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A healthy community strives to improve the well-being of people and the vitality of place.

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Regional Matters

 

"Anything given can be reimagined."
 

-- Seamus Heaney

 

Roaring Fork Leadership Content Days

a joint project between
RFL & HMC to build local leadership for community and regional solution building
 

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RFTA BRT

The Future of Transit in the Roaring Fork &
Colorado River Valleys
 

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Growth Projections

Garfield County
Socio-Economic
Impact Study
 

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Affordable
Housing

-Workshop
Proceedings

October 6, 2006 -
Glenwood Springs

 

ROARING FORK
COMMUNITY
Housing Fund


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The Watershed Collaborative

Water Committee Website
Watershed Plan

 

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What we are Reading
 

 

 


The High Cost of Free Parking

 

Donald Shoup

Capitalism 3.0
A guide to reclaiming the commons

Peter Barnes

 

 

Zoned Out
Regulation, Markets, and Choices in Transportation and Metropolitan Land Use


Jonathan Levine

University of Michigan

 

Solving Tough Problems
 
An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities

Adam Kahane

Recommended Reading >

 

 State of the Valley News


State of the Valley Symposium
Tools & Strategies for State
& Regional Prosperity

 

2007 Proceedings
 

Video: Andrew Romanoff -
Avoiding
a Constitutional
Train Wreck

 

"Highly complex problems can only be solved by processes that are systemic, emergent, and participatory."
 

-- Adam Kahane


 

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"This is a heck of a good example of getting it [collaborative work] done right," Daniel Kemmis, SOV 2004

 


Regional Resources


Demographics

SIRFI
Supporting Immigrant and Refugee Families Community Integration Initiative

Planning Documents

Pitkin County Child Care Needs Assessment, 2006

Economics

Self Sufficiency Standard for Colorado: a Family Needs Budget (Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, 2004)

Energy

Carbondale Energy & Climate Protection Plan, 2007

Grand Valley Citizen's Alliance
The Rifle, Silt, New Castle Community Development Plan  [Jan. 2006]

The Canary Initiative
Aspen Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory 2004

Gravel

Routt County Gravel Pit Matrix, 2003

Housing

Garfield County
Housing Assessment, 2006 (PDF)

Pitkin County Affordable Housing Regulation Support Study (2004)

Water

Roaring Fork Conservancy
Roaring Fork Stream Flow Survey Report

More info >

 

Indicators

 

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”

 

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

 

Healthy Community Reader

News from the web . . .

 

 

EPA Smart Growth Overview of Scorecord Tools
(incl. CO Scorecard)

 

Growth scenarios Project


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Community Economics
Economic Profile System

 

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Calculating the Costs of Growth 2002 Proceedings


 

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"Organizations often seem immovable. They are not. With the right kind of story at the right time, they are stunningly vulnerable to a new idea."
 

-- Stephen Denning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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