The Delaware Complete Communities Planning Toolbox aims to help build local government capacity to develop:
complete-communities planning approaches,
community-design tools,
and public engagement strategies.
Getting Started
Navigate through all five sections of the toolbox to explore documents, images, presentations, and videos that aim to define the core concepts and describe the benefits of complete communities.
This toolbox is designed to grow as new content is developed, so come back often.
The latest updates will be highlighted on the homepage.
The Planning Tools section describes a variety of land-use planning tools and techniques, organized based on the five elements of a complete community.
The Community-Design Tools section incorporates video clips, photographs, and other content that visually support corresponding content on community design strategies that move toward “an architecture of place.” This approach considers the value of designing places that are dynamic and reflect community changes, oriented toward people not cars, reflective of a town’s architectural and cultural heritage, visually attractive and enjoyable, accessible and inclusive, and economically vibrant. Featured within this section is the Designing Better Communitiesseven-part video series.
The Public-Engagement Strategies section of the toolbox focuses on how to achieve public involvement, educate citizens, and engage community members, and gain input from stakeholders to plan for complete communities. A variety of high-touch and high-tech strategies highlight examples of practical implementation by local governments.
Explore the Living Lab hub, designed to assist Delaware communities in planning, implementing, and evaluating active transportation pop-up demonstrations.
The Visual Tools section is a convenient way to access and share the high-impact visual content dispersed throughout the Toolbox. Users can now navigate to a single page to search through videos, infographics, ArcGIS Story Maps, Adobe Spark pages, and a glossary of termsorganized by the five elements of Complete Communities. Visual tools have been crafted to showcase best practices with regard to complete communities-implementation strategies in Delaware and take viewers on a virtual tour of Delaware’s Byways.
