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| Spitzer's Smart Growth Cabinet NYS Spitzer creates smart growth cabinet NYS Executive Order # 20 ESTABLISHING THE GOVERNOR’S SMART GROWTH CABINET Governor Eliot Spitzer today signed an Executive Order creating a Smart Growth Cabinet. The Cabinet will review state agency spending and policies to determine how best to discourage sprawl and promote smart land use practices. This could be a major step forward for smart growth in NY State. Wetlands Remapping Re-mapping in Saratoga County NY Here is an article about wetlands re-mapping in Saratoga County NY and how it has greatly increasing the amount of wetlands. NY State proposed legislation There is NYS legislation that has been coming up recurrently and is again before the senate (it passed the assembly) to change NYS regulated wetlands minimum size from 12.4 acres to 1 acre. Small Towns Reviving Small Towns Article from The Economist on the revival and survival of small towns in America. Affordable Housing Hope and Housing. A New York Times article outlining the affordable housing problem and hope for some solutions. Conservation-Based Affordable Housing. Improving the nature of affordable housing to protect place and people, by Kendra Briechle of the Conservation Fund. This report is about developing low and middle income housing while still protecting natural and working landscapes. It includes reports on actual examples of working developments. Balanced Housing for a Smart Region: Policies for addressing the housing problems of the NY Metropolitan area, especially affordable housing. How To Win Land Development Issues How To Win Land Development Issues - all you need to know as a citizen about winning land use issues, either at the town level or at the legal level. The book is written by the head of an organization named Community and Environmental Defense Services, which advises citizens and citizens groups on these matters and maintains a directory of lawyers for that purpose also. You can download and save or print the book for free. It's 176 pages of useful information about the whole land use process. See also their website at www.ceds.org Conservation Subdivision Design Conservation Subdivision Design: A Market-Friendly Approach to Local Environmental Protection by Leonard Gilroy, Research Fellow, Urban Futures Program, Reason Public Policy Institute Bruce Babbit - former Secretary of the Interior A book by Bruce Babbitt, former US Secretary of the Interior "Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America" A 29 minute interview on WAMC's "Between the Lines". Read an excerpt from "Cities in the Wilderness" Joe Donahue's 2-part Interview with Bruce Babbitt (former US Secretary of the Interior) on the need for a national vision of land use planning; from WAMC's “Round Table” 2/21/06. These are sound files, about 10 minutes each. Part 1 Part 2 Area Planners Planning for Rapid Growth This is an article from May 2005's River Reporter. Still valid, Bill Pammer and others discuss how to turn rapid growth into smart growth. Read it now. Impact Fees Towns have the ability under SEQRA to assess one-time fees on developers to cover the fair and carefully estimated costs of providing public services to the new development’s future residents or businesses. Read this. And read about what Florida is doing with School impact fees to help offset costs of building new schools in areas of high residential development. Pulte Homes Development This is the largest development currently being proposed in Fallsburg. Please read both of these and contact us by email if interested in doing something about it. Open Letter on why Pulte is not Smart Growth Brochure on Pulte Homes development The potential impacts of a large retirement community on the supply and cost of services. Fiscal Impact Study Bennet Campus Development. This study attempts to forecast the future costs to property taxpayers in the Dutchess County village of Millbrook should the village planning board approve a proposed subdivision for some 100 homes on the former Bennett College campus - by James Sheldon (see below) Economics of Land Use Excellent articles on the economics of land use and developments by a writer and financial analyst, James Sheldon, who lives in the Columbia County town of Gallatin. Cost of Services in Residential Development The Myth of Lower Taxes A summary of the Sullivan County Cost of Services Study found on the Documents page of this website. Sprawl vs Village Planning It's a Sprawl World After All Back to Small Town America A Simple Concept of Growth Development Moratorium Moratoriums for Development A short but comprehensive article on moratoriums from the Pace Law School on Land Use. Land Use Moratoria A thorough 15 page article from the NYDOS James Coon series on all aspects of moratoria. Here are links to some NY towns that have either enacted local laws or are planning on temporary development moratoriums. Town of Brookhaven NY Town of Danby Town of Dover NY Town of Suffolk NY Town of Pine Plains Town of Liberty NY Town of Fremont NY Town of Thompson NY Town of Bethel NY Smart Growth Principles of Smart Growth What is smart growth? Here it is spelled out by the national Smart Growth organization. Miscellaneous Impact of Residential Development on Police Depts. Find out what police in Chester County PA have to say about it. |
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