Planning Links

Grant Resources

Consolidated Local Street and Highway Improvement Program (CHIPS)/ Municipal Streets and Highway Program, www.dot.state.ny.us/chips/index.html

Empire State Development Corporation (Metropolitan Economic Revitalization Funds MERF), www.nylovesbiz.com/default.asp

Empire State Development: Economic Development Fund, www.awib.org/content_frames/articles/empire.html

EPA· National Award for Smart Growth Achievement, www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/awards.htm

Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), Title 7 and Title 9, www.dec.state.ny.us/website/opensp/opepfl4.html

Federal grants clearinghouse, www.grants.gov

Hudson River Valley Greenway (see Greenway Communities, Greenway Compact Water Trail and Teaching the Hudson Valley grant programs), www.hudsongreenway.state.ny.us/funding/funding.htm

National Park Service Land and Water Conservation Fund/ Municipal Parks Matching Grant Program, www.nysparks.com/grants

Neighborhood Preservation Program/ Rural Preservation Project, www.dhcr.state.ny.us/ocd/ocd.htm

New York Main Street Program (helps communities with efforts to preserve and revitalize mixed-use main street/downtown business districts, www.dhcr.state.ny.us/general/new/mainstnofa.htm

NYS Assembly Grant Action News, www.assembly.state.ny.us/gan

NYS Canal Corporation, www.canals.state.ny.us/busdevel/index.html

NYS Council on the Arts (see Architecture, Planning and Design Program), www.nysca.org

NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets (see various grant programs), www.agmkt.state.ny.us/RFPS.html

NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (see Hudson River Estuary Program), www.dec.state.ny.us/website/hudson/grants.html

NYS Department of Environmental Conservation: Urban and Community Forestry grant, www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dlf/privland/urban/

NYS Department of State, Division of Coastal Resources, Local Waterfront Revitalization Program, www.nyswaterfronts.com/grantopps_EPF.asp

NYS Department of State (see Brownfield Opportunity Areas and Local Waterfront Revitalization Program), www.nyswaterfronts.com/grantopps.asp

NYS Governor's Office of Small Cities (see Small Cities Community Development Block Grant Program and Main Street NY programs), www.nysmallcities.com

NYS Department of Transportation (see Transportation Enhancements Program), www.dot.state.ny.us

NYS Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (see Environmental Protection Fund and Historic Preservation Programs), www.nysparks.state.ny.us

NYS Governor's Traffic Safety Council, www.safeny.com

Preservation League of New York State (see Preserve New York program), www.preservenys.org/funding.htm

TEA-21 Transportation Enhancement Program, www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/te/index.htm

TEA-21 Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program, www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/cmaqpgs

TEA-21 Hazard Elimination Program, www.fhwa.dot.gov/tea21/factsheets/isfty.htm

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (see Community Development Block Grant Program, Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program and Rural Housing and Economic Development), www.hud.gov/grants/index.cfm

U.S. Department of Agriculture (Rural Development and Community Facilities programs), www.rurdev.usda.gov

Colleges and Universities

Albany Law School Government Law Center, www.als.edu/centers/editor.cfm?ID=139

Cornell University Department of City and Regional Planning, www.dcrp.cornell.edu/

Cornell University Cooperative Extension (Community Development, Environment and Agriculture Outreach programs), www.cce.cornell.edu/

Pace Land Use Law Center, www.pace.edu/lawschool/landuse/centerinfo.html

Pratt Institute, www.pratt.edu

SUNY Albany Department of Geography and Planning, www.albany.edu/gp/

SUNY Buffalo Department of Urban and Regional Planning, www.ap.buffalo.edu/planning

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, www.esf.edu

Regional Planning Boards and Partnerships

New York State Association of Regional Councils, www.nysarc.com/

Adirondack Park Agency, www.northnet.org/adirondackparkagency

Capital District Regional Planning Commission (Counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, and Schenectady), www.cdrpc.org

Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board (Counties of Cayuga, Madison, Onondaga, and Oswego), www.cnyrpdb.org

