LAND USE
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Title: A Better Way to Grow: For More Liveable Communities and A Healthier
Chesapeake Bay
Format: Booklet
Audience: General, community planners
Length: 32 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: Demonstrates growth patterns and development designs that
offer hope for a restored Bay
Title: A Pattern for Living
Format: Video
Audience: Citizens, community planners
Length: 19 minutes
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: Alternatives to sprawling development, finding solutions
to air and water pollution
Title: Beyond Sprawl
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 15 minutes
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Program - Communications Office
Description: Examples of innovative techniques that are working to protect
natural resources, preserve farmland, and improve economic vitality
Title: Buffers for Stream, Lake and Wetland Protection
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Watershed organizations, landowners, general
Length: 2 pp
Contact: Community and Environmental Defense Services
Description: Explains the benefits of buffer zones along lakes and streams
Title: Building Sustainable Communities
Format: Booklet
Audience: Citizens, municipal officials
Length: 4 pp
Contact: Concern, Inc.
Description: Examples of successful initiatives to define and produce
sustainable communities
Title: Everyone Wins: A Citizen's Guide to Development
Format: Book
Audience: General
Length: 147 pp ($18)
Contact: Community and Environmental Defense Services
Description: Protection of community and environment from development,
additional publications available
Title: GreenWorks For Pennsylvania: Land Use, Transportation and the Environment
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various
environmental issues
Title: How Much Development is Too Much for Streams, Rivers, Lakes, Tidal
Waters and Wetlands
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: General
Length: 2 pp
Contact: Community and Environmental Defense Services
Description: Analyzes impact of development on variety of different waterways
Title: How to Win Land Development Issues
Format: Book
Audience: General
Length: 107 pp (Free)
Contact: Community and Environmental Defense Services
Description: A citizen guide for resolving concerns about sprawl, highways,
landfills and other types of development
Title: Land and Soil
Format: Materials
Audience: Educators (grades K-12)
Length: 28 pp ($1.50)
Contact: Pennsylvania Alliance for Environmental Education
Description: Develops the value of soil, uses of the land, and decision
making process
Title: Land for Life, The Big Picture
Format: Materials
Audience: Students/teachers (grades K-12)
Length: 4-plus pp
Contact: National Association of Conservation Districts
Description: 18" x 22" fold-out, activity poster
Title: Main Street Rivers
Format: Book
Audience: General
Length: 61 pp
Contact: Penn State University - Department of Landscape Architecture
Description: Historical perspective of rivers; encourages sensitive development
along waterways