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Division Reports include:

Sustainability Planning in Metropolitan Los Angeles: Products and Processes

CSO STRATEGIC TASKFORCE, LOS ANGELES COUNTY, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE RIPD

This is the first book to identify and summarize all of the sustainability plans affecting Metropolitan Los Angeles. While this policy handbook approaches sustainability through the lens of those within the Los Angeles city limits, it also provides pointers to sustainability plans in the other counties and key cities of metropolitan Los Angeles. It also helps to frame sustainability planning internationally, nationally, and throughout the state of California. Finally, it presents summaries of highly-regarded historical and social science interpretations of the importance of the Los Angeles region.

In April of 2024, an updated and expanded edition of "Sustainability Planning in Metropolitan Los Angeles" was published. The expanded material provides a detailed examination of the 2024 Connected SoCal plan, the transportation plan and sustainable communities strategy of the Southern California Association of Governments. You can view the 2024 version here.

You can watch a webinar on this report here, or view the presentation here.

Creative Placemaking in Rail Transit Corridors

APA REGIONAL AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL PLANNING DIVISION HANDBOOK

This publication relies on case studies from eight metropolitan areas to generate a series of themes and considerations for communities seeking to pursue creative placemaking in a transportation context. It also includes an analysis of the information in the case studies and a review of literature providing an overview of the evolution of creative placemaking in the U.S.

You can watch a webinar on this report here.

Collaborative Planning For Climate Resilience

AN INTEGRATED SCIENCE-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR THE SAN DIEGO REGION

This report identifies ways that the overall integrated regional and local planning approach that applies to water resource planning and hazard mitigation planning can be expanded to address other critical climate-related topics, including public health, ecosystem impacts, infrastructure impacts, and environmental justice.

You can watch a webinar on this report here, or view presentations here.

Regional Water Planning for Climate Resilience

APA REGIONAL AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL PLANNING DIVISION POLICY HANDBOOK

In the current decade, water management professionals and comprehensive planners have moved to a perspective that recognizes the need to consider how all aspects of water inter-relate — with one another and with other features of natural systems and the built environment.