Erie-Niagara Regional Partnership, www.erie.gov/enrp

Genesee-Finger Lakes Regional Planning Council (Counties of Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates), www.gflrpc.org

Herkimer-Onieda Counties Comprehenisive Planning Program, www.oneidacounty.org/oneidacty/gov/dept/planning/planningindex.htm

Hudson Valley Regional Council, www.hudsonvalleyrc.org

Lake Champlain-Lake George Regional Planning Board (Counties of Clinton, Essex, Hamilton, Warren, and Washington), www.albany.net/~rpb

Long Island Regional Planning Board (Counties of Nassau and Suffolk), e-mail: kim.kennedy@co.suffolk.ny.us

Southern Tier Central Regional Planning and Development Board (Counties of Chemung, Schuyler, and Steuben), www.stcplanning.org

Southern Tier East Regional Planning Development Board (Counties of Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie, Tioga, and Tompkins), www.steny.org

Southern Tier West Regional Planning and Development Board (Counties of Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Chautauqua), www.southerntierwest.org

Tug Hill Commission, e-mail: tughill@tughill.org

Metropolitan Planning Organizations

Adirondack-Glens Falls Transportation Council, www.agftc.org

Binghamton Metropolitan Transportation Study, www.bmtsonline.org

Capital District Transportatin Committee, www.cdtcmpo.org

Elmira-Chemung Tranportation Council, www.elmirampo.org/ectc/

Genesee Transportation Council, www.gtcmpo.org

Great Buffalo-Niagara Frontier Transportation Council, www.gbnrtc.org

Herkimer-Oneida Counties Transportation Study, www.oneidacounty.org

Ithaca-Tompkins County Transportation Council, www.tompkins-co.org/itctc

Newburgh-Orange County Transportation Council, e-mail: dchurch@co.orange.ny.us

New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, www.nymtc.org

New York State Urban Council, www.nysurbancouncil.com

Poughkeepsie-Dutchess County Transportation Council, www.dutchessny.gov/pdctc.htm

Syracuse Metropolitan Transportation Council, www.smtcmpo.org

Ulster County Transportation Council, www.co.ulster.ny.us/plannning

General Resources

American Planning Association, www.planning.org

American Planning Association NY Upstate Chapter, www.nyupstateplanning.org

Brookings Institution, www.brook.edu/es/urban/urban.htm

Brownfieldsource.org, www.brownfieldsource.org

Building Better Communities, www.bettercommunities.org

Community and Rural Development Institute, www.cardi.cornell.edu

Community & Economic Development Toolbox, www.cdtoolbox.org

Cyburbia, www.cyburbia.org

Dutchess County Planning Dept., www.co.dutchess.ny.us/EnvironmentLandPres/ELPgreenwayguide.html

Environmental Protection Agency, www.epa.gov

General Code, www.generalcode.com/Webcode.html

Initiative for Healthy Infrastructure, www.albany.edu/~ihi

Innovative Transportation Technologies, www.faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans

New York State Association of County Planning Directors, www.co.montgomery.ny.us/website/stateplanners/default.htm

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, www.lincolninst.edu

New York Bicycling Coalition, www.nybc.net/

New York Main Street Alliance, www.nymsa.org

NYS Department of State Division of Local Government Services, www.dos.state.ny.us/lgss/localgovt.html

NYS Department of Transportation (Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities), www.dot.state.ny.us/pubtrans/bpfacilities.html

Oregon Land Use Information Center, www.oregon.gov/LCD/about_us.shtml

PLANetizen, www.planetizen.com/

Planners Network, www.plannersnetwork.org

Planners Web, www.plannersweb.com/articles/sprawl-articles.html

Project for Public Spaces, www.pps.org

Smart Growth America, www.smartgrowthamerica.com

Smart Growth Gateway (NJ), www.smartgrowthgateway.org/ordinances.shtml

Smart Growth Online, www.smartgrowth.org

Smart Growth America, www.smartgrowthamerica.com/main.html

Sprawl-Busters, www.sprawl-busters.com/hometown.html

Urban Land Institute, www.uli.org

U.S. Census Bureau, www.census.gov