Managing Conflict in Community Growth and Change

Growth and Change

(statistics, factors affecting, effect of, collaboration with other government units on, property rights, government regulations, tax valuation/assessment, citizen politics)

Wisconsin

  • Wisconsin.gov
    http://www.wisconsin.gov/state/home
    The State of Wisconsin's information server for Wisconsin state agencies, departments and other governmental branches. Includes State of Wisconsin departmental directories, proposed state budgets, WI statutes and bill tracking, and links to WI city, county and local government Internet sites.

  • Center for Community Economic Development, UW-Extension
    http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/
    "Creates, applies and transfers multidisciplinary knowledge to help people understand community change and identify opportunities."
  • Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS)
    http://www.cows.org/
    "A research and policy center dedicated to improving economic performance and living standards in Wisconsin."

  • The League of Wisconsin Municipalities
    http://www.lwm-info.org/
    The League of Wisconsin Municipalities is a not-for-profit association of municipalities which acts as an information clearinghouse, lobbying organization and legal resource for Wisconsin municipalities.

  • Local Area Personal Income
    http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/regional/reis/
    Interactive interface to local area tables from the US Dept. of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis.

  • Program on Agricultural Technology Studies (PATS)
    http://www.wisc.edu/pats/
    Formerly known as the Agricultural Technology and Family Farm Institute(ATFFI), assesses the social and economic implications of technologies and public policies for family farming in Wisconsin agriculture.

  • UW-Extension Local Government Center
    http://www.uwex.edu/lgc/
    Includes information on programs and workshops offered as well as links to great sites on Business Improvement Districts (BIDS) under Community Planning and Design, and many WI and other US and planning resources under Growth Management.

  • WI County Equalized Property Values
    http://www.dor.state.wi.us/equ/strat.html
    "County equalized property values, equalized values for selected cities, changes In equalized values, and statement of changes in equalized values "

  • Wisconsin Department of Revenue
    http://www.dor.state.wi.us
    Describes agency programs and services and has tax forms in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format.
  • Wisconsin Biomapper
    http://maps.botany.wisc.edu/
    "A data-rich GIS application that allows overlays of land use, aerial photos, topographical maps, and watershed info."
  • 2003-2004 Wisconsin Blue Book
    http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/bb/
    PDF version in 50 page chunks. Chapter 8 has statistical information. Earlier WI Blue Books are also available.

Statistics

  • Government Documents at Steenbock Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    http://steenbock.library.wisc.edu/subjectguide/govinfo/govdoc.htm
    Has sections on Wisconsin State Resources on the Internet, Federal Resources on the Internet, and Agricultural Statistical Resources on the Internet.

  • Statistical Sources
    Sections on WI, General, Demographic and Housing statistics sources may be of interest.
    (http://steenbock.library.wisc.edu/extension/stats.htm)

Government Regulations

  • Code of Federal Regulations
    http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html
    Searchable full text database.

  • Documents in the News
    http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/docnewsnew.html
    University of Michigan's Document Center's links to government documents in the news. Includes links to federal budget and income tax information.

  • GPO Access
    http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
    "Official federal government information at your fingertips." Includes searchable federal databases. From U.S. Government Printing Office.
  • Internal Revenue Service, Dept. of the Treasury: The Digital Daily
    http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/
    Tax information for individuals and businesses. Includes tax forms and instructions, tax regulations in plain English, and tax statistics.

  • Legal Information Institute (LII), Cornell Law School
    http://www.law.cornell.edu/
    Supreme Court decisions, the U.S. Constitution, decisions of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, searchable and full-text statutes of the Uniform Commercial Code (Including Official Comments), the Copyright Act, the Patent Act, and the Federal Trademark Act, the full U.S. Code as published on CD-ROM by the Government Printing Office and a growing number of state statutes on the Internet organized by topic can be found here.

  • Minnesota Planning
    http://www.mnplan.state.mn.us/
    Minnesota's state agency on planning for policy makers and the public.

