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With Kenneth Pearlman, Ohio Planning and Zoning Law, 2008 (13th) Edition. Eagan, MN: Thomson-West, 2008.
Chapter 6, Planning, in Managing Local Government Services, edited by Carl Stenberg and Susan Austin. Washington, D.C.: ICMA Press, 2007.
Numerous articles in American Planning Association, Planning and Urban Design Standards. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
“Notes on Planning Statute Reform: Guideposts for the Road Ahead,” in Planning Reform in the New Century, edited by Daniel R. Mandelker. Chicago: Planners Press, 2005.
Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook: Model Statutes for Planning and the Management of Change, 2002 Edition. Chicago: American Planning Association, January 2002. (Gen. editor).
Website: http://www.huduser.org/publications/polleg/growingsmart.html
Also at: http://www.planning.org/growingsmart/

With Gerrit Knaap, Terry Moore, and Robert Parker, “Do We Know Regulatory Barriers When We See Them: An Exploration Using Zoning and Development Indicators,” Housing Policy Debate, 18(4) (2008): 711-749.
With Rebecca Retzlaff, “The Emergence of Growth Management Planning in the U.S.: The Case of Golden v. Planning Board of Town of Ramapo, and its Aftermath,” Journal of Planning History, 7(2) (May 2008): 113-157.
Editor, Land Use Administration for New Jersey Municipalities. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Government Services, 2008.
With Gerrit Knaap, Terry Moore, and Robert Parker, Zoning as a Barrier to Multifamily Housing Development, Planning Advisory Service Report No. 548. Chicago: American Planning Association, July 2007.
With Shannon Paul, “The Essential Planning Library Revisited,” PAS Memo (March/April 2007).
With James C. Schwab and Rebecca Retzlaff, Tribal Transportation Programs: A Synthesis of Highway Practice, National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 366. Washington, D.C. Transportation Research Board, 2007.
With Rebecca Retzlaff, “The Zoning Hearing Examiner: Origins, Evolution, and Status in Statutes and Case Law," Planning and Environmental Law 59:7 (July 2007): 3-10.
With Rebecca Retzlaff, “The Zoning Hearing Examiner and Its Use in Idaho Cities and Counties: Improving the Efficiency of the Land Use Permitting Process,” 43 Idaho L. Rev. 407 (2007).
With Jacquelyn Zelinka, Planning and Zoning in New Jersey: A Manual for Planning and Zoning Board Members. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Government Services, 2007.
With Rebecca Retzlaff, “The Emergence of Growth Management Planning in the U.S.: The Case of Golden v. Planning Board of Town of Ramapo, and its Aftermath,” submitted to the Journal of Planning History, April 14, 2007 (under review).
With Rebecca Retzlaff, “Reconstructing Golden v. Planning Board of Town of Ramapo: The Real Story Behind the First Major Growth Management Plan in the U.S.,” paper presented at the International Planning History Society Conference, Delhi, India, December 10-15, 2006.
With Rebecca Retzlaff, Planning 1-2-3: A step-by-step workbook to writing a comprehensive plan in Illinois. Prepared for the Campaign for Sensible Growth, the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, and the Metropolitan Planning Council. Chicago: The Campaign, 2006.
With Terry Moore and James Ebenhoh, An Economic Development Toolbox: Strategies and Methods, Planning Advisory Service Report No. 541. Chicago: American Planning Association, October 2006.
“The Sensibility of Unified Development Codes,” Zoning Practice (June 2006), 1-7.
With Marya Morris, Eric Damian Kelly, and Kirk Bishop, Model Smart Growth Codes, Interim Planning Advisory Service Report. Chicago: American Planning Association, 2006.
“Zoning and Anti-Semitism in the 1920s: The Case of Cleveland Jewish Orphan Home v. Village of University Heights and Its Aftermath,” Journal of Planning History, 4:2 (May 2005):. 91-128.
With James C. Schwab, Planning for Wildfires, Planning Advisory Service Report No. 529/530. Chicago: American Planning Association, 2005.
“Getting on the Case: A Short History of the Ties between Security and Urban Design,“ Planning, 70:6 (June 2005): 10-13.
With Rebecca Retzlaff and James C. Schwab, Regional Approaches to Affordable Housing, Planning Advisory Service Report No. 513/514. Chicago: American Planning Association, 2003.
“The Legislative Requirement that Zoning and Land Use Controls Be Consistent with an Independently Adopted Local Comprehensive Plan: A Model Statute,” 3 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 395 (2000).

Stuart Meck is a faculty fellow and director of the Center for Government Services (CGS) in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers (EJB), The State University of New Jersey. CGS is a training, research, and technical assistance unit of the School. A specialist in planning statute reform, Meck is a former national president of the American Planning Association, has 37 years of experience as a professional planner, researcher, and public administrator, and has written widely on planning and land use controls. His two major works are the Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook: Model Statutes for Planning and the Management of Change, 2002 edition (American Planning Association, 2002), for which he served as principal investigator and general editor; and, with Kenneth Pearlman, Ohio Planning and Zoning Law, 13th edition (Thomson-West 2008), which has been cited by the Ohio Supreme Court, the Ohio Court of Appeals, the Ohio Attorney General, and the Federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Meck has taught planning at several Ohio universities, and teaches American urban history in the Goucher College Master of Historic Preservation program. Meck is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP), a licensed Professional Planner (PP) in New Jersey, and a registered Professional Community Planner (PCP) in Michigan.