Sentences with phrase «land trusts»

We now have the potential to make that happen through the collaboration of more than a dozen land trusts working together with the state to Save the Land That Matters Most.

On June 21 Scenic Hudson honored 13 local, regional and national land trusts for their outstanding work in safeguarding critically important land, farms and scenic wonders throughout the Hudson Valley.

We'll build on it by working with land trusts, government agencies and other donors.

Land trusts and farm families all across the country are partnering to conserve the lands where much of our food is grown.

The Foodshed Conservation Plan also provides a framework for stakeholders, including farmers, land trusts and government — federal, state, county and local — to strengthen their support for protecting the region's farmland.

I meet urban farmers who teach women from a homeless shelter and inner - city kids to grow healthy food on remediated vacant lots; advocates for sustainable transportation who tirelessly attend hearings and planning meetings; members of community land trusts that provide affordable housing; and conservation land trusts that preserve ecosystems and habitats acre by acre, stream by stream.

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The PCP, as it is known, calls for fair wages for artists, commercial rent control, and community land trusts for artist housing.

Community land trusts are set up by communities as an alternative to both government and market failure — there are 175 founded since 2004.

Founded in 1972, the Catalina Island Conservancy, one of the oldest private land trusts in Southern California, protects 88 percent of Catalina Island as a carefully managed preserve.

Founded in 1972, the Catalina Island Conservancy, one of the oldest private land trusts in Southern California, protects 88 percent of Catalina Island as a carefully...

There are land trusts set up by Belize to manage this habitat.

Community Land Trusts (CLT) have had a foothold in the Twin Cities for decades.

Community land trusts are created to preserve long - term affordable housing by purchasing homes in their communities, then leasing the land using a long - term ground lease to low - income and moderate - income families at affordable monthly ground rents.

He also has real estate development experience, having founded and managed several land trusts focused on renovation of historic commercial properties over the past twenty - four years.

He is involved as a funder and advisor to many local environmental groups, particularly land trusts involved with protecting land through purchase or conservation easement.

It does so through regulations spelled out in the Clean Water Act, which include providing tax incentives for selling or giving wetlands to land trusts or other conservation groups, via cooperative efforts with state and local entities, and by acquiring wetlands outright to add acreage to public lands systems.

Zuckerman proposes the creation of community land trusts in which a non-profit organization would own a large piece of land and private residents would have individual homes on it.

Seward Weber, then executive director of the Mohonk Preserve, offered to host a smaller regional workshop on land trusts, also sponsored by TPL.

The Council voted to require community land trusts to enter regulatory agreements with the city ensuring long - term affordability.

It will also help communities upstate increase affordable housing by providing funding for community land trusts and land banks to revitalize our communities.

Richards has proposed a bill to encourage the creation of similar but distinct entities called land trusts, which would cover individual communities rather than the entire city.

So there was a bittersweet feeling in the air at Mohonk Mountain House as the Gardiner Democratic Committee gathered community activists, current and former public officials, staff from various land trusts and environmental organizations and other local luminaries to review some highlights of Hinchey's career and give him a sentimental sendoff.

Seventeen community land trusts were visited in May 2011 to gather their responses to six key questions.

The plan calls for the creation of low - equity housing cooperatives, reinvesting in NYCHA housing, developing community land trusts, creating tax abatements for developers and entrepreneurs who bring business into Central Brooklyn and hire local residents must be encouraged to hire locally, offering quality careers to residents and a moratorium on wealthy developers being allowed to buy up apartment buildings and leave the units vacant.

Grant Shapps (Con housing minister) showed a lot of interest in community land trusts etc whilst in opposition.

I studied employee ownership, tribal ownership, municipal ownership, commons ownership, social enterprise, community land trusts, and other models.

Mass Audubon's Bird Conservation team has developed an informative document that outlines best management practices for nesting grassland birds for fields owned by municipalities, land trusts, private landowners, and conservation groups.

«This action provides Mass Audubon and other regional and local land trusts in Massachusetts a critical tool to preserve important land that fulfills an array of public purposes, including watershed protection, wildlife diversity, and family farms.»

Representatives of community land trusts, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies participated in 35 workshops at the all - day gathering, which in past years had been edging toward the 500 - attendee mark.

Land trusts are typically community - based nonprofit groups that protect land by acquiring the land outright, or by entering into legal agreements called conservation restrictions, where landowners do not give up ownership, but instead agree to reduce the development potential of their land, generally in return for cash payment, tax advantages, or both.

Farmers and forestland owners, community - based and statewide land trusts, and most importantly, Massachusetts residents, will directly benefit from the incentive that encourages landowners to place conservation restrictions on their land to protect important natural, scenic, and historic resources.

Today the MLTC represents more than 130 community - based, regional, and statewide land trusts.

«Partnering with local, multi-community, and statewide land trusts is one of our primary strategies for expanding our conservation impact.»

Mass Audubon's Ecological Extension Service works with land trusts, cities and towns, and state and federal agencies to develop land management and habitat restoration plans, natural resource inventories, and conservation restriction baseline reports.

By conserving land, protecting forests for carbon storage and absorption of green house gas emissions, and actively managing our lands for climate resiliency we can act as a model for statewide organizations and land trusts.

As a respected leader in what is arguably the most vibrant land conservation community in this country, Mass Audubon stands well positioned to shape climate change response strategies by land trusts and our government partners.

As a respected leader in what is arguably the most vibrant land conservation community in this country, Mass Audubon is well - positioned to shape climate change response strategies by land trusts and our government partners.

Those who'll find MAPPR most useful include conservation nonprofits, community - based land trusts, municipal planning departments and conservation commissions, Massachusetts and federal environmental agencies, and educational institutions.

Mass Audubon's Ecological Extension Service (EES) is a program through which Mass Audubon shares with conservation partners (land trusts, cities and towns, state and federal agencies) the considerable expertise we've developed in managing 35,000 acres.

We partner with land trusts, watershed associations, municipalities, regional planning and state agencies, and others.

The board's first option was to drop the condemnation suit, which under state law would require the district to repay the legal expenses — estimated at $ 1 million — of the land trusts.

Afognak is part of a growing movement of land trusts, nonprofit conservation groups and foundations that use carbon verification to support the protection of high - value ecosystems.

Just as important, CBDOs can ensure permanent affordability of units by using such innovative devices as land trusts and limited equity cooperatives.

This is work that congregations — and land trusts and environmental groups — could do cooperatively, raising the capital to spread such experiments far and wide.

In the world of land trusts, no one embraces and enables syndicated deals quite like he does.

For starters, in a world of nonprofit land trusts, Keller is a proud capitalist.

It accepted the industry's promises to reform, which included a voluntary accreditation program that would set best practices for land trusts.

A splinter group of land trusts has sided with the syndicators, providing a home for their deals.

The Alliance's position forced land trusts to choose sides.