How Cities look to the Future: General Plans in the Sacramento Region (1997-99)
HOW CITIES LOOK TO THE FUTURE: GENERAL PLANS IN THE SACRAMENTO REGION (1997-1999)
As well as serving to satisfy state planning mandates, the periodic updating of city and county general plans often becomes an exercise in community "visioning." Some general plans effectively capture a community's sense of its tradition and future, linking these ideas and images to more tangible land use and other policies and tools. This project systematically analyzed the pertinent contents of 24 current city general plans in the Sacramento region. This comparative analysis examined the values implicit in general plan language (including how plans define "sustainability," either explicitly or implicitly),
how these values are expressed in policy terms, and the connections with regional patterns.