Resources
Online Planning Toolboxes
Colorado Heritage Report: Best Practices in Land Use Planning and Growth
Management, Colorado Department of Local Affairs
http://www.state.co.us/smartgrowth/Media/LandUse.pdf
Community and Economic Development Toolbox, Cornell University and Penn
State University
http://www.cardi.cornell.edu/cd_toolbox_2/cdindex.cfm
Getting to Smart Growth: 100 Policies for Implementation, Smart Growth
Network
http://www.smartgrowth.org/pdf/gettosg.pdf
Quality Communities Clearinghouse, New York State
www.dos.state.ny.us/QC
Rebuilding Community: A Best Practices Toolkit for Historic Preservation
and Redevelopment, National Trust for Historic Preservation
http://www.nationaltrust.org/issues/housing/Rebuilding_Community.pdf
Smart Growth Policy Database, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
http://cfpub.epa.gov/sgpdb/browse.cfm
Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse
http://www.sprawlwatch.org/
Surface Transportation Issues, Surface Transportation Policy Project
http://www.transact.org/issues.asp
Table of Traditional Neighborhood Design Model Codes and Regulations,
Congress for the New Urbanism
http://cnu.org/Intro_to_new_urbanism
Toolkit, Georgia Department of Community Affairs
http://www.dca.state.ga.us/toolkit/
Local (Tompkins County Area) Agencies and Programs
2020 Long Range Plan, Ithaca-Tompkins County Transportation Council
http://www.co.tompkins.ny.us/itctc/lrp/index.html
Better Housing for Tompkins County
http://www.betterhousingtc.org/
Cayuga Lake Watershed Intermunicipal Organization
http://www.cayugawatershed.org/
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
http://www.cce.cornell.edu/tompkins/
Finger Lakes Land Trust
www.fllt.org
Housing Options for Seniors Today, Tompkins County Office for the Aging
www.co.tompkins.ny.us/cofa/host
Ithaca Downtown Partnership
http://www.downtownithaca.com/
Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services
http://www.ithacanhs.org/
Livable Wage Study - 2000, Alternatives Federal Credit Union
http://www.alternatives.org/livable_chart.html
Tompkins County Area Development
http://www.tcad.org/
Tompkins County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau – Welcome
to Ithaca and Tompkins County
http://www.visitithaca.com/
Tompkins County Economic Development Revolving Loan Fund
http://www.tompkins-co.org/planning/ecdevelopment.htm
Tompkins County Environmental Management Council
http://people2.clarityconnect.com/webpages6/scnfish/emc.htm
Tompkins County Natural Resources Inventory, Tompkins County Planning
Department
http://www.tompkins-co.org/planning/inventory.htm
Tompkins County Soil and Water Conservation District
http://www.tcswcd.org/
Tompkins Workforce New York
http://www.tompkinsworkforceny.org/
Upper Susquehanna Coalition
http://www.u-s-c.org/main.html
VolunteerTompkins.org
www.volunteertompkins.org
New York State and Federal Agencies and Programs
2002 NYS Open Space Conservation Plan, NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation
http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dlf/osp/toc2002.html
Brownfields Self-Help/Financial Resources Manual, NYS Dept. of Environmental
Conservation
http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/der/bfield/brownmanual.pdf
Certified Local Governments Program, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation
and Historic Preservation
http://nysparks.state.ny.us/field/
Community-Based Environmental Protection, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency
http://www.epa.gov/ecocommunity/
Empire Zones, Empire State Development
http://www.nylovesbiz.com/Tax_and_Financial_Incentives/Empire_Zones/default.asp
Energy Efficient Mortgages Program, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban
Development
http://www.hud.gov/progdesc/energy-r.cfm
Guide to Planning and Zoning Laws of New York State, NYS Dept. of State
http://www.dos.state.ny.us/lgss/books/zoning.htm
House-NY Program, NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal
http://www.dhcr.state.ny.us/general/pubs/html/HouseNY.htm
Local Government Handbook, NYS Dept. of State
http://www.dos.state.ny.us/lgss/pdfs/Handbook.pdf
National Transportation Library, U.S. Dept. of Transportation
http://ntl.bts.gov/
NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation – Home Page
http://www.dec.state.ny.us/
NYS Dept. of Transportation – Home Page
http://www.dot.state.ny.us/
NYS Governor’s Office for Small Cities – Home Page
http://www.nysmallcities.com/
NYS Governor’s Office of Regulatory Reform – Home Page
http://www.gorr.state.ny.us/gorr/
NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation – Home
Page
http://nysparks.state.ny.us/
Planning, Environment, & Realty, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal
Highway Administration
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/
SEQR - Environmental Impact Assessment in New York State, NYS Dept.
