Posts in 2007
2007, Issue 08

Planning and Finance Series: A Tale of Two Cities
Dugan, Patrick, L.

Planning Commissioner's Corner - WP Articles Designed to Help Planning Commissioners
Frampton, Brian

WP Opinion Editorial: Getting to and Staying With "No"
Harper, Michael

Conference Abstract: Planning by Design in Community: Making Great Places
Harper, Michael

Featured Planners - Washoe County Community Development's Advance Planning Staff: Part Two
Harper, Michael

Conference Abstract: Geographical Character Based Planning
Harper, Michael

The Western Planner Op-Ed Guidelines
Harper, Michael

What's Your Sign? Adopting LED Sign Regulations
Pak, Michelle & Richway, Robert

New Zoning Supports 2,000 Year-Old Oasis
Pitts, Rachael

Conference Abstract: 2010 Census Preparations
Sanford, Jody

Conference Abstract: Noise Compatible Land Use Planning
Williams, Wells

Conference Abstract: Demographic Analysis Case Study
Williams, Wells

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2007, Issue 07

Update--Urban and Rural Growth in Montana: Incorporated Versus Unincorporated Areas
Byrom, Gus & Brenden, Kathryn

Defining Utah's Rural Character
Cottam, Brian

Planning and Finance Series: Money Matters
Dugan, Patrick, L.

Mercer Island Parks Web-Based Mobile Technology
Mayer, Peter M.

Conference Abstract: Multi-Media GIS on a Regional Level
Orsbon, Ben

Planner's Toolbox - Creating More Livable Communities
Ramjoue, George

Conference Abstract: Improving the Community Through Design
Sanford, Jody

Conference Abstract: Planning Ethics
Stebleton, Brad

Conference Abstract: Rural and Small Community Sustainability
Stebleton, Brad

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2007, Issue 06

Welcome to the Starbucked West
Ashby, Matt

Planning and Finance Series: Financial Debt Capacity
Dugan, Patrick, L.

Dickinson--The Western Edge Conference Highlights
Ehlers, Debbie

2007 Western Planner Awards
Ehlers, Debbie

Book Review - Conservatives Without Conscience
Faas, Ron

Planner's Toolbox - Geologic Hazard Analysis
Jones, Chuck

Planning Commissioner's Corner - Planning Commissioner Care and Feeding
Siegel, Scot

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2007, Issue 05

Planner's Toolbox - Stress-Management Approaches from TRPA
Avance, Theresa & Shaw, Melissa

Planning and Finance Series: Finance Matters
Dugan, Patrick, L.

New Global Climate Change Research Facility Grand Opening
Finkler, Earl

Featured Planner: Brian McGinnis, Senior Planner, Yankton, SD
Orsbon, Ben

Committed to a Thriving Community
Osborne, Jessica

Open Space Success Stories: Albuquerque and Boise
Stebleton, Brad

Planning Commissioner's Corner - Continued Reversal of Your Decisions by Elected Officials
Towler, Bill

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2007, Issue 04

What's So Great About Attending The Western Planner Conference
Caputo, Dee

Planning and Finance Series: Unforseen Consequences
Dugan, Patrick, L.

Planner's Toolbox - AICP Commission Approves Certification Maintenance Program
Eklund, Nancy

Featured Planner - Troy Bliss, Senior Planner, City of Loveland, Colorado
Guthrie, Katie

Book Review - Conservation Thresholds for Land Use Planners, and Lasting Landscapes: Reflections on the Role of Conservation Science in Land Use Planning
Harper, Michael

Planning Commissioner's Corner - The Makings of a Good Planning Commissioner
Hathorne, Todd

Regional Workforce Housing Profile: Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area
Kline, Wade E.

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2007, Issue 03

Planning and Finance Series: Balancing Uses for Fiscal Reasons
Dugan, Patrick, L.

Memories of Marching with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965: Going from Academics to the Front Line of Civil Rifhts and Voting Rights
Finkler, Earl

Planning Commissioner's Corner - Writing Conditions for Land Use Decisions-Are They Enforceable?
Mapp, Jerome

The State of Planning in Booming Wyoming
Markert, Ken

Be a STAR! Join Small Town and Rural Planning Division of APA
Powers, Dale

Featured Planner - Ted Knowlton, Assistant Executive/Planning Director, Envision, Utah
Ramjoue, George

Western Heritage and Heroes
Schmidt, Kim & Schilling, Annette

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2007, Issue 02

Featured Planner - Pete Friedman, Comprehensive Planning Manager, Meridian, Idaho
Cecil, Jon

Planning and Finance Series: Are You Diversified?
Dugan, Patrick L.

The Difficulty with Implementing a Good Policy: The Washoe County Bicycle Network
Exline, Nicholas D.

Planner's Toolbox - Planning and Intitiated Referenda in South Dakota
Kays, Todd

Online Learning for Planners
Peralta, Christian

Explore the West in North Dakota
Schmidt, Kim & Schilling, Annette

Planning Commissioner's Corner - Ethics in Planning - When Disclosure Should Be Withheld and When the Process Must Become Transparent
Zabriskie, Gary

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2007, Issue 01

Make Your Plans for 2007 in Dickinson, North Dakota
Owens, Barbara & Schmidt, Kim

Featured Planner - Jeremy Grimm, Planning Director and Assistant to the Mayor, Buffalo, WY
Spencer, David

What's So Great About Sandoval County?
Stebleton, Brad

Book Review - The Politics of Historic Districts by Bill Schmickle
Walters, Melville

Planning and Finance Series: Golden Eggs
Dugan, Patrick L.

Planner's Toolbox - Online Community Surveys'' Yes You Can!
Erickson, Justin

Last Chances Come Rather Early in Alaska
Finkler, Earl

Qualitative Research for a Quality of Life: Benefits of Rural Airports
Jessup, Eric; Casavant, Ken, & Gossard, Marcia

Las Vegas' Westside Story
Marshall, James

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