SmartGrowthForVernon.org
Title
Smart Growth for Vernon, CT
Description
Smart Growth for Vernon is a citizens group dedicated to promoting responsible growth and development in Vernon/Rockville, Connecticut. It works together with other local groups to promote public awareness of planning and development issues and to encourage public participation in preserving the town's heritage and environment.
Smart Growth for Vernon, a new grassroots organization in town, works with other local groups committed to promoting public awareness of planning and development issues, encouraging public participation in these areas, and presenting quality community outreach programs on smart growth issues. Recently SGV members joined Working Families Party interns canvassing homes in the Exit 67 area, off I-84, in Vernon. The canvassers surveyed residents on issues of open space, jobs, preservation of open land, and big box development. The responses, opinions, and suggestions collected will help the group plan future events.
SGV group members attend workshops on land use and conservation, attend Inland Wetland and Planning and Zoning Commission meetings in town, and, whenever possible, film these meetings for the community cable access channel. Other activities include writing articles for their website, canvassing, and helping maintain a green space in downtown Rockville as part of the Green Space committee of the Rockville Downtown Association. Last fall (2004) they sponsored a public screening of the film, "Talking to the Wall," which focuses on the struggle of a small town, Greenfield, Mass., against a corporate giant trying to expand its company into their town. Members visited the filmmaker, Steve Alves, in Greenfield, interviewed him, and asked him to lead a question and answer session after the film. SGV was also a co-sponsor for the Center Edge Forum held in Vernon, by the Center Edge Coalition, a group that focuses on community issues such as equality in housing and job opportunities. Future activities include publishing a newsletter, a summer community outreach program, and a fall community outreach program. Other groups that the organization has worked with are the Greater Tolland Green Party, Rockville Concerned Citizens for Responsible Development, the Rockville Downtown Association, and Stafford First, Stafford Springs, CT.
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