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Last Updated: October 20, 2022

This page offers you a safe place to ask a community development question.  The form and specific directions for this easy process are further down on this page. We define the scope of possible inquiries very broadly.  If we accept your question, you receive an answer right here online from one of our editors.  Possibly another visitor will chime in with a helpful addition.

This provides a service not only to an individual site visitor, but also to future readers, who can see the question and our answer and discussion.

Many of you have told us that this question and answer feature is helping with your community work. In fact, some of these have become among the most popular pages on our website.

We have received so many great questions that we separated them into categories, creating a hub page for each group.  These groupings are shown below, after which this article resumes.  But of course, community development topics are enormously varied, so many miscellaneous questions  don't fall into any category we have created. Those random but important questions and answers remain reachable from the links below the photo directory and text on this page; you can click the title to see the entire question and answer.

Categories of Questions in This Section: Zoning -- Civic Engagement -- Planning Terms -- Neighborhood Quality of Life -- Infrastructure Issues -- How Cities Work -- Housing -- Deed Restrictions -- Environmental Planning -- Rural Development -- Economic Development.  Miscellaneous questions are shown separately below.


Finding Other Resources for Information and Advice

Perhaps you really do not want to ask your community development question where it might be seen on this website, even though you can ask anonymously.  There are some excellent reliable resources on the web, although there is plenty of bad advice and jargon-laden pretentious stuff too. We recommend one of two University-based resources, either The Community Tool Box from the University of Kansas or the resources from the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs.  The American Planning Association site contains more advanced material that may be helpful to planning commissioners and members of boards of zoning adjustment or appeals.

Another possibility is to find some unbiased local experts. You might think your location is too remote to attract experts, but if you're in a developing nation, your national government will have more answers than you think. Provinces and states usually have some experts who can advise you, and there are semi-public agencies and non-profits that can help too. In the U.S., university extension services, community action agencies, regional planning agencies or councils of governments, and any community development corporation or umbrella housing development agency or corporation will be likely to know how to point you in the right direction.

Also remember that you can use the search box to find relevant details on this site. Another particularly useful resource on this site is the yellow box on our sitemap page, where we show links to pdf files of all the pages that might be of interest to particular audiences.

There is no reason to be embarrassed about your need for information, context, or terminology. Just the other day I had to ask a colleague how he understood a term that has popped up in foundation and think tank newsletters that we subscribe to. 


Use This Form to Ask Your Community Development Question

Returning to our main purpose here, we want to inspire you to ask your question now on this site, using the form just below. We want to help you in your community work. Don't worry about whether you are in the right category or not; we can fix that. Certainly feel free to give us a pseudonym rather than your real name if you wish, but being somewhat specific about your location will probably help you receive a more appropriate answer. You will see that you also can leave the name and location blank.


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