Posts Tagged ‘ planning ’

My View: Audubon study shows unfettered growth can have unintended consequences My View Jack Clarke The present lull in home construction provides an important opportunity to step back and examine how and where we develop land in Massachusetts. It also gives us time to figure out how we should proceed once things pick up again. The good news...
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“Yet in parts of the region, the decline is being met by an unlikely optimism. Some people who have long fought to clear-cut the region’s verdant slopes are trying to reposition themselves for a more environmentally friendly economy, motivated by changing political interests, the federal stimulus package and sheer desperation.” Good Monday Morning, For those of...
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You'll notice that the subject header this morning reads, "NtM" rather than "News That Matters". I write the latter several hundred times each year and by shortening it to its initials I can save thousands of keypresses. You're all getting this for free (thanks to saints among you who are donors and supporters) so...
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Environmental Impact Of Building Construction Can Now Be Predicted ScienceDaily Feb. 18, 2009 — A team of researchers from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia UPC has developed a method that makes it possible to evaluate the environmental impacts caused during the construction of buildings in advance. Before beginning the works, with just the project data,...
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Oregon Corners meeting, and you missed it. – February 11, 2009 February – short month, but lots of meetings. I’ll get caught up, but I’ll start with the Oregon Corners meeting, since it dovetails nicely with the North County News article about Peekskill Hollow Road. I’ll bet you didn’t know there was an Oregon Corners...
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Matter of Bassano v Town of Carmel Zoning Bd. of Appeals (2008 NY Slip Op 09074) BODY { font-family : “Times New Roman”, Times, serif; font-size : larger; } P { line-height: 150%; text-indent: 2em } Matter of Bassano v Town of Carmel Zoning Bd. of Appeals 2008 NY Slip Op 09074 Decided on November...
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Citizen Action News – October/November Friends of Bleecker Playground Halloween Parade Catskill Mountainkeeper Ramsay Adams, Executive Director of Catskill Mountainkeeper, was interviewed for the October 12th “Our Planet” segment of NBC Nightly News on the issue of natural gas drilling in the Catskills. See the interview here. Concerned Citizens for Open Space On April 14th, the Concerned Citizens for Open...
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