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GD.1: Foundations of Green Development
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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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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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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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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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GD.5: Are you ready for green development?
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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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Unit 1.1: Introducing the Planning Official
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Unit 1.1 Introducing the Planning Official:
This unit is a short introduction to your role as a planning official or commissioner. It will introduce you to your duties and responsibilities as a planning official as well as the groups with which you will be working.
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Unit 1.2: The Foundations of Planning and Zoning
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Unit 1.2: The Foundations of Planning and Zoning
Many citizens who take on the planning official role do not have the opportunity to understand the historical context within which planning and zoning are done. Without this understanding, you may wonder how local governments came to be involved in planning and zoning. If so, then this learning unit is for you.
The goal of this unit is to describe how your role evolved from efforts to resolve historical conflicts and implement social goals related to land use. We will introduce planning and zoning and describe what they are, why they came about, and what they are today.
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Unit 1.3: What is Smart Growth?
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Unit 1.3: What is Smart Growth?
This unit introduces the principles of Smart Growth, their relationship to land use polices in Michigan, and how you can assess your community’s readiness to implement Smart Growth techniques. This topic is particularly useful when you are tasked to guide development in your community or modify the comprehensive plan.
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Unit 1.4: Planning Official Ethics 101
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Unit 1.4: Planning Official Ethics 101
In this unit, we will discuss why ethics are a concern of any public official. We look at how ethics governs planning officials' duties and actions. By the end of this unit, you will have a basic understanding of your ethical boundaries and responsibilities.
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Unit 1.5: Making Ethical Decisions
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Unit 1.5: Making Ethical Decisions
This unit helps you apply what you learned in Planning Official Ethics 101. In this unit, we will introduce you to a decision tree that you can use as a tool when you need to make decisions that involve questions of ethics. You will be given several scenarios to help you understand the decision-making process presented here.
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Unit 2.1: Basic Legal Framework for Planning Officials
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This unit introduces the laws that give planning officials the powers to perform their duties. It also introduces the sources and types of law that planning officials should know in order to understand the legal basis for planning and zoning.
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Unit 2.2: Governmental Authority for Planning and Zoning
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This unit introduces the legal basis for zoning. It describes how the authority for planning and zoning is established, why zoning has been upheld by the courts as a legitimate exercise of police power, and how zoning authority changes over time. The unit reviews zoning law that is unique to Michigan.
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Unit 2.3: Constitutional Limitations on Planning and Zoning Authority
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This unit introduces the constitutional limitations of government and the rights of individuals with respect to planning and zoning. The unit will help planning officials understand that their actions are limited by provisions in the U.S. and Michigan Constitutions.
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Unit 2.4: A Takings Evaluation Decision Tree
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Recognizing and knowing how to avoid illegal takings is an important part of understanding the legal foundations of planning and zoning. This unit provides an opportunity for you to enhance your ability to identify a zoning decision that may, in fact, result in a taking. It offers a decision tree that includes a series of questions targeting key legal issues related to takings and highlights situations that may or may not be a taking.
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Unit 3.1: What is a Comprehensive Plan?
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This unit reviews the components of a comprehensive plan created through the planning process. It examines the purpose and the basic information of each component.
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Unit 3.2: Land Use Trends and the Role of Planning
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This unit provides an historical view of Michigan land use patterns and the potential need for change. An historical perspective is important when it comes to changing the present and shaping the future. Without this larger perspective, the planning process at the local level can undo the progress that has been made and repeat the damage that has been done.
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Unit 3.3: Future Land Use Classifications
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What is meant by future land use classifications? How does this apply to the comprehensive plan and the future land use map? This unit answers these questions and more. Citizen planners need to consider land use classifications when creating their comprehensive plan to ensure that they address goals and design guidelines related to land uses. Land use classifications are also key in creating and implementing the zoning ordinance.
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Unit 3.4: Should the Plan be Updated?
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This unit is designed to help a planning commission make decisions about when to review its comprehensive plan and how to identify characteristics of a good plan.
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Unit 4.1: Overview of the Planning Process
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In order to develop or update a comprehensive plan, you need a process. The planning process is not unlike how we plan our everyday activities. For example, before you start planning a trip across the country, you need an overall view of how you are going to get there. Once you have that, you can plan the details for each part of the trip. This unit provides an overview of the phases involved in developing or updating the comprehensive plan and the details that will assist with actually performing each phase.
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Unit 4.2: Working with the Public
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Working with the public is a critical element of the planning process. Knowing what the public wants or needs has a direct bearing on the content of the comprehensive plan. This unit describes various techniques by which a planning commission works with the public and identifies what is required for making that interaction successful.
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