Planning Links
Useful Professional, Governmental, and Nonprofit Websites. For now these are only loosely sorted first into governmental, NGO, and private categories and then into local, state, regional, and national scale; this is only intended as a useful selection of land use and community planning links and does not represent any endorsements by the Center for Land Use or Shippensburg University, Please feel welcome to suggest links that do not appear.
Resource Web Link |
Local, State, or National |
Type (private, public, etc.) |
Topical Concern |
Adams County Planning Commission | local | governmental - local | planning |
Cumberland County Planning Commission | local | governmental - local | planning |
Franklin County Planning Commission | local | governmental - local | planning |
Fulton County Planning Commission | local | governmental - local | planning |
Tri-County Planning Commission | local | quasi-governmental - local | planning |
Penna. General Assembly | Pennsylvania | governmental - state | public officials |
Pennsylvania House of Representatives | Pennsylvania | governmental - state | public officials |
Pennsylvania Senate | Pennsylvania | governmental - state | public officials |
State Representative Bruce Smith (92nd Dist., parts of Cumberland and York counties) | local | governmental - state | public officials |
State Representative Dick Lee Hess (78th Dist., includes Fulton Co.) | local | governmental - state | public officials |
State Representative Glen Grell (87th Dist., part of Cumberland County) | local | governmental - state | public officials |
State Representative Jerry Nailor (88th Dist., part of Cumberland County) | local | governmental - state | public officials |
State Representative Mark Keller (86th Dist., includes Perry and parts of Franklin counties) | local | governmental - state | public officials |
State Representative Rob Kauffman (89th Dist., includes parts of Cumberland and Franklin counties) | local | governmental - state | public officials |
State Representative Steven Nickol (193rd Dist., includes parts of Adams and York counties) | local | governmental - state | public officials |
State Representative William Gabig (199th Dist., parts of Cumberland County) | local | governmental - state | public officials |
State Senator Patricia Vance (31st Dist., includes Cumberland County) | local | governmental - state | public officials |
State Senator Terry Punt (33rd Dist., includes Franklin Co.) | local | governmental - state | public officials |
U.S. Representative Tim Holden | local | governmental -federal | public officials |
U.S. Representative Todd Platts | local | governmental -federal | public officials |
U.S. Representative William Shuster | local | governmental -federal | public officials |
U.S. Senator Arlen Specter | Pennsylvania | governmental -federal | public officials |
U.S. Senator Rick Santorum | Pennsylvania | governmental -federal | public officials |
Center for Rural Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | governmental - state | planning / engineering / environmental consulting |
Governor's Center for Local Govt Services | Pennsylvania | governmental - state | planning; community development |
Penna. DCED | Pennsylvania | governmental - state | environmental |
Penna. DCNR | Pennsylvania | governmental - state | environmental |
Penna. DEP | Pennsylvania | governmental - state | environmental |
Penna. Emergency Management Association | Pennsylvania | governmental - state | planning; environmental |
PennDOT | Pennsylvania | governmental - state | transportation |
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission | Pennsylvania | governmental - state | historic preservation |
Bureau of Economic Analysis | national | governmental - federal | economic development |
Bureau of the Census | national | governmental -federal | economic; demographic |
Federal Emergency Management Association | national | governmental - federal | planning; environmental |
HUD Office of Community Planning and Development | national | governmental - federal | community development |
National Register of Historic Places | national | governmental - federal | historic preservation |
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) | national | governmental -federal | environmental |
U.S. Geological Survey (national site) | national | governmental -federal | environmental |
USDA Service Center - Adams County |
local | governmental | agricultural |
USDA Service Center - Cumberland County |
local | governmental | agricultural |
USDA Service Center - Franklin County |
local | governmental | agricultural |
USDA Service Center - Fulton County |
local | governmental | agricultural |
USDA Service Center - Perry County | local | governmental | agricultural |
USGS Water Resources of Pennsylvania (New Cumberland office) | Pennsylvania | governmental -federal | environmental |
Franklin County Area Development Corporation | local | quasi-governmental | economic development |
Susquehanna River Basin Commission | regional | quasi-governmental | environmental |
Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin | regional | quasi-governmental | environmental |
Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access | Pennsylvania | education | GIS |
Pennsylvania State Data Center | Pennsylvania | education | informational |
