Michigan Association of Planning-July 2011

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Welcome to the first 

Michigan Planner E-dition!

 

Greetings!

 

The Michigan Chapter of the American Planning Association is excited to deliver the first edition of the Michigan Planner E-dition (electronic edition), a supplement to the bi-monthly print edition of the Michigan Planner magazine.

 

The E-dition format brings you valuable information on planning basics as well as current planning trends and a wide variety of featured topics. These articles are meant to be brief; however they will often contain links to additional articles, resources and web sites, allowing you to explore topics in as much or little detail as you wish.

 

Each E-dition will include basic planning and zoning articles about procedures, policies, and applications (particularly useful to newly elected and appointed officials), combined with more advanced topics (for the veteran planner). The ZBA ZONE and Officially Yours columns will appear regularly to continue the monthly stream of information to our community officials, while CONNECT will keep you current on topics buzzing around our office and the nation.  

 

We encourage you to share this information with other community staff and officials.  Simply forward the email or print the articles, and pass these valuable resources along.   

 

We hope you enjoy the first Michigan Planner E-dition.

Featured Article 

Social Media and

Local Governments

Why Should Local Governments Care About Social Media?

By: Nina Misuraca Ignaczak, Senior Planner

Oakland County Planning & Economic Development Services

 

Chances are, your kids, parents, friends, and colleagues are on Twitter, and your local grocery store has a Facebook fan page. No longer the exclusive province of Gen X and Y, social media is transforming the communications landscape. With 750 million Facebook and 175 million Twitter users, new media is exploding at the same time traditional media is undergoing steep decline.  Read more... 

Officially Yours

Planning Commission Updates/Reconstitution  

By: Kurt Schindler, AICP

Michigan State University Extension

Now passed and gone is the deadline for Planning Commission's in Michigan to have updated the ordinance which created their community's planning commission-or replaced a resolution creating a planning commission with a new ordinance.  The deadline was July 1, 2011.   

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Do you want more information on a particular planning basic or hot trend?  Let us know. We are always happy to take requests for article topics and value the opportunity to give members resources they need.  E-mail lcarlson@planningmi.org with ideas and submissions. 

 


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In This Issue
Social Media and Local Government
Officially Yours
ZBA ZONE

ZBA ZONE

Form Based Codes 

Form-based codes are an alternative to conventional zoning. Form-based codes address the relationship between:

  1. building facades and the public realm; 
  2. the form and mass of buildings in relation to one another and;
  3. the scale and types of streets and blocks.

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