This Month @ PAS

PAS is working on the resources you need to solve the problems on your desk today. You can find the latest PAS publications and tools here. We have also launched a new monthly e-mail update for subscribers. Click here to update your e-mail address so you can be among the first to find out about the latest PAS resources. Click here to find out how your co-workers can access PAS resources.

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PAS Quicknotes — NEW

Visioning
This PAS QuickNotes will help your planning commission better understand visioning. Through community visioning exercises local communities explore new ways to think about and plan for the long term. The visioning process creates a shared sense of direction and framework for future community decisions, while fostering new leadership among citizens who may not have been previously active in public life. Download this PAS QuickNotes to show your commissioners how to create a successful community visioning process.

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PAS Report — NEW

Planners and the Census: Census 2010, ACS, Factfinder, and Understanding Growth
The U.S. Bureau of the Census provides a vast array of free, high-quality data on population, housing, and other information essential to the work of planners. The information is accessible to anyone with an Internet connection, but some insight into how the information is gathered and organized can make it even easier to navigate. The latest PAS Report, written by Christopher Williamson, AICP, provides that insight, as well as a look at the increasingly popular American Community Survey and the upcoming Census 2010. It also provides tools to help planners use the census to document past growth and project future growth. PAS subscribers will receive the report in July.

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PAS Essential Info Packet — NEW

Teardowns and Mansionization
Is your community experiencing an epidemic of residential teardowns and McMansions? Demolishing older houses and replacing them with super-sized homes can affect community character, historic preservation, and housing affordability. Learn more about the teardown phenomenon and what communities are doing to address it in this PAS Essential Info Packet. APA resources and municipal reports provide background information on this trend, and a collection of sample ordinances demonstrates regulatory techniques for combating this issue in your community.

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PAS Memo

Applying GIS-based Land Suitability Analysis: The Ohio Lake Erie Experience
The principles of land suitability analysis, popularized by Ian McHarg in his 1969 book Design with Nature, are still being used today. In the latest issue of PAS Memo, read how land suitability analysis is being incorporated in a GIS-based decision support tool and how the tool is being used to help watershed planning efforts in Northern Ohio.

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PAS Partners in Practice

Are you ready to assist your fellow PAS subscribers?
PAS is offering you an opportunity to share your community's experience and success with planners nationwide. If you have ideas and suggestions, send them to PASpartners@planning.org.

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New Books at the APA Library

The APA Library in Chicago has more than 4,200 volumes on planning and related subjects and acquires new titles each month. The library is open to all; materials may be used on the premises but are not available for loan.

Need help finding these books at a library near you? Contact the APA librarian, Rana Salzmann, at 312-786-6353 or library@planning.org.

Read about the new titles