Planning is an important avenue to community emergency preparedness. The practice of emergency response planning is best thought of as a process - a continuing sequence of analyses, plan development, ...

Mayor Abraham Beame (foreground) with President Carter in the South Bronx in 1977. It was in 1975, during Beame’s tenure as mayor, that the city’s Uniform Land Use Procedure, or ULURP, was created.

The Charter Review Commission appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, though initially focused on term limits and non-partisan elections, recently invited comments about the city's Uniform Land Use ...

Public participation is a cornerstone of city planning and a pillar of democracy. Everyone should have a voice in how decisions are made, especially in local government. In San Diego, city-sponsored ...

Communities face several challenges and complex decisions related to natural hazards, which are increasingly exacerbated by climate change. Furthermore, the increased frequency of extreme weather ...

The planning process included three sequential phases—Understand, Explore, and Realize. This rigorous process identified pressing campus and urban issues, analyzed facility assets, and conducted ...

In 2024, when KB Home announced its preliminary plans to raze a five-building office complex on a 5.5-acre site at 11818 to ...

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child defined child-friendly cities as those that prioritize children’s access to safe environments, healthcare, education, green spaces, and the ...

The community planning process in the city of San Diego is important because it allows the public to engage with land use and transportation decisions. The public must have confidence in the integrity ...

Community leaders in Portage la Prairie are moving from consultation to action after nearly three years of collaboration aimed at strengthening safety and well being across the city. The Community ...

The view down Knickerbocker Avenue. The plan calls for new commercial overlays and makes room for residential, commercial, transit and manufacturing corridors, including Knickerbocker Avenue west of ...