Institutions

The Land Use Education Partnership

The Land Use Education Partnership is a group of volunteers representing several areas of land use expertise. Our goal is to offer regularly scheduled workshop sessions for local land use board members with up-to-date information on the regulations, processes and technical issues that face them as decision makers.

What is offered:
Three (or more) sessions free of charge, or at nominal cost, at a convenient location in your area, presented by land use attorneys, professional planners and landscape architects. Topics include roles and responsibilities of board members, legal procedures, and understanding and working with site plans.

Who should attend:
Town planning, zoning, and zoning board of appeals members are especially encouraged to attend. Also welcome: town staff, including zoning enforcement officials, planners, building officials, conservation and inland wetlands commissioners, elected officials, and other town board members.

When and Where:
Sessions are being offered throughout the state. You can attend when and where it is most convenient for you. The dates and location for the series are listed below. Bookmark this page for subsequent listing of sessions as they become scheduled.

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Land Use Education Partnership

List of Regional Hosts
To check with host agencies for potential dates in their regions, please call:

1. Capitol Region Council of Governments
   Contact: Mary Ellen Kowalewski 860.522.2217, ext.22
2. Central Connecticut Regional Planning Agency
   Contact Carl Stephani 860.589.7820
3. CT River Estuary Regional Planning Agency
   Contact: Linda Krause 860.388.3497
4. Council of Governments of Central Naugatuck Valley
   Contact: Virginia Mason 203.757.0535
5. Greater Bridgeport Regional Planning Agency
   Contact: James Wang 203.366.5405
6. Housatonic Valley Economic Development Partnership, Housatonic Valley
   Council of Elected Officials, Western CT State University
   Contact: Jim Bellano, 203.775.6256
7. Litchfield Hills Council of Elected Officials
   Contact Rick Lynn, 860.491.9884
8. Midstate Regional Planning Agency
   Contact: Geoffrey Colegrove 860.347.7214
9. Northeastern CT Council of Governments
   Contact: John Filchak 860.774.1253
10. Northwestern CT Council of Governments
    Contact: Dan McGuinness 860.868.7341
11. South Central Regional Council of Governments
    Contact: Dan Goodman 203.234.7555
12. Southeastern CT Council of Governments
    Contact: Tom Seidel 860.889.2324
13. South Western Regional Planning Agency
    Contact: Rich Stoecker 203.866.6502
14. Valley Regional Planning Agency
    Contact: Richard Eigen 203.735.8688
15. Windham Region Council of Governments
    Contact: Barbara Buddington 860.456.2221

The Land Use Education Partnership moved its administrative operations to the UConn Cooperative Extension System offices in Haddam. For information on scheduling sessions please call Jim Gibbons at 860.345.4511.

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Connecticut Planners Discussion List

A Discussion List allows planners to communicate with every other member of the list by sending just one e-mail message to the host server. Each member of the list then receives the message through their e-mail program.

This list is being hosted at UConn thanks to John Rozum of the CT Cooperative Extension Service.

Some folks have been having trouble signing on or off the list using the old list-serve instructions. Since the upgrade to the new server, all you have to do is go to the following URL using your favorite web browser:

http://listserv.uconn.edu/ct_planning_professionals-l.html

Click on the "Join or leave the list" link.

Enter in your email address and name in the space provided.

And click the "Join CT_PLANNING_PROFESSIONALS-L" button.

For those who like to reminisce, the link above is also where you will find the list archives.

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