Volume 1: A Planning Guidebook for Cattaraugus
County – Elements of A Countywide Vision (Smart Development for Quality
Communities Series, Cattaraugus County, New York, June 2001).
The Saratoga Associates and Cattaraugus
County collaborated in the preparation of this comprehensive planning
guidebook, which presents a new vision for Cattaraugus County in the 21st
Century, as a new foundation for comprehensive planning. It includes topics
from traditional planning methodologies, and new topics (e.g., cumulative
effects). Six focus groups were held across the county to develop a
consensus on community values and priorities, based on participant’s comments, and based on previous
work that produced a countywide vision framework, findings from in-depth
studies on special topics, and visual preferences among a cross-section of
community leaders.
This guidebook is the cornerstone of any future
Comprehensive Planning for Cattaraugus County. This guidebook, along with
Volume 2, was adopted (as a set) by the Cattaraugus County Legislature on
May 26, 2004 as the initial components of a new Comprehensive Plan for the
21st Century. These two guidebooks (as a set) received the New York State
Governor’s Quality Communities Award For Excellence in October 2002.
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