Course Description
This course explores the techniques, processes, and personal and professional skills required to effectively manage growth and land use change at the municipal level. Specific topics include growth and its local consequences; land use planning approaches; and implementation tools including innovative zoning and regulatory techniques, physical design, and natural systems integration.
Course Objectives
- Understanding the fundamental concepts of land use planning
- Being familiar with the merits of the previous land use planning proposals
- Being able to oversee land use planning consultants in your community
- Learning policies and tools for effective land use planning
- Understanding the difference between planning commercial and residential areas
Who Should Attend?
- City planning managers
- Constructors
- Supervisors
- Those who are working in the field of urban planning
- Anyone involved in the field
Course Details/Schedule
- Introduction and overview of planning and civics
- History of land use planning
- Purposes of planning and trends
- Planning contributions to sustainable urban development
- The land use planning regulatory framework
- Plan formulation, submissions and hearings
- Institutions, policies and tools for effective land use planning
- Rural and small town planning
- Regional planning and regional growth strategies
- Growth management and smart growth
- Community, local area and neighborhood planning
- Zoning
- Planning for residential uses and affordable housing
- Integrating land use planning and infrastructure
- Main street, downtown, strip and big box
- Commercial planning
- Permits and other regulatory mechanisms
- Public engagement
- Land use planning for environmental heritage issues
- Urban design and structure planning
- Resource consent applications
- Central area controls
- Non- residential controls
- Enforcement, subdivision, utilities, designations and transport
- Social equity and land use planning
- Climate change and land use planning
