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Fundamentals of Planning and Zoning
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Our Price: $349.99
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This comprehensive package offers all seven Citizen Planner Core Modules for a reduced rate.
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GD.5: Are you ready for green development?
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Our Price: $29.99
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Now that we’ve discussed green development from multiple perspectives, the next step is deciding if you are ready for green development and if not, what you can do to get there. This unit is designed to help a planning commission make decisions about how a community can become green development ready by walking through the process of evaluating and updating planning and regulatory documents.
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Wind Energy Siting and Policy Issues – Planning and Zoning Training for Local Officials
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Our Price: $69.99
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This audio PowerPoint-based module explores how to proactively plan for wind turbines and carefully develop regulations for their installation. Local officials, planners and land owners are provided with the tools and resources necessary to implement policies and a strategic plan for wind energy development in their community.
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Growth Through Green Development
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Our Price: $69.99
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This module presents an introduction to the many facets and perspectives of green development. The goal of this module is to increase awareness of green development strategies, techniques, and tools that can be used when planning sites, neighborhoods, communities, and regions.
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GD.1: Foundations of Green Development
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Our Price: $29.99
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This unit provides an overview of green development practices. It introduces green development from the regional, community, and site perspective. The unit explores reasons why green development is important and the ways planners can start thinking about changing development practices to be more environmentally-friendly and economically sustainable.
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GD.2: Green Infrastructure
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Our Price: $29.99
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This unit provides an overview of planning principles that planners can use to incorporate natural features in the development of their regions and communities. It discusses the economic and quality-of-life benefits derived from the environment, the impacts of not protecting natural features, and general ecological principles that can help guide the incorporation of green infrastructure.
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GD.3: Design the Community on a Human Scale
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Our Price: $29.99
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One way to reach sustainability is to think about communities from the human perspective, at human scale. Designing at the human scale leads to a community that is pedestrian-oriented and scaled toward human interaction. This unit explores ways to shape or reshape a community so that it is not so strongly dependent upon automobiles. But how do we achieve this? This unit discusses transitions from conventional community configurations to human scale configurations as well as designs of new communities that encourage human interaction.
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GD.4: Green Site Development
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Our Price: $29.99
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Previously this module discussed many green development and sustainability issues on a community or regional level. Ultimately the techniques to address these issues must be implemented on a site level. This unit focuses on how green development can be implemented through site design and development practices. This unit introduces tools that planners can use to make sites more environmentally sustainable and socially interactive.
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Module SP1: Planning and Zoning Tools for Developers and Realtors
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Our Price: $69.99
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Rezoning, variances, land divisions, and site condominiums are all common development issues facing property developers and realtors.Through the four units in this series, you will learn the essential tools for dealing with land development at your own pace and schedule. Please read in details below the topics you will cover.
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Module 1: Planning Official Roles & Responsibilities
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Our Price: $69.99
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Offers an introduction to the world of planning, who planners are, what they do and how they do it. The units within this module focus on the history and the future of planning, making ethical decisions and smart growth. Training units are online, self-paced, independent-study opportunities to learn about the core tasks associated with becoming a planning official. It is estimated that each unit will take between 30 minutes and two hours to complete.
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Module 2: Legal Foundations
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Our Price: $69.99
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Discover the legal aspects of planning. The units within this module focus on history as well as current court cases affecting the field of planning. Training units are online, self-paced, independent-study opportunities to learn about the core tasks associated with becoming a planning official. It is estimated that each unit will take between 30 minutes and two hours to complete.
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Module 3: The Master Plan
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Our Price: $69.99
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Learn what a master plan is and how it should be used. Units within this module focus on why the plan is created, how land uses are defined and how they are designated.Training units are online, self-paced, independent-study opportunities to learn about the core tasks associated with becoming a planning official. It is estimated that each unit will take between 30 minutes and two hours to complete.
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Module 4: The Planning Process
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Our Price: $69.99
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This module walks through five phases of the planning process and how each phase plays a role. Training units are online, self-paced, independent-study opportunities to learn about the core tasks associated with becoming a planning official. It is estimated that each unit will take between 30 minutes and two hours to complete
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Module 5: Zoning Tools & Techniques
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Our Price: $69.99
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Learn how to use zoning to positively shap a community. Units within this module will help you execute your zoning responsibilities such as site plans, planned unit developments and subdivisions.
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Module 6: Overview of the Zoning Processes
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Our Price: $69.99
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Discover what zoning options are available to use in implementing a comprehensive plan. Units within this module will consider several zoning related processes, including amendments, variances and enforcement.
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Module 7: The Art of Community Planning
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Our Price: $69.99
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Knowing the mechanics of what needs to get and how it gets done is only part of being a planner. You are dealing with many underlying issues, personalities, baggage, etc. The art of community planning is knowing when to be the bull in the china shop and when not to be. This module looks at the human side of community planning in hopes that it will help you navigate the china shop appropriately.
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Module SP2: First Planning Commission Meeting
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Our Price: $69.99
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This module covers what you need to know before your first planning commission meeting. Local Planning Commissioners are often called upon to make important decisions to guide the growth and development of their communities. Issues surrounding land use planning and regulation, and the tools and techniques available within Michigan to address them, have become increasingly complex. Learn the basics of what you need before your first meeting.
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Module SP3: Your First Zoning Board of Appeals Meeting
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Our Price: $69.99
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This module covers what you need to know before your first Zoning Board of Appeals meeting. Zoning Boards of Appeals are often called upon to make important decisions to guide the growth and development of their communities. Issues surrounding land use planning and regulation, and the tools and techniques available within Michigan to address them, have become increasingly complex. Learn the basics of what you need before your first meeting.
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Smart Growth Readiness Assessment Tool (SGRAT) - OPTION 2
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Our Price: $550.00
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The Smart Growth Readiness Assessment Tool (SGRAT) helps individual and collective communities learn about Smart Growth and the benefits of applying Smart Growth principles to their communities. It is designed to help communities assess whether or not they are ready to practice or are already practicing Smart Growth and provides access to an extensive set of Smart Growth resources. There are six pricing options for this product.
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Smart Growth Readiness Assessment Tool (SGRAT) - OPTION 3
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Our Price: $525.00
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The Smart Growth Readiness Assessment Tool (SGRAT) helps individual and collective communities learn about Smart Growth and the benefits of applying Smart Growth principles to their communities. It is designed to help communities assess whether or not they are ready to practice or are already practicing Smart Growth and provides access to an extensive set of Smart Growth resources. There are six pricing options for this product.
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