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Hurley Citizen's Soapbox
NYS Sites of Interest
NYS Department of Education School Report Cards
NYS Quality Communities Clearinghouse
NYS
Governor’s Office for Small Cities
New York State Office for the Aging
NYS DEC
Guidance and Policy Documents that are Available on the DEC Website
Storm
Water Information
NYS
Hudson River Valley Greenway
Ulster County and the Catskills
Ulster County Planning Board and the Ulster County Transportation
Council
Ulster County Development Corporation, New York
NYC Watershed Recreational Use and Permits
Other Sites of Interest
Hurley Library
West Hurley Public Library
USDA Rurual
Development Water and Environmental Programs
Hurley
Heritage Society
Natural Lands Trust. Land Conservation in the Greater Philadelphia
Region.
A Pennsylvania based land trust organization that has promoted
Open Space Residential Design or Conservation Subdivision
design in and around Philadelphia. Click on "Planning" then
on "Growing Greener. LandChoices A
national non-profit organization promoting land preservation
choices. LandChoices
is working to reach landowners and provide them with land
preservation choices BEFORE they make that fateful decision to
subdivide their land for conventional subdivision development. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)
EPA's site on smart growth including a focus on community based approaches to
reducing sprawl.
University
of Michigan study finds homebuyers want view of woods,
not large lawns.
Maps
Ulster
County Information Services – GIS mapping
Catskill Region GIS Atlas
Handbooks, Pamphlets, and Guides
NYS
Department of Agriculture & Markets, Agriculture and Farmland
Protection
Overcoming
Obstacles to Smart Growth through Code Reform – a
Resource Guide, published by the Local Government Commission
NYS State Environmental Quality Review Act - a Citizens Primer
Underground
Heating Oil Tanks A Homeowner's Guide
Smart Growth Toolkit developed by the State of Massachusetts
The toolkit is intended to be both an educational guide and a reference
document. It can be used to introduce newcomers to smart growth. It
can also be used by practitioners such as planners, developers and
site designers as a reference source for case studies and model bylaws.
Includes an excellent links page
Environmental
Associates Small Community Planning Toolbox -
Some useful techniques for small and rural communities
Summary Guide to
the Watershed Memorandum of Agreement among New York
State Governor George E. Pataki, and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuiliani
joined the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Coalition
of Watershed Towns, and members of the environmental community Catskill
Watershed Corporation
Bicycle & Pedestrian
Primer Handbook for Local Communities, The
Ulster County Transportation Plan
Does
Burning Trash Make it Disappear? NYS Department of Environmental
Conservation
The
Hazards of Backyard Burning, US Environmental Protection Agency,
Articles
ALA
gives Mid-Hudson Valley counties poor grades on air pollution,
Mid-Hudson News Network, April 28, 2006
How
Many People Will Be Put At Risk by Higher Air Pollution Levels Across
New York? Senator Schumer,
Hudson Valley– Part
1 Growing Pains (March 2005) and Part
2 Growth Solutions (April 2005)House Media Network
Hudson
Valley Review , Fourth Quarter 2004 , Marist College, Dr. Ann
Davis, Director, Bureau of Economic Research, School of Management
March 2005
Who
Owns the Views? NY Times article March 11, 2005
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