of Environmental Conservation
http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dcs/seqr/index.html
Wetlands and Waterways Regulation and Permitting, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers
http://www.usace.army.mil/public.html#Regulatory
General Online Resources
Affordable Housing Plan, Town of Cary, North Carolina
http://www.townofcary.org/depts/dsdept/P&Z/affordablehousing/plancolor.pdf
American Farmland Trust
http://www.farmland.org/
Car Share Network
www.carsharing.net/index.html
Center for Neighborhood Technology
http://www.cnt.org/
Greenway Connections, Dutchess County Department of Planning and Development,
New York
http://www.dutchessny.gov/greenway.htm
H2Ouse, California Urban Water Conservation Council
www.h2ouse.org/
Housing for a Competitive Workforce: Homeownership Models that Work,
Metropolitan Planning Council [Illinois]
http://www.metroplanning.org/resources/119section3.asp?objectID=119
New York State Main Street Alliance
http://www.cardi.cornell.edu/nymsa//index.cfm
Programs for Revitalizing Communities, Maryland Department of Housing
and Community Development
http://www.dhcd.state.md.us/revit.cfm
Promoting Rehabilitation and Reuse, City of Chicago, Mayor’s Office
http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Mayor/Zoning/principles/Rehab.pdf
Rails to Trails Conservancy
http://www.millenniumtrails.org
Southeast Michigan Council of Governments
http://www.semcog.org/
Sustainable Communities Network
http://www.sustainable.org/
Theory in Action: Smart Growth Case Studies, Association of Bay Area
Governments [California]
http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/theoryia/
Walkable Communities, Inc.
www.walkable.org
Non-Digital References
Acting Locally: Municipal Tools for Environmental Protection, 2002, by the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions
Building Greenways for Tompkins County: An Action Plan, July
1995, by the Tompkins County Greenway Coalition
Choices for the Future of Tompkins County: Diversity and Sustainability
2001-2050, December 2001, by the Cornell University City and Regional
Planning Workshop
Crossroads, Hamlet, Village, Town: Design Characteristics of Traditional Neighborhoods, Old and New, September 1999, by Randall Arendt
Strategies, Action Steps, and Implementation, Phase II: Tompkins Co. Ag. & Farmland Protection Plan, February 1998, by the Tompkins County Agriculture and Farmland Protection Board
Study of Tompkins County Agriculture Phase I: Tompkins Co. Ag. &
Farmland Protection Plan, October 1996, by the Tompkins County Agriculture
and Farmland Protection Board
TDR-Less TDR: A Transfer of Development Rights Approach That "Custom Fits" Transactions (PAS Memo, American Planning Association), August 2002, Rick Pruetz and Chris Duerksen
Tompkins County Agricultural Lands and Natural Areas Preservation Feasibility Study, January 2002, by George R. Frantz & Associates
Traffic Calming, Auto-Restricted Zones and Other Traffic Management Techniques, A. Clarke and M. Dornfeld
Virginia’s Growth Management Tools, June 1999, by the Virginia
Chapter of the American Planning Association