  • Model Ordinances to Protect Local Resources
    http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/ordinance/
    The EPA Office of Water provides tools, sample language, and real-life case studies of local ordinances on water quality. "The ordinances address matters that are often forgotten in many local codes, including aquatic buffers, erosion and sediment control, open space development, stormwater control operation and maintenance, illicit discharges, and post construction controls. There is also a miscellaneous category."
  • Planners Web
    http://www.plannersweb.com/index.html
    Home of the Planning Commissioners Journal. Has great list of planning web links, sprawl guide, tracking trends in planning, and more. UWEX CE County educators can request full text of articles from Steenbock Library.
  • Planning Communities for the 21st Century
    http://www.planning.org/growingsmart/pdf/
    planningcommunities21st.pdf
    A 112 page pdf report (slow to load).
  • Planning for Smart Growth: 2002 State of the States
    http://www.planning.org/growingsmart/states2002.htm
    American Planning Association "presents a report card on the status of state planning enabling statutes and statutory reform efforts in the United States." Contains a detailed analysis of the planning statutes of all 50 states to determine how well they address contemporary planning issues.
  • THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
    http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas2.html
    Full Text of the Congressional Record, hot legislation, and links to Congressional Internet Services including the House and Senate.

Citizen Politics

Collaboration

  • Center for Neighborhood Technology
    http://www.cnt.org/
    This Chicago center's mission is "to promote public policies, new resources and accountable authority which supports sustainable, just and vital urban communities." Describes its Transportation/Air Quality, Sustainable Manufacturing and Recycling, and Community Energy program areas.

  • Idealist.org: Actions Without Borders
    http://www.idealist.org/
    "Over 36,000 nonprofit and community organizations in 165 countries, which you can search or browse by name, location or mission. If your organization is not yet listed here, you can add it now (it's free)."
  • Community Tool Box
    http://ctb.ku.edu/
    Extensive collection of community resource tools. "Over 6,000 pages of practical skill-building information on over 250 different topics. Topic sections include step-by-step instruction, examples, check-lists, and related resources."
  • Institute for the Study of Civic Values
    http://www.iscv.org/
    Applies civic values to cntemporary problems and issues. Has a lot of community information.
  • Nonprofit Management Educational Resources
    http://www.uwex.edu/li/
    In the "nonprofit web sites" section of the Learner Resource Center "you will find a number of useful annotated resources organized by topic.....everything from "How to start a nonprofit organization" to "volunteer management."
  • National Rural Development Partnership (NRDP)
    http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/nrdp/index.html
    NRDP is "a multi-faceted organization bringing together partners from all levels of government as well as private for profit and non-profit organizations to address the needs of rural America." Has collection of Internet resources for rural America.
  • Neighborhoods Online: National
    http://www.neighborhoodsonline.net/index.html
    Aim is "aim is to provide fast access to information and ideas covering all aspects of neighborhood revitalization, as well as to create a national network of activists and people in government working on problems that affect us where we live. "

Community Visioning and Planning

(planning, farmland preservation, farm entry/exit, community development block grants, rural datafication)

Farmland

Planning

  • Community Connections Information Center
    http://www.comcon.org/
    "Community Connections is the Information Center of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD). It serves State and local agencies, nonprofit organizations, public interest groups, and others interested in housing and community development. The Center provides its users with copies of program regulations, descriptions of model programs, case studies of affordable housing initiatives, publications on expanding affordable housing opportunities, funding information, training and conference announcements, and referrals to technical assistance providers."

  • Cyburbia: the Urban Planning Portal
    http://www.cyburbia.org/
    "Contains a large selective directory of Internet resources relevant to planning, architecture, urbanism, growth and sprawl, and other topics related to the built environment." Hosted by Urban Insight and the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning.
  • Internet Resources for City Planning Research
    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/cityweb.html
    Selected Internet sites of interest to academic and practicing city & regional planners, with a special focus on California planning resources from the Environmental Design Library, University of California, Berkeley.
  • Local Government Center
    http://www.uwex.edu/lgc/
    "The mission of the Local Government Center is to provide focus, coordination, and leadership to UW System educational programs for local government, and to expand the research and knowledge base for local government education."

