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University of Vermont Center for Sustainable Agriculture, http://www.uvm.edu/%7Esusagctr Description: The Center for Rural Studies (CRS) is a nonprofit, fee-for-service research organization that addresses social, economic, and resource-based problems of rural people and communities. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Vermont University of Vermont Extension Forestry, http://stumpage.uvm.edu/ Description: Resources for landowners, loggers and foresters about Vermont forestry. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Vermont University of Vermont Lake Champlain Sea Grant, http://www.uvm.edu/~seagrant Description: Welcome to the Lake Champlain Sea Grant Program. We are one of the newest partners in the National Sea Grant College Program Network that was established in 1966 by the US Congress to promote wise use, conservation, and sustainable development of marine, coastal, and Great Lakes resources. Topics: Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: New York, Vermont University of Vermont Land Link Vermont, http://www.uvm.edu/landlinkvt Description: Land Link Vermont is a farm transfer program that connects beginning and relocating farmers with farmland owners and farming opportunities. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Vermont Return to top of page University of Vermont Natural Areas Center, http://www.uvm.edu/~envprog/naturalareas/nac-descpt.html Description: The Natural Areas Center at the University of Vermont was established to promote and integrate activities and programs at the University related to natural areas and land conservation. The mission of the Center is to provide educational opportunities, research support, professional development, and outreach services to individuals and groups both within and beyond the University concerning the protection and management of natural areas and other conservation lands. Topics: Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Vermont University of Vermont Vermont Biodiversity Project, http://www.uvm.edu/envnr/sal/vbp Description: The overarching vision of the Vermont Biodiversity Project is to maintain ecological integrity in a manner that insures the long-term viability of all native species and natural community types in Vermont within their natural ranges. Topics: Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets Current Use Program, http://www.vermontagriculture.com/currentuse.htm Description: The Current Use Program offers landowners use value property taxation based on the productive value of land rather than based on the traditional "highest and best" use of the land. The Current Use Program includes a Land Use Change Tax as a disincentive to develop land. The tax is 20 percent of the fair market value of a property, or, in the case of the sale of part of a property, a pro rata share of the fair market value of the entire property. Topics: Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Forestry Division, http://www.state.vt.us/anr/fpr/forestry/index.htm Description: The mission of the Forestry Division is to assure that the forest resources of Vermont serve the long-term needs of society by promoting a balanced and diverse approach to management, use and protection of the state's woodlands. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Land Acquisition, http://www.state.vt.us/anr/fpr/lands/acquis.htm Description: The State of Vermont has a long history of acquiring properties for conservation and recreation purposes. Since the first official state forest (L.R. Jones State Forest) was acquired in 1909, the State has acquired over 325,000 acres of land in more than 200 towns across the state. In addition, the Agency has recently acquired conservation easements on over 44,000 acres of privately-owned forest land.These diverse holdings are managed by the Agency of Natural Resources and include state parks, state forests, wildlife management areas, and fishing and boating access areas. Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Vermont Return to top of page Agency of Natural Resources Outdoor Recreation Grants, http://www.state.vt.us/anr/fpr/recreation/ Description: Information about multiple outdoor recreation grant programs in Vermont, including the Trails Grant Program and the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Vermont Forest Legacy Program, http://www.state.vt.us/anr/fpr/forestry/legappl.htm Description: The Vermont Forest Legacy Program provides funding to further conservation of environmentally important forest areas that are threatened with conversion to no-forest uses. Typically, funding is used by the Department to acquire conservation easements on forestland properties. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Vermont American Farmland Trust American Farmland Trust Northeastern Regional Office: Vermont, http://www.farmland.org/northeast/vermont.htm Description: Since their founding in 1980, American Farmland Trust has helped win permanent protection for over a million acres of American farmland. They have three strategies for saving America's farmland: protect the best land through publicly funded agricultural conservation easement programs; plan for growth with agriculture in mind through effective community planning and growth management; and keep the land healthy for farmland through encouraging stewardship and conservation practices. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Vermont 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 Return to top of page Connecticut River Joint Commissions Connecticut River Joint Commissions, http://www.crjc.org/ Description: The catalyst for cooperatively meeting the Valley's challenges is the Connecticut River Joint Commissions, who seek a strong and vibrant economy while capitalizing on the natural wealth of this place. Capitalizing without corrupting means conserving. Helping Valley people achieve that balance and finding the resources to ensure that quality of life is the role of the Connecticut River Joint Commissions. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Intergovernmental Cooperation, Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: New Hampshire, Vermont Connecticut River Watershed Council Connecticut River Watershed Council, http://www.ctriver.org/ Description: Founded in 1952, the Connecticut River Watershed Council (CRWC) is the only broad-based citizen advocate for the environmental well-being of the entire Connecticut River. Our primary mission is to promote improvement of water quality and the restoration, conservation, wise development and use of the natural resources of the Connecticut River watershed. