Local and State Resources

• Clinton Greenway Conservation Trust, organization dedicated to preserving open space, which also serves as the non-profit umbrella for funds raised and donated for the preservation of Rauscher Farm.
   
• Sudbury Valley Trustees, regional land trust founded in 1953 to protect wildlife habitat and the ecological integrity of the Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers Valley for the benefit of