- Home
- Government
- Board of Supervisors
- Boards, Committees, and Commissions
- Citizens Advisory Committee
- Citizen-Led Research Library
Citizen-Led Research Library
If you have research that you would like to have featured here, please email the files and a brief description.
/QuickLinks.aspx
Path To 2045
As the members of the CAC work to develop a framework of the next comprehensive plan, extensive research is being performed in order to ensure that every aspect is taken into account. Below is a breakdown of the research and tools being used by the CAC members diligently working to help envision the future of Shenandoah County:
Historic Reports
- 1990's Shenandoah County History Report (PDF)
- May 1995 Shenandoah County Historic Resources Survey Report (PDF)
- 2000 Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District Implementation Plan (PDF)
- October 2005 Fisher's Hill And Tom's Brook Battlefields Preservation Plan (PDF)
- 2012 Valley Pike And Fisher's Hill Battlefield Interpretive Trail (PDF)
- 2016 Shenandoah County Libraries 5-Year Plan
Data Tools
- Shenandoah County Historical Community Atlas
- Virginia Cultural Resources Identification System
- USGS Historic Topographic Maps
Similar Locality Chapters
Readings
Historic Reports
- 1977 Shenandoah County Groundwater Present Conditions And Prospects (PDF)
- 1978 Flood Insurance Policy Shenandoah County Unincorporated Areas (PDF)
- 1988 Shenandoah County Water Supply Plan (PDF)
- 1995 Shenandoah: The Great River Valley (PDF)
- 1996 The Establishment of a Long-term Citizens Groundwater Monitoring Program for the North Fork of the Shenandoah River Watershed Year Three (PDF)
- 1998 Columbia Furnace FEMA Flood Report (PDF)
- 2004 Benthic TMDL For Toms Brook (PDF)
- October 2006 Shenandoah Valley Water Resources Strategic Plan (PDF)
- 2007-2008 Water In Shenandoah County: A Primer (PDF)
- 2011 Northern Shenandoah Regional Water Supply Plan (PDF)
- 2011 Northern Shenandoah Regional Water Supply Plan Summary (PDF)
- 2011 Northern Shenandoah Regional Drought Response And Contingency Plan (PDF)
- 2018 Water and Sewer Capacities (PDF)
- 2020 Proposal For A Master Plan On The North Fork Of The Shenandoah River (PDF)
- 2020 Shenandoah Watershed Compact (PDF)
Data Tools
- EPA Pollution Mapping
- FEMA Community Engagement Tool
- Flood Factor
- Northern Shenandoah Valley Local Watershed Map
- River Access Map
- Swim Guide Water Quality Assessment
- USGS Stream Stats
- USGS Aerial Imagery
- Wetlands Mapper
Similar Locality Chapters
Historic Reports
- December 2006 Shenandoah County Agricultural Task Force Report (PDF)
- 2015 UVA - Green Infrastructure Center Report On Woodstock (PDF)
- 2018 Virginia Outdoors Plan
- 2020 Cost of Community Services Report (PDF)
- 2021 Conservation Easement Authority Plan: Vision 25 (PDF)
Data Tools
- EnviroAtlas (Wide Range Of Data From Carbon Storage To Wetlands)
- EPA Report On Emissions 2014
- EPA Report On Air 2018
- Falling Fruit (Edible Plant Mapping Tool)
- Feds Feed Families
- Food Insecurity In Your Community
- Virginia Natural Heritage Data Explorer (Virginia's Priority Areas For Conservation)
Similar Locality Chapters
Historic Reports
- 1930 Industrial Survey Edinburg And Madison District (PDF)
- 1951 Shenandoah County Economic Data Report (PDF)
- 1962 Shenandoah County Economic Data Report (PDF)
- 1963 Shenandoah County Economic Study (PDF)
- 1964 Shenandoah County Economic Data Report (PDF)
- 1968 Shenandoah County Economic Data Report (PDF)
- 1968 Projections And Economic Base Analysis (PDF)
- 1972 Shenandoah County Economic Data Report (PDF)
- 1975 Projections And Economic Base Analysis (PDF)
- 1999 The Strasburg Initiative: A Master Plan For Development Of The Shenandoah Business And Industrial Center (PDF)
