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help yourself APA’s Planning Advisory Service is a community of planners—and we’re the kind of neighbors who don’t mind sharing the contents of our toolbox.

In fact, when you join our community, you’ll get unlimited access to all of our power tools. Planning Advisory Service subscribers are just a click or a call away from the best practices and innovative solutions they need to get the job done.

PAS Essential Info Packets We’ve got hot topics, planning classics, and evergreen challenges covered in our PAS Essential Info Packets. Save yourself hours of research with these handy collections of reports, ordinances, and articles.

PAS Reports You’ll find well-thumbed, dog-eared copies of PAS Reports in planning offices around the country. These nuts-and-bolts reports condense the best practices on everything from affordable housing to wildfires into practical how-to guides.

PAS QuickNotes Need to explain a fundamental planning topic to the public or your commission? Try PAS QuickNotes. These concise briefing papers are the perfect handouts for your next meeting.

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PAS Memo What’s new? What’s next? Find out in this bimonthly online publication.

PAS Memo keeps you up to date on the latest trends—and shows you whether they’ll work in your community.

Inquiry Answer Service Got a question? We’ve got an answer. Our team of research specialists will go to work for you. They’ll answer your question and connect you to plans, ordinances, articles, and reports to back it up.

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Everyday tasks. Big projects. Whatever you’re working on, APA’s Planning Advisory Service can help. For more than six decades, planners have turned to PAS. So, if you’re tired of endless Internet searches that turn up page after page of irrelevant and unreliable information, give us a call. We have the country’s best collection of planning materials at our fingertips, and we keep track of what’s working in communities big and small. You’ll find the answers you need in our best-practices guides and analyses of new ideas—with the help of our experienced research team.

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What’s on your desk? Whatever the issue, PAS can help. n Development review n Street connectivity n Historic preservation n Low-impact development n Transit-oriented n Hazard planning development n Traditional n Digital signs neighborhood design n Parking standards n Complete streets n Environmental justice n Big box stores n Parks and open space n Economic development n Planned unit development n Tree preservation n Affordable housing n Density

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POWER sharing Subscribe to APA’s Planning Advisory Service and everyone in your office can borrow our power tools. Your newest planner can log on to our subscribers-only website to find parking standards. Your CDBG coordinator can call the Inquiry Answer Service. Senior staff can borrow PAS Reports.

And we’ll notify the whole staff of new resources in our monthly e-newsletter, This Month @ PAS. Imagine the funds you’d need to hire a researcher, develop a comprehensive library, and create the info packets and primers available from APA’s Planning Advisory Service. Thousands of dollars in budgetary line items and staff time, right? Well, don’t start rewriting the budget yet. Subscribe to APA’s Planning Advisory Service and get a team of researchers, an extensive library, and a growing collection of other great tools.

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