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The quickest way to locate a community's regulations is
<br />through one of the city and state government directories. These
<br />directories list government web sites by state, region, and
<br />count3,. Upon locating the jurisdiction's site, users can access
<br />planning documents by clicking the appropriate agency or
<br />department. However, given that planning functions may be
<br />spread across many departments, and that most local
<br />government sites are organized by department, planning
<br />documents may be split under several headings or departments.
<br /> When looking for plans or zoning codes across many
<br />jurisdictions, the optimal search strategy might be to begin with
<br />a state or a regional web site. California, New Hampshire,
<br />Florida, Washington, and other states have one or more online
<br />locations with collections of ordinances, plans, development
<br />guidelines, and other municipal documents. It may be
<br />worthwhile to first consider documents at the state level before
<br />reviewing a local jurisdiction's web site for current versions.
<br />Some state planning agencies and libraries also maintain topic-
<br />based collections of plans and zoning codes if one wanted to
<br />search for an issue by subject.
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<br />General Planning Resources
<br />THE AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION
<br />http://www.planning, ore
<br />The American Planning Association's web site is a rapidly
<br />growing repository of planning information. Users searching for
<br />planning resources may want to start here; the site has planning
<br />resources distilled to serve planners. In addition to membership
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<br />APA Home Page
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<br />and APA conference information, the site hosts documents from
<br />various research efforts, directories to APA chapters and
<br />divisions, links to other document sources, and an index of titles
<br />and abstracts of APA publications.
<br />MUNICIPAL RESEARCH AND SERVICE CENTER OF WASHINGTON
<br />http ://www. mrsc. org/
<br />MRSC is a nonprofit organization that provides research,
<br />consultation, and information services to local governments in
<br />the state of Washington. Although the service focuses on
<br />information for Washington communities, it has numerous
<br />
<br />Sa,jay Jeer, AICP, is a senior research associate w/th APA in
<br />Chicago.
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<br />zoning resources useful for planners outside Washington. The
<br />web site has a comprehensive set of databases of local municipal
<br />codes and state legislation with online searching capabilities.
<br />Subject headings are particularly suited for researching planning
<br />topics. While any online research of planning topics can benefit
<br />from this web site, research about local planning topics in
<br />Washington State should begin here.
<br />STATE ^ND LOCAL GOXqmNMENT LINr, S
<br />http://pti, nw. dc. us/AllAboard, htm
<br />This is a comprehensive directory of web sites for state and local
<br />governments. The web sites are organized geographically and
<br />topically. The director3, is maintained by Public TechnoloD,,
<br />Inc. PTI is the nonprofit technology research and development
<br />organization of the National League of Cities (NLC), the
<br />National Association of Counties (NACO), and the
<br />International City/County Management Association (ICMA).
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<br />Publications, Journals, and
<br />Online Bibliographies
<br />AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION PUBLICATIONS ABSTRACTS
<br />http://www.?lanning, org/pubs/pubsindx, html
<br />This is a searchable database of abstracts and articles from APA
<br />publications, including Planning, the Journal of the American
<br />Planning Association (JAPA), the PAS Memo, PAS Reports,
<br />Zoning News, Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, JobMart, The
<br />Commissioner, Resources, AICP Planners' Casebook, and The New
<br />Planner.
<br />MUNICIPAL CODES NATIONWIDE DATABASE
<br />http://www, municode, com/database, html
<br />PLANNING AND ZONING CENTER
<br />htfo://www.pzc, corn
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<br />PLANNING COMIMISSIONLRS JOURNAL
<br />PlannfrsWeb
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<br />PLANNER'S ELECTRONIC LIBRARY, NEw HAMPSHIRE
<br />http://nhresnet, sr. unh. edu/granitNet/planning/guide-overview, html
<br />The library, maintained by PlanNET, has a collection of model
<br />ordinances, local regulations, and a comprehensive subject
<br />index to documents from New Hampshire communities.
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<br />Information Technok, gy Resources
<br />CALIFORNIA JURISDICTIONS THAT USE GIS
<br />htt?://ceres, ca.gov/?lanning/bol/1997/ques_ 13.btm/
<br />GIS MAN^CEMENT OVFlCE, CLARK COUNTY, NEY^DA
<br />http ://www. co. clark, nv. us/gism'o/gismo, btm
<br />A t3'pical example ora GIS data sen'er in a local government
<br />that sen'es zoning information.
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