National Community Planning Month: Resource | Planning Whole Communities Toolkit, Puget Sound Regional Council

National Community Planning Month ended Monday, the end of October.

In writing the previous post on schools as neighborhood anchors, I referenced the Planning Whole Communities Toolkit, by the Puget Sound Regional Council.

It has 25 sections and looks to be an incredible resource:

• Affordable Housing (PDF)
• Brownfield Redevelopment (PDF)
• Community Engagement Tools (PDF)
• Community Gardens and Urban Agriculture (PDF)
• Complete Streets (PDF)
• Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (PDF)
• Design for Aging in Place (PDF)
• Green Stormwater Infrastructure (PDF)
• Green Waste Management (PDF)
• Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Strategies (PDF)
• Health Impact Assessment (PDF)
• Healthy Food Retail (PDF)
• Inclusive Contracting and Business Development (PDF)
• Joint Use Agreements (PDF)
• Multimodal Concurrency (PDF)
• Opportunity Mapping (PDF)
• Parking Management (PDF)
• Pedestrian-Oriented Design (PDF)
• Recognition Programs (PDF)
• Safe Routes to School (PDF)
• Special Needs Transportation (PDF)
• Sustainable Parks and Open Spaces (PDF)
• Tobacco-Free Parks (PDF)
• Transit-Oriented Development (PDF) 

A lot more could go in it.  Speaking of National Community Planning Month, this could become the foundation of a broader and deeper community planning toolkit, by adding various "missing" sections.