Books & Webinars
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Books
Capital Improvements Programs
Provides an overview of a Capital Improvement Program, a checklist for developing and updating a Capital Improvement Program, as well as a template, on how to develop lists, plans, and estimates of time and cost of public structures and projects.
Community Engagement
The companion manual to our Community Engagement workshop. It includes strategies and tools along with worksheets to use for your own engagement strategies.
Housing Choice, Supply & Affordability
The companion book to our Housing workshop. Curated articles on laws pertaining to housing, NIMBY, planning and zoning for housing, markets and ADUs.
Inclusive Transportation
A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation. This task requires empathy while pushing against forces in the industry that are resistant to change. How do you change a system that was never designed to be equitable? How do you change a system that continues to divide communities and cede to the automobile?
In Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities, transportation expert Veronica O. Davis shines a light on the inequitable and often destructive practice of transportation planning and engineering. She calls for new thinking and more diverse leadership to create transportation networks that connect people to jobs, education, opportunities, and to each other.
Inclusive Transportation is a vision for change and a new era of transportation planning. Davis explains why centering people in transportation decisions requires a great shift in how transportation planners and engineers are trained, how they communicate, the kind of data they collect, and how they work as professional teams. She examines what “equity” means for a transportation project, which is central to changing how we approach and solve problems to create something safer, better, and more useful for all people.
Davis aims to disrupt the status quo of the transportation industry. She urges transportation professionals to reflect on past injustices and elevate current practice to do the hard work that results in more than an idea and a catchphrase.
Inclusive Transportation is a call to action and a practical approach to reconnecting and shaping communities based on principles of justice and equity.
176 pages
6 x 9
20 photos
Making Good Decisions Together
Companion reference book to the Making Good Decisions Together workshop. Curated resources on roles and responsibilities.
Managing Risk: Making Sound Planning & Zoning Decisions
Reference tool regarding roles and responsibilities, preparation of bylaws and minutes, and applicable statutes.
Master Planning for Tourism
Available online free of charge. Printed, spiral bound copies available for purchase. This 100-plus page guidebook provides practical resources to communities about incorporating tourism into master plans
Master Planning Process
The companion manual to our Master Plan workshop. Reference tool regarding the process, best practices and applicable state statutes.
Planning and Zoning Essentials
The companion manual to our most requested training. Provides an overview of Planning Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals duties AND how to make effective decisions.
Planning Commissioner's Toolkit
It provides information in a tabbed, easy-to-use format. It equips new Planning Commissioners with the master plan, zoning ordinance, preparation for a meeting, understanding of development proposals, and much more.
($24 if ordering five or more)
Site Plan Review
The companion manual to our Site Plan Review workshop. Provides explanations on the process and what to look for when conducting a site plan review.
Survive and Thrive
Available online for free. Printed, spiral bound copies available for purchase.Lessons from Michigan Coastal Communities Planning for Resiliency.
Advanced ZBA: Beyond the Fundamentals
The companion manual to our Advanced ZBA workshop. Curated resources on the Zoning Board of Appeals and case studies.
Zoning Administration Book Only
The companion book to our Zoning Administration workshop. Provides information in a tabbed, easy to use format. Topics include planning, zoning, enforcement, meeting practices, state statutes and model forms, reports and agendas.
Zoning Administration 2.0 Book Only
The companion book to our Zoning Administration 2.0 workshop. Curated articles on adminstration topics such as, new official orientation, administrative approvals, using data, meeting management, and much more.
Zoning Board of Appeals
The companion manual to our Zoning Board of Appeals workshop. It provides information on responsibilities, best meeting practices and case studies.
Zoning Board of Appeals Toolkit
It provides information in a tabbed, easy-to-use format. It equips new ZBA members with the knowledge and skills to execute their duties.
($24 if ordering five or more)
Zoning Ordinance: A to Z
The companion manual to MAP's Zoning Ordinance workshop; covers history of zoning, best practices, processes, and enforcement.
Zoning Reform Toolkit
Available online free of charge. Printed, spiral bound copies available for purchase. The Toolkit lays out the elements of the housing crisis and creating a case for zoning reform as a necessary intervention. Communications strategies for discussing the housing shortage and the necessity of zoning reform to combat it are outlined, along with 15 zoning tools to address housing supply, choice, and affordability.
Zoning Reform: Stories and Studies
A Companion to the Zoning Reform Toolkit
Available online free of charge. Printed, spiral bound copies available for purchase. 100 communities tell the Michigan Association of Planning about the zoning reform tools they’re using. Communities sat down with MAP and talked frankly, seriously, and technically about housing in their communities. We asked them all the same basic questions: Is housing getting built in your community? What does your planning and zoning say about housing? What’s the public conversation like? What other resources are needed? We followed those basic questions with a deep conversation with each city, village, or township.
