners? • Professionally educated and trained • Visionaries with a comprehensive view • Ability to address the challenges of growth and change within a community • 15,000 members are professionally certified • By the American Planning Association’s professional institute, the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP)

  11. Planners address challenges • Housing affordability • Commute times • Obesity • Pollution and air quality • Safety concerns

  12. Some planning tools • Comprehensive plan • Guides overall community growth and development • Zoning • Classifying land uses into different ‘zones’ • Design standards • Set of guidelines regarding the architectural appearance of a building • Graphic Information System (GIS) • Computer-based system for generating maps • Think of Google Earth

  13. Get involved! • Serve on the planning commission or attend the meetings. • Participate in forums, visioning sessions, growth discussions in your community. • Keep informed of planning issues in your community. • Join the American Planning Association (APA)—You don’t have to a planner to be a member.

  14. American Planning Association (APA) • Membership and education organization • Represents more than 43,000 members nationwide: • Professionals, business leaders, elected officials, citizens, students, educators • Advocates for good planning practices • In communities, legislatures, and courts • Encourages engaging the entire community in planning decisions

  15. National Community Planning Month • Annual celebration in October • Celebrates the benefits of planning in our communities • Increases awareness about the importance and need for planners and planning • This year’s theme is “Sustaining Places” • Visit: www.planning.org/ncpm

  16. Examples of planning in [town name] • Example 1 (add picture if available) • Example 2 • Example 3

  17. Resources • APA: www.planning.org • Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning: www.acsp.org • Local planning department [include link information] • [Local APA chapter & web link]

  18. Resources • Suggested reading: • Citizens Guide to Planning (4th ed.) • The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs • High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup • Smart Growth in a Changing World by Jonathan Barnett • True Urbanism by Mark Hinshaw • Visit APAPlanningBooks.com for more titles

  19. Contact • American Planning Association (APA) • 312.431.9100 • PublicInfo@planning.org • www.planning.org

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