The New York State Court of Appeals will hear the oil and gas industry’s appeal of municipal decisions in New York to ban hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. The local communities enacting these bans claim their “home rule” authority trumps […]
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From Abandoned Power Plant to Adaptive-Reuse Project
Read about how a power plant on the Hudson River, closed for 50 years, is being transformed into arts-focused mixed-use destination in Yonkers in this New York Times article. [Photo courtesy of hudsonvalleyruins.org] […]
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Little Falls: Cascading Results-A great example of how smal…
Little Falls, New York — a city of 5,000 people located 70 miles west of Albany — might have died. This formerly robust industrial city straddles the Mohawk River and the Erie Canal at the site of a picturesque 40 […]
continue readingSmart Growth Roundup (3 June 2014)
Storm projects chosen for New York, New Jersey… Thousands of comments have been submitted in response to the state’s draft energy plan…. And a partnership forms to develop a casino near Binghamton in this weeks SGR! Local Midtown Rising Development […]
continue readingCNU 22: Promoting sustainable communities
Today, The Buffalo News has highlighted the 22nd Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU 22) event in Buffalo next week (June 4-7). This event brings people from different disciplines to discuss the best approaches to land use and development. And […]
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Will far-flung STAMP project in Genesee County really attrac…
The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle delves into the 1,300-acre speculative greenfield development in rural Genesee County, interviewing folks on both sides of the issue, including our own Peter Fleischer. Read the article in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle […]
continue readingSmart Growth Roundup (06 May 2014)
What is Mayor de Blasio’s plan for affordable housing in NYC? What’s the latest news on potential casinos? And what are older adults saying about their community preferences? Find answers to these questions and more in this weeks Smart Growth […]
continue readingSmart Growth Roundup (15 April 2014)
Local Smart tool to fight blight (Albany) State development money coming to Rochester Brooklyn’s Hipster Economy Challenges Manhattan Supremacy ‘Buffalo Billion’ funds STAMP tech park Capital Region sprawl score low New York’s density is an urban plus: Report Local colleges […]
continue readingRochester wins 2014 national “Parking Madness” title
Rochester has won this year’s international “Golden Crater” title for possessing what respondents deemed the most remarkable “asphalt scar” within its city limits. The scar that won Rochester the dubious distinction is in an area of downtown that is now […]
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Albany County votes to create land bank, earmarks $1 million
Albany County is poised to be the next New York State community to launch a land bank. The County voted on April 1 to create the land bank and earmarked $1 million to move it forward. Read more about it […]
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