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Intergovernmental Cooperation, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont Conservation Law Foundation Conservation Law Foundation, http://www.clf.org/ Description: The Conservation Law Foundation is the oldest and largest regional environmental advocacy organization in the United States. We're based in New England, where our attorneys, scientists, economists, and policy experts work on the most significant threats to the natural environment of the region and its residents. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont Conservation Law Foundation Ventures Conservation Law Foundation Ventures, http://www.clfventures.org/ Description: CLF Ventures is redefining environmental advocacy. Through innovative partnerships with private and public sector clients, we combine CLF's longstanding reputation for environmental protection with our financial and business transaction skills. As a result, we are able to provide our clients with innovative solutions to complex environmental problems. Topics: Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont Return to top of page Deerfield River Watershed Association Deerfield River Watershed Association, http://www.umass.edu/tei/mwwp/drwa/index.htm Description: The Deerfield River Watershed Association is a non-profit organization with the mission to preserve, protect, and enhance the natural resources of the Deerfield River watershed in south-eastern Vermont and north-western Massachusetts. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Massachusetts, Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation Water Quality Division, http://www.vtwaterquality.org/ Description: The goal of the Water Quality Division is to maintain and enhance the quality of Vermont's lakes, rivers and wetlands to support healthy ecosystems and appropriate public uses. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Vermont Department of Housing and Community Affairs Planning Division, http://www.dhca.state.vt.us/Planning/index.htm Description: The Planning Division assists in guiding land use policy and development decisions to meet statutory goals (Act 200 goals). First among those is "to plan development so as to maintain the historic settlement pattern of compact village and urban centers separated by rural countryside." Topics: Healthy Communities, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation Jurisdiction: Vermont Environmental Board Environmental Board, http://www.state.vt.us/envboard Description: The mission of the Environmental Board is to provide a public, quasi-judicial process for reviewing and managing the environmental, social and fiscal consequences of major subdivisions and developments in Vermont. Topics: Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning Jurisdiction: Vermont Return to top of page Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields in New England, http://www.epa.gov/ne/brownfields/index.html Description: EPA's Brownfields Program provides funds and technical assistance to states, communities, and other stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields. Topics: Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont Environmental Protection Agency Smart Growth Strategies in New England, http://www.epa.gov/region1/ra/sprawl/index.html Description: EPA New England launched a Smart Growth Program in 1999 at our Smart Growth Strategies for New England conference. The conference's success demonstrated widespread interest in the twin problems of sprawl and urban decay. Smart growth is an alternative to sprawl and urban decay, and is an innovative approach to addressing EPA's environmental mandates. Our Smart Growth Action Plan involves working with diverse partners to shape land use and growth so that it has minimum impact on environmental, economic, and community health. Topics: Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont Farm Service Agency - USDA Farm Service Agency, http://www.fsa.usda.gov/vt Description: Stabilizing farm income, helping farmers conserve land and water resources, providing credit to new or disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, and helping farm operations recover from the effects of disaster are the missions of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency (FSA). Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Vermont Forest Watch Forest Watch, http://www.forestwatch.org/ Description: Forest Watch works to protect and restore forests-young and old, small and large, private and public. Our goals are to restore wilderness, protect imperiled wildlife, improve public land management, and promote ecological forestry. We are a nonprofit, 501 (c) 3, conservation organization that uses research, education, advocacy, negotiation, and sometimes litigation. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Vermont Return to top of page Harvard University Harvard Forest, http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/index.html Description: Since 1907 research and education have been the mission of the Harvard Forest, one of the oldest and most intensively studied forests in North America. From a center comprised of 3000 acres of land, research facilities, and the Fisher Museum the scientists, students, and collaborators at the Forest explore topics ranging from conservation and environmental change to land-use history and the ways in which physical, biological and human systems interact to change our earth. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont Housing and Conservation Board Conservation Programs, http://www.vhcb.org/conservation.html Description: VHCB makes loans and grants to nonprofit organizations, municipalities and state agencies for the acquisition of land and for the purchase of conservation easements. All conservation projects are protected in perpetuity by legal instruments (conservation easements) recorded in the land records which travel with the land upon resale. The conservation easements are co-held by the applicant organization or a sponsoring organization, VHCB, and, in the case of farmland conservation projects, by the Vermont Department of Agriculture, Food & Markets. Topics: Historic Preservation, Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Vermont 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 Land Trust Alliance VT Land Trust Alliance National Directory of Land Conservation Trusts, http://lta.org/findlandtrust/VT.htm Description: LTA is the only organization dedicated to the effectiveness and sustainability of the nation's land trusts and their use of conservation easements. Topics: Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Vermont Return to top of page Natural Resource Conservation Service - USDA Vermont NRCS, http://www.vt.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, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Vermont Neighborworks Home Ownership Center Home Ownership Center and Burlington Community Land Trust, http://www.getahome.org/land_trust.htm Description: The Burlington Community Land Trust (BCLT) and the NeighborWorks® HomeOwnership Center of Vermont are closely allied nonprofit organizations. With supporting missions to make owning a home a real possibility, BCLT offers those who have completed the Center's educational programs the opportunity to buy very affordable, quality housing in Chittenden County. Topics: Housing, Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Vermont New England Small Farm Institute New England Small Farm Institute, http://www.smallfarm.org/ Description: A private nonprofit organization supporting beginning farmers and sustainable small scale agriculture throughout New England. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont Northeast-Midwest Institute Northeast-Midwest Institute, http://www.nemw.org Description: The Northeast-Midwest Institute is a Washington-based, private, nonprofit, 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 Return to top of page Open Space Institute Northern Forest Protection Fund, http://www.osiny.org/northernforest/ Description: The Northern Forest Protection Fund is a grant and loan making program established by the Open Space Conservancy, an affiliate of the Open Space Institute, Inc., in 2000 to support the purchase of critical forestlands in the Northern Forest region. The Fund's goal is to support the permanent protection of significant Northern Forest landscapes in order to promote sustainable forestry, protect ecosystems, and secure opportunities for public recreation. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont Sierra Club Vermont Chapter Homepage, http://vermont.sierraclub.org/ Description: The mission statement of the Sierra Club is to explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth; practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; and educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation Jurisdiction: Vermont Smart Growth Network Vermont Smart Growth News Articles, http://www.smartgrowth.org/news/bystate.asp?state=VT&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: Vermont The Nature Conservancy Vermont Chapter Homepage, http://nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/vermont Description: The mission of the Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. Topics: Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Vermont Return to top of page USDA Forest Service Northeast Center for Urban & Community Forestry, http://www.umass.edu/urbantree/index.shtml Description: The Northeast Center for Urban and Community Forestry is a cooperative partnership among the USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry, the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, and the seven states of New England and New York. The Center responds to Urban and Community Forestry needs, facilitates and supports new and existing research, and coordinates the exchange of information among the states in the region in order to contribute to healthy and sustainable communities. Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont 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 Vermont Department of Libraries Environmental Court Opinions, http://dol.state.vt.us/gopher_root5/000000/env_court/envcrt.html Description: An index of Vermont's Environmental Court Opinions. Topics: Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Vermont Vermont Department of Libraries Supreme Court Opinions, http://dol.state.vt.us/WWW_ROOT/000000/HTML/SUPCT.HTML Description: A searchable index of Vermont Supreme Court opinions. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Historic Preservation, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Vermont Return to top of page Vermont Forum on Sprawl and the Orton Foundation Pathways to Planning: Online Assessment Tool, http://www.surveycafe.com/VtForum/entry.asp Description: This tool offers communities and citizens strategies, case studies, tutorials, and examples of how to achieve smart growth and to arrest sprawl. The tool will ask you questions on various related topics and generate resources catered to your town's needs. With this tool you can find out: what other towns are doing to improve their town centers, citizen involvement strategies, ways to provide more housing choices and how to protect wildlife habitat and important open spaces. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Vermont Vermont Land Trust Vermont Land Trust, http://www.vlt.org/ Description: The mission of VLT is to conserve land for the future of Vermont. VLT does this by providing technical and legal assistance to individuals, communities, and local land trusts helping them achieve local conservation objectives. VLT's Conservation Stewardship office is responsible for the long-term monitoring of easements to ensure that the conservation goals are upheld in perpetuity. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning Jurisdiction: Vermont Vermont Legislature Vermont Statutes Online, http://www.leg.state.vt.us/statutes/statutes2.htm Description: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated, provided as a convenience. It has NOT been edited for publication. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Historic Preservation, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Vermont Vermont Monitoring Cooperative Vermont Monitoring Cooperative, http://vmc.snr.uvm.edu/ Description: The Vermont Monitoring Cooperative (VMC) is a collaborative organization in which scientists collect and pool information and data for the purpose of improving our understanding, protection, and management of Vermont's forested ecosystems. