ENRE Announces 2005 Student Fellowship Program
Applications are now being accepted for the Fall 2005 Student Fellowship Program. Please click here for more information and application.
Call for Papers and Invitation. Please Join Us!
Joint State/Federal Wetland and Riparian Area Legal Workshop: IDENTIFYING "WATERS OF THE U.S." AFTER SWANCC
October 18-19, 2005
Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Conducted by: The Association of State Wetland Managers Institute for Wetland Science and Public Policy
Visit the ASWM conference web site for agenda, hotel, and registration information at .
Contact Information: Questions Regarding Program, Call for Papers, and Abstracts, Please Contact:
Jon Kusler, Associate Director, Association of State Wetland Managers, 1434 Helderberg Trail, Berne, NY 12023; (518) 872-1804;
Fax: (518) 82-2171, or >
Questions Regarding General Registration, Speaker Registration, and Exhibits, Please Contact:
Laura Burchill, Association of State Wetland Managers, 2 Basin Road, Windham, ME 04062; (207) 892-3399; Fax: (207) 892-3089;
Assistance Needed For Task Force For Proposed
Policy Guide on Air Quality
We are looking for people to be on a Task Force to put the policy guide together. Please contact Ralph Wilmer if you can help.
Ralph Willmer, AICP
617.338.6464 x126
The Legislative
and Policy Committee voted to consider the development of
a new Policy Guide on Air Quality. This has been a topic
that has been suggested since APA has a policy on virtually
every other key environmental issue that affects land use.
This short paper is designed to identify some key issues
to address in the development of this policy. Additionally,
it is hoped that it will generate suggestions on other related
issues to be considered in developing the policy. Please
click here
for document.
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Gov. Bush Emphasizes Overhaul of Florida's Growth Management Laws in
State of the State Speech
Upbeat about Florida's recent achievements and potential, but worried
about its lack of a comprehensive development strategy, Republican
Governor Jeb Bush urged lawmakers in his State of the State speech to
''take steps to ensure that our growth enhances, rather than detracts,
from the quality of life'' that is the state's trademark.
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Smart growth pace slower in Maryland
EIGHT YEARS after Maryland officially embraced Smart Growth as a
development policy, farmland and forests continue to give way to
houses, schools and malls with depressing regularity.
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Urban Growth Boundary Did Not Make Portland Unaffordable
New figures undercut claims that the Oregon region's housing costs
have gone out of sight.
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Seaside Town Center To Be Transformed
The new urban icon on the Florida panhandle will get long-anticipated
buildings and a few new twists.
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Market Responds To Fast-Shrinking Natural Resources
Market notices that natural resources are shrinking fast.
While some folks in political circles still like to pretend that
natural resources are endless, global financial markets aren't buying
it. Commodity prices recently hit a 24-year high, driven by worries
that burgeoning global demand is rapidly outstripping supply.
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Fayetteville Selects Engineering Firm to Review Hillside Protection
Ordinance Draft
Having worked on saving Fayetteville hillsides from excessive
development in two task-force groups since August 2002, city officials
selected the Denver-based Design Workshop engineering firm to review
their hillside protection ordinance draft and solve some persistent
problems according to the firm's web pledge of ''combining principles
of smart growth, sustainable design and environmentally sound planning
to reconcile economic needs with the preservation of scenic, cultural
and community values.''
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Anti-Sprawl Laws, Property Rights Collide in Oregon
The nation's strongest laws against sprawl are beginning to buckle
here in Oregon under pressure from an even stronger, voter-approved
law that trumps growth restrictions with property rights.
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