From the Editors
		Bill Kasson and Ray Quay, AICP

Editorial

Once again, the proceedings of the APA National Conference are being published on CD-ROM, This year, along with the Proceedings of the 2000 conference, we are including a copy of the PAS report Aesthetics, Community Character, and The Law as well as a special report of the APA's Growing Smartsm Project, Planning Communities for the 21st Century. In addition, ESRI and the APA are providing an educational program that includes free applications, data standards, manuals, and vendor-neutral web sites from a variety of resources-both public and private, that will aid the planning community in developing their GIS programs. Information and free software on the Land-Based Classification Standard will be of special interest to APA members.

Preparing papers for publication on CD-ROM required conversion of images, graphics, and tables to a browser-compatible format. The resulting documents differ somewhat from the printed versions but every effort has been made to maintain the integrity of the original document. Additionally, the appearance of the proceedings may vary slightly from computer to computer.

The large capacity of a CD-ROM allows a virtually unlimited number of papers to be published in the proceedings along with a variety of other information of interest to planners. This year, in an effort to increase the number of submissions, the deadline was extended until after the conference. This meant that conference attendees had to wait to receive their CDs, but we hope the wait was worthwhile. There are certainly many papers that were presented at the conference this year that were not included on this CD-ROM. These papers can still be included in the on-line version of the proceedings.

Thanks to all the authors who took the time to prepare papers for these proceedings and for the extra effort involved in preparing them for electronic publishing. Thanks also to Glenn Coyne and the other members of the APA staff who helped in contacting authors and soliciting papers.

Sincerely,

Bill Kasson and Ray Quay

Technical

Just a few comments on the technical aspects of the proceedings:
The articles are all provided in HTML, written for HTML 3.0 compliance. They should work with Internet Explorer Versions 3 and higher and Netscape Versions 3 and higher. Some JavaScript is used for navigation buttons and in some cases to open secondary browser windows to display oversize graphics. The pages are designed to be viewed on at least an 800 x 600 display, though they will display at lower resolutions, some tables and graphics will be difficult to view. The search engine is a client side JavaScript Application.