IN THE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010 ISSUE
OF THE WESTERN PLANNER

In the President’s Column, Katie Guthrie, of Loveland, Colorado, describes how she battled Wyoming winds to visit her sister in Casper and the prospects of wind power.

In his Planning and Finance Series article, “Financing Sidewalks,” Patrick L. Dugan, of Everett, Washington, shares his thoughts on how local governments and property owners might share the costs of building and maintaining the entire system of streets and sidewalks.

In the Planner’s Toolbox article, “The Value of Digital Parcels,” Mike McMahon and Jenny Sorensen, of South Dakota, discuss the value to planners of a key GIS layer, the property ownership boundaries, legal description, and owner information as digital parcel data.

The WP Featured Planner is Mark Rivera of Angel Fire, New Mexico, who has been a small-town planner for 25 years.

In the article, “The Challenges of Change,” Jason Radke, of Pullman, Washington, explains some ways that planners can catch up to the “Green Revolution” and the problems they encounter.

In his article, “A Rural GIS Solution,” Wells Williams of Sitka, Alaska, shares some basic steps to building a GIS program using the City and Borough of Sitka as an example.

An ad for the 19th Annual Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute’s Land Use Conference, which will be held March 4-5, 2010, at the University of Denver, Colorado.

ICF Jones and Stokes announced its name change to ICF International at the beginning of the year.

State news from Montana, Nevada, and Washington.

The issue was mailed on February 2, 2010.

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