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The COPE report is based on interviews with 55 informed citizens, planners, elected officials, planning commissioners and others in related fields around the state. The interviews revealed considerable praise for Oregon’s planning system, for its contribution to community livability, protection of resource land, citizen involvement and other accomplishments. They also identified some areas that merit careful review and discussion.
Print Publications
The COPE Report
The Committee on the Oregon OPE) established by the Board of the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association in Spring 2000. Its principal charge has been to review and comment on the accomplishments of mandated land use planning in Oregon and to identify directions for the future.
To view and download the entire COPE Report (including the OAPA board's responses to its recommendations), click here (.pdf format).
Contact Pat Zepp at (503) 657-6087 or oapa@oregonapa.org to order a hard copy ($15 + shipping)
Chapter Presidents' Council AICP Study Manual
Members price=$15.00 + $5 shipping and handling
Contact Pat Zepp at (503) 657-6087 or
oapa@oregonapa.org oapa@oregonapa.org to order.
The Guide Community Visioning
Steven C. Ames, ed. 1998, 41 pp (APA Planners Press.) $15.00 + $5 shipping for Oregon residents; $25.00 + $7 shipping outside Oregon.
In recent years, strategic planning has swept the country as the preferred model of community planning. This guide offers a practical approach for communities wishing to begin the strategic planning process. It will help citizens understand the connection between the kind of place they want their community to be and the policies that will support their vision. It shows how to design and implement an effective visioning process, provides ideas on how to use graphics in visioning, and points you to additional resources. The revised edition updates profiles of communities originally involved in the Oregon Visions Projects.
Contact Pat Zepp at (503) 657-6087 or oapa@oregonapa.org to order.
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