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Baldwin, Fred D. – Appalachia, 1996
A public water line built in 1992 in rural Casey County, Kentucky, has spawned economic growth and allowed children at 2 elementary schools and a foster home, and residents of 110 private homes to have clean, drinkable water. The Appalachian Regional Commission has assisted hundreds of counties in improving their water or sewage treatment…
Descriptors: Children, Drinking Water, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support
Gibson, Duane, Ed. – 1980
The systematic, practical ideas presented for improving the quality of life in a community are based on the belief that people, working together, sometimes with and through local government and sometimes through the vigorous efforts of voluntary organizations and associations, can help their communities increasingly become the kinds of places that…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Change
Booz Allen and Hamilton, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1974
To assure that development of coal utilization facilities in the sparsely populated Old West Region of Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming will proceed in an orderly manner with a minimum of socioeconomic disruption or fiscal inequality, impact studies must be prepared for each of the 100 potential sites to be affected.…
Descriptors: Community Development, Costs, Economic Development, Employment
Elmendorf, Richard G.; Isley, Phillis W. – Small Town, 1996
Impact fees significantly reduce the burden on small town governments to pay for capital facilities necessitated by new development. Describes how an impact fee program in St. Albans, Vermont, helped offset costs in providing additional facilities and services related to parks and recreation, law enforcement, the library, fire protection, road…
Descriptors: Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Case Studies, Community Development, Community Planning
Szymanski, Ray – 1981
The Western Wisconsin Communications Cooperative (WWCC) was established in 1973 to develop and implement a county-wide, multi-service, broadband, interactive, telecommunications system to enhance the quality of rural life. Eight school districts adopted the system's concept and signed a 15 year lease agreement with WWCC. Funds were procured from…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Communications Satellites, Community Services, Cooperatives
New York State Legislative Commission on Rural Resources, Albany. – 1985
Participants in a symposium on economic development in rural New York State analyzed existing strengths and weaknesses of the state's rural areas and made policy suggestions relating to three broad goals: (1) ease government constraints on rural businesses in order to encourage growth and development; (2) build on and strengthen the positive…
Descriptors: Business, Community Characteristics, Economic Development, Economic Factors
Carter, Keith A.; And Others – 1977
Project 2142 was a multi-phase effort to discover and mobilize for dissemination to rural decision-makers various information and findings pertaining to the quality of life experienced by rural people. The initial research phases involved design of a conceptual framework that placed some parameters on the variety of social phenomena studied.…
Descriptors: County Programs, Decision Making, Delivery Systems, Education
Preston, James C.; Halton, Katherine B. – 1981
The report presents case studies of 7 community action projects which were undertaken by New York communities with populations under 10,000 and which show how local leaders can improve the quality of life in their communities. The report describes the background, initiation, expansion, implementation, consequences, and highlights of the projects,…
Descriptors: Arts Centers, Case Studies, Child Development Centers, Community Action