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A Course on Physical Planning and the Development of Regulatory Techniques Used in City Planning

Spring Semester 2004

Course Overview

This course is designed to serve the needs of planning, design, and engineering professionals in an upper division, graduate format.  The course content is intended to both survey the range of regulatory techniques used in professional planning and to offer professional practice in building, land, and development ordinances including local based codes and site planning requirements.

To the greatest extent possible, this course will be available in an electronic format contained on this WEB site. I intend to give most of the lectures using PowerPoint slides in the classroom. Lectures are posted on the homepage of the web site. You cannot run them from my server because of security settings. You can, however, these PowerPoint files by "right clicking" the file and then transferring it to your local drive by doing as "save as." It is very important that you explore the WEB site for this course and understand its structure. All outlines, assignments, and course lectures will branch out from this page. The textbook for this course is Larz T. Anderson, Planning the Built Environment, APA Planners Press (2000).

Electronic delivery at K-State is a work in progress. We experience frequent internet interruptions at the University, although our local area network here in Seaton Hall (where this WEB originates) has a high degree of dependability.  You should be aware that telecommunications courses have some inherent problems because of the nature of software, internet browsers, and bandwidth. In terms of software, you should use the latest versions of all standard software to reduce the amount of frustration in reading and downloading these pages. You should be using Microsoft Windows 98 SE, ME, Windows 2000, or XP as your operating system with Microsoft Explorer 6.0 with the latest updates. Netscape Communicator will not work properly on this site. You should have the most recent copy of a .jpg or .gif viewer such as ACDSee 32, LView Plus, or Thumbs Plus to download, sort, and view my digital photos. Some files will be in Hypertext Markup Language (htm or html files) and Java Script which can be handled by Explorer 6.0. Other files may be in Adobe's Portable Document Format (.pdf) and you will need the PDF Reader Version 5.0 which is available as a free download from the Adobe site [click here for the download]. To submit files to this site you will need Microsoft Word 2000 or 2002 (XP) - you may use WordPerfect version 10 or Version 2000, but file translation is not 100% accurate. If I use electronic slides for the lectures, you must have a copy of Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, or XP. In terms of bandwidth, K-State is a heavy use site and bandwidth is at a minimum during normal university afternoons and evenings. In fact, there may be many evenings when it is impossible to make a reliable connection. I suggest before 10:00 AM in the morning is the best time. Many problems with a WEB site are due to the setting in a browser such as Explorer or Communicator. Make sure than your <page view> is set to a small font and that your are Java Enabled.

My Office is 313 Seaton Court
Phone 785-532-2441
e-mail - jwkplan@ksu.edu
My course and office hours schedule is here

General Course Schedule

Wednesday - January 22 

Introduction, Overview, Assignments, Mapping and Location

Wednesday - January 29

Local Development Codes/habitable structures/life safety/minimum dwelling code/ADA

Wednesday - February 5

Local Development Codes/habitable structures/life safety/minimum dwelling code/ADA

Wednesday - February 12

Facilities regulations/water - sewer management/Riparian Law

Wednesday - February 19

Physical Connections - The Land Use Plan/Overview

Wednesday - February 26 

Physical Connections - Preparing the Land Use Plan

Wednesday - March 5

Physical Connections - Transportation
Physical Connections - The Process of Sprawl and the Idea of Compact Growth

Wednesday - March 12

Basic History of Zoning
Basic Organization of Land Regulatory Processes
The Planning Commission and Governing Body
Appeals Boards

Wednesday - March 26th 

Hearings
Statutory Requirements
Legal Descriptions
Permits Inspections

Wednesday - April 9

Instruments, Uses, Conditions, Enforcement

Wednesday - April 16th

Mixed Uses/Planned Development/Special Districts

Wednesday - April 23

Subdivision Review

Wednesday - April 30

Final Exam

Comprehensive Teaching Outline and Readings

Lecture 1 
Introduction and The Nature of Physical Planning

PowerPoint Lecture
Read Chapters 1 - 3 in Anderson

Lecture 2
Local Development Codes/Habitable Structures
PowerPoint Lecture

READINGS:
A. Schilling, Joseph and James Hare, Code Enforcement: A Comprehensive Approach,  APA Press, 1994 - Chapters 1- 5.

Housing Affordability - U.S. Census
Housing Affordability - Overview
Enforcement Process and Overview
Inspection Forms
CDU Grading Examples

Lecture 5 
Physical Connections - Preparing the Land Use Plan

1. Physical Connections - Transportation (PowerPoint)

2. Background
Traffic Notes - Instructor Handout
National Transportation Trends
Example of Peak and Flow Studies
Access Control Reading
Street Classification

3. Basic Street and Circulation Patterns - Basic Street Plan here Larger scale here

4. Level of Service Calculations - see LOS Chart here

Read Part III "Transportation" in Anderson

Lecture 6 

1. The Development Process - Lecture (PowerPoint)

2. Example of a Pro Forma

Lecture 7
The Process of Sprawl and Compact Development

1. The Process of Sprawl - Lecture (PowerPoint)
2. Sustainable Development - Studio Presentation (PowerPoint)

3. Historical Roots of Sprawl
4. Paying for Sprawl - Assessment of Impact Fees


Lecture 7
Basic Zoning - Part 1

Assignment # 2 - Due April 23, 2003

First Lecture in the Zoning Process (PowerPoint)

1. Terms, concepts, background information
2. Rights in Property/renters/owners/rights in land
3. Neighborhood Law
4. Rights in Sale and Development - Private Restrictions

Preface - PowerPoint Presentation
Illustration - Severable Property Rights
Illustration - Sovereign and Attributes of Property

1. History of Zoning
2. Model Zoning Hearing Guide
3. Link to Official KS Statutes on Line
4. Link to my short version of KS. Statutes Annotated


Lecture 8
Basic Zoning - Part 2

Second Lecture in Zoning Process (PowerPoint)


Lecture 9 
Zone and District Construction

Third Lecture in Zoning Process (PowerPoint)
Study Guide 

Lecture 11 
Basic Subdivision Process

1st Lecture in Subdivision Process (PowerPoint)
Pottawatomie County Subdivision Ordinance -

Read Chapter 17 in Anderson

Lecture 12 
Subdivision Review

2nd Lecture in Subdivision Process - Appended (PowerPoint)

1. Subdivision Review Checklist
2. Subdivision - Technical specifications
3. Subdivision - Example ordinance


Project Study Resources

1. B&B Resource Guides - Michigan State University

last revised 02/11/03