| Concentration in Land Use Planning |
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(CY PLAN 25* course series) Faculty Advisors: Robert Cervero, Jason Corburn, Elizabeth Deakin, Michael Dear, David Dowall, Judith Innes, Michael Southworth, Paul Waddell Land use planning is the heart of the profession of city and regional planning. Land use planning is tied to transportation and to housing, to urban design, and to environmental planning. Land use planners work with regional and metropolitan planners, with economic developers, and with developers of private projects. They work in towns, cities, counties, special districts, and states. They work in the private sector as planning consultants and as land planners. Land use planning, in short, is the “glue” that holds the field together. The practice of land use planning is drawn from three traditions. The first is the tradition of the general plan: the idea of a constitution—put to map form—for local residents and their governments. The second is that of regulating local land uses to prevent negative spillovers. This tradition has grown from Euclidean zoning and the principle of separating incompatible uses through subdivision controls, to modern times and the California Environmental Quality Act. The third tradition is more normative: it is based on the idea that good cities and good neighborhoods must be carefully thought out, planned, and designed. Required Courses CY PLAN 205*: Introduction to Planning Law (Fall, 3 units) Electives CY PLAN 203: Metropolitan Governance and Planning Seminar (Fall 2010, 3 units) * Students who take CY PLAN 205 to meet their MCP core institutions requirements must complete one course from the list of electives. |