NERCED Land Use Toolbox: New York You and Your Community: What You Can Do With Others links

The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development Land Use Toolbox
New York - You and Your Community: What You Can Do With Others links
Go to Home Page	Go to New York Page	Help	Extension Sign In	Email this page to a friend
Cornell University Small Farms Program, http://media.cce.cornell.edu/hosts/agfoodcommunity/afs_temp1.cfm?topicID=67 Description: The purpose of this web site is to provide easy access to information for small-scale farmers and those who work with them. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New York Pace Law School Land Use Law Center, http://www.law.pace.edu/landuse/ Description: The Land Use Law Center is dedicated to fostering the development of sustainable communities in New York State. Through its many programs, the Center offers lawyers, land use professionals, citizens and developers assistance that enables them to achieve sustainable development at the local and regional level. Topics: Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New York University at Buffalo Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth, http://regional-institute.buffalo.edu/default.html Description: Since its founding in 1997, the Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth, a major public service program of the University at Buffalo, has built an impressive reputation as an organization committed to sound research and analysis on issues and initiatives of regional importance, including regional planning, government efficiency, economic development, and service delivery. Topics: Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New York University at Buffalo National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/ncgia/ Description: The University at Buffalo has been prominent in GI Science research and training since the mid 1970s, and is home to one of the three sites of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). The NCGIA is an independent research consortium whose primary mandate is to conduct basic research in geographic information science and its related technology. Topics: Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New York Return to top of page 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 Community Mapping Assistance Project CMAP, http://www.cmap.nypirg.org/ Description: CMAP offers a host of mapping-related services to nonprofit, philanthropic, and public sector groups. Topics: Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New York Delaware River Basin Commission i-Map Delaware River Basin, http://bassriver.state.nj.us/imap_delbasin/ Description: I-Map Delaware River Basin is DRBC's first interactive mapping application. This application has been designed to serve maps from DRBC and by remote map services over the Web using ESRI's ArcIMS (Internet Map Server) Internet mapping technology. The application provides a map view frame, a popup window for tabular information related to map features, a toolbar for basic GIS analysis, several predefined queries, and the capability to produce a basic map layout that can be sent to the user's printer. Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania Delaware Riverkeeper Network Delaware Riverkeeper Network, http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/ Description: The Delaware Riverkeeper is the voice of the Delaware River and its streams, championing their rights as living members of our community, and is leader for the Delaware Riverkeeper Network. The Delaware Riverkeeper and the Delaware Riverkeeper Network stand as vigilant protectors and defenders of the River, its tributaries and its watershed committed to restoring the natural balance where it has been lost and ensuring its preservation where it still exists. Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania Return to top of page Great Lakes Protection Fund Great Lakes Protection Fund, http://www.glpf.org/ Description: The Great Lakes Protection Fund is a private, nonprofit corporation formed in 1989 by the Governors of the Great Lakes States. It is a permanent environmental endowment that supports collaborative actions to improve the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem. The Fund seeks projects that: lead to tangible improvements in the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem; promote the interdependence of healthy ecological and economic systems; and are innovative, creative, and venturesome. Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New York, Pennsylvania Hudson River Valley Greenway Hudson River Valley Greenway, http://www.hudsongreenway.state.ny.us/index.htm Description: The Hudson River Valley Greenway is an innovative state sponsored program created to facilitate the development of a voluntary regional strategy for preserving scenic, natural, historic, cultural and recreational resources while encouraging compatible economic development and maintaining the tradition of home rule for land use decision-making. Through voluntary participation in the Greenway community planning program, communities in thirteen counties in the Hudson River Valley can receive technical assistance and funding for local land use planning projects which support the goals of the Greenway program. Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Intergovernmental Cooperation, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New York Lake Champlain Basin Program About the Lake Champlain Basin Program, http://www.anr.state.vt.us/champ/lcbpsumr.htm Description: The LCBP works in partnership with government agencies from New York, Vermont, and Quebec, private organizations, local communities, and individuals to coordinate and fund efforts which benefit the Lake Champlain Basin's water quality, fisheries, wetlands, wildlife, recreation, and cultural resources. Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Intergovernmental Cooperation, Land Preservation, Transportation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New York, Vermont Lake Champlain Bikeways Lake Champlain Bikeways, http://www.champlainbikeways.org/ Description: With growing national interest in bicycle tourism, Lake Champlain Bikeways, a public/private partnership, is quickly expanding its bicycle route network while serving as the information clearinghouse on bicycling opportunities in the Champlain Valley. Topics: Healthy Communities, Transportation, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New York, Vermont Return to top of page Lake George Association Lake George Association, http://www.lakegeorgeassociation.org/ Description: The Lake George Association was formed in 1885 by a small group of individuals who shared a common passion- fishing at Lake George. These individuals gathered together to initiate an Association of people who would lead others by their example for the betterment of the lake. Their goal was a simple one- to give back to the lake what it was giving to them. Their first project was to plan, finance, and carry out a program to restock the lake with the species of fish they enjoyed catching. Topics: Land Preservation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New York Legislative Commission on Rural Resources Keeping New York's Waters Pure, http://www.senate.state.ny.us/Docs/water00.pdf Description: This guide to technical and financial assistance programs is prepared by the New York State Legislative Commission on Rural Resources to help guide state and local elected officials, water utility administrators, consultants and developers to the major regional, state and federal resources providing financial and technical assistance for water and sewer infrastructure development and water quality management. Topics: Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New York Long Island North Shore Heritage Area Long Island North Shore Heritage Area, http://www.linorthshoreheritagearea.com/ Description: The Long Island North Shore Heritage Area (LINSHA) was created by State legislation in 1998. This designation recognizes the area's unique historical evolution, resources and development. Topics: Historic Preservation, Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New York New York Municipal Insurance Reciprocal NYMIR Land Use Learning Program, http://www.nymir.org/zoning/ Description: The Land Use Learning Program is an educational course designed to teach busy local officials the basics of New York land use law and practice. The audience for the course is the membership of the local boards that are charged with responsibility for making decisions about land use matters, primarily the local legislature, planning board, zoning board of appeals. Topics: Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New York Return to top of page New York - New Jersey Trails Association NYNJTC - New York/New Jersey Trail Conference, http://www.nynjtc.org/ Description: The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference is a federation of more than 85 hiking clubs and environmental organizations and 10,000 individuals dedicated to building and maintaining marked hiking trails and protecting related open space in the bi-state region. Our constituent clubs have a combined membership of over 100,000. Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New Jersey, New York New York State Federation of Lake Associations NYSFOLA, http://www.nysfola.org/ Description: NYSFOLA's Mission is; "to protect the water resources of New York State by assisting local organizations and individuals through public dialogue, education, information exchange and collaborative efforts." Topics: Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New York New York State GIs Clearinghouse NYS GIs Clearinghouse, http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/ Description: The New York State Geographic Information Systems Clearinghouse, operated by the New York State Office of Cyber Security & Critical Infrastructure Coordination, was established to disseminate information about New York's Statewide GIs Coordination Program and to provide access to the New York State GIs Metadata and Data Repository. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New York Norwalk River Watershed Initiative Norwalk River Watershed Initiative, http://www.norwalkriverwatershed.org/ Description: The Norwalk River Watershed Initiative (NRWI or Initiative) is a partnership among federal and state agencies, watershed towns, local groups, and residents to address local water quality and resource protection problems and opportunities in the Norwalk River Watershed. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Connecticut, New York Return to top of page Orange County Citizens Foundation Orange County Citizens Foundation, http://www.occf-ny.org/ Description: The Orange County Citizens Foundation encourages cooperation and dialogue between Orange County residents, businesses, and government entities to safeguard the County's historic and cultural heritage, to preserve open space, agriculture, clean air and a serene environment, and to encourage improvement in jobs, transportation, parks and recreation and government. Topics: Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New York Rensselaer-Teconic Land Conservancy Rensselaer - Taconic Land Conservancy, http://www.rtlc.org/ Description: The Rensselaer-Taconic Land Conservancy is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the distinctive rural character and quality of life that makes Rensselaer County a great place to live and work. Topics: Land Preservation, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New York University of Maryland Mid-Atlantic RESAC, http://www.geog.umd.edu/resac/ Description: The Mid-Atlantic Regional Earth Science Applications Center (RESAC) is one of 7 regional centers funded by NASA's Earth Science Applications Program. The Mid-Atlantic RESAC leverages the UMD Geography Department's expertise in satellite remote sensing and the work of a diverse consortium of 36 partners in Government, Academia, Industry and NGOs to address applications of regional significance. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia Return to top of page
NERCRD ©2004 The Toolbox is a joint effort of The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development (NERCRD) and Penn State Cooperative Extension in Adams County. This page was last updated on July 13, 2005. For questions, suggestions or to report broken links, please contact NERCRD: nercrd@psu.edu.