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Traffic Signal Management The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration has made available a new video demonstrating that re-timing of highway signals can better manage congestion and a growing traffic demands. It has been estimated that more than 75% of traffic... |
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Temporary Development Controls Copyright 2003. National Main Street Center, National Trust for Historic Preservation. One of the most effective ways to guard against sprawl and its detrimental effects is to enact local legislation that affirmatively promotes downtown revitalization. However, even communities without... |
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What is Smart Growth? The concept of Smart Growth continues to gain popularity and attention. Yet it is also a concept that remains poorly defined. What does smart growth mean when applied o the work of municipal boards? Even more difficult is how... |
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Overlay Districts How we treat our land is one of the most important challenges facing us today. Many critical decisions about land use are made at the local level, through a community's master plan, zoning laws, subdivision regulations and complementary programs.... |
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Open Space Protection Plan Adopted by Burlington voters in November of 2000, Burlington's Open Space Protection Program Plan was created to protect and preserve natural areas for the benefit of future generations. While the plan's adoption was non-binding, it helped answer the question,... |
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What do New Yorkers Think about Growth and Development? Download a .pdf version of this report for easier printing I. Recent Trends Concern About Growth, Land Use, and Sprawl Has Increased Interest in growth, sprawl, and related land use issues appears to be sweeping the country. In the... |
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New Urbanism for Rural Communities Introduction There can be little debate that the New Urbanism has become a force in American planning. What can the movement offer rural communities in Upstate New York and Pennsylvania? And how might a municipality think about utilizing the... |
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Ask Franchises and Chain Stores To Fit In Do fast-food franchises have to be in the same style building as those in North Carolina, Nevada, or Virginia? The answer is "of course not." National franchises and chain stores can and do change their standard building design to... |
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A New Look At Gravel Mining In Cattaraugus County Executive Summary Study Purpose On April 14, 1999, the Cattaraugus County Legislature asked the Cattaraugus County Planning Board to study the impacts that the mining of aggregates may have on communities in the Route 16 Corridor, which includes Routes... |
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Building a Balance: Housing Affordability, Environmental Protection, and Smart Land Use Decisions Building a Balance: Housing Affordability, Environmental Protection, and Smart Land Use Decisions is the title of a research project funded by the Community and Rural Development Institute at Cornell University. The goal of this project was to examine policies... |
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Bicycling and Pedestrian Improvements The material presented here is excerpted from a CD-ROM developed as part of a series of workshops developed by the New York Bicycling Coalition*. It contains a series of powerful tools in electronic form which advocates and professionals can... |
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Using Consultants Community development activities that are initiated at the local level, whether by business, government, or local residents, are often the ones that are most successful. They empower a community and allow them to take ownership of their future. Oftentimes,... |
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