Toolkit Implementation Handbook

The Implementation Handbook is the user’s manual and step-by-step guide to the Louisiana Land Use Toolkit. The Handbook serves as the instruction manual for converting the Toolkit into a customized zoning code, subdivision code or development code that meets the specific needs of your community. The Handbook identifies what you need to get started and provides an idea of what to expect as you move through the process. The Handbook is the starting point and should be consulted before beginning the implementation process.

1: Adopting a Comprehensive Plan

2: Mapping the Toolkit

3: Customizing the Toolkit

4: Adopting & Administering the Toolkit

STEPS TO IMPLEMENTING THE TOOLKIT

Download the Handbook
This web site provides a brief synopsis of the Implementation Handbook, to review the complete Handbook go to the download page. Download the Implementation Handbook...

Need Help Implementing the Toolkit ?
If your community needs help implementing the Toolkit, the Center for Planning Excellence (CPEX) can help. CPEX has experience implementing the Toolkit in a variety of settings and understands what is required to get the Toolkit adopted in your community. Contact CPEX for Toolkit support...

1. Adopting a Comprehensive Plan
If there is any single document that is essential to a successful Toolkit implementation, it is a comprehensive plan. Before you get started, it is important that a community-wide vision for future growth be in place. Learn more about preparing a comprehensive plan...

2. Mapping the Toolkit
As important as the specific rules in the Toolkit are, it is the mapping that ties the rules to the ground. The more accuracy and detail that exists in your mapping, the better positioned your community will be. Learn more about mapping the Toolkit...

3. Customizing the Toolkit
It is likely that you will need to make modifications to the standards in order to "right size" the Toolkit for your community. Before you begin customizing the Toolkit, contact the Center for Planning Excellence to help you through the process. Learn more about customizing the Toolkit...

4. Adopting & Administering the Toolkit
Adopting and administering a new set of land use and development regulations can be difficult. It will take a coordinated and comprehensive effort as you move forward with the implementation process. Learn more about adopting and customizing the Toolkit...

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