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Land Use Planning

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American Planning Association - APA is a nonprofit public interest and research organization committed to urban, suburban, regional, and rural planning. APA and its professional institute, the American Institute of Certified Planners, advance the art and science of planning to meet the needs of people and society.

http://www.planning.org/ - Open in New Window

Congress for the New Urbanism - A good site on New Urbanism. New Urbanist neighborhoods are walkable, and contain a diverse range of housing and jobs. New Urbanists support regional planning for open space, appropriate architecture and planning, and the balanced development of jobs and housing. Issues such as reining in urban sprawl, historic restoration, safe streets, and green building are also part of this movement.

http://www.cnu.org/ - Open in New Window

EPA's Smart Growth site

http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/index.htm - Open in New Window

The Lincoln Land Institute - Online Education - Many online courses are currently available through LEO.

http://www.lincolneducationonline.org/ - Open in New Window

Northern New England Chapter of the American Planning Association

http://www.nnecapa.org/ - Open in New Window

Vermont Planners Association- The Vermont Planners Association (VPA), a statewide, non-profit, membership-based organization of professional and citizen planners, landscape architects, engineers, housing and economic development specialists, developers and others who support effective planning.

http://www.vermontplanners.org/ - Open in New Window

Vermont Association of Planning and Development Agencies (VAPDA) - VAPDA represents all 11 regional planning commissions in Vermont. This site also links to each regional commission.

http://www.vapda.org/ - Open in New Window

Smart Growth Vermont - The mission of Smart Growth Vermont is to preserve Vermont's unique working landscape and quality of life while encouraging economic vitality in community centers. This vision can be achieved by discouraging wasteful land consumption, increasing public awareness and reducing the environmental costs of sprawl, influencing and creating planning policies or tools to reduce sprawl, promoting downtowns and village centers, providing more transportation and housing choices and conserving valuable farmland and forestland.

http://www.smartgrowthvermont.org/ - Open in New Window

Vermont League of Cities and Towns - VLCT provides research and information sharing, training, technical assistance, legislative advocacy, group insurance programs, and legal assistance to Vermont cities and towns.

http://www.vlct.org/ - Open in New Window

Community Planning and Revitalization Division- The Vermont Department of Community Planning and Reviatlization assists in guiding land use policy and development decisions to meet statutory goals (24 VSA section 4302). First among those is "to plan development so as to maintain the historic settlement pattern of compact village and urban centers separated by rural countryside."

http://accd.vermont.gov/strong_communities/opportunities/revitalization - Open in New Window

Vermont Planning Information Center - This site provides information for planning commissions, zoning boards, development review boards, zoning administrators, and their staff. VPIC was created through a Land Use Education and Training Collaborative working together to coordinate and improve the delivery of land use education and training for local land use officials in Vermont.

http://www.vpic.info - Open in New Window

Vermont Secretary of State's Office - A good site for information and assistance in understanding the laws that apply to local governments. Contains "Vermont Municipal Guide to Land Use Regulations".

http://www.sec.state.vt.us/municipal/ - Open in New Window

Vermont Statutes On-Line: Land Use - V.S.A. Title 24, Vermont's law governing land use and land use regluation is available on the web.

http://www.leg.state.vt.us/statutes/sections.cfm?Title=24&Chapter=117 - Open in New Window