Community Planning Month 2024

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NATIONAL COMMUNITY PLANNING MONTH 2024

Planners work to improve the well-being of all people living in our communities by taking a comprehensive perspective. This approach leads to safer, resilient, more equitable, and more prosperous communities. We celebrate the role that planning plays in creating great communities each October with National Community Planning Month.

-American Planning Association

WHAT IS PLANNING?

Planning is elected leaders' most effective tool for managing growth, navigating change, and making tough decisions facing communities, like where to invest in transportation, housing, and parks.

Powered by community planners' data-driven insights, expertise, and sense of residents' needs, the planning process helps communities define their goals and a path to achieving them.

A plan is a roadmap that helps leaders make informed decisions about what residents - and the local economy - need to thrive.

- American Planning Association

WHAT ARE OREGON PLANNING GOALS?

Oregon's statewide planning goals are the foundation for land use planning in the state. There are 19 Statewide Land Use Planning Goals, 15 of which apply to the City of Florence. These goals guide the land use process in the City and every jurisdiction statewide. The Florence Realization 2020 Comprehensive Plan is organized by statewide planning goals and serves as the policy guide for how these goals are applied within the City.

More information of Oregon's Planning Goals can be found on the Department of Land Conservation Department (DLCD).

NATIONAL COMMUNITY PLANNING MONTH EVENTS & IDEAS

The events and ideas in this section are organized by the 15 Statewide Planning Goals that apply to Florence. Some of these items have dates and events associated with them, others provide links and additional information. Hopefully you can learn something new about how community planning looks in Florence and discover something new about our community. We'd love it if you shared selfies or pictures of the great places you enjoy during Community Planning Month 2024 by emailing them to [email protected]

NATIONAL COMMUNITY PLANNING MONTH READING LIST

All the books listed below are available at the Siuslaw Public Library as either a book or an ebook. The descriptions, contents, and abstracts provided of the books are from the Siuslaw Public Library online catalog. All books are listed in alphabetical order by authors last name.

Rules for Radicals
by: Saul Alinsky (1971)

Description: "This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know "the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one."First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition."

Silent Spring
by: Rachel Carson (1962)

Description: "Rachel Carson is a pivotal figure of the twentieth century...people who thought one way before her essential 1962 book Silent Spring thought another way after it."-Margaret AtwoodRarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did exactly that. The outcry that followed its publication in 1962 forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson's passionate concern for the future of our planet reverberated powerfully throughout the world. As Carson reminds us, "In nature, nothing exists alone." The introduction by the acclaimed biographer Linda Lear, author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature, tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of a ruthless assault form the chemical industry following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death."Wonder and humility are just some of the gifts of Silent Spring. They remind us that we, like all other living creatures, are part of the vast ecosystems of the earth of the earth...this is a book to relish: not for the dark side of human nature, but for the promise of life's possibility."

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
by: Henry Gragar (2023)

Abstract: "An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life--the humble parking spot. In a beguiling and often absurdly hilarious mix of history, politics, and reportage, Grabar brilliantly surveys the pain points of the nation's parking crisis, from Los Angeles to Disney World to New York, stopping at every major American city in between. He reveals how the pathological compulsion for car storage has exacerbated some of our most acute problems--from housing affordability to the accelerating global climate disaster--ultimately, lighting the way for us to free our cities from parking's cruel yoke."

The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by: Jane Jacobs (1961)

Description: A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured.
In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity.

Oregon Plans: The Making of an Unquiet Land Use Revolution
by: Alder Sy (2012)

Contents: "The laws, 1961-1969 : the path to farmland preservation -- The laws : the path from SB 10 -- SB 100 in the 1973 legislative session -- The agency : starting up LCDC and DLCD-- Adopting statewide planning goals : the grassroots phase and a new approach -- Adopting statewide planning goals : LCDC, stakeholders, and the politics of conflict resolution -- Watchdog emerging : 1000 friends of Oregon -- Governor Straub, the 1975 legislature, and LCDC -- The agency, the watchdog, and the dynamics of local planning -- The coastal goals."

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do
by: Tom Vanderbilt (2008)

Description: "A New York Times Notable BookOneof the Best Books of the Year The Washington Post • The Cleveland Plain-Dealer • Rocky Mountain News In this brilliant, lively, and eye-opening investigation, Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings that make us worse drivers than we think we are. He demonstrates why plans to protect pedestrians from cars often lead to more accidents. He uncovers who is more likely to honk at whom, and why. He explains why traffic jams form, outlines the unintended consequences of our quest for safety, and even identifies the most common mistake drivers make in parking lots. Traffic is about more than driving: it's about human nature. It will change the way we see ourselves and the world around us, and it may even make us better drivers."

RESOURCES

Amercican Planning Association (APA): https://www.planning.org/ncpm/

Oregon Chapter APA: https://oregon.planning.org/community/planningmonth/

Department of Land Conservation & Development Land Use Planning Goals: https://www.oregon.gov/lcd/op/pages/goals.aspx

Siuslaw Public Library: https://www.siuslawlibrary.info/

Walktober 2024: https://wewalklane.org/

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