Your Town Alabama: Designing Our Future

Useful Websites Continued

www.cyburbia.org/ This site claims to be “the planning portal.” We can’t quite vouch for that, but it does contain an interesting user forum with questions—and answers—about such diverse topics as regulations pertaining to laundramat site locations and the going rate for placing a cell tower on municipal land.

www.communityplanning.net/ A website with a British focus, it still provides a useful introduction to many of the theories and practices of community planning, complete with a glossary of useful terms and sample documents that may help you develop better strategies, action plans and hold more effective community workshops.

www.hort.cornell.edu/commfor/planning/developing.html From the very general to the very specific, this site by Cornell University deals with Community forestry planning, specifically with developing a Street Tree Master Plan. It includes both a guide to developing a management plan and a completed sample management plan.

www.dataplace.org/ From the website: DataPlace is your free online source for housing and demographic data about your community, your region, and the nation. With DataPlace, policy makers, practitioners, members of the media, and scholars of housing and community development can analyze, interpret, and apply data to make educated decisions and inform others. DataPlace makes it easier than ever before to access housing and demographic data and display this information in colorful, customizable maps, charts, tables, and other formats.