Last updated: 4 Dec 2007

National Planning Sites

• American Planning Association
• APA online newsletter for involving youth in Planning
• National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT)
• National Housing Conference
  
• Planning Commissioners’ Journal
• Planetizen
• Cyburbia
• Smart Communities Network
• Smart Growth America - Measuring Sprawl and its Impact
• Smart Growth Network
• Student Planning Network
• Geographic Information Systems
• Utopia
• The Alliance for Regional Stewardship
• The Congress for the New Urbanism
  

Florida Regional Planning Councils

• Apalachee
• East Central Florida
• North Central Florida
• Northeast Florida
• South Florida
• Southwest Florida
• Tampa Bay
• Treasure Coast
• West Florida
• Withlacoochee

Federal Government

• Bureau of Historic Preservation (Department of State)
• Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program
• Department of Transportation
• Economic Development Administration
• Emergency Management Institute
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Federal Grants for Urban Parks - from the National Park Service
• HUD report: "The Practice of Low Impact Development" - 11/20/03
• National Hurricane Center
• National Trust for Historic Preservation - Information booklets
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration
• Tampa Bay National Estuary Program
• U.S. Census Bureau
• CFRPC Census Data

State Government

• Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged
• Comprehensive listing of all State agencies' web sites
• Department of Community Affairs
• Department of Environmental Protection
• Department of State
• Department of Transportation
• Florida Administrative Weekly Online
• Florida Communities Trust 
• Florida Government Information Locator
• Florida Greenways and Trails Council
• Florida Humanities Council
• Florida State Forest Trails
• Florida Trust for Historic Preservation
• Florida Wetland Restoration Information Center
• Florida Legislature
• Florida Division of Emergency Management
• State Emergency Response Commission
• State of Florida's Park System
• University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research

Local Government

• Avon Park Police Department
• Bartow Chamber of Commerce
• Central Florida Development Council
• City of Bartow
• Desoto County
• Hardee County
• Highlands County Government
• Highlands County Local Links
• Lake Alfred Chamber of Commerce
• Lake Wales Area Chamber of Commerce
• City of Lakeland
• Polk City
• Polk-County.com
• Polk Property Appraiser Data - FTP Site
• Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce
• City of Winter Haven
  
• Polk County Board of County Commissioners
  
• Zolfo Springs
  

Visioning

• MyRegion
• OneBay

Water Management Districts

• SouthWest Florida Water Management District
• St Johns Water Management District

Resource Sites

• American Planning Association
• Building Inclusive, Multicultural Communities (Brookings Institution) - 11/20/03
• Brookings Institution Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices
• Center for Green Space Design
• Central Florida Development Council
• CUTR: Center for Urban Transportation Research, at USF-Tampa
• Central Florida Geographic Information systems
• "Disconnected Urbanism" (Metropolis Magazine) - 11/20/03
• Florida Chapter American Planning Association (FAPA)
• Florida Forever grant application (Florida Communities Trust)
• Florida Green Building Coalition
• Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse
• Florida's Heartland Rural Economic Development Initiative
• Lake Okeechobee Protection Plan
• Links between Brownfields and Transportation
• National Alliance of Preservation Commissions
• "November Election Results: Growth Boundaries Approved in Solano County" - 11/20/03
• The Physical Fitness of Cities - a Winter Olympics exhibition
• Polk Atlas Water Resource Page
• Profiles of Community Foundation Leadership
• The Shimberg Center
• Urban Land Institute
• 2001 Report Card for "The Infrastructure"
• 2001 Urban Mobility Study
• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a nonprofit org. in Cambridge, Mass, www.lincolninst.edu. Curriculum materials and more than 500 working papers, newsletter articles, and other reports can be downloaded as complete documents from this website.

Local Interest

• Archbold Biological Station
• Cypress Gardens
• Enterprise Florida, Inc.
• Heartline Library Cooperative
• IMCA-Ona-Pine Level DRI
• Lakeland Ledger newspaper, reporting on all of Polk County
• Lakeland Net
• Polk County Democrat newspaper, reporting on the cities of Bartow and Fort Meade
• PolkPartners

Housing Links

• Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University
• National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act
• Fair Housing Act Design Manual Revised
• HUD: Affordable Housing Reports
• KnowledgePlex Housing Web Site
• Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing - University of Florida