Training

Learn more about commuting data from the American Community Survey (ACS), including data on people working from home. This webinar provides an overview of the ACS commuting tables and related data products and will show where to locate this data on various data tools and resources, including data.census.gov.

This course is an overview of the statutory authority local governments have to review site plans. It will address the scope and content of a site plan and the role of the site plan in municipal review of development projects. A discussion of design and the reasons some approaches might be preferable to others is…

The Hudson River Watershed Alliance’s fall 2023 breakfast lecture series focuses on water and watershed-related Climate Smart Communities case studies. Climate Smart Communities (CSC) is a New York State program that helps local governments take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to a changing climate. The CSC certification program includes a wide range…

In 2022, Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law historic revisions to New York’s Freshwater Wetlands Act. Currently, the Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) jurisdiction is limited to wetlands that are equal to or greater than 12.4 acres (and certain wetlands of unusual local importance) and identified on the State Freshwater Wetlands Map. The new legislation…

Beginning with the Vintage 2021 estimates series, the base population (or starting point) for the post-2020 population estimates produced by the U.S. Census Bureau has been created by integrating several sources of data, rather than relying strictly on the results of the latest decennial census. Although this "blended base" was adopted in response to data…

This course asks when it is appropriate to update a municipality’s zoning regulations, and what you should be looking at when you review them; the importance of the comprehensive plan; and procedures for the amendment of zoning laws and ordinances, including referral to the county planning board, public hearings, and filing requirements.