Educational and informational events - including
- Seminars, workshops, conferences, roundtables, networking breakfasts, and demonstration projects
- News and information, in print and on the web, for land use planners and interested decision makers
- Tools and proven " best practices" models for concerned citizens, town boards and professional planners
- A conduit for building partnerships among organizations
The Circuit Rider:
- Provides outreach and technical assistance to Essex County Communities struggling with all smart growth-related issues. This includes attending local board meetings to present information, reviewing zoning bylaws and providing guidance for their improvement, connecting local board members to state resources, etc.
- Researches and develops models and tools to address smart growth issues, and makes them available to all communities within the County.
- Provides assistance with implementing smart growth tools, from helping present information at town meeting to providing strategies for successful public education about tools municipalities wish to adopt.
- Helps educate stakeholders in the region about smart growth issues and strategies through the Forum’s workshops, conferences, and publications.
- Fosters communication and idea exchange among communities in the county struggling with similar smart growth challenges.
The Circuit Rider has contacts in all 34 cities and towns in Essex County, and has current knowledge of successful smart growth tools adopted by these towns. Thus, she is able to connect municipalities interested in adopting a new bylaw with a community that has successfully done so.
Susan Jones Moses, the Forum's Smart Growth Circuit Rider, is available to all 34 cities and towns in Essex County to assist with Smart Growth planning and technical assistance. For questions or more information you can contact Sue directly at 978-340-0407.
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"During our succesful CPA campaign the advice and attendance at Town Meetings by your Circuit Rider, Susan Moses, was indespensible and greatly appreciated. "
Gary Gilbert, Planning Board and Chair CPA Committee, Manchester-by-the-Sea
"I wish to congratulate you on your fine publication Preserving the Future. As a firm believer in, and vocal proponent of, the value of open space planning I welcome your guide as an additional resource for saving the best of Massachusetts….it will be of value to communities throughout the Commonwealth."
Paul M. Cavanagh, Director, Regional Conservation Planning program Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences
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