- 2013: Shenandoah County's Economic Development Strategic Plan (PDF)
- August 2016 The Economic Impact Of Bicycling In The Central Shenandoah Valley (PDF)
- 2019 Strategic Economic Development Plan Update (PDF)
Data Tools
- Bureau Of Economic Analysis Facts
- FCC Fixed Broadband Deployment
- Labor Market Conditions
- Living Wage Calculator
- Low Income Housing Data
- Opportunity Zone Community Impact Assessment Tool
- Solar GIS (Mapping Tool For Solar Energy Potential)
- Virginia Economic Development Partnership Site Ready Locations
Similar Locality Chapters
Readings
- Blue Ocean Strategies - Carlyann Edwards
- Enter The Triple Bottom Line - John Elkington (PDF)
- Factors For Enabling The Creative Economy - World Economic Forum (PDF)
- Failures Of Economic Development Incentives - Alan Peters and Peter Fisher (PDF)
- Location, Competition, And Economic Development - Michael Porter (PDF)
- Measuring Economic Impacts Of Historic Preservation - Donovan Rypkema and Caroline Cheong (PDF)
- Red Ocean Traps - Chan Kim (PDF)
Historic Reports
- 1971 Mountain Run Master Plan (PDF)
- March 2009 Shenandoah County-Wide Housing Assessment (PDF)
- March 2009 Shenandoah County-Wide Housing Assessment Presentation (PDF)
- November 2012 Ending Homelessness In The Northern Shenandoah Valley In Ten Years: A Plan (PDF)
- 2015 NSVRC HOME Action Plan (PDF)
- November 2016 Barriers To Housing In Shenandoah County (PDF)
- May 2017 Regional Housing Summit (PDF)
- 2018 Northern Shenandoah Valley Community Needs Assessment (PDF)
- 2020 Cost of Community Services Report (PDF)
Data Tools
- Fair Market Rent Calculator
- Living Wage Calculator
- Long and Foster Market Minute
- Low-Income Housing Data
Similar Locality Chapters
Readings
Historic Reports
- 2001 Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Commission Community Profile (PDF)
- 2018 Northern Shenandoah Valley Community Needs Assessment (PDF)
- 2020 Cost of Community Services Report (PDF)
Similar Locality Chapters
Readings
- Addressing Educational Inequality - University Of Chicago (PDF)
- Constructed Treatment Wetlands - EPA (PDF)
- Educational Equity - Center For Public Education (PDF)
- Health Services And Community Supports Workbook - AARP (PDF)
- Reimbursements To Localities For Upgrades To Treatment Works (PDF)
- What Community Supplies - Robert Sampson (PDF)
Historic Reports
- 1947 Report School Survey Recommendations For A Long-Range School Building Program (PDF)
- November 2006 Population Planning and Facilities Review By VCU (PDF)
- 2016 Long Term Facilities Master Plan (PDF)
- 2016 Shenandoah County Libraries 5 Year Plan (PDF)
- 2017 Shenandoah County Public Schools At Glance: Capacity Report (PDF)
Data Tools
School construction cost statistics
Similar Locality Chapters
Readings
Historic Reports
- 2016 Shenandoah Memorial Hospital Community Needs Assessment (PDF)
- 2019 Shenandoah Memorial Hospital Community Needs Assessment (PDF)
- 2022 Shenandoah Memorial Hospital Community Needs Assessment (PDF)
Data Tools
Similar Locality Chapters
Readings
Data Tools
Similar Locality Chapters
Readings
Historic Reports
- 2000 Shenandoah River Recreational Use Management Plan Working Committee
- November 2000 Master Indoor-Outdoor Recreation Plan for Shenandoah County
- 2005 Keister Tract Master Plan
- 2012 Valley Pike And Fisher's Hill Battlefield Interpretive Trail
- 2015 UVa - Green Infrastructure Center Report On Woodstock
- 2018 Virginia Outdoors Plan
- 2020 Proposal For A Master Plan On The North Fork Of The Shenandoah River
- November 2021 Shenandoah Valley Rail Trail Feasibility Study
Similar Locality Chapters
- Albemarle
- Bristol
- Culpeper
- Greene
- Page
Readings
What Community Supplies - Robert Sampson
