Rural Resurrection

5 Reasons to Update Your Zoning Ordinance

In relation to National Planning Month, let’s look at one of the implementation tools of your planning actions, the zoning ordinance. As I’ve stated with comprehensive plans, zoning ordinances are… Read more »

Implementation, the Lost Step in Comprehensive Planning

As the American Planning Association has proclaimed this is National Community Planning Month, it’s appropriate to talk about Comprehensive Plans, the long-range plans for a city. Providing a vision of… Read more »

October is National Community Planning Month

The month of October is National Community Planning Month. No, there’s not 31 days of planning gifts ranging from architectural scales to cohort survival calculation worksheets. There’s no Planning Fairy…. Read more »

Disaster Recovery Housing Awards Announced

Back in May Rural Resurrection posted about the Nebraska Department of Economic Development’s (DED) announcement to open up the application process for a special round of grant funding to help… Read more »

Be Prepared, Not Scared – Disaster Preparedness

September is National Preparedness Month. Each year National Preparedness Month is recognized to promote family and community disaster and emergency planning. This year’s theme is “Prepared, Not Scared.” The Ready.gov… Read more »

RAGBRAI 2019 Winners

Iowa’s annual bike ride across the state is not intended to be a race. There are no winners, no first losers, or third place finishers. It is just a rolling… Read more »

RAGBRAI 2019 is Just Around the Corner

It’s mid-July and that means that RAGBRAI 2019 is just around the corner. This year the annual biking event will be traversing the southern half of Iowa on the way… Read more »

Verdigre Striving to Rebuild

One of the communities hardest hit by the March floods was Verdigre, Nebraska. This small community in northeast Nebraska was inundated by the Niobrara River when the Spencer Dam broke,… Read more »