City of Santa Barbara, CA Succession Program
    Recognizing that there will be a major turnover in management in the next five to ten years, the City's Executive Management Team explored several strategies to plan for the continuation of a high performance organization through a commitment to sustained initiatives that engage outside the box thinking to attract, develop, and retain needed talent in the City of Santa Barbara.

    In the end, the team produced six strategies which form the City’s “Succession Program.”

Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change

by Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew, et. al.

Author Organization: Urban Land Institute
A comprehensive research report that explains why it is essential to use urban growth strategies to curb CO2 emissions from automobiles, how much transportation-related benefit we can expect to see from creating more compact growth, and what policy changes will make such growth possible.
Year: 2007; Pages: 158.

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