Volume 2: A Design Guidebook for Towns and
Villages in Cattaraugus County (Smart Development for Quality Communities
Series, Cattaraugus County, New York, April 2001).
Randall Arendt and Cattaraugus County
collaborated in the production of this design guidebook, with assistance
from the Natural Lands Trust of Pennsylvania. It includes numerous design
concepts and techniques that, when used, allows growth and conserves open
space at the same time.
Randall Arendt is a nationally recognized consulting
expert in the field of rural design and planning. The ideas and techniques
that Randall Arendt presents can be applied to residential, commercial and
light industrial land uses for Cattaraugus County and its 47 municipalities.
This guidebook includes findings from a visual preference survey,
and presents demonstration
projects on specific sites for two rural villages (Franklinville and Little
Valley, New York). These demonstration projects are meant to serve as
local models, and to suggest creative, new ideas to community officials and
citizens. This guidebook, along with Volume 1, 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. This Design Guidebook won the “2002 Livable
Community Award” from a regional group of retired people called partners for
A Livable Western new York for urging better education and designs for the
county and its 47 municipalities.
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