Environmental Planning Workshop

Experiential Learning in the Community

Workshop
The Photech Mill

Environmental Planning students tackled five community planning projects this year in the experiential, hands-on class required for environmental studies majors and concentrators.   Students also designed a mixed-use affordable housing-commercial development for Williamstown’s vacant former industrial sites,

The team projects this year included:

  • Ephraim Williams Had a Farm: An Agricultural Plan for College Land, Lucy Bergwall ’15, Sara Clark ’15, Eirann Cohen ’15, David Kruger ’14. Client: Drew Jones, Hopkins Forest Manager.
  • Paved-In North Adams: Parking Utilization Study, Ben Corwin ’15, Paul de Konkoly Thege ’14, Jessica Luning ’14, Daniel Zilkha ’14. Client: Mackenzie Greer, Planner, City of North Adams
  • Spruces Land Re-Use Study, Paul Taylor ’14, Sarah Meyerhoff ’14, Katy Newcomer ’14, Bethany Dixon ’15. Client: Elizabeth Bartels, Spruces Reuse Committee
  • Williamstown Open Space and Recreation Plan, Molly Pickel ’15, Jackson Scher ’14, Kiah Walker ’15, Robert Yang ’15. Client: Hank Art, Williamstown Conservation Commission.
  • A Future for Farming: Farmland Leasing in Adams and  Williamstown, Nick Kraus ’14, Julieanne Fontana ’14, Jamie Dickhaus ’14, Isaac Maze-Rothstein ’14. Client: Cris Coffin, New England Director, American Farmland Trust.  Environmental Planning final reports can be found on the CES website at:http://ces.williams.edu/publications/student-papers/class-papers/

-Sarah Gardner, Lecturer in Environmental Studies

Workshop 2
A Future for Farming team with client Cris Coffin, presenting findings to the Williamstown Agricultural Commission.