While you’re planning that new infrastructure you should also be budgeting to repair or replace it when it wears out.
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Code Enforcement Services administers and enforces state building codes to keep people safe, save energy and assure durability of homes and workplaces.
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The Carlisle/Wortman blog has shared planning information and ideas since 2010. The top stories from 2018 include some new content plus our greatest hits.
Read MoreFollowing up on last month’s guest column by Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim tells us what planners can do to anticipate and mitigate changes in the retail sector.
Read MoreCarlisle/Wortman’s guest columnist, Ebenezer Scrooge, brings you the ghost of Christmas future, at least as it applies to the retail sector.
Read MoreYour residents are aging. Are you ready for that? AARP’s Age-Friendly Network offers tools and guidance.
Read MoreDick Carlisle takes on two bills that would treat short term rentals as a permitted use in any zone and preempt communities’ ability to regulate them.
Read MoreThe tool kit for fighting Phragmites includes state laws, building codes, zoning ordinances, noxious weed ordinances and stormwater management rules.
Read More“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou
Read MoreDon’t let a crisis be the wake-up call telling you that your infrastructure map is incomplete.
Read MoreAs the earth warms, precipitation increases. Parks and vacant urban lots could be tools for detention, retention or outright stormwater management.
Read MoreCarlisle/Wortman's John Enos will present a session on roles and responsibilities and open meetings/sunshine laws to APA Cleveland in November.
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