This year’s State of the State and budget proposal offers lots of good Smart Growth news…potentially. There is a meaningful amount of new state money proposed for Downtown revitalization, waste water repairs, the Environmental Protection Fund, and municipal consolidation encouragement. […]
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$5 Billion. So You Say We’re Flush…
Whether you live in Buffalo, Rome, Albany, Brooklyn or Long Island your toilet, your view, your favorite beach, your water supply are all part of our shared water and sewer systems. Our favorite places and most pressing needs interconnect and […]
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Hug a Tree: Help Our Youth, Your Commute and Your Community
[Photo courtesy of Groundwork Hudson Valley] Trees are our greenest form of infrastructure. They provide shade, cooling, beauty, and oxygen. Trees support road and rail embankments by holding soil in place. They help drainage. They sequester CO2. They can also […]
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I Marched Too.
I too was a drop in the river of 350,000 climate change marchers in Manhattan a few weeks ago. I was glad to be there amidst the largest climate change event ever. The buzz that day reminded me of the […]
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Let Them in. Bring Them Here.
(Photo courtesy of Syracuse.com: Supporters of the plan to house immigrant children on the campus of the former Maria Regina College) If it were only a case of 50,000 destitute children interned for trying to enter the United States, we would […]
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Over-the-Top Highway
It took sixteen seconds in Governor Cuomo’s 2014 State of the State address to re-awaken a dormant relic of an idea for New York’s North Country. Said Cuomo in January: “In the North Country, the proposed Route 98 could reduce […]
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Getting housing wrong (and right): In Buffalo and beyond
Major media extol new housing starts as a sign of a robust economy. But this metric ignores the significant service and infrastructure costs that housing–and surplus housing–exacts on local governments and taxpayers. In 2003, Cleveland State University planning professor Tom […]
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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 […]
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Mega-development in the Hudson Valley
“The Towne Center at Fayetteville, NY is designed to replicate the warmth and charm of a traditional American village square.” (photo: Bergmann Associates. Click to enlarge) This is the way the developer of the “Towne Center at Fayetteville” (Onondaga […]
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Bringing Transit-Oriented Development to New Rochelle
The TOD Study establishes the needed sustainable framework for the future development of the City of New Rochelle. -Luiz Aragon, Commissioner of Development, New Rochelle Empire State Future has long supported transit-oriented development (TOD) as a way to revitalize urban […]
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