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Appalachian Mountain Club Appalachian Mountain Club, http://www.outdoors.org/ Description: The enhancement program reflects a growing recognition that transportation programs, while vital for national mobility and international competitiveness, must also be environmentally sound. The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) encourages local communities to be directly involved in enhancement projects. Enhancement activities are a means to more creatively and sensitively integrate transportation facilities into the surrounding communities. Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont Brandywine Conservancy Brandywine Conservancy's Environmental Management Center, http://www.brandywineconservancy.org/ Description: The mission of the Brandywine Conservancy's Environmental Management Center is to conserve the natural and cultural resources of the Brandywine River watershed and other selected areas with a primary emphasis on conservation of water quantity and quality. Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning Jurisdiction: Delaware, Pennsylvania Delaware Bicycle Council Delaware Bicycle Council, http://www.deldot.net/static/bike/index.html Description: The mission of the Delaware Bicycle Council is to "promote and enhance bicycling in Delaware." Topics: Healthy Communities, Transportation Jurisdiction: Delaware Delaware Forest Service Delaware Forest Service, http://www.state.de.us/deptagri/forestry/index.htm Description: The Delaware Forest Service provides a wide range of services to help Delawareans manage and improve their forest resources. These services are divided into three categories: conservation, protection, and education. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Delaware Return to top of page Delaware Greenways Delaware Greenways, http://www.delawaregreenways.org/ Description: Delaware Greenways is a statewide nonprofit agency committed to the preservation and enhancement of Delaware's natural, scenic, historic, cultural and recreational resources. The organization works to accomplish this by preserving open space and greenways, increasing opportunities for walking and bicycling and creating more livable communities. Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Transportation Jurisdiction: Delaware Delaware Main Street Delaware Main Street, http://www.delawaremainstreet.com/ Description: The mission of Delaware Main Street is to provide Delaware's historic commercial districts with the tools to promote economic stability in business and workforce, and to retain and enhance their unique sense of place. Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation Jurisdiction: Delaware Delaware State Courts and Orders Court Opinions and Orders, http://courts.state.de.us/Opinions/(1233arvs105twzvg51mz0g30)/List.aspx Description: A listing with links to court decisions. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Delaware Delaware State Government Delaware Administrative Code, http://www.delcode.state.de.us/ Description: The Delaware Administrative Code is a topically oriented compilation of all regulations in effect. Administrative regulations have the force and effect of law. They effect each Delawareans daily life from the water we drink, to the air we breathe as well as many other topics. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Delaware Return to top of page Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Greenway and Trail Program, http://www.destateparks.com/greenway/index.htm Description: The Greenway & Trail Program is a component to Delaware's land protection and outdoor recreation development effort. This program is essentially about connections between our parks, wildlife areas, and other open spaces that create corridors through which animals can migrate and prosper and people can travel, exercise, and enjoy nature. Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Transportation Jurisdiction: Delaware Department of Transportation Enhancing Delaware Highways, http://www.deldot.net/static/Community_programs_services/edh/index.html Description: In keeping with the spirit of the state's "Livable Delaware" program, the Department of Transportation has launched an initiative called Enhancing Delaware Highways. This cooperative program capitalizes on the beauty of Delaware's regional landscape heritage by making it a key feature of roadside rights-of-way. Topics: Healthy Communities, Transportation Jurisdiction: Delaware Department of Transportation Livable Delaware Implementation Plan, http://www.deldot.net/static/pubs_forms/manuals/livable_delaware/table_of_contents.html Description: On March 28, 2001, Governor Ruth Ann Minner signed Executive Order number fourteen, which introduced the Livable Delaware initiative, stated the eleven goals, and required each State department and agency to complete an implementation plan to address these goals. The Department of Transportation reviewed all of our activities and identified 31 that directly support one or more of the Livable Delaware goals. Topics: Healthy Communities, Transportation Jurisdiction: Delaware Department of Transportation Traffic Calming Manual, http://www.deldot.net/static/pubs_forms/manuals/traffic_calming/DelDotFinal.pdf Description: The purpose of the traffic calming manual is to provide the administrative procedures needed to evaluate and implement traffic calming measures, provide guidelines on applications for traffic calming, and provide guidelines on geometric design and signage. Topics: Healthy Communities, Transportation Jurisdiction: Delaware Return to top of page East Coast Greenway East Coast Greenway, http://www.greenway.org/ Description: The East Coast Greenway will be the nation's first long-distance, city-to-city, multi-modal transportation corridor for cyclists, hikers, and other non-motorized