A Course on Physical Planning and the Developmental Planning Used in Land Use Analysis

Spring Semester 2008

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, download the PowerPoint files by "right clicking" the file and then transferring it to your local drive by doing as "save target 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 Hok-Lin Leung, Land Use Planning Made Plain 3rd, University of Toronto, 2006.

For this course you should be using Microsoft Windows Windows XP as your operating system with Microsoft Explorer 7.0 with the latest updates. Netscape Communicator will not work properly on this site but Firefox will do just fine. You should have the most recent copy of a .jpg or .gif viewer such as ACDSee, 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 7.0 or Firefox. Other files may be in Adobe's Portable Document Format (.pdf) and you will need the PDF Reader Version 8.0 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 2003, 2007 or XP. If I use electronic slides for the lectures, you must have a copy of Microsoft PowerPoint or XP - 2003 or 2007. K-State is a heavy use site and bandwidth is at a minimum during normal university afternoons and very late 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 sites are due to the settings 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.

The lectures are in PowerPoint format (.ppt). They are password protected with DES Encryption. If you are not a current class member, or are not at the university, you can e-mail me with the reason why you would like to view the files and I will send you the password.

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 17 

Introduction, Overview, Assignments, and Planning to Plan

Wednesday - January 23

Introduction to Land Use Planning

Readings:  Chapter 4 in Land Use Planning Made Plain

Wednesday - January 30

The Development Process
Physical Connections
Readings:  Chapters 2 and 3 in Land Use Planning Made Plain

Wednesday - February 6

The Development Process - continued
Physical Connections - Preparing the Land Use Plan
Reading:  Chapter 9 In Land Use Planning Made Plain
Readings:  Chapter 5 in Land Use Planning Made Plain

Wednesday - February 13

Physical Connections - Transportation (Lecture by teaching assistant)
The Development Process
Physical Connections - The Process of Sprawl and the Idea of Compact Growth
Sustainable Community
Readings:  Chapter 6 in Land Use Planning Made Plain

Wednesday - February 20

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

Readings:  Chapter Seven in Land Use Planning Made Plain

Wednesday - February 27

Appeals Boards
Hearings
Statutory Requirements
Permits Inspections
Instruments, Uses, Conditions, Enforcement
Team Presentation of Site Location Project - Begins at 4:30

Wednesday - March 5

Work Time Or Field Time For Site Location Project

Wednesday - March 12 

Work Time Or Field Time For Housing Project

Wednesday - March 26

Mixed Uses/Planned Development/Special Districts
Team Presentations of Site Location Project Begins at 4:30


Wednesday - April 2

Subdivision Review

Wednesday - April 9

Subdivision Continues

Wednesday - April 16

Presentations of Housing Survey

Final Exam

Comprehensive Teaching Outline and Readings (revised for 2008)

Assignment #1 - A Housing Condition Reconnaissance Survey
Assignment #2 - Due Diligence/Pro Forma

Lecture 2 (The material in this lecture is now combined with lecture 11 on the basic subdivision process
Facilities Management/Water - Sewer/Riparian Law
1. The Rural Water-Waste Disposal System - Septic Tank Flow Diagram
2. Municipal Waste Water Treatment Plants - Plant Illustration
3. Sample water Usage - Fresno, CA.
4. Sample Planning Office Procedures for Hazardous Substances in PDF
5. Sample Impact Fees
6. Example Water Impact Fee
7. Water Distribution Map
8. Water Consumption and Loss

Lectures 3 & 4
Making Physical Connections - The Land Use Plan

READINGS

1. Goals and Purpose of Land Use Planning - St. Paul MN Land Use Plan
2. Land Based Classification System
3. Land Use Charts and Figures
4. Lecture - Making Physical Connections (PowerPoint)
5. Urban Change Theories (html)

Continued

Lectures 5 & 6 - The Transportation Process

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 Pages 140 - 159 "Transportation" in Leung

Lectures 6 & 7 The Development Process

2. Example of a Pro Forma

Lecture 7
Basic Zoning - Part 1

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


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

Lecture 9 
Zone and District Construction

Read Chapter 5 in Lueng

Study Guide 

Lecture 10 
Zoning Process/Hearings/Procedures

Lecture 11 
Basic Subdivision Process


Pottawatomie County Subdivision Ordinance -

Read Chapter 7 - 8 in Leung

Lecture 12 
Subdivision Review


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

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Lecture for Housing Survey Project
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

1. Overview of local development codes
Housing Trends
Housing Codes
Housing Sanitation Codes
Housing Construction Inspection - full page here 
Residential Inspection Forms

2. Basic Building, Plumbing, Electrical Codes http://www.codecheck.com/
3. One and Two Family Minimum Housing Standards - click here for instructor handout
4. Americans With Disabilities Act [Common Errors in Coding]

Project Study Resources

Revised January 29th, 2008 by the author jwkplan@ksu.edu