Penn State University's Department of Landscape Architecture | Pennsylvania | education | planning |
Conococheague Watershed Alliance | local | NGO | environmental |
Cumberland County Housing and Redevelopment Authority | local | NGO | planning / community |
Juniata Valley Audubon Society | local | NGO | environmental |
10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | NGO | environmental; community |
CCAP - County Commissioners Association of Penna. | Pennsylvania | NGO | general |
GreenPittsburgh.Net | Pennsylvania | NGO | environmental; community |
Greenspace Alliance of Southeastern Penna. | Pennsylvania | NGO | environmental |
Penn Futures | Pennsylvania | NGO | environmental |
Penna. Mapping and Geographic Information Consortium | Pennsylvania | NGO | GIS |
Pennsylvania Audubon Society | Pennsylvania | NGO | environmental |
Pennsylvania Economy League (central div. office) | Pennsylvania | NGO | community development |
Pennsylvania Economy League (state office) | Pennsylvania | NGO | community development |
Pennsylvania Environmental Council | Pennsylvania | NGO | environmental |
Pennsylvania Land Trust Association | Pennsylvania | NGO | environmental |
Pennsylvania League of Cities and Municipalities | Pennsylvania | NGO | planning; community development |
Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation (PPFA) | Pennsylvania | NGO | environmental |
Pennsylvania Planning Association | Pennsylvania | NGO | planning |
Preservation Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | NGO | historic preservation |
PSAB - Penna. State Assoc. of Boroughs | Pennsylvania | NGO | general |
PSATS - Penna. State Assoc. of Township Supervisors | Pennsylvania | NGO | general |
Chesapeake Bay Foundation | regional | NGO | environmental |
Smart Growth Coalition of Westmoreland County | regional | NGO | environmental |
South Central Assembly for Effective Governance | regional | NGO | community |
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy | regional | NGO | environmental |
PA CleanWays | Pennsylvania | NGO | planning / engineering / environmental consulting |
American Farmland Trust | national | NGO | planning; agricultural |
American Planning Association (APA) | national | NGO | planning |
Appalachian Trail Conservancy | national | NGO | environmental |
CommunityViz / Placeways | national | NGO | GIS |
Conservation Fund, The | national | NGO | environmental |
Cyburbia - The Urban Planning Portal | national | NGO | planning |
Environmental Defense Fund | national | NGO | environmental |
Land Trusts Alliance | national | NGO | environmental |
National Assocation of Homebuilders | national | NGO | development |
National Audubon Society | national | NGO | environmental |
National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education | national | NGO | planning |
National Trust for Historic Preservation | national | NGO | historic preservation |
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy | national | NGO | environmental |
Scenic America | national | NGO | environmental |
Sierra Club | national | NGO | environmental |
Smart Growth Online | national | NGO | planning |
Smartgrowth America | national | NGO | planning |
The Nature Conservancy | national | NGO | environmental |
Maryland Planning Association | Maryland | NGO | planning |
Virginia Planning Association | Virginia | NGO | planning |
West Virginia Planning Association | West Virginia | NGO | planning |
New Jersey Planning Association | New Jersey | NGO | planning |
New York Planning Association | New York | NGO | planning |
Homebuilders Association of Franklin County | local | private / NGO | development |
Homebuilders Association of Metropolitan Harrisburg | local | private / NGO | development |
Pennsylvania Association of Realtors | local / regional | NGO | development |
Realtors Association of York and Adams County | local | private / NGO | development |
National Association of Realtors | national | private / NGO | development |
ESRI | national | private | GIS |
GIS.com | national | private | GIS |
Carl Bert and Associates Surveying and Engineering | local | private | planning / engineering / environmental consulting |
Dennis E. Black Engineering | local | private | planning / engineering / environmental consulting |
Benatec Associates | Pennsylvania / regional | private | planning / engineering / environmental consulting |
Brinjac Engineering | Pennsylvania / regional | private | planning / engineering / environmental consulting |
Delta Development | Pennsylvania / regional | private | planning / engineering / environmental consulting |
CHPlanning | Pennsylvania / regional | private | planning / engineering / environmental consulting |
EADS Group | Pennsylvania / regional | private | planning / engineering / environmental consulting |
General Code | Pennsylvania / regional | private | planning / engineering / environmental consulting |
Pashek and Associates | Pennsylvania / regional | private | planning / engineering / environmental consulting |
Rettew | Pennsylvania / regional | private | planning / engineering / environmental consulting |
Gannett Fleming | national | private | planning / engineering / environmental consulting |
Spotts, Stevens and McCoy | national | private | planning / engineering / environmental consulting |