Fiscal Impact Tools
Fiscal impact tools are emerging across the nation and changing the dialog around local and regional planning. Jurisdictions now have a number…
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The Missing Metric
An Economic Development Strategy for the New Normal Resources Provided by Peter Katz, Principal at Strategic Consulting Practice With the multiple crises…
Why Build Near Transit?
By Paul Zykofsky, AICP Director, Center for Livable Communities Published: Transit California; December 1998/January 1999 Transit stops are not just places for…
Ten Keys To Walkable/Livable Communities
By Dan Burden, Director, Walkable Communities, Inc. The following ten items are key indicators (measures) or steps taken to achieve prosperous, walkable,…
Shaping the Tools of Re-Invention
Good Citizens, Better Communities By Dave Davis, President, Initiatives A community’s civic infrastructure is just as important as its physical infrastructure. How…
Energy and the Human Environment
Toward Better Neighborhood Design By Judy and Michael Corbett Introduction Energy costs are eating up an ever-increasing percentage of the family income…
Development And Public Health
Could our development patterns be affecting our personal health? By Richard E. Killingsworth and Jean Lamming Urban Land, July 2001 A nostalgic…
Building Livable Communities With Transit
By Paul Zykofsky, AICP, Director, LGC Center for Livable Communities Livable communities are hot. In a speech on January 11, 1999, Vice…
The Ahwahnee Principles
Toward More Livable Communities By Judith Corbett, Executive Director-Local Government Commission and Joe Velasquez, Coucilmember-City of Cathedral City Cities everywhere are facing…
