The Chautauqua County Planning Board will be holding its Capital Projects Review meetings on May 2nd from 1:00PM to 5:00PM, and on May 16th from 1:00PM to 5:00PM. Both meetings will be held in the Legislative Chambers Room at the Gerace Office Building at 3 N Erie Street, Mayville NY 14757. If you should have…
Planners today are asked to respond to a complex set of community challenges, including the mitigation of extreme weather effects, provision of equitable open space access, beautification of public spaces, and collaboration with a diverse array of actors who build, maintain and regulate the built environment. “Nature-Based Solutions” or “NBS” is a term which refers…
This webinar showcases strategies for building resilient shorelines and engaging communities in the process. The program expands upon our previous Sustainable Shorelines webinars, adding to the toolbox of resiliency guidelines available to designers, practitioners, and community decision-makers. Please join us regardless of whether you have attended any of our previous webinars. To learn more about…
In this hands-on workshop we will explore several of our Statistics in Schools lesson plans. This Census Bureau program uses census statistics and resources to create activities and materials for students. Teachers and subject matter experts from across the country help develop and review each and every SIS activity to make sure it is valuable,…
Accessing and exploring parks, trails, and natural areas has grown rapidly in popularity in recent years, due at least in part by the demand for space for exercise, socializing, and staying happy and healthy in a world still beholden to pandemic considerations. While this trend is cause for celebration for park and trail managers, the influx…
Public engagement is a vital component of any planning project or planning process. This session will review innovative best practices and considerations when engaging with the public. Della Rucker will offer a framework for deciding how to conduct public engagement and know what you are (and are not) promising the public. She'll also review ways…
The Census Bureau will hold a prerelease webinar to discuss the 2020 Census Demographic Profile and Demographic and Housing Characteristics File (DHC) to be publicly released May 25. These products provide demographic and housing characteristics of local communities, including population data on age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, families and households, and data on homeownership and vacant and occupied housing. Embargoed…
The Chautauqua County Planning Board will be holding its Capital Projects Review meetings on May 2nd from 1:00PM to 5:00PM, and on May 16th from 1:00PM to 5:00PM. Both meetings will be held in the Legislative Chambers Room at the Gerace Office Building at 3 N Erie Street, Mayville NY 14757. If you should have…
The U.S. Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) and the Labor Market Information (LMI) Institute, welcomes Alan Spell and Justin Krohn as they present “The Importance of Off-Farm Income to the Agriculture Economy.” Off-farm jobs and income are critically important to farmers…
The Chautauqua County Food Policy Council will be meeting on Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 at 2PM. The meeting will be held at the Park United Methodist Church, 25 Maple Ave. Cassadaga, NY 14718. This meeting is open to the public. If you should have questions regarding this meeting, please contact Courtney Domst at the Chautauqua…
The Siting and Zoning Considerations for Large-Scale Solar presentation will focus on the importance of having solar ordinances. Zoning ordinances should define exclusion areas, type of use, setback, screening, access, decommissioning, and other considerations. Examples of recently adopted regulations will also be shared. Who is this for? Homeowners Landowners Business owners Local officials What will…
The presentation describes the process of signing a trail. While primarily addressing front country recreational trails, these ideas may be applied to all trails, front country, back country, bike trails, etc. The presentation will include graphics of the items being described. The front end describes three key elements: The importance of maps, how they are…
The DEC Hudson River Estuary Program and Cornell University are pleased to share new guidance for municipalities to advance local conservation goals, developed in collaboration with Pace Land Use Law Center: "Best Practices for Adopting Conservation Inventories and Plans: A Guide for Communities in the Hudson River Estuary Watershed." The webinar will include: • an…
Planners shape and manage community change. Preservationists connect important stories, memories, and places to our communities. The National Trust for Historic Preservation and the American Planning Association Urban Design and Preservation Division have joined together to explore planning and preservation issues and opportunities presented by future change at two webcasts this Spring. Join preservation professionals…
Join us on Thursday May 25th 10 a.m. for a webinar devoted to an exclusive MEGA member solution for reporting and analyzing all of your utility use and costs. Proactively manage utility costs, understand trends, and develop strategies to optimize spending and drive sustainability goals. Constellation's Pear.ai platform is part of a suite of analytics…
This webinar will talk about pack goats including what to look for in a potential packer, how many you may need for your team, how much they can carry, and why goats are the ultimate pack animal. The presenter will explain how to train pack goats, and what it was like hiking with them on…
Interested in learning about characteristics that affect the disabled community’s living experience in your area? This webinar provides an overview of various Census Bureau data sources and disability data trends through hands-on exercises using data.census.gov.
For anyone who is interested in accessing the newly released 2020 Decennial Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics tables and Demographic Profile, we bring you this webinar. This release includes 250 new tables from the 2020 Census covering topics including age, sex, race, Hispanic or Latino origin, household type, family type, relationship to householder, group quarters…
The Chautauqua County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board will be holding a meeting at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, May 31, 2023. The meeting will be held in Room 333 of the Gerace Office Building, 3 North Erie Street, Mayville, N.Y. This meeting is open to the public. The meeting is also available by videoconference by…
The “Back on the Trade Road” webinar features U.S. companies that are successfully navigating export sales and embracing the “new normal” through more direct participation in different types of events. Are you ready to take advantage of Federal resources that can facilitate direct client engagement to grow your global market sales? Attendees will: Explore the…
Learn more about the American Community Survey (ACS) and data available for American Indians and Alaska Natives. This webinar provides an overview of the ACS and will focus on the ACS data collection process for AIAN populations and tribal areas, as well as how to access ACS AIAN data in data.census.gov or on our website.…
This webinar will discuss the Water Quality Improvement Projects (WQIP) and Non-Agricultural Nonpoint Source Planning and MS4 Mapping Grant (NPG) grant programs available in the Consolidated Funding Application.
The Trail Skills Project is a collaboration of trail nonprofits, federal agencies, and universities launched to serve as the workforce hub for the trails community providing connections to trails education, trail expertise, professional development, and job opportunities (trailskills.org). The project was launched in an effort to create shared language defining trail competencies through the Trail…