users. Our goal is to connect existing and planned trails that are locally owned and managed to form a continuous, safe, green route -- easily identified by the public through signage, maps, users guides, and common services. Topics: Healthy Communities, Transportation Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island Environmental Protection Agency Center for Sustainability, http://www.epa.gov/r3chespk/center.htm Description: EPA Region III's Center for Sustainability is managed by the Chesapeake Bay Program Office out of EPA Region III's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania office. The Center's mission is to link our environmental protection efforts with larger economic and social goals. Topics: Healthy Communities Jurisdiction: Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia Green Delaware Green Delaware, http://www.greendel.org/index.site Description: Green Delaware is a grassroots organization concerned with environmental and public health issues in Delaware and surrounding states. We advocate policies consistent with good health, preservation of biodiversity, and long term sustainability. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Delaware Nanticoke Watershed Alliance Nanticoke Watershed Alliance, http://www.nanticokeriver.org/index.html Description: The mission of the Nanticoke Watershed Alliance is to conserve the natural, cultural, and recreational resources of the Nanticoke River watershed for the benefit of present and future generations. Topics: Healthy Communities, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware, Maryland Return to top of page Natural Resource Conservation Service - USDA Delaware NRCS, http://www.de.nrcs.usda.gov/ Description: NRCS soil conservationists, soil scientists, agronomists, ecologists, engineers, planners, and other specialists promote land stewardship by providing technical assistance through teams to address surface and groundwater quality; wetlands, riparian areas, and biodiversity; aquatic and terrestrial habitat; and impacts of landuse changes. NRCS teams work on all of a state's landscapes: agricultural, wetlands and riparian areas, suburban, rural, urban centers, and forested. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware Northeast-Midwest Institute Northeast-Midwest Institute, http://www.nemw.org Description: The Northeast-Midwest Institute is a Washington-based, private, non-profit, and non-partisan research organization dedicated to economic vitality, environmental quality, and regional equity for Northeast and Midwest states. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont Office of State Planning Coordination Livable Delaware, http://www.state.de.us/planning/livedel/ Description: Livable Delaware is a positive, proactive strategy that seeks to curb sprawl and direct growth to areas where the state, counties and local governments are most prepared for it in terms of infrastructure investment and thoughtful planning. It builds on the foundation laid by the Strategies for State Policies and Spending, which were adopted in 1999. Topics: Healthy Communities, Housing, Planning/Zoning Jurisdiction: Delaware Smart Growth Network Delaware Smart Growth News Articles, http://www.smartgrowth.org/news/bystate.asp?state=DE&res=800 Description: Listing of news articles relating to smart growth issues in a specific state. Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Delaware Return to top of page USDA Forest Service MFO - Mid-Atlantic Center for Urban & Community Forestry at Keystone College, http://www.fs.fed.us/na/morgantown/macucf/macucf.html Description: The Mid-Atlantic Center for Community and Urban Forestry addresses natural resource issues and opportunities and focuses its efforts to maximize the impacts of urban and community forestry programs in the Mid-Atlantic States. Topics: Healthy Communities Jurisdiction: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia USDA Forest Service Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry, http://www.na.fs.fed.us/ Description: The mission of the USDA Forest Service Northeastern Area is to lead and help support sustainable forest management and use across the landscape to provide benefits for the people of the 20 Northeastern and Midwestern States and the District of Columbia. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia Return to top of page National Governors Assn Fixing It First: Improving present infrasturcture, www.nga.org Description: Build/maintain present assets before creating new ones. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania, Massachussetts, Delaware, Maryland Trust for Public Land Corridor Capacity preservation program, www.epa.gov Description: Strategies to delay system expansion, focus development and preserve quality of life.. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, water, healthy communities, transportation, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Delaware DVRPC Preliminary Land Use Plan: 21st century vision, www.dvrpc.org Description: A vision of revitalization, renewal and recentralization. Topics: land preservation, transportation, planning&zoning, housing, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Delaware DVRPC Issues and choices: Planning the regions future, www.dvrpc.org Description: Global and regional issues for the future.. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, transportation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Delaware DVRPC The Shape of Things to Come, www.dvrpc.org Description: Key questions to provide a context for planning. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, transportation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Delaware DVRPC Transportation Conformity of the DVRPC FY2005 Transportation Improvement program, www.dvrpc.org Description: Report documenting conformity of DVRPC transportation improvement program and long range transportation plan. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, transportation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Delaware DVRPC Horizons: 2025 year plan for Delaware valley, www.dvrpc.org Description: Summary of 4 workshops presented to elicit public assessment regarding needs in DE valley.. Topics: land preservation, transportation, planning&zoning, housing, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Delaware DVRPC Regional Indicators: Measuring our progress to 2025, www.dvrpc.org Description: Presenting 26 indicators which track the regioins progress toward the adopted goals. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, transportation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania DVRPC Horizons: 2025 Land Use and Transportation Plan for Delaware Valley, www.dvrpc.org Description: A comprehensive vision for the DE valley region. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, transportation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania DVRPC MAP: Mobility Alternatives Program, www.dvrpc.org Description: Brochure describing MAP program . Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, transportation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania DVRPC Watershed guide to Gloucester County, www.dvrpc.org Description: Comprehensive teachers guide to watershed and water in Gloucester County. Topics: land preservation, transportation, planning&zoning, housing, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania DVRPC Horizons 2025 Implementation: Municipal tools and techniques, www.dvrpc.org Description: Overview of tools and techinques available for local govts for implemetation of long range plans. Topics: land preservation, water, planning&zoning, housing, fiscal impact/taxation, transportation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey DVRPC Municipal implementation tool #1: TOD, www.dvrpc.org Description: Transit oriented development: recognize the importance of rail and bus to community,and plan to better shape development to serve these needs. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, water, transportation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, historic preservation, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania DVRPC Municipal implementation tool #2: Main Street America, www.dvrpc.org Description: Basic information about Main street programs and Business Improvement Districts. Topics: land preservation, transportation, planning&zoning, housing, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania DVRPC Municipal implementation tool #3: Multi-municipal planning, www.dvrpc.org Description: Neighboring communites developing shared vision and coordinating planning in many areas. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, healthy communities, transportation, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania DVRPC Municipal implementation tool #4: Residential Infill Development, www.dvrpc.org Description: IV is the recycling of vacant or underutilized lands within cities and suburbs. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania DVRPC Municipal implementation tool #5: Impact Fees, www.dvrpc.org Description: Finding creative and equitable funding fees. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, housing, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania DVRPC Municipal implementation tool #6: Parking Management strategies, www.dvrpc.org Description: Balancing the supply and demand for parking. Topics: land preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, planning&zoning, housing, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania DVRPC Municipal implementation tool #7: Historic preservation, www.dvrpc.org Description: Protection and maintenance of important & integral places from our past. Topics: land preservation, transportation, planning&zoning, housing, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania DVRPC Municipal implementation tool #8: Transfer of Development Rights, www.dvrpc.org Description: A tool that can be adopted to conserve land: agricultural, environmentally sensitive and necessary open space.. Topics: land preservation, historic preservation, planning&zoning, housing, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania DVRPC Stream Corridor Protection Ordinance, www.dvrpc.org Description: Riparian corridor conservation overlay- definition and use. Topics: land preservation, historic preservation, planning&zoning, housing, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania DVRPC Transportation Improvement Plan FY 2005 Executive Summary, www.dvrpc.org Description: General overview of TIP,what it is and what projects will be developed in the near future. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania National Assn Realtors Public Opinion Strategies Survey - Affordable housing, www.realtor.org Description: Survey of key findings from nationwide survey . Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, water, housing, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania American Farmland Trust Regional Economic Development Strategy For Resource Based Industries on MD' s Eastern Shore, www.farmlandinfo.org Description: Comprehensive report: sustainable resource based industries threatened by increasing land costs, fragmentation of agricultural land. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, housing, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Maryland, Virginia, Delaware EPA State Brownfields & Voluntary Response Program:Region 3, www.epa.gov Description: Region 3: DE; DC; MD; PA; VA; WVA. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, Jurisdiction: Delaware, Washington DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia
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