Historic Reports
- 1993 Appalachian Corridor H Elkins To Interstate 81 Corridor Selection Decision Document (PDF)
- 1993 Appalachian Corridor H Elkins To Interstate 81 Master Plan (PDF)
- 1993 Appalachian Corridor H Elkins To Interstate 81 Correspondence (PDF)
- November 1998 Interstate I-81 Improvement Study (PDF)
- 2011 Northern Shenandoah Valley Rural Long Range Transportation Plan 2035 (PDF)
- August 2016 The Economic Impact Of Bicycling In The Central Shenandoah Valley (PDF)
- June 2019 Woodstock Bike And Pedestrian Master Plan
- 2020 VDOT Seven Bends State Park Study
- October 2021 Tractor Trailer Ordinance Research VDOT
- November 2021 Shenandoah Valley Rail Trail Feasibility Study
- Current Improve I-81 Plan/Project
Data Tools
- VDOT Crash Data
- VDOT Posted Speed Limits
- VDOT Thanksgiving 2019 Data
- VDOT Traffic Volume
- National Bike Corridors Plan
- Virginia Interactive Bicycle Web Map
Similar Locality Chapters
Readings
Additional Resources
- First Proposed Zoning Ordinance 1974 (PDF)
- Technical Critique: Zoning Ordinance Shenandoah County 1975 (PDF)
- First Proposed Zoning Ordinance Letters 1976 (PDF)
- First Zoning Ordinance 1978 (PDF)
- Zoning Ordinance Amended June 1986 (PDF)
- Information On County Boundaries As Lawful Fences 1988 (PDF)
- Zoning Ordinance Amended March 1993 (PDF)
- Trailer Park Ordinance Amendments 1993 (PDF)
- Zoning Ordinance Amended June 1995 (PDF)
- Current Zoning Ordinance (PDF)
- First Subdivision Ordinance 1972
- Seventh Amendments To First Subdivision Ordinance 1995 (PDF)
- Second Subdivision Ordinance 1997
- Current Subdivision Ordinance
- November 1998 Commission On The Future (PDF)
- 1999 Community Profile (PDF)
- February 2004 The Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Urban Manual for Low-Impact Site Design (PDF)
- 2005 What Every Citizen Should Know About The Comprehensive Plan
- September 2007 Old Valley Pike Overlay District Draft Ordinance (PDF)
- 2008 Mount Jackson Vision For The Future
- 2013 Strasburg Downtown Plan (PDF)
- 2018 Northern Shenandoah Valley Region Multi‐Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan (PDF)
On Process
On Community
On Planning & Zoning History
- 1700s To 1957 History Of Planning and Zoning (PDF)
- 1854 John Snows Cholera Map (PDF)
- 1860s To 1960s Racially Restrictive Covenants (PDF)
- 1910s To 1920s Racial Zoning (PDF)
- 1920s The Suburban Neighborhood Unit (PDF)
- 1920s The Suburban Radburn Idea (PDF)
- 1930s To Now Federal Financing Of Suburbia (PDF)
- 1930s To Now Redlining And Its Impacts (PDF)
- 1960s Jane Jacobs Downtown Is For People (PDF)
- 1960s To Now Design With Nature (PDF)
- 1970s To Now Form-Based Code (PDF)
- 1970s To Now Gentrification (PDF)
- 1970s To Now New Urbanism (PDF)
- 1970s To Now Transit Oriented Development (PDF)
- 1994 To Now Green Infrastructure (PDF)
- 2000s To Now Planetary Urbanism (PDF)
- Pre-1600s Tale Of Two Cities Paris and London (PDF)
Mapping Rural Landscapes: Shenandoah County’s Departure From The Countyside (PDF)
Author: Tyler Hinkle
Report On Parking Lots In Shenandoah County (PDF)
Author: Tyler Hinkle
Rethinking Collaborative Rural Transportation Planning In The Shenandoah Valley (PDF)
Author: Tyler Hinkle
Shenandoah County: Flood And Drought Adaptation Strategies (PDF)
Authors: Chris Barber, Schyler Vanderschaaf, and Mae Hovland
Shenandoah Rail To Trail Project Study (PDF)Authors: Caroline Gaenzle, Ansley Heller, Meredith Hoos, Naitong Hu, Brian Kusiak, Samantha Lewis, Molly Nealon, and Yuning Ye.
Superheros Need Good SidekicksAuthor: Nancy Sorrells
Villages And Hamlets In Shenandoah County (PDF)
Author: Tyler Hinkle
Visioning Infill In Woodstock, Virginia (PDF)
Authors: Harrison Premen, Kyle Kelly, Jinzhao Chen