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The American Planning Association, California Chapter, Central Coast Section, serves San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, and aims to provide planning professionals, elected officials, and community members with services, support, and information to advance planning in the Central Coast and beyond.
PLANNING LINKS
Featured Links & Resources
- APA California | Diversity Summit: Gentrification Mosaic [1:33:58 VIDEO], December 18th 2015 | 1.5 CM Credits
- APA California | Latino Urbanism: Health and the Physical Environment [1:06:52 VIDEO], November 2nd 2015 | 1.0 CM Credit
Featured in Our Newsletter:
- UCSD Extension launches new online program CEQA Practice Certificate
- Beyond Brilliance, Beyond Stupidity - The best and worst of transportation, urban planning, design, the environment
- California Coastline - An Aerial Survey of the California Coast
- California Legislative Information - Search Assembly and Senate Bills and California Codes
- Knowledgeplex - Affordable Housing and Community Development Resource
- Neighborhood Knowledge California - Create Maps and Charts from an extensive GIS Database
- Parole - A thesaurus/dictionary of modern concepts in urban development
- Universal Design - Learn about a broader, more comprehensive “design-for-all” approach to development
- USA.gov - Official information and services from the U.S. government
- USGS - Latest Earthquake Data
- Zillow.com - Real estate demographic data
Local
- County of San Luis Obispo
- County of Santa Barbara
- County of Ventura
- City of Buellton
- City of Carpinteria
- City of Goleta
- City of Lompoc
- City of San Luis Obispo
- City of Santa Barbara
- City of Santa Maria
- City of Solvang
- City of Ventura
- Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
- UCSB
- UCSB's BREN School of Environmental Science and Management
State
- California Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA)
- California Chapter of the Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP)
- California Land Use Planning Info Network (LUPIN)
- California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES)
- California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
- Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR)
- California Planning Assistance Team (CPAT)
National