Search Results for by Whit Blanton

Integrating Land Use & Transportation

Integrating Land Use & Transportation

by Whit Blanton

A growing number of communities are recognizing the close relationship between transportation planning decisions and land use. Transportation planner Whit Blanton reports on how one metropolitan area has begun to put land use and transportation…

Grain silos photo by Brent Emery; Flickr creative commons license

Are Your Boards “Territory Folks”?

by Kathy Trauger

…What does this have to do with Planning Commissioners, you ask? Here is another “rural” analogy hint … silos. Still confused? In a Planning Commissioners Journal article, “Integrating Land Use and Transportation,”[ref]Whit Blanton, “Integrating Land…

The Secrets of Successful Communities

Read ULI analyst Ed McMahon's seven part series.

Basics of Putting Together a Comprehensive Plan

Take a look at this excellent series of articles by Jim Segedy & Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy.

Planner & Commissioner

Our 5-part series on the relationship between staff planners and planning board members.

An Introduction to Form-Based Codes

Joel Russell & Mary Madden of the Form-Based Codes Institute cover the basics of this new approach to zoning.

Building Your Local Economy

Planner Gwendolyn Hallsmith offers a progressive take on planning for local economic development in this five-part series starting with Coping With Economic Meltdown.

Also, take a look at our extended reprints from economic development planner Della Rucker's excellent book, The Local Economy Revolution.

Pro-Forma 101 – Getting Familiar With a Basic Tool of Real Estate Analysis

Ever wonder how a pro-forma is put together & what it is used for? This four-part article provides an easy to understand introduction.