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Rockland P.L.U.S. Program
Rockland Program
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
PLEASE USE THIS LINK FOR THE NEW RPLUS WEBSITE FOR 2024
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.
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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. |
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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
 Link to PHOTOS from the 2019 event - password is green (case sensitive). Any reuse of these images should cite George Pejoves our event photographer.
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Visit 3: 3 guides for creating a Google Earth Project: short tutorial / longer tutorial/ Nanuet sample |
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| 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) |
| 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
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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 |
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| 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: |
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THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS WHO HAVE HELPED MAKE THIS EVENT POSSIBLE OVER THE YEARS!
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M & T Charitable Foundation |
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