Bylaw Review Training

Is Your Community Climate Resilient? – Bylaws and Best Practices – How-to Training

Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022 from 9:30am-1:30pm
Middleborough, Massachusetts (In-Person Workshop) 

Workshop Description: 

Local land use rules that support nature-based solutions to climate change have many benefits, including reduced flood risks, protection of water quality and supplies, reduced costs of road and stormwater maintenance, open space protection, and preserving community character. Outdated bylaws and regulations can prevent communities from implementing these win-win solutions. Learn how to use a Bylaw Review Tool that can help you give your community’s land use regulations a tune-up to ensure they support cost-effective best practices.  This in-depth training will prepare you to undertake a bylaw/ordinance review process with municipal officials.  We’ll provide resources to support implementation.

For an introduction to why bylaw review is an important first step to ensuring local climate resilience, the 90-minute preliminary training webinar recording can be accessed through the SNEP Network here. This how-to training builds off of the previous training by providing a deeper dive into using the bylaw review tool. Bring your own bylaw or ordinance for an interactive working session to test out the tool.

This training will be delivered by: Mass Audubon, Blackstone Watershed Collaborative, Cape Cod Commission, Southeastern Regional Planning
and Economic Development District (SRPEDD), Mass Rivers Alliance, Mass DEP, and EPA Region I. 

If you have any questions, please reach out to  Christina Wiseman (cwiseman@massaudubon.org), Mass Audubon and SNEP Network Partner.

Eligibility:

This training is open to municipal officials or staff, professional consultants, regional planning agency staff, state or federal agency staff, watershed organization staff, or others who are making a commitment to utilize this training to support the use of the bylaw review tool in at least one community within the next year.

Participants from Massachusetts and Rhode Island are eligible. There are reserved spaces available for SNEP communities. To determine whether your community is located in the SNEP Region, you can view this map.  Please note that capacity is set at 40 registrants. Participation is free to eligible participants.

This training was previously offered at Clark University on June 24th, 2022.

Registration

Registration for this event has now closed. Check back to snepnetwork.org for future training opportunities.