NERCRD Land Use Toolbox: Massachusetts Planning/Zoning topic files

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National Governors Assn Brownfields Projects to improve public health, www.nga.org Description: Benefits in health as well as improved active living. National Governors Assn Brownfields: Real Property in coastal communities, www.nga.org Description: Power Point: Expansion, reuse or redevelopment. National Governors Assn Attacking sprawl by revitalizing older communities, www.nga.org Description: Benefits of Brownfield redevelopment of older communitites. National Governors Assn Fixing It First: Improving present infrasturcture, www.nga.org Description: Build/maintain present assets before creating new ones. EPA Community Choices:Thinking through land conservation, development; taxes, www.tpl.org Description: Study of relationship between property tax bills and land conservation. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Compact mixed use development in Boston, www.lincolninst.edu Description: Identifying areas of mixed use and potential mixed use and sprawl. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Assessing land encumbered by conservation restrictions, www.lincolninst.edu Description: How communities are assesing conservation restricted land. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Principles for community and college interaction, www.lincolninst.edu Description: Discussion of interaction with college and community interaction. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Public values and conservation land: A case study in MA, www.lincolninst.edu Description: This paper explores public values and attitudes toward conservation land by tracing the history of a proposed conversion of town conservation land to water supply purposes in Weston, Massachusetts. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Regulating subdivisions in Massachusetts, www.lincolninst.edu Description: Practices and outlooks; survey of public officials. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy The Ghetto and the ethnic enclave, www.lincolninst.edu Description: There is a difference between the ghetto and the ethnic enclave. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Urban vacan lot redevelopment, www.lincolninst.edu Description: Challenges and progress... Smart Growth Network Builders protest smart growth law: State defends process, www.sgli.org Description: State holding fast on focus of affordable near transit options. Smart Growth Network Plan to use CPT funds for Smart Growth upsets officials , www.smartgrowthi.org Description: Article: Gov transfer of funds cause uproar in MA. Fannie Mae Foundation Fixing It First in Massachusetts, www.fanniemaefoundation.org Description: Reforms that will help MA invest its funds wisely. US EPA Review of Statewide Watershed Mgmt Approaches, www.epa.gov Description: Identify and describe different models of watershed mgmt; looking at different states; make recommendations. NGA Coordinating Resources to Grow more efficiently: The Massachusetts Approach, www.nga.org Description: From increased demands on MA economic structure the MA approach developed. EPA State Brownfields & Voluntary Response Program:Region 1, www.epa.gov Description: Region 1: CT; ME; MA; NH; RI; VT.
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