Training & Assistance
MAS offers training workshops and technical consulting services to community groups and community boards to assist them in improving their neighborhoods.
Livable Neighborhoods Toolkit
As part of the Livable Neighborhoods Training, MAS has produced the Livable Neighborhoods Training Toolkit. The toolkit is a comprehensive guide to all the facets of neighborhood-based planning in New York City. It is intended to serve as both a supplement to the semi-annual Livable Neighborhoods Training sessions, as well as a standalone resource for community planners, activists and civically engaged New Yorkers. The Livable Neighborhoods Training Toolkit includes chapters on the basics of community planning, such as public involvement, land use surveying, the public review process, zoning, EIS analysis and using census data. It also has chapters on specific planning and policy issues that affect New York City’s neighborhoods, including affordable housing, economic development, planning for sustainability, brownfield redevelopment, historic and cultural preservation, 197-a planning and waterfront planning. The toolkit ends with a guide to advocacy and navigating New York City’s budget process, which are essential elements in making community’s visions, realities.
Click on the links below to download each chapter of the MAS Livable Neighborhoods Training Toolkit.
Training Toolkit
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Introduction and Overview
Phase I. Creating an Effective Community Voice
Chapter 1. Public Involvement in Planning and Visioning
Chapter 2. A Guide to Parliamentary Procedure
Phase II. Land Use Planning Basics
Chapter 1. Conducting a Land Use Survey
Chapter 2. New York City’s Development Review Process
Chapter 3. Atlantic Yards Environmental Impact Statement Handbook
Phase III. Using Data for Planning
Chapter 1. Electronic Mapping
Chapter 2. Census Data and Census Data Appendix
Phase IV. Strategizing for Community Planning Goals
Chapter 1. Affordable Housing
Chapter 2. Economic Development
Chapter 3. Planning for Sustainability
Chapter 4. Brownfield Redevelopment
Chapter 5. Waterfront Planning
Chapter 6. Historic Preservation
Chapter 7. Promote and Protect Cultural Assets
Phase V. Turning Community Goals into Community Plans
Chapter 1. 197-a Planning
Chapter 2. Options for Documenting Community Plans
Phase VI. Implementation
Chapter 1. Climbing the Advocacy Tree
Chapter 2. Understanding New York City’s Budget
