TY - GEN AU - Barrett, Carol D. TI - Everyday ethics for practicing planners SN - 9781884829619 U1 - 711.12 PY - 2001/// CY - Chicago PB - American Planning Association KW - N1 - CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Foreword xi 1. Introduction 1 Why This Publication Was Prepared and How to Use It The Sources of Our Ethics Internal External The Role of the Planning Commission in Establishing the Ethical Climate How to Recognize an Ethical Planner Tools for Learning about Ethics Reading and Responding to the Scenarios Sample Scenario (What Are You Willing to Do to Keep Your Job?) How to React to a Possible Ethical Lapse Procedures under the Code of Ethics Using the Scenarios As a Reader In Workshops A Word about the Moderator Is It Worth the Effort to Try and Uphold Ethical Principles? 2. Scenarios 29 When the Planning Director Wants Affordable Housing Temporary Toilets Using the Zoning Ordinance to Eliminate Feeding Programs for the Homeless Public Decision-Making without Public Input Planner Wonders If Community Understands Development's Potential Impact Where Have All the Affordable Rental Houses Gone? Being Responsive to Hispanic Community Values A Simple Office Conversion Annexation Analysis Blues Sending the Sex Shops Next Door Street Vendors vs. Corporate America Balancing Compassion and Enforcing the Sign Ordinance Moving the Airport Annual Birthday Dinner Developer Offers Summer Employment to Planner's Children Being Offered Confidential Information When an Appointed Official Seeks Permit Approval Planner Suspects Developer Influence on Planning Commissioners No Home for Group Homes Making Time for Planning on the Planning Commission Agenda Off-the-Job Social Relationships Affecting On-the-Jobs Performance Senior Planner Questions Competence of Director Do You Have a Duty to Report and Publicize Suspicious Conduct? Doing Outside Professional Work on Office Time A Planner Works Part Time in Real Estate Sales Can You Be a Consultant to the Public Agency Where You Once Worked? Private Enterprise Seeks a Public Official Dealing with Allegations of Sexual Harassment Window Dressing Minority Contracting Planning Director Browbeats Consultants What Happens when a Consultant Takes On Too Much Work? The Consultant's New Staff The Consultant's Brochure Preserving Indian Artifacts Negative Comments about Consultant Work Giving Credit where Credit Is Due Grocery Store Market Analysis Who Determines the Real Numbers? Pricing the Comprehensive Plan What's the Difference between Exactions and Extortion? Action Alternatives When the Rules of the Game Seem to Change Using the Planning Process to Stop an Unpopular Land Use Is Something Serious Really Going On? Planner Spies Endangered Species Are Wetlands an Ethical Issue? Does Historic Preservation Overrule Religious Rights? Disclosing Your Employer Damson Preserves When Your Personal Values Clash with a Planning Assignment 3. Discussion Scenarios 163 When a University Flexes Its Muscle An Exercise in Damage Control Whistle Blowing or Blowing in the Wind Prioritizing Non-Work That Occurs at the Office Arnold Oil Company Conditional Use Application Appendix 189 Scenarios Organized by Applicable Code Elements AICP/APA Ethical Principles in Planning AICP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct AICP Advisory Rulings Answer Sheet for Ethics Workshop The Social Responsibility of the Planner ICMA Code of Ethics with Guidelines ICMA Declaration of Ideals Index 227 ER -