  • Measuring Community Success and Sustainability
    http://www.ag.iastate.edu/centers/rdev/
    Community_Success/why.html
    Interactive workbook helps "communities learn how to measure the concrete results of rural community development and conservation efforts." Workbook is part of a project by the Aspen Institute's Rural Economic Policy Program, funded by the Ford Foundation. The workbook's development was supported by the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development.

  • Milwaukee Associates in Urban Development: Supporting the Nonprofit Community On-line
    http://www.uwm.edu/People/mbarndt/mindex.htm
    Site explores "the potential of Internet as a tool for local communities and nonprofit organizations."

  • Planning Commissioners Journal Planners Web
    http://www.plannersweb.com
    City and regional planning resources for municipal, county and regional planning boards and citizens interested in local planning. Includes the Sprawl Guide of annotated web resources about the impacts of sprawl.
  • Rural Development
    http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/
    USDA's Rural Development site with programs, publications, regulations, and success stories.
  • Smart Communities Development
    http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/
    "U.S. Dept. of Energy site. Sustainable community development, from land use planning, to sustainable business, disaster planning, financing, and rural issues are covered. Has a Toolkit of sustainable development support tools and a Resource Database of agencies and organizations active in sustainable development.
  • Smart Growth Online
    http://www.smartgrowth.org/
    "This website and the $mart Growth Network are designed to help bring together the information, resources, tools and partners to make smart growth happen. Information and tools target everyone from local government and planners, to developers and the construction industry."
  • U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Homes and Communities Page
    http://www.hud.gov/

Rural Datafication

  • A Nation Online: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use Of The Internet
    http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/dn/
    Feb. 2002 report "based on the September 2001 U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey - a survey of approximately 57,000 households and more than 137,000 individuals across the United States. As such, the data in this study are among the most broad-based and reliable datasets that have been gathered on Internet, broadband, and computer connectivity."
  • Falling Through the Net: Toward Digital Inclusion
    http://search.ntia.doc.gov/pdf/fttn00.pdf
    An NTIA (National Telecommunications & Information Administration) Oct. 2000 report on American's access to technology tools.
  • Losing Ground Bit by Bit: Low-Income Communities in the Information Age
    http://www.benton.org/publibrary/losing-ground/home.html
    1998 report "examines the technology gap that separates America's low-income communities from the benefits of the information age." It studies barriers affecting access to new information tools, efforts being made to alleviate the problem, and policy issues involved in these efforts. Links on site are no longer being maintained.

Dealing With Conflicts and Reaching Consensus

(alternative dispute resolution, mediation)

Leadership

  • Community Tool Box Part E: Leadership, Management, and Group Facilitation
    http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/en/part_E.htm
    Contains chapters on Core functions in leadership, and Group facilitation and problem solving.
  • Communication Process and Leadership
    http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/CD/CD01300.pdf
    Relationship between communication and leadership. A 10 page document from Florida Cooperative Extension Service.
  • Communication Process and Leadership
    http://www.soc.iastate.edu/extension/publications/Soc2.pdf
    A 12 page document from Iowa State University Cooperative Extension Service.
  • How to Lead Effective Meetings
    http://www.ohrd.wisc.edu/meetings/howto1.htm
    Responsibilities of the chair, common meeting problems, meeting best practices and tips from the experts. From the UW Office of Quality Improvement and Office of Human Resource Development.
  • Leadership and Organizational Development
    http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/leaddev.htm
    Several North Dakota Extension State University Extension Leadership Development Within Groups documents are available in full text.
  • Leadership: Getting it Done by Rex R. Campbell
    http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/faculty/RCampbell/
    Leadership/default.htm
    An online full text book by Rex R. Cambpell, Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Covers principles of voluntary leadership, traits of effective leaders, attributes of good listening, and more.
  • Leadership Development
    http://monarch.tamu.edu/d690/d690ldrs.htm
    Texas Ag Extension Handbook section on leadership development covering benefits of leaders, identifying leaders of target publics, minority leadership, recruitment, placement, training and recognition of volunteer leaders.
  • Listening and Leadership: A Study on Their Relationship
    http://www.usfa.fema.gov/pdf/efop/efo29219.PDF
    46 page report from National Fire Academy.
  • Quotes, Illustrations, Analogies & Profundities in the area of Personal, Teamwork & Leadership Development
    http://pw1.netcom.com/~spritex/quotes.html
    Quotes organized in topics such as Humor, Leadership, Motivation, Teamwork and more. Quotes selected by Grant M. Bright, IBM - USA, Leadership & Management Development.
  • Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management
    http://leadership.wharton.upenn.edu/welcome/index.shtml
    "Contains practical summaries of current research on leadership and change to the academic and management communities through a periodic Wharton Leadership Digest," and other useful leadership links.

