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The Center for Land Use Education has produced a series of publications, some with the Department of Natural Resources and the Office of Land Information Services of the Department of Administration. Unless otherwise specified, these publications are available from the Center for Land Use Education. If you would like a copy please email us at landcenter@uwsp.edu or call us at 715-346-3783.

Bulletins

• Citizen's Guide to Future Land Use Mapping  (August 2006)
  This bulletin is for citizens, plan commissioners, and local public officials that wonder, “How is a future land use (FLU) map developed?”

• Crafting an Effective Plan for Public Participation  (November 2004)
  This bulletin is for professional planners, community educators, and local officials responsible for crafting a Public Participation Plan.  Although not a recipe, it does provide a framework for tailoring a plan that fits local needs and capacities.  In addition to the framework, there are tips, examples, and worksheets (downloadable below as MS Word documents) to help prepare a sufficiently detailed, yet practical plan for public participation.
   
  • Worksheet 1:  Establish Planning Tasks
  • Worksheet 2:  Stakeholder Analysis
  • Worksheet 3:  Public Officials Contact List
  • Worksheet 4:  Professionals and Technical Staff Contact List
  • Worksheet 5:  Choosing Participation Methods
  • Worksheet 6:  Documentation and Evaluation Protocol
  • Worksheet 7:  Integrating a Participation Strategy
  • Worksheet 8:  Evaluating Public Participation Activities
     
• Enhancing Involvement in Community Planning Using Incentives  (February 2005)
  The goal of this bulletin is to bring the broader meaning of incentives and their effectiveness in engaging members in community planning to the attention of planning professionals and community leaders.

• Finding the Right Match:  Criteria for Selecting Communities to Provide Outreach Services in Natural Resources Planning and Management  (September 2004)
  This bulletin describes a four-step selection framework that allows an institution to identify and select communities that will benefit from natural resources planning and management assistance.  Below are two forms, in Microsoft Word format, that may be downloaded (MS Word documents) and modified for use by local governments.
   
  • Sample Community Assistance Form  (Appendix A)
  • Community Match Worksheet  (Appendix B)
     
• Recruiting and Retaining Qualified Plan Commissioners  (September 2004)
  This bulletin aims to help local elected officials, assigned appointment responsibility by state statutes, identify, recruit, and retain qualified and dedicated commissioners.  Below are documents, in Microsoft Excel and Word formats, that may be downloaded and modified for use by local governments.
   
  • Application for Plan Commissioner  (Appendix B) - MS Word document
  • Plan Commissioner selection Matrices  (Appendix C) - MS Excel spreadsheet

• Village Plan Commission Ordinances (September 2005)
  This publication provides examples of Village Plan Commission ordinances that create and establish plan commissions.

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