The Key Principles For Effective Planning

The new report "summarizes key principles and practices for effective planning, particularly land use and transportation planning. Planning refers to a formal decision-making process that reflects human needs, preferences and values. An effective planning process takes into account diverse perspectives and impacts, allowing decision-makers to find optimal solutions to problems and effective ways to achieve goals."

"Planning is among the noblest but underappreciated of professions. Planners are entrusted with helping a community create its preferred future -- good planning helps communities make progress toward paradise, but bad planning leaves a legacy of problems and conflicts. Planners perform civilization's heavy lifting by anticipating and resolving the myriad conflicts that occur within a community. Being a good planner requires unique approaches to issues..."

The paper outlines the virtues of the planning profession, in addition to many planning issues and how they can be addressed.