The overall goal of CaRDI’s land use programming is to improve a) the understanding of, and b) decisions about, the issues that influence the current state and future of New York landscapes insofar as they involve New York residents, the communities they live in, and the land (physical and natural environments) that supports and connects them.
Among CaRDIs overarching land use programming objectives is one to:
Establish a strong training capacity and programming presence targeted at an audience of local officials and other land use leaders. Involve key collaborators within and outside of Cornell to enhance integration of research and training efforts.
A high priority that will shape this training objective will be a constant effort to integrate and cross-fertilize all classes of CaRDI activity, including research, outreach and training, facilitation, and policy analysis, in our land use programming.
In order to enhance land use training capacity in New York State, CaRDI has adopted the following strategies.
Offer specialized training
LULA – CaRDI has created an exciting new partnership with the Pace University Land Use Law Center to make the Center’s Land Use Leadership Alliance (LULA) training more widely available outside the Center’s “backyard” region of the Hudson River Valley.
This sophisticated, interactive training approach offers four full days of training to a carefully selected and balanced group of local and regional “land use leaders”.
Participants who complete this course: a) understand the legal foundations and structure of New York state’s land use system, b) appreciate the importance and role of collaborative community decision making and conflict management skills in attaining sustainable community development, c) are taught to integrate new legal knowledge with new leadership and process skills, and d) become part of an intermunicipal, regional, and statewide network of similarly trained land use leaders.
See http://appserv.pace.edu/execute/page.cfm?doc_id=23924 for a description of the original program as offered by Pace University)
Support Other Local Government Training Sessions
CaRDI offers land use content to a number of local government audiences on a regular and ad hoc basis, often in collaboration with other presenters.
CaRDI plays a leading role organizing the annual NYS Association of Counties’ Pelletier Institute and the annual NYS Clerk’s Institute, and contributes to overall governance issues regarding the New York Planning Federation’s annual conference.
Aside from its frequent participation in many other “on-demand” training events, CaRDI routinely offers workshops pertaining to land use at the following local government meetings.
- NYS Association of Counties: Workshop on Building Consensus in a Political Environment
- Annual NYS Clerk's Institute: Various topics, including Building Skills for Public Interaction
- New York Planning Federation Annual Conference: Various topics (see http://www.nypf.org/)
- Association of Towns of the State of New York: Various topics (see http://www.nytowns.org/)
Work With Other Training Providers to Better Coordinate Training Opportunities in New York State
As noted above, CaRDI collaborates with a broad range of training organizations in providing workshop content in topics in which CaRDI has expertise.
CaRDI is further involved with these organizations and others (for example, the Department of State, the NYS Comptrollers office, the Upstate Chapter of the American Planning Association, the Legislative Commission on Rural Resources, and several of the state’s Regional Planning Councils) in strategic efforts to rationalize and coordinate the delivery of training to New York State’s land use planning community.
CaRDI’s engagement involves serving on advisory committees, participating in strategic planning efforts, and implementing applied research efforts such as our current survey research to assess local government land use training needs and opportunities.