Law and Policy

Understanding laws and regulations is key to implementing effective planning policies and ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local statutes. Planetizen Courses offers classes on a wide range of regulations and legal issues that planners routinely come up against. Learn about code drafting, ethics, land use regulation, and how to navigate legal processes.

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Transportation Planning: Travel Behavior Principles and Modelling Approaches

Richard Willson

55 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Lighting Regulations and Dark Sky Places

Lindsay Malbon

66 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Defensible Sign Regulations

Eric Damian Kelly

63 Mins

AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Introduction to Planning

Mary Reilly

46 Mins

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US Disability Access Laws for Planners

Jonathan Katz-Ouziel, Thomas Hamed

109 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

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Missing Middle Housing: Meeting the Growing Demand for Walkable Urbanism

Daniel Parolek

72 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A

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Housing and Racial Justice: Current Events Urban Resilience

59 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Ethics: Balancing a Business Friendly Planning Environment

Carol D. Barrett

59 Mins

AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Transportation Planning: Strategies for Working with Roadway Capacity

Richard Willson

63 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

Kayla Hunter

59 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Economic Thinking for Planners: Cities, Externalities, and Governance

Peter Gordon

56 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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Planning Official Ethics 101

Wayne Beyea

62 Mins

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Leadership in Planning: Strategic Decision-Making in the Public Interest

Jeff Levine

60 Mins

AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Resilience Planning for Wildfires

Chris Holtkamp

58 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Code Drafting and the Law

Mark White

66 Mins

AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Defining Neighborhoods

Emily Talen

54 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Building Bad, Part 1: How Architectural Utility is Constrained by Politics

Jonathan Ochshorn

57 Mins

CIP
AIA CES
AICP CM

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Economic Thinking for Planners: Local Government and Governance

Peter Gordon

53 Mins

AICP CM
SACPLAN CPD

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What is a Comprehensive Plan?

Mary Reilly

60 Mins

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Exploring the Regulation of Short-Term Rentals

Malak Hakim

67 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM
CNU-A

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Planning for Universal Design

Lance Freeman

46 Mins

CIP
AICP CM

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Ethics: Balancing a Business Friendly Planning Environment, Part 2

Carol D. Barrett

56 Mins

AICP CM
CNU-A
SACPLAN CPD

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Local Regulation of Marijuana Businesses

Alan Weinstein

56 Mins

AICP CM

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Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix it

Nolan Gray

67 Mins

AIA CES
AICP CM

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Richard Willson

Richard Willson is a professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at California State...

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Daniel Parolek

Daniel Parolek is a nationally recognized thought leader in architecture, design, and urban planning, specifically in...

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Eric Damian Kelly

Eric Damian Kelly is a lawyer and planner with more than 35 years of experience working...

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Peter Gordon

Peter Gordon is Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California Price School of Public Policy...

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Peter Henn

PETER J. HENN, Esq., AICP, is a land use attorney at Jones Foster in West Palm...

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Mary Reilly

Mary Reilly is a land use educator with Michigan State University Extension.

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Alan Weinstein

Alan Weinstein holds a joint faculty appointment at Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and...

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Jennifer Raitt

Jennifer Raitt is the Executive Director of the Northern Middlesex Council of Governments. She has nearly...

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Nolan Gray

M. Nolan Fray is the Research Director for California YIMBY, an expert in urban land-use regulation...

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Álvaro Huerta

Dr. Álvaro Huerta is a Religion and Public Life Organizing Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and...

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Lance Freeman

Lance Freeman is a Professor in the Urban Planning Program at Columbia University in New York...

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Brad Neumann

Brad Neumann is a MSU Senior Extension Educator who serves as an educational resource for local...

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Wayne Beyea

Wayne Beyea is a faculty member and senior specialist - outreach within the MSU School of...

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Malak Hakim

Malak Hakim is a nationally accredited urban planner.

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James Carpentier

James Carpentier is State and Local Government Affairs Manager with the International Sign Association (ISA).

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Lisa Wise

As a planner and Certified Public Accountant, Ms. Wise has 20 years of professional experience in...

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Thomas Hawkins

Thomas Hawkins, a Florida licensed attorney, has represented parties on all sides of the planning and...

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Mark White

S. Mark White is recognized as an expert in zoning and planning/land use law.

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Carol D. Barrett

Ms. Barrett is a highly acclaimed expert in planning ethics.

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Thomas Hamed

Thomas Hamed, AICP is a transportation planner who specializes in commuter transportation and mobility for all...

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Jonathan Katz-Ouziel

Jonathan Katz-Ouziel is an autistic planner, an independent accessibility consultant, and the founder of Opossum House...

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Elizabeth Doerr

Elizabeth Doerr is a writer with expertise and awareness around social and racial justice issues and...

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Lynn Peterson

Lynn Peterson is a nationally recognized transportation and land use integration expert.

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Jonathan Ochshorn

Jonathan is a registered architect with an academic background in structural engineering and urban design as...

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Resilience Planning for Floods

Instructor: Chris Holtkamp

This course builds on the "Introduction to Resilience Planning" course and uses the approach presented there as the framework for addressing flood threats in communities.

4.51

69 Mins

CIP

AIA CES

AICP CM

SACPLAN CPD

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Area-Based Location Optimization: Urban Green Space Selection

Instructor: Kevin Credit

By the end of this course you will understand the basic principles of area-based location optimization and be able to solve the knapsack, threshold, and shape problems using LINGO software. The course also shows how to map the results of these skills in QGIS.

4.23

48 Mins

AIA CES

AICP CM

SACPLAN CPD

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Calculating the Benefits of Parks, Trails, and Open Space

Instructor: Todd J. Poole

This course provides examples of how to calculate market and non-market values of parks, trails, and open space, as well as how to identify potential revenue-generating opportunities for long-term maintenance and operation.

4.11

34 Mins

AICP CM

CNU-A

SACPLAN CPD

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Resilience Planning for Floods

Area-Based Location Optimization: Urban Green Space Selection

Calculating the Benefits of Parks, Trails, and Open Space

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