The Best Practices is a compendium of planning-related policies, guidelines, and standards excerpted from City Council-adopted area and neighborhood plans, 21st Century Growth Team recommendations, Mayor Michael B. Coleman’s Green Memo, and other related city and professional sources. These policy benchmarks will be used by the Planning Division in drafting area and neighborhood plans, working with communities, stakeholders and the general public. As such these benchmarks become a starting point for preparing policies that are unique to each area and neighborhood plan – provided that a consistent focus is maintained throughout all planning documents.