Beyond the Basics
CLEAR Planning Tools
- Community Resource Inventory Online
- Planning for Stormwater
- Low Impact Development (LID)
- Low Impact Development (LID) Regulations
- Forest Fragmentation Tool Version 2
- Community Resource Inventory Online
- Connecticut's Changing Landscape: Your Town
- Connecticut's Changing Landscape: Your Watershed
- Connecticut's Changing Landscape: Interactive Map
- Coastal Stream Buffer Interactive Map
- Long Island Sound Region Impervious Surfaces Interactive Map
- High resolution imagery
- Digital elevation data
2009 - Land Use Academy 2008 - 2009 Report - (PDF 4MB)
2002 - Open Space Planning Bibliography - (PDF 26KB)
2000 - The Remedial Bibliography for Land Use Planning- (PDF 39KB)
2000 - Selected Land Use Planning References - (PDF 47KB)
Affordable Housing Webinar
March 15, 2011 - From the CLEAR 2011 Webinar Series
Run Time: 00:56:42
The mere mention of affordable housing can be a lightning rod for the NIMBY ("not in my back yard") elements in any community. But what is affordable housing and who really lives in it? Access to decent, safe, sanitary and affordable housing has long been an issue of public importance in Connecticut. This webinar focuses on the challenges of providing affordable housing in our communities and why it’s important to create it to solve economic growth, municipal finance, educational, healthcare, environmental quality-of-life, transportation and other problems that our towns and state face. Methods of overcoming the barriers to affordable housing—erasing myths and misconceptions—and discussing why creating affordable housing is in the interest of municipalities will be discussed. The information provided will help foster an understanding of the relationship between housing costs and household incomes, development revenues versus municipal costs, and will include the role of planners in educating their towns’ residents on the benefits of affordable housing in their communities.
