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Community Preservation Act Community Preservation Act, http://www.communitypreservation.org/ Description: The Community Preservation Act (CPA) is a new tool to help communities preserve open space and historic sites and create affordable housing. This web site has been created to assist individuals and municipalities in understanding and implementing the CPA. The CPA Website is maintained by the Community Preservation Coalition, an alliance of open space, affordable housing, and preservation organizations that works with municipalities to help them understand, adopt, and implement the CPA. Topics: Historic Preservation, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning Jurisdiction: Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources Century Farm Program, http://www.state.ma.us/dfa/centuryfarms/index.htm Description: The family farms of Massachusetts are truly rooted in the history of our Commonwealth and our nation. None more so than the farms we honor as Massachusetts Century Farms. The families that own and work these farms have done so for one hundred years or longer. Some families have preserved for more than two centuries; several for more than three. Topics: Historic Preservation, Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Land and Water Stewardship, http://www.mass.gov/dem/stewardship.htm Description: DCR funds and supports grant programs for municipalities, nonprofit organizations and planning agencies. The funding provided supports projects connected to the environment and its history. Look here for professional services such as forest health, forest fire detection and well driller licensing. Public educational programs are offered at state parks and in local communities, and makes available environmental information such as rainfall measurements and drought warnings. Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs Community Preservation Initiative, http://commpres.env.state.ma.us/ Description: Massachusetts has taken an innovative approach to growth management, creating a grassroots, municipally-driven smart growth initiative called Community Preservation. Community Preservation is an organizing principle focused on preserving and enhancing the quality of life in Massachusetts community by community, watershed by watershed. The Initiative provides tools, technical assistance and outreach to local decision-makers to help them make informed decisions about future growth. Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Massachusetts Return to top of page Massachusetts Highway Department Environmental Section, http://www.state.ma.us/mhd/environ/default.htm Description: The Environmental Section is responsible for overseeing the environmental compliance activities for MassHighway to ensure that the roadway and bridge construction and repair program as well as maintenance depot operations are conducted in an environmentally sound manner. Topics: Historic Preservation, Land Preservation, Transportation Jurisdiction: Massachusetts Massachusetts Highway Department Footprint Roads Pilot Program, http://www.state.ma.us/mhd/footprint/roads.htm Description: The Footprint Roads Pilot Program was established to help cities and towns preserve and enhance historic character, environmental assets and other unique community characteristics when implementing necessary roadway improvements. Work under this program should consist primarily of roadway improvements within the existing "footprints" of the project roadways. Topics: Historic Preservation, Transportation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Massachusetts Massachusetts Highway Department Transportation Enhancement Program, http://www.state.ma.us/mhd/planning/enh.htm Description: The Transportation Enhancement Program provides opportunities to preserve, restore, and enhance components of the surface transportation system. Its purpose is to provide added features to standard transportation facilities and programs. Eligible projects include development of bicycle and pedestrian facilities, educational programs, landscaping, acquisition of scenic easements, historic preservation, restoration of buildings and structures, removal of outdoor advertising, archaeological research, environmental mitigation of stormwater pollution, and establishment of transportation museums. Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation Jurisdiction: Massachusetts Massachusetts Historical Commission Massachusetts Historical Commission, http://www.state.ma.us/sec/mhc/mhcidx.htm Description: The Massachusetts Historical Commission is the state agency which functions as the State Historic Preservation Office in Massachusetts. As such, the Commission is responsible for the identification, evaluation, and protection of Massachusetts's significant cultural resources as directed by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. Topics: Historic Preservation Jurisdiction: Massachusetts Return to top of page Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries Code of Massachusetts Regulations, http://www.lawlib.state.ma.us/cmr.html Description: This area provides access to those sections of the CMR which are available on the web. Sections not listed are not currently available on the web. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Massachusetts National Park Service Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, http://www.nps.gov/blac/home2.htm Description: In 1986, the Blackstone Valley was recognized as a special place and designated as a National Heritage Corridor by the U.S. Congress (Public Law 99-647). A 19-member Federal Commission, appointed by the Governors of each state and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, consists of representatives from the National Park Service, state and local governments, and valley-wide interests, and oversees the Corridor's operations. Topics: Historic Preservation, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Massachusetts, Rhode Island National Park Service Blackstone Valley Institute, http://www.nps.gov/blac/institute/index.html Description: The Blackstone Valley Institute is a "virtual" organization created to help local communities plan for the future. Offering workshops, one-to-one consulting, local seminars, and technical assistance, the Institute promotes information sharing within the Corridor with a goal of preserving the unique history and character of the Blackstone Valley. Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Intergovernmental Cooperation, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning Jurisdiction: Massachusetts, Rhode Island Preservation Mass Preservation Mass, http://www.historicmass.org/ Description: Founded in 1985, PreservatiON MASS (formerly known as Historic Massachusetts, Inc.) is the only statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the Commonwealth's historic and cultural heritage. Topics: Historic Preservation Jurisdiction: Massachusetts Return to top of page Quinebaug-Shetucket Heritage Corridor Quinebaug-Shetucket Heritage Corridor, http://thelastgreenvalley.org/QSHC_Welcome_page.html Description: In 1994, because many civic groups, businesses, volunteers and local and state governments banded together with technical assistance from the National Park Service, Congress recognized the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor and designated the region as a unique national resource. And in 1999, because of the same kind of grassroots efforts, Congress enlarged the National Heritage Corridor to include towns in the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley in both Massachusetts and Connecticut. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Massachusetts Smart Growth Network Massachusetts Smart Growth News Articles, http://www.smartgrowth.org/news/bystate.asp?state=MA&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: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Court Opinions, http://massreports.com/welcome.htm Description: Welcome to the official website of the office of the Reporter of Decisions of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Appeals Court. Since 1804 the Reporter's office has prepared the opinions of the Supreme Judicial Court, the oldest court in continuous existence in the Western Hemisphere. The primary purposes of this website are to provide the most timely and efficient dissemination of the decisions of the two Massachusetts appellate courts. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Massachusetts Return to top of page National Governors Assn Brownfields: Real Property in coastal communities, www.nga.org Description: Power Point: Expansion, reuse or redevelopment. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, water, historic preservation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: New York, Massachussetts, New Jersey National Governors Assn Attacking sprawl by revitalizing older communities, www.nga.org Description: Benefits of Brownfield redevelopment of older communitites. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Maryland, Massachussetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania 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 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. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, healthy communities, transportation, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Massachussetts Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Assessing land encumbered by conservation restrictions, www.lincolninst.edu Description: How communities are assesing conservation restricted land. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, healthy communities, transportation, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Massachussetts Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Principles for community and college interaction, www.lincolninst.edu Description: Discussion of interaction with college and community interaction. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, ag&rural change, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Massachussetts 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. Topics: land preservation, water, planning&zoning, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Massachussetts 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. Topics: land preservation, housing, planning&zoning, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Massachussetts Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Urban vacan lot redevelopment, www.lincolninst.edu Description: Challenges and progress... Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, ag&rural change, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Massachussetts 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. Topics: land preservation, housing, planning&zoning, water, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Massachussetts
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