Links

Organizations/Companies

National

  • Alliance for Transportation Choice - advocates for livable Maine communities and local businesses  through walking, bicycling and public transportation, especially in the Greater Portland area. They have some wonderful ideas on how to promote transportation alternatives.
  • Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) - Their goal is to invent and implement new tools and methods that create livable urban communities for everyone. CNT is based in Chicago.
  • Citizens for a Better Environment - Protecting human health and the environment through research, advocacy, public education and citizen empowerment. They have an excellent article about urban sprawl in SE Wisconsin that has many parallels to the challenges we face in La Crosse.
  • Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) - based in New England CLF is the largest regional environmental advocacy organization in the United States. Books, articles and more on neighborhood issues.
  • Environmental Law & Policy Center (ELPC) - a Midwest public interest environmental advocacy organization working to achieve cleaner energy resources and implement sustainable energy strategies, promote innovative and efficient transportation and land use approaches that produce cleaner air and more jobs, and develop sound environmental management practices that conserve natural resources and improve the quality of life in our communities.
  • Traffic Calming website from Fehr and Peers Associates, Inc. Proven concepts that enhance neighborhoods and improve vehicular traffic, pedestrian and bicycle access and safety.
  • Global Action Plan - They have a Livable Neighborhood Program
  • Local Government Commission (LGC) - A nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization, the Local Government Commission (LGC) is composed of forward-thinking elected officials, city and county staff, and other interested individuals.
  • neighborhoods.com - a community development service whose focus is the real neighborhood that everyone lives in.
  • Neighborhoods Online - an online resource center for America's neighborhood builders--people who work through grassroots organizations, as volunteers,  and in government to build strong neighborhoods and  communities throughout the country.
  • Neighborhoods USA - a national non-profit organization committed to building and strengthening neighborhood organizations.
  • Planners Network - An association of professionals, activists, academics, and students involved in physical, social, economic, and environmental planning in urban and rural areas, who promote fundamental change in our political and economic systems.
  • Railvolution - Rail~Volution has grown into the definitive national conference on building livable communities with transit. It has evolved into the preeminent gathering place which brings together a unique cross-section of citizen activists, developers, financiers, transit operators, local elected and federal officials, planners, health advocates and nonprofit organizations. No other conference provides for such diverse collaborative exchange, problem solving, and discovery.
  • Sierra Club - The Sierra Club's members are 700,000 of your friends and neighbors. Inspired by nature, we work together to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization. They have very good information regarding urban sprawl.
  • Transportation Alternatives - is a 5000-member New York City non-profit citizens group working for better bicycling, walking and public transit, and fewer cars. We work for safer, calmer neighborhood streets and car-free parks.
  • Walkable Communities - is a non-profit corporation, established in the state of Florida in 1996. It was organized for the express purposes of helping whole communities, whether they are large cities or small towns, or parts of communities, i.e. neighborhoods, business districts, parks, school districts, subdivisions, specific roadway corridors, etc., become more walkable and pedestrian friendly.

State & Local

  • Historic Downtown La Crosse - Downtown Mainstreet, Inc. (DMI) is the only private non-profit business organization with the sole responsibility to "shepherd" the public/private partnership and manage the continued implementation of the Downtown Master Plan to insure the long-term success of downtown's economic revival.
  • La Crosse County Historical Society - As keeper of the history of greater La Crosse, the La Crosse County Historical Society is dedicated to the collection, preservation, display and publication of Coulee Region heritage, a mission it has proudly carried out since 1898.

Pedestrian & Bicycling

Smart Growth & Planning

Professional Organizations

Events

 

Government

City of La Crosse

City of Onalaska

  • Comprehensive Plan – The result of Wisconsin’s new Comprehensive Planning and Smart Growth Legislation that requires every city, village, county and town in the state that wishes to engage in any program or action that affects land use to establish a comprehensive plan as defined by state statute by 2010.

Village of Holmen

Village of West Salem

Town of Campbell

Town of Hamilton

Town of Holland

Town of Onalaska

Town of Shelby

Town of Washington

La Crosse County

State of Wisconsin

Federal Government

US Department of Transportation

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

FHWA Bicycle and Pedestrian Program

FHWA Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Research

FHWA’s Design Guidance for Accommodating Bicycle & Pedestrian Travel

FHWA’s Traffic Calming Page

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

NHTSA Pedestrian Safety Programs

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