Comprehensive Plan

Make No Big Plans

Salon's Michael Lind argues that attempts to create "comprehensive reform" of anything is a recipe for disaster.

16 July 2009 - 1:00pm

Salon.com

Height Ordinance: A Broader Issue

South Walton is considering pass a height ordinance to limit the buildings to 50 feet.

17 June 2009 - 6:00am

Northwest Florida Daily News

Directing Raleigh's Future

A new comprehensive plan being released in Raleigh has many -- both in and out of the city -- wondering what's the best way to grow in the post-sprawl world.

22 March 2009 - 7:00am

Raleigh Durham Independent Weekly

Curing Ills in Suburban Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia, has its own brand of suburban sprawl: suburbia without the space. A new comprehensive plan aims to address the woes of suburban Melbourne, but some say it doesn't go far enough.

12 May 2008 - 7:00am

The Age

Blueprint Denver, the city's comprehensive plan, calls for preserving single-family neighborhoods. But the recent move by the city council to reduce the allowed density in two communities has some residents and developers unhappy.

1 May 2008 - 8:15am

The Rocky Mountain News

Eric Damian Kelly

Telling the Planning Story

Wed, 03/07/2007 - 11:06

During my term of office as president of the American Planning Association, I made my theme “telling the planning story.” My point then – and today – is that we need to do a better job of explaining to our many publics what it is that planners do and why it makes a difference.

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