Planning and Design Guidelines

For air, water and urban forest quality in neighborhood development.

Planning and Design Guidelines for Air, Water and Urban Forest Quality in New Neighborhood Development was written to inform those in a position to initiate, regulate or influence neighborhood scale planning and design about air and water quality implications and opportunities in decisions they will be called upon to make in those roles. The information and advice within is drawn from many diverse sources, including a rapidly growing body of literature in the area and, experience gained from a research-based comparison of neighborhood development patterns. To simplify the volume and potential complexity of the scope of this work, we have organized this publication into three major sections. An INTRODUCTION section outlines the principles and priorities that have shaped this effort and, findings and lessons learned from the neighborhood plan comparisons upon which the guidelines are based. A GUIDELINES section introduces the process view of planning and design that influenced the selection and organization of guidelines, outlines the 6 planning and design objectives toward which the guidelines are directed and presents each of 15 guidelines, by objective, and to a similar format. The REFERENCES section that concludes the publication cites and documents more fully the research findings, literature and illustrations upon which the Introduction and Guidelines are based.

NUCFAC recommended award: ORUF-98-001

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