Heat and Cool Your Town More Efficiently with Clean Technologies
…on home heating – $2,400 if they live in an area without natural gas. Heating with oil, propane, and electricity can be significantly more expensive than heating with natural gas….
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New Year’s resolutions from MAPC
…Friends of MetroFuture and find out about upcoming MetroFuture Walks and Talks, year-round events that involve speakers and topics of relevance to the goals of MetroFuture; and hear about ways…
MetroFuture Walks & Talks: Tour of Drumlin Farm
…to Mass Audubon. How is farming related to MetroFuture? One of the strategies outlined in MAPC’s MetroFuture regional plan is to protect natural landscapes. Included in this strategy are recommendations…
The ripple effect: A regional approach to sustainable communities
…buildings, has yet to appear (and save energy) on many city streets, and Chelsea was planning a pilot project. “The difficulty for a small community like Chelsea is that our…
Finding the right words: Community engagement in Quincy
…for Wollaston Center. To engage participants, MAPC asked the question “In one word or short phrase, what do you like best about the Wollaston area?” We used sticky notes to…
Oversupply: Parking Taking up Valuable Space
…parking and transportation demand management). Use excess parking areas during non-peak demand times for activities that draw people to the downtown area – farmer’s markets and weekend festivals, for example….
Danvers Town Meeting Unanimously Passes Tapleyville Overlay District Article
…a small industrial area near the downtown and adjacent to the bike path. Congratulations to many at MAPC, which provided the town with the updated zoning text and also visualizations…
Winter Council Meeting: Sustainable Communities Accomplishments
…February 26, 2014. Courtesy Marilyn Humphries. MAPC Winter Council Meeting, Boston, Mass., February 26, 2014. Courtesy Marilyn Humphries. Shirronda Almeida Chandler, the Steering Committee Chair of MetroBoston Sustainable Communities,…
Eliminating Minimum Parking Requirements
…A 33 (1999): 549-574. Available as a free download from https://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/. Donald Shoup, The High Cost of Free Parking (2005), Planners Press, American Planning Association. Available for purchase from https://www.planning.org/APAStore/Search/Default.aspx?p=1814….