Alphabetical by title
Many of these books are available at your local library
Better Buses, Better Cities by Steven Higashide
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for Strong Towns by Charles Marohn
The End of the Suburbs by Leigh Gallagher
Generation Priced Out by Randy Shaw
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America by Conor Dougherty
The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg
High Tide on Main Street by John Englander
The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup
Human Transit by Jarrett Walker
Suburban Nation by Andres Duany
Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature by Douglass Farr
Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future by Douglass Farr
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
The Zoning of America by Michael Allan Wolf
Petaluma Climate Emergency Framework
7 Principles for Building Better Cities: Peter Calthorpe TED Talk
Resilient by Design: Elevate San Rafael video
Making Nature’s City: San Francisco Estuary Institute
Net-zero emissions targets are vague: three ways to fix: Nature journal
The effect of information about climate risk on property values: National Academy of Sciences 04/27/21, Related video
Petaluma Valley: Historical Hydrology and Ecology Study San Francisco Estuary Institute, March 2018
Petaluma River Access and Enhancement Plan City of Petaluma adopted May 1996
Petaluma Watershed and Enhancement Plan Sonoma Resource Conservation District (SRCD) updated 2015
Petaluma River Bacteria TMDL State Water Board Amendment to Basin Plan 06/02/20
Ecosystems as a Framework for Urban Planning: Reconnecting, Rediscovering, Reinvigorating by Jennifer Dowdell, Baltimore, MD 12/02/20
Reasons Why Nature Will Help Us Solve the Global Climate Crisis by C. Becerra, National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) 12/11/19
California's Important Leadership on 30x30 by Kate Poole, NRDC 01/27/21
Sustainability
The Greenest Building by Preservation Green Lab
Resources for urban development from the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Building life cycle assessment in practice from the American Institute of Architects
Economic incentives for historic preservation
Mills Act (property tax abatement)
Building code
The most important housing legislation you’ve never heard of Sonoma West Times & News 01/06/21: A good introduction to Regional Housing Needs Allocation, RHNA
City lags behind housing targets Argus-Courier 03/04/21
RHNA - Regional Housing Needs Allocation from ABAG, updated 02/12/21
Affordable Housing Forever NY Times OpEd 4/15/21
If You Care About Social Justice, You Have to Care About Zoning NY Times OpEd 04/19/21
The effect of information about climate risk on property values National Academy of Sciences 04/27/21, Related video
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Books
The End of the Suburbs, Where the American Dream is Moving by Leigh Gallagher
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by Chuck Marohn StrongTowns.org
Videos
How America Bankrupted Its Cities - Chuck Marohn, StrongTowns
The Value of Downtown - Joe Minicozzi, Urban3
Main Street Summit - longer version of #1
Mapping the Dollars and Sense of Land Use Patterns - longer version of #2
Imagine Sonoma County
Add your voice to this crowd-sourced vision for Sonoma County 2030! Work with us to bring that vision to life with sketches and narratives, and to identify and advance the policy proposals that will get us there.
CalEnviroScreen 3.0
CalEnviroScreen identifies California communities by census tract that are disproportionately burdened by, and vulnerable to, multiple sources of pollution.
SiteCheck
The purpose of Site Check is to accelerate the production of housing by facilitating planning decisions and clarifying where existing streamlining options under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) may apply.