2009, Issue 06

A Western Planner Region Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Perspective
Cecil, Jon

Some Thoughts from a Butte, Montana Community Development Consultant (In response to Ben Orsbon's Historic Districts article in July WP)
Cornish, Janet

Planning and Finance: Tax Increment Financing: Keep it Small
Dugan, Patrick, L.

The Tax Increment Illustrated; TIF's and Real Estate Prices
Lucero, Lora

A Next Generation TIF Law in New Mexico
Marcotte, Karen

Discovering Home: Readings on Sense of Place for Planners
Siegel, Scot

Featured Planner - Angela Chambers, AICP, Senior Planner, Municipality of Anchorage, AK
Tuttell, Maryellen

2009, Issue 05

Planner's Toolbox - Downzoning-A Land Protection Tool: How it's Been Used in One Arizona County
Apel, Mark

Planning and Finance: Finance and Economic Development
Dugan, Patrick, L.

The West Loses a Western Planner: Joe Gerdom
Ehlers, Debbie

Planning Commissioner's Corner: Keeping Historic Districts from Decaying
Orsbon, Ben

Floodplain Management Circa 2050: The View from the Land Use Planner's Vantage Point
Van Hemert, James

2009, Issue 04

Featured Planner - Bruce Hunt, Senior Planner, CTED/Growth Management Services
Caputo, Dee

Planning and Finance: Bad Times and the Long-Term
Dugan, Patrick, L.

Book Review - Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Build America, and Why it Must Rebuild Now by Felix Rohatyn, Simon and Schuster, 2009
Faas, Ron

Planning Commissioner's Corner - Moving from Advisor to Implementer
Kuzelka, Bob

Planner's Toolbox - Web 2.0 for Planners: Social Networking
Taylor, Matthew

2009Paul MoberlyAugust 23, 2026People in Planning, Public Finance, Planning Commissions, Communication

2009, Issue 03

Planning and Finance Series: Best of Times, Worst of Times
Dugan, Patrick L.

Book Review: Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv. 2005
McMahon, Kathleen

Featured Planner - Michele Reinhart, Missoula, MT
Millar, Roger

When We Decide to Make Them, Sustainable Communities Will Come in All Sizes, Forms, and Locations
Steward, W. Cecil & Kuska, Sharon B.

2009Paul MoberlyAugust 23, 2026Public Finance, Environmental Planning, People in Planning, Sustainability

2009, Issue 02

Book Review - Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and what it says about us) By Tom Vanderbilt, Alfred A. Knopt, New York, 2008
Rounds, Jamison

Featured Planner - Eric Adams, Corvallis, Oregon
Siegel, Scot

The West Loses a Western Planner: Art Corsie
Stebleton, Brad

Spearfish, South Dakota--Naturally Inviting
Vogt, Amber

Planning Commissioner's Corner - Being an Effective Planning Commissioner
Weil, Larry

A Wyoming Planner's View of the Presidential Inauguration
Wood, Elizabeth

Getting What you Need from Land Surveyors
Zollman, Karen

2009, Issue 01

Planning and Finance Series: Developer Financing Tools
Dugan, Patrick L.

And the Medford Yard Went on Forever
Finkler, Earl

Las Vegas Celebtates National Community Planning Month
Past, Tina

Featured Planner - April Getchius, Casper, WY Community Development Director
Threewitt, Don

Same Face, Different Name: An Arterial Street Land Use Strategy for Preservation of Residential Neighborhoods
Watson, Jayna

What Surveyors Want from GIS: Spatial Access to Property Records
Zollman, Karen

2009Paul MoberlyAugust 23, 2026Public Finance, Greenways, Western Planning, People in Planning, Corridor Planning, GIS

2008, Issue 08

Sustainability and Stewardship: Reflections from the Spokane Regional APA Conference
Cecil, Jon

Planning and Finance: Going Through Phases
Dugan, Patrick, L.

Book Review - Hope Dies Last: Keeping The Faith In Difficult Times By Studs Terkel, 2003
Faas, Ron

Designing America's Wildlife Highway: Montana's U.S. Highway 93
Jones, Grant; Parker, Cory & Scott, Charlie

Support Your Local Planner
Kurtz, Steve

Planner's Toolbox - Shed Wars
Towler, Bill

2008, Issue 07

Planning's Seven Dirty Words
Brosnan, Lisa

Conference Abstract: Working Effectively with Tribal Governments
Caputo, Dee

Planning and Finance: Balancing Adequate Public Facilities with Other Public Purposes
Dugan, Patrick, L.

