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Re: Land-use struggles



In article <4vusc8$aak@tkhut.sojourn.com>, windseye@sojourn.com (Mark R.
Adams) writes:

>As a township attorney currently engaged in a revision of the zoning
(land 
>use) ordinance for a rural township in Michigan, who is also an organic 
>gardener and believer in sustainable living, I am sensitive to your
plight.  
>Our township wants to maintain its rural way of life in the face of
intense 
>and increasing development (residential subdivision) pressure.  Is anyone

>aware of any good source of zoning ordinance language or technical
assistance
>
>to planning commissions that embodies sustainable principles but that is 
>practical enough to be adopted by the voters?
>
>Mark Adams

Among other things, I am a Township Planning Commissioner.  The American
Planning Assoc. has a website at:  http://www.planning.org.  You might try
contacting them.  The Planning Commissioners Journal also has a website
at:  http://www.webcom.com/pcj/welcome.html.

Bruce Tammen



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