Land Use Planning and Implementation

(sprawl, waterfront development, transportation/highways, infrastructure, zoning)

Wisconsin Land Use

  • Gathering Waters: Uniting Wisconsin's Landtrust Movement
    http://www.gatheringwaters.org/index.html
    Defines land trusts and has a directory of WI land trusts.
  • Bayfield County Land Use Planning
    Introduction to landu use planning, Bayfield County Land Use Plan Survey Results, and Bayfield County Land Use Plan Goals and Objectives. http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/bayfield/cnred/planning/
  • Planning Wisconsin's Land Legacy
    http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/master_planning/
    land_legacy/index.html
    Wisconsin DNR's "study of public land needs for conservation and recreation in our state."
  • WiscLand: Wisconsin Initiative for Statewide Cooperation on Land Cover Analysis and Data
    http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/maps/gis/datalandcover.html
    Describes WiscLand, "a voluntary partnership of public and private entities seeking to facilitate statewide landscape GIS data development and analysis."
  • Wisconsin Biomapper
    http://maps.botany.wisc.edu/
    "A data-rich GIS application that allows overlays of land use, aerial photos, topographical maps, and watershed info."
  • WISConsin Land INformation Clearinghouse (WISCLINC)
    http://www.sco.wisc.edu/wisclinc/
    "A gateway to geospatial data and metadata, related land and reference information, and the Wisconsin agencies which produce or maintain these items." Has online state data sets which can be downloaded.
  • Wisconsin Land Information Association (WLIA)
    http://www.wlia.org/
    Has contact information.
  • Wisconsin DOA Intergovernmental Relations
    http://www.doa.state.wi.us/dir/
    Gets you to Internet Map Servers in and around Wisconsin, Coastal Management, Comprehensive Planning, and Municipal Boundary Review materials.
  • 1:250,000-scale Land Use Land Cover for Wisconsin
    http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/glis/hyper/guide/
    1_250_lulcfig/states/WI.html
    The Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) data files describe the vegetation, water, natural surface, and cultural features on the land surface. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) provides these data sets which can be FTP'ed.

General Land Use

Other Communities

Infrastructure

  • ASCE Civil Engineering Database
    http://www.pubs.asce.org/cedbsrch.html
    American Society of Civil Engineers' electronic information retrieval service to all its publications published since 1973.
  • Clearinghouse for Infrastructure:General/Legislation Information
    http://www.iti.northwestern.edu/clear/infr/
    Includes links to organizations, many full text documents, and legislative information. Maintained by Northwestern University Infrastructure Technology Institute.
  • Journal of Infrastructure Systems, American Society of Civil Engineers
    http://www.pubs.asce.org/journals/is.html
    Abstracts of published papers.
  • Northwestern University Infrastructure Technology Institute
    http://www.iti.northwestern.edu/
    Has infrastructure documents and links for general infrastructure, highway, bridge, technology transfer, and water resources information.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Amanda Bakken, Joe Abel and Penelope Klein, Steenbock Library and Jim Schneider and Ann Ziebarth, UW-Extension for help with sites and issues for this publication.