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What people are saying about Collaborative Land Use Planning: |
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| “Collaborative Land Use Planning shows everyone the power of working together. It teaches us that communities, planning boards, developers, environmentalists, and governing bodies can work together to build great neighborhoods. Having personally succeeded with this process, I know that it works! Every citizen who is faced with a new development (commercial or residential) in their town and anyone who has a hand in overseeing, approving, or creating developments should read this book!” Donna Griff, Town Council and Environmental Commission, Byram, NJ |
“Collaborative Land Use Planning is both practical and visionary. More than once, I’ve seen this book bring people in adversarial positions to successful collaboration instead of litigation. We now have several examples right here in the Hudson Valley in which this process was used by divergent stakeholders to plan projects that turned out to be far superior to plans that generally come from people who are getting along.”Manna Jo Greene, Environmental Director, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and Select Board, Town of Rosendale |
“We started using Collaborative Land Use Planning due to a conflict with a developer and now we are going to use it with the master plan revision process. This collaborative planning process connects and harnesses peoples’ passion for wanting something better for their community. Working together from this perspective, we realized that the possibilities are limitless. Proactive and an invitation to creativity, the procedures in Collaborative Land Use Planning build relationships and reach for enhancement rather settling for compromise.” Lisa Kellogg, Citizens Steering Committee, Rosendale, NY |
| “Collaborative
Land Use Planning asks people to play a real role in the development
of their community. Local residents are no longer the baffled audience at
an obscure Planning Board playlet! Instead, they are sharing a table and
speaking freely with their neighbors, the developer, and local officials.
They are being asked to make themselves a powerful part of the planning
process at the very start, when they have a real chance to help design good
development.” Margaret McGarrity, Executive Director, Paulinskill-Pequest Watershed Association, Blairstown, NJ |
“The
process set forth in Collaborative Land Use Planning is the only
model that I have seen which fosters the planning process. Today, the
land development design and permitting process is not a “planning”
process, but rather an adversarial struggle over special interests. As
a result, litigation-type strategies drive the result. All the stakeholders
in land development will benefit from reading this book.”
Francis Gavin, Attorney, Mayor, Allamuchy, NJ |
“Collaborative
Land Use Planning provides a process that will bring people together
to focus in a positive manner on making the town into a true community.
It is encouraging to read the stories of other towns with land use dilemmas,
initial frustration, the steps toward successful community building, and
the range of circumstances in which this has been sucessful. I love the
sample letters that can be sent by each group to encourage communication
and collaboration.” Bonnie Baldwin, Master Plan Committee, Litchfield, CT |
| "Collaborative Land Use Planning offers collaboration techniques that planning boards can easily use effectively to replace the negative energy between developers and townspeople. The resulting positive energy and community building assure successful land use planning and the projects your town desires."Joyce Copleman, Planning Board Chair, Lawrenceville, NJ | “Collaborative
Land Use Planning has that rare quality of no hidden personal agenda.
This book shows planning board members how to support and achieve effective
collaboration between landowners, interested and affected citizens, and
developers. As soon as I read this book, I suggested the planning board
get copies for themselves and make them available to interested citizens.”
Marvin
Fish, Planning Board Chair, Hope, NJ |
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