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NEWS & UPDATES
2010 CCPCA EVENTS

Our Spring 2010 Central and Southern District Conferences showcased excellent presentations and tours. Click on the Conferences link for much more information!

April 16th – Central Spring Conference, Jamestown
May 1st – Southern Spring Conference, Bakersfield

80TH CCPCA ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN NOV.

The CCPCA Board is now preparing the 80th Annual Conference in Monterey -- "Planning for the 21st Century: Smart, Healthy, Sustainable."

Planning Resources and Information  
    
The map below provides a link to each county government website in California.

Below the map are links to departments, publications, and projects that we will continue to add to for your use. If you have resources, contacts, or projects that would be appropriate to share, please let us know. The best resources are the ones that have a proven value. Thank you! 
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Planning Links, Publications and More 

CCPCA offers the following links and other material as educational resources. We do not make endorsements of any legislation, plan, project or candidate. In our listings of books, we may link to an online vendor such as Amazon, but not as an endorsement of Amazon, rather instead as a link for reviews and summaries of those books.

NEW - Institute for Local Government, Land Use Resources for California
Local Officials - Click Here.

Governor's Office of Planning and Research, A to Z Publications - Click Here.

California Planners' Books of Lists, 176 pages - Click Here.

California Water Plan - CCPCA representatives have been involved in the public hearings and study group as the plan has developed. This is the state website - Click Here.

Delta Vision Committee Implementation Report, January 2009 - Click Here.

UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, Planning Documents - Click Here.

US Department of Energy Smart Communities, December 2008 - Click Here.

UC Davis Extension, Land Use and Environmental Planning Program - Click Here.

Sustainability Ratings of Major US Cities 2008, NGO website - Click Here.

"Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities" by Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson
Island Press, 2004
- Click Here.

"When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe"
by Tom Daniels   Island Press, 1999
- Click Here.

"Go Green: How to Build an Earth-Friendly Community" by Nancy H. Taylor
Gibbs Smith, Publisher 2008
- Click Here.

 
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