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A crisp look. This khaki-color flexible fitted cap features an embroidered Citizen Planner logo in the front. The elastic in this 100% cotton twill cap stretches for a great fit.
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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
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?
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
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
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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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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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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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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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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