The need for planning

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What Does Planning Include? 

• Deals with various elements of a community’s built and natural environment

• Articulates the public’s aspirations for the future of their community

• Responses to growth pressures

• Addresses problems (current and future)

What is the Planning ‘Problem’?

• Desire to solve a current problem

• Avoid or prevent a potential future problem

• Improve the community

• Manage growth / coordinate development

• Address external effects – externalities 

Planning Matters - Different Issues in Different Places at Different Times

• Ecological / nature

• Employment / education

• Transportation / energy

• Housing / affordability

• And many more… 

Planners Working with Other Professionals

• Engineers, Surveyors

• Architects, Designers

• Landscape Architects

• Urban Designers

• Realtors, Brokers

• Lawyers

• Developers

• The Public

• And others

Planning (related) Quotes

• "A goal without a plan is just a wish." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• "Avoiding a problem doesn't solve it." - Bonnie Jean Thornley

• "By failing to prepare [plan], you are preparing [planning] to fail." - Benjamin Franklin

• "A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved." - Dorothea Brande

• "If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?" - Steve Maraboli 

• "Good intentions might sound nice, but it's positive actions that matter." - Tim Fargo 

• "If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped [managed] with over time." - Shimon Peres