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[ + ]Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
| Title | Advisory Council on Historic Preservation |
| Description | The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) is an independent federal agency that promotes the preservation and productive use of historic resources, promoting historic preservation and administering the preservation review process for Federal projects and programs. The ACHP website provides access to news, statutes, executive orders, reports, guidance documents, websites, fact sheets, articles, regulations, cases, and information about federal, state, tribal historic preservation programs, links to other historic preservation websites, and available internships and jobs. There is also a page about historic preservation and sustainability and a page about historic preservation and energy development and transmission. |
| URL | http://www.achp.gov/ |
[ + ]American Planning Association (APA)
| Title | American Planning Association (APA) |
| Description | The APA is a professional, non-profit organization that “provides leadership in the development of vital communities.” The APA website provides access to jobs, news, webinars, articles, blogs, videos, podcasts, and reports. To find policy guides, legislative priorities, and amicus briefs related to aging communities, agricultural land preservation, billboards, climate change, food planning, endangered species and habitat protection, energy, smart growth, takings, and many other issues click on “Policy and Advocacy.” The APA website also explains the organization’s role in specific communities, which can be found by clicking “In Your Community.” |
| URL | https://www.planning.org/ |
[ + ]Department of the Interior: Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
| Title | Department of the Interior: Bureau of Land Management (BLM) |
| Description | BLM is responsible for managing many of our nation’s natural resources, including 245 million acres of public lands. BLM is involved with energy, fire, grazing, planning, recreation, national conservation lands, wild horses & burros, and much more. Click “Learn” > “BLM Library” to access the Library, which provides access to scientific literature, online and policy resources, agency publications, and subject guides. BLM’s website provides relevant reports, statistics, fact sheets, guidance documents, articles, databases (some are subscription only), bibliographies, land records, maps, statutes, regulations, administrative orders, federal register notices, news, and photos. |
| URL | http://www.blm.gov |
[ + ]Environmental Protection Agency – Smart Growth
| Title | Environmental Protection Agency – Smart Growth |
| Description | Smart Growth is an Environmental Protection Agency program that helps communities with development practices to protect the environment and human health, create economic opportunities, and provide affordable neighborhoods for all income levels. Webinars, news, reports, technical assistance guides, videos, and fact sheets. Click “All Topics” under “Smart Growth Topics” to see how smart growth relates to affordable housing, brownfields, climate change, colleges and universities, green building, open space conservation, transportation, preservation of historical building, and water, and many more issues. |
| URL | http://www2.epa.gov/smart-growth |
[ + ]Gaining Ground Information Database
| Title | Gaining Ground Information Database |
| Description | The Gaining Ground Information Database is managed by the Land Use Law Center at Pace Law School to provide information on laws and practices in the field of land use law. The website’s homepage allows users to search resources by land use topic, state, municipality, jurisdiction type, resource type, and by keyword. Includes articles, research guides, statutes, and websites for over 100 land use topics. Click “Search by State” to access state specific zoning laws, ordinances, and other state material. |
| URL | https://appsrv.pace.edu/gainingground/ |
[ + ]Google Earth Timelapse
| Title | Google Earth Timelapse |
| Description | “Earth Timelapse is a global, zoomable video that lets you see how the Earth has changed over the past 35 years.” This global map allows users to zoom in on different locations to see the effects of different land uses over time. The program also highlights patterns of urban growth, infrastructure, irrigation, deforestation, and more in specific locations where these changes are particularly noticeable. This is not necessarily a legal resource, but is a great visual representation of land use changes over time. |
| URL | https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/ |
[ + ]Land Trust Alliance
| Title | Land Trust Alliance |
| Description | The Land Trust Alliance is a national land conservation organization with over 6 million members working to elevate conservation as a national priority, builds land trusts, and preserve conservation easements. The website provides extensive resources regarding land trusts, including articles, conferences, learning kits, publications, success stories, webinars, and field services. Users can also find a blog, news section, and in-depth information about various land trust topics. |
| URL | http://www.landtrustalliance.org/ |
[ + ]Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
| Title | Lincoln Institute of Land Policy |
| Description | The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a private, nonpartisan foundation focused on the use, regulation, and taxation of land in the U.S. and internationally. The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy has six goals: (1) Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Communities and Regions, (2) Reduced Poverty and Spatial Inequality, (3) Fiscally Healthy Communities and Regions, (4) Sustainably Managed Land and Water Resources, (5) Functional Land Markets and Reduced Informality, and (6) Efficient and Equitable Tax Systems. Particularly helpful for legal research, the website allows users to easily research and browse publications related to specific topics. This can be found by clicking on “Publications” and scrolling down to “Browse by Topic.” |
| URL | http://www.lincolninst.edu/ |
[ + ]National Conference of State Legislatures
| Title | National Conference of State Legislatures |
| Description | The National Conference of State Legislatures provides state legislatures with tools, resources, and information to promote state policy innovation. Click “Research” > “Environment and Natural Resources” to find information related to infrastructure, land use policies, planning frameworks, etc. |
| URL | http://www.ncsl.org/ |
[ + ]National Conservation Easement Database
| Title | National Conservation Easement Database |
| Description | The National Conservation Easement Database (NCED) is a national database of conservation easement information, compiling records from land trusts and public agencies to create a searchable database. Data, database, websites, and maps. Advanced Search provides several search options, including landowner type and location. Click “About” > “Resources” for information on how to secure a conservation easement, and peer-reviewed literature and policy briefs on easements. |
| URL | http://conservationeasement.us/ |
[ + ]National Trust for Historic Preservation
| Title | National Trust for Historic Preservation |
| Description | The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a nonprofit organization working to preserve America’s historic places. News, speeches, op-eds, articles, fact sheets, reports, blogs, a map of historical places, information about historic places, and jobs. Click “Our Work” to find areas of focus. |
| URL | http://www.preservationnation.org/ |
[ + ]Planetizen - Land Use
| Title | Planetizen - Land Use |
| Description | Planetizen is a public interest “information exchange for the urban planning, design, and development community.” Blogs, news, online courses for city planners (not free), links to “Top Books” on land planning, and summaries of news stories or posts on a variety of land use topics. Summaries have links to the full text article, as well as subject matter tags that lead to more articles. |
| URL | http://www.planetizen.com/landuse |
[ + ]Planners Web
| Title | Planners Web |
| Description | Planners Web is an online resource of articles for citizen planners, local planning commissions, and zoning boards. The website includes articles related to planning topics such as environmental issues, food and farmland, historic preservation, land use law, parks and open space, and transportation. |
| URL | http://www.plannersweb.com/ |
[ + ]PreservationDirectory.com
| Title | PreservationDirectory.com |
| Description | Preservation Directory is an online resource consisting of historic preservation, building restoration, and cultural resource management information in the United States & Canada. Statutes, regulations, executive orders, news, blogs, books, articles, reports, websites, events, careers, and grant information relating to historic sites, museums, historic real estate, and historic lodging (Inns, B&Bs, Hotels). |
| URL | http://www.preservationdirectory.com/HistoricalPreservation/Home.aspx |
[ + ]Sierra Club – Stopping Sprawl
| Title | Sierra Club – Stopping Sprawl |
| Description | Works to “fight poorly planned runaway development” and promote “smart growth communities that increase transportation choices, reduce air and water pollution, and protect our natural places.” Reports, fact sheets, and articles related to land use, population and sprawl, transportation, and city planning. |
| URL | http://vault.sierraclub.org/sprawl/ |
[ + ]Smart Growth America
| Title | Smart Growth America |
| Description | Smart Growth America is an organization dedicated to advancing smart development, preventing sprawl, and improving neighborhoods through coalition building, policy development, and research. Smart Growth prioritizes climate change and resilience, advancing racial equality, and creating healthy communities, and their work towards these goals can be viewed on their website. The “Research” section also allows users to browse resources relating to sustainable community building. |
| URL | https://smartgrowthamerica.org/ |
[ + ]Smart Growth Online
| Title | Smart Growth Online |
| Description | Smart Growth Online is a product of Smart Growth Network, a coalition of the Environmental Protection Agency and a number of non-profit and government organizations. The coalition formed Smart Growth in response to community concerns over new ways to grow that protect the environment, boost the economy, and enhance community vitality. The Network’s partners include environmental groups, historic preservation organizations, professional organizations, developers, real estate interests; local and state government entities. Guidebooks, news, articles, and websites. |
| URL | http://www.smartgrowth.org/ |
[ + ]Sustainable Development Code: Land Use and Community Character
| Title | Sustainable Development Code: Land Use and Community Character |
| Description | This resource is the third chapter of Jonathan Rosenbloom’s Sustainable Development Code. This chapter highlights development patterns and infill, development densities, mixed-use, transit-orient development, historic preservation and adaptive reuse, and parking. When clicking the link to each section, users can find a table recommending “good,” “better,” and “best” land use strategies. |
| URL | https://sustainablecitycode.org/chapter/chapter-3/ |
[ + ]Trust for Public Land
| Title | Trust for Public Land |
| Description | The Trust for Public Land creates parks and protects land to ensure healthy communities for current and future generations. The Media Room sorts press releases and news articles about the organization by location and date published. Other sections include an archive of the organization’s magazine, “Land & People,” and a blog that covers cities, climate, family, health, and recreation. The website also features a tab that allows users to view projects and progress in individual U.S. states and territories. |
| URL | http://www.tpl.org/ |
[ + ]U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
| Title | U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
| Description | HUD’s mission is to “create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable hoes for all.” HUD utilizes housing as a “platform for improving quality of life; build inclusinve and sustainable communities free from discrimination.” HUD’s website touches on a variety of matters including housing, fairness, rental assistance, sustainability, and research. |
| URL | https://www.hud.gov/ |
[ + ]Upper Valley Land Trust
| Title | Upper Valley Land Trust |
| Description | The Upper Valley Land Trust works to protect the working farms, forested ridges, wildlife habitat, water resources, trails, and scenic landscapes that surround the upper valley of the Connecticut River. Users can find information about land conservation including landowner stories and conservation tools, as well as guidance regarding public access trails, campsites, river access, and recreation. |
| URL | http://www.uvlt.org/ |
[ + ]Urban Land Institute (ULI)
| Title | Urban Land Institute (ULI) |
| Description | ULI is a nonprofit research and education organization that provides “leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide.” ULI brings together leaders in the land use and real estate development fields. The Institute’s Urban Land Magazine can be very helpful in conducting research related to land use issues. It can be found by pressing “More” at the top of the page. ULI’s webite also includes a calendar of events such as conferences, webinars, and more. These Events are found by pressing “Events” at the top right of the webpage. |
| URL | http://uli.org/ |
[ + ]Vermont Act 250 Database
| Title | Vermont Act 250 Database |
| Description | The Vermont Act 250 Database contains Act 250 (Vermont’s primary land use law) permit information and related documents, such as applications, supporting materials, and letters. You can search the Act 250 database for permits by date, name, project description, permit status, location, and date. |
| URL | https://anrweb.vt.gov/anr/vtanr/Act250.aspx |
[ + ]Vermont Land Trust (VLT)
| Title | Vermont Land Trust (VLT) |
| Description | VLT is a nonprofit conservation organization that has preserved 1,950 parcels of land covering more than 590,000 acres—about 11% of the state of Vermont. VLT specifically seeks to protect working farms, forests, community lands, and associated natural systems. The VLT website features news, videos, maps, websites, newsletters, reports, and easy-to-read summaries of how conservation easements work. |
| URL | http://www.vlt.org/ |
[ + ]Vermont Natural Resources Board (NRB)
| Title | Vermont Natural Resources Board (NRB) |
| Description | The Vermont Natural Resources Board (NRB) is an independent Executive Branch entity that oversees and administers Vermont Act 250, Vermont’s land use statute, which is intended to minimize the environmental impacts of development. NRB issues rules and policies related to and enforcing Act 250. The NRB website provides information about the purpose and history of Act 250 and the land use permit application process. |
| URL | http://www.nrb.state.vt.us/ |
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