2008 Conference Abstracts (continued from Sept. WP)
Ehlers, Debbie

Many, Many Miles from Barrow: A Great Road Trip to New Home in Northern Wisconsin
Finkler, Earl

Op-Ed Article: Embracing Failure
Harper, Michael

The Western Planner Op-Ed Guidelines
Harper, Michael

Planning and Religious Land Use--Lessons from South Daktoa
Putnam, Neil

Conference Abstract: Meetings Made Easy
Stebleton, Brad

2008, Issue 06

Alaska News: Leading Change: Blending Indigenous and Western Planning Tools
Barker, Mitzi

Book Review - The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
Brosnan, Lisa

Planning and Finance: Tax Increment Financing Revisted
Dugan, Patrick, L.

2008 Conference Highlights
Ehlers, Debbie

Conference Abstracts (from the conference program)
Ehlers, Debbie

2008 Conference Awards
Guthrie, Katie

Planning Commissioner's Corner - Plan Locally, Think Globally
Kuzelka, Bob

2008Paul MoberlyAugust 23, 2026Tribal Issues, Planning History, Public Finance, Conferences, Planning Commissions

2008, Issue 05

Planning and Finance: The California Housing 'Crisis' More Reflections on Planning in Southern California
Dugan, Patrick, L.

University of Wyoming Conducts Survey on IT and Planning in Mountain West States
Hammerlinck, Jeff

Planner's Toolbox - Due Process in New Mexico
Mathews, David

Behind the Scences: What it Takes to Host an APA National Planning Conference
Past, Tina

The Paradox of Federal Energy and Defense Installations in the West
Pava, Dan

Bozeman Addresses Transportation and Land Use: West Babcock Street Pedestrian and Bicyclist Monitoring Project
Saunders, Chris

Planning Commissioner's Corner - Should Planning Commissions Plan?
Sublett, Ken

Featured Planner - Jayna Watson, City Planner, Spearfish, SD
Trebilcock, Sam

2008, Issue 04

Planning Commissioner's Corner - Planning Commissioners as Planners
Avance, Theresa & Oliver, Dennis

Planner's Toolbox - Land Use Ordinance Library
Curtis, Evan

Planning and Finance: Reasons for Developers to Share the Cost of Facilities
Dugan, Patrick, L.

Book Review - Light and Liberty-Reflections n the Pursuit of Happiness by Eric S. Petersen
Finkler, Earl

Featured Planner - Alden Aust-Creator of the Planning Profession in Omaha
Kuzelka, Bob

A Glimpse of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design: Neighborhood Development in the Planning Process
Morehouse, Don

Ode to a Town Planner
Siegel, Scot

2008, Issue 03

Camus in the Winter, Spring in Barrow
Finkler, Earl

Modeling Downtown Parking Requirements With Planning Support Systems in Sheridan, Wyoming
Hamerlinck, Jeff & Lieske, Scott

Planning Commissioner's Corner: The Basis for a Decision
Weil, Larry

The Role of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe in Land Use Planning
West, Donna & Arnold, Josh

2008Paul MoberlyAugust 23, 2026Places in the West, Downtown Revitalization, Legal Issues, Tribal Issues

2008, Issue 02

Planning Commissioner's Corner: Idaho Planning Efforts Address Climate Change
Cecil, Jon

Cheyenne, Wyoming: The Old and New West
Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce

Live the Legend of Cheyenne
Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce

Commentary: Adopting LED Sign Regulations
Dolenc, Don

Planning and Finance Series: Paying for the Walk
Dugan, Patrick L.

2008 Western Planner Awards
Guthrie, Katie

Book Review - Urban Open Space: Designing for User Needs by Mark Francis
Quanbeck, Joel

Planner's Toolbox - About the LEED Green Building Rating System: What Planners Should Know (Part one of a Series)
Siegel, Scot

Featured Planner - Jessica Frost, Santa Fe, NM
Valdez, John

2008, Issue 01

Thinking Globally, Acting Municipally: Three Colorado Cities' Strategies to Reduce Greenhouse Gasses
Day, Megan

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

Thoreau: An Inspiration in a Winter of Discontent
Finkler, Earl

Planning Commissioner's Corner - The Dilemma of Planning Commissioners' Education
Ramjoue, George

Featured Planner - Lanette Windemaker, Planning Consultant, Bozeman, MT
Sanford, Jody

Book Review - Building from the Best of the Northern Rockies by Ralph Johnson, the Sonoran Institutue
Sizemore, Ken

Planner's Toolbox - Comprehensive Planning
Weil, Larry

Conference Abstract: Eminent Domain and Land Use Trends
Weil, Larry

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

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

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

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

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.

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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