The latest update to the 2015 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) Plan, the 2018 CEDS Annual Report, has been approved and is available to view or download here. Please contact Jessica Atwood, FRCOG Economic Development Program Manager at jatwood@frcog.org with any questions, comments, or a request for a hardcopy of the report.
Archive | June, 2018
Buckland and Whately Complete Streets Prioritization Plans
Buckland and Whately Complete Streets (CS) Prioritization Plans are nearing completion. By completing a CS Prioritization Plan, Towns become eligible to apply for up to $400,000 per year to construct the improvements that are identified in the Plan.
See the projects that are included in the plans in the Story Maps below.
Buckland Story Map
Whately Story Map
For further information, please contact Senior Transportation Planner II, Elizabeth Giannini at Giannini@frcog.org.
Read the Ecological Resilience in Deerfield Report
In conjunction with the Deerfield Tree Inventory project, students from the Conway School of Landscape Design conducted a town-wide ecological assessment, assessing the role of trees in climate change resilience. Read Ecological Resilience in Deerfield: Trees As Living Infrastructure.
The Deerfield Tree Inventory project was funded by a MA Department of Conservation and Recreation Urban and Community Forestry Challenge Grant. As part of this project, FRCOG planning staff inventoried public trees, analyzed findings and prepared a tree planting and maintenance plan. This project builds upon the 2016 Tree Inventory conducted by the FRCOG and includes data gathered in 2016. The Deerfield Tree Inventory report will be released in June 2018.
View the Buckland Rail Yard Plan
The Conway School of Landscape Design partnered with the FRCOG to re-imagine the parking lot and rail yard behind the Salmon Falls Gallery in Buckland in fall of 2017. David Grist, Conway School student, conducted extensive analysis and design. View his findings and recommendations in this plan set: Rail yard-plan set-FRCOG-final comp.
A page from David Grist’s final plan set:
Charlemont MVP Plan Available for Review and Comment
The Town of Charlemont’s draft Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Resiliency Plan is available for public review and comment. Click on this link to read the MVP Plan and/or attend the Charlemont MVP public meeting on June 25, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., located at the Charlemont Town Hall at 157 Main Street. Public comments will be accepted during the meeting as well as during a public comment period from June 13 to June 27. You may hand in your comments at the public meeting or email comments to psmith@frcog.org. You may also mail comments to:
Franklin Regional Council of Governments
12 Olive Street, Suite 2
Greenfield, MA 01301
Attention: Pat Smith
Meeting of the Western MA Historical Commission Coalition
The Western MA Historical Commission Coalition will meet on Wednesday, June 20th from 10-noon at the Lenox Town Hall, 6 Walker St, Lenox, MA.
For more information, please contact Elizabeth Giannini at giannini@frcog.org.
Draft Montague MVP Resiliency Plan Available for Public Comment
Montague MVP Plan Available for Review and Comment
The Town of Montague’s draft Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Resiliency Plan is available for public review and comment. Click on the link below to read the MVP Plan and/or attend the Montague MVP public meeting, held in conjunction with the Montague Select Board meeting on Monday, June 18 at 7:15 p.m., located at the Montague Town Hall, Second Floor. Public comments will be accepted during the meeting as well as during a public comment period from May 24 to June 18. You may hand in your comments at the public meeting or email comments to Walter Ramsey, Montague Town Planner, at planner@montague-ma.gov. You may also mail comments to:
Town of Montague
One Avenue A
Turners Falls, MA 01376
Attention: Walter Ramsey
https://www.montague-ma.gov/news/newsfile_64_Montague_MVP_Plan_PublicCommentDRAFT.pdf
Ashfield and Conway MVP Plan Available for Review and Comment
The draft Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Resiliency Plan for the Towns of Ashfield and Conway and the South River Watershed is available for public review and comment. Click on this link to read the MVP Plan and/or attend the MVP public meeting Wednesday, June 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the Conway Town Hall. Public comments will be accepted during the meeting as well as during a public comment period from June 13th to June 27th. You may hand in your comments at the public meeting or email comments to kmacphee@frcog.org. You may also mail comments to:
Franklin Regional Council of Governments
12 Olive Street, Suite 2
Greenfield, MA 01301
Attention: Kimberly MacPhee
FRCOG signs the Stigma Pledge
Massachusetts is in the midst of a heartbreaking crisis of addiction and overdose, and one of the most important things we can all do to prevent further deaths is reduce the stigma experienced by people with substance use disorder. Only 1 in 12 people people with this disorder seek treatment — can you imagine if numbers were similarly low for diabetes?
FRCOG’s staff have signed the Boston Medical Center Stigma Pledge and will work to make sure we use non-stigmatizing language. Join us!
To learn more about the Pledge, click here.
To review an “Addictionary” of stigmatizing and non-stigmatizing language, click here.
Cannabis Control Commission presentation slides
We were pleased to host Commissioner Kay Doyle and Director of Government Affairs David Lakeman at the FRCOG on 6/7 for a review of the final Massachusetts Adult Use Marijuana regulations.
Click here for the slides.
Other handouts at the 6/7 meeting:
- Marijuana and youth health handout — Apr 2018
- Mass Assn of Health Boards Template BOH Marijuana Regs 5 23 18
- Fire Engineering article on home growing brought by Bob Root of Hawley FD/BOS