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Vermont Return to top of page Vermont Natural Resources Council Vermont Natural Resources Council, http://www.vnrc.org/ Description: For over forty years, VNRC has been Vermont's leader in protecting and restoring our natural resources. By building coalitions, working together, and offering common sense solutions, VNRC has set the standard for an approach to environmental protection that endures. Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Vermont Vermont Scenery Preservation Council Vermont Scenery Preservation Council, http://www.vtscenery.org/ Description: The Vermont Scenery Preservation Council shall preserve and enhance Vermont's scenic resources through planning, education and collaboration with public and private organizations. Topics: Historic Preservation, Land Preservation, Transportation Jurisdiction: Vermont Vermont Use Value Appraisal Coalition Vermont Use Value Appraisal Coalition, http://www.gwriters.com/uvac/cutc.htm Description: Vermont's working landscape is our heritage and our future. And it could be lost forever. That's why the Vermont Use Value Appraisal Coalition advocates a long-term system of equitable taxation for agricultural and forest lands today. Topics: Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Land Preservation Jurisdiction: Vermont Water Resources Board Water Resources Board, http://www.state.vt.us/wtrboard Description: The Water Resources Board mission is to ensure that rules which guide the management of Vermont's water resources and wetlands are adopted and (on appeal) are interpreted, by a citizen board which is independent of the Agency of Natural Resources (ANR). The Board provides meaningful citizen involvement and oversight in the adoption and implementation of Vermont's water resources management and wetland protection policies and provides for an administrative appeal from related regulatory decisions of the ANR. Topics: Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Vermont Waterwheel Foundation Waterwheel Foundation, http://www.phish.com/waterwheel/champlain.php Description: Thus far WaterWheel has given away $1,054,700 to 29 organizations working on issues affecting Lake Champlain. Grants have been made for a variety of purposes, including land conservation, environmental advocacy, grassroots activism, education, and capital projects such as equipment purchases. Below is a summary of the grants, as well as profiles of some of the larger organizations. Topics: Land Preservation, Water/Sewer Jurisdiction: Vermont Return to top of page Preservation Trust of Vermont 10 Reasons why Vermont's homegrown economy matters, www.ptvermont.org Description: 50 Proven ways to restore and revive it. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, transportation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Vermont Preservation Trust of Vermont State Highway project in your town: A primer for citizens & public officials, www.ptvermont.org Description: Front Page . Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, transportation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Vermont Preservation Trust of Vermont State Highway project in your town: A primer for citizens & public officials, www.ptvermont.org Description: Authors Notes to publication. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, transportation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Vermont Preservation Trust of Vermont State Highway project in your town: A primer for citizens & public officials, www.ptvermont.org Description: Design principles; rules, laws, process affecting highway projects. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, transportation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Vermont Preservation Trust of Vermont State Highway project in your town: A primer for citizens & public officials, www.ptvermont.org Description: Laws, reports and opinions. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, transportation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Vermont Land Trust Alliance Easement Stewardship: Long term relationships, www.lta.org Description: Overview of VT's stewardship plan for the long run. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, healthy communities, historic preservation, water Jurisdiction: Vermont Univ of Vermont Extensioin Citizen Participation Strategies for Municipal Planning in Vermont -Factsheets, www.uvm.org Description: Factsheet #1: Intro to citizens benefits of participation in municipal planning. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Vermont Univ of Vermont Extensioin Citizen Advisory Groups - Factsheet #5, www.uvm.edu Description: #5: Granting decision making power to community members. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Vermont Univ of Vermont Extensioin Community Planning Surveys - Factsheet #3, www.uvm.edu Description: #3: Design and conduct community survey . Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Vermont Univ of Vermont Extensioin Community Plannig Survey Technical Appendix, www.uvm.edu Description: Appendix:Technical step by step explanation of survey process. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Vermont Univ of Vermont Extensioin Community Visioning Events- Factsheet #4, www.uvm.edu Description: #4: Large community meetings to facilitate collaboration in the municipal plan. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Vermont Univ of Vermont Extensioin Public Meetings and Hearings - Factsheet #2, www.uvm.edu Description: #2: Backbone of community involvement in municipal planning. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Vermont Univ of Vermont Extensioin Using Local Media Resources - Factsheet #6, www.uvm.edu Description: #6: Tips/suggestions for dealing w/reporters, writing news releaseshow to get word out. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Vermont EPA State Brownfields & Voluntary Response Program:Region 1, www.epa.gov Description: Region 1: CT; ME; MA; NH; RI; VT. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Maine, Massachussetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
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