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Rockland P.L.U.S. engages students in planning in their immediate community. Our County is composed of 5 towns and 19 villages, each with a unique identity and set of factors to consider for future development projects. In these communities there are pockets of commercial and residential development that are thriving, and others that are hoping for new energy and revitalization. In Rockland P.L.U.S. 2023 the students will work with a location in their own community to revitalize it. Students will consider how creative planning can make the community more sustainable and climate smart through mitigations like increased efficiency in transportation, water and energy, and adaptations like raising buidings along areas prone to flooding. Students will then use an online Google Earth platform to build their projects and tours. Click on the images below to explore samples of the previous student final products.

Schimpfone Schimpftwo

Schimpf Farm Project 1 from Albertus Magnus High School. Click on the project image for a tour of the site and the project ideas, and here for the school write up.

Schimpf Farm Project 2 from Albertus Magnus High School. Click on the project image for a tour of the site and the project ideas, and here for the school write up.

 

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Class projects: really S.E.E.E. your community. Students consider four complementary processes that make a community successful and sustainable: a balance of social, economic, equitable and environmental factors or what we refer to as S.E.E.E.ing their community. ~300 students from ten community high schools (Albertus Magnus, Clarkstown North, North Rockland, Nyack, Pearl River, P-Tech, Ramapo, Suffern and Spring Valley, Tappan Zee) participate in a series of 3 classroom visits in their schools as they develop projects focused on their local Rockland community. Next the program concludes with a student Symposium with local professional mentors

Symposium Event. The highlight of the program is a Symposium Event where students present their own project plans to mentors from the community. They then focus on transferring their sustainable planning skills to a different site in Rockland County, Haverstraw's 10 acre waterfront Chair Factory site.

Students work with planning cards to complete cost/benefit analysis.

The following pages of the website relate to the different school visits we will make. Please consider the questions before our visits:

Visit #1 - Home, Sustainable Planning, Background, Current Community

Visit #2 - Planning Tools, Affordable Housing, Water Quality, Brownfields

Visit #3 - Public Participation & SEQRA, Thinking Green

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2021 STUDENT PLANNING MATERIALS
Link to PHOTOS from the 2019 event - password is green (case sensitive). Any reuse of these images should cite George Pejoves our event photographer.
 
Visit 3: 3 guides for creating a Google Earth Project: short tutorial / longer tutorial/ Nanuet sample
Visit 1: Community Enhancing Features Resource Image Bank
Visit 1: Key Words Green Features examples
Visit 2: Planning Considerations Presentation

Link to Rockland County Planning GIS Mapping(does not work if pop ups are blocked)

Visit 2: Community Assessment Form

2022 Chair Factory Shared Case Study
Guidelines for planning Chair Factory
Visit 3: Cost Benefit Analysis Map Outline for the Chair Factory Site

2023 Local Case Study Files

Abertus Magnus School Site

Nyack Tidewater Project
Pearl River Verizon Site
Pearl River Central Ave. Fields
 

Symposium Links for the 2023 Event

Event Agenda Mentor & Facilitator List (Coming soon) Mentor Orientation Facilitator Orientation
Facilitator Guide Local Site Presentation Feedback Form Chair Factory Shared Case Study

 

The Rockland P.L.U.S. event is a collaborative project of the following groups:
LDEO KRB

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS WHO HAVE HELPED MAKE THIS EVENT POSSIBLE OVER THE YEARS!

Veolia

NYSDEC

Rockland Logo
M & T Charitable Foundation
O&R

 

 

 

 

 
       
 
   
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