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Windham County Extension Center
The Green Valley Institute planned a spring series of land use seminars. GVI partnered
with the Eastern CT Resource Conservation and Development Area to bring these seminars
to The Last Green Valley and beyond. The series began on February 28 th with Protecting
Dark Skies in The Last Green Valley at the Chaplin Fire Station. Two more programs were
scheduled for May. On May18 th , Aga Pinette spoke about Maine‘s Moosehead Lake
Regional Plan, which is an experiment with landscape scale zoning. Carol Gould from
Fitzgerald and Halliday shared a hybrid approach to form-based zoning that communities in
Massachusetts are using. On May 23 rd , Susan Westa shared innovative regulatory tools
being implemented throughout New England – that she researched as part of the
Borderlands Village Innovation Pilot Project. Finally, Hiram Peck the Town of Simsbury
Planner, spoke about an extensive consensus building process they undertook, involving a
community design charrette and adoption of a Form-Based Code for Simsbury.
If you are interested in learning more about the Borderlands Project, which the Green
Valley Institute participated in for two and a half years, please see
www.borderlandsproject.org. A session about this project was also presented at the
National Conference of the American Planning Association in Boston in April. A case
study of the project was published in the March issue of Practicing Planning, the Journal of
the American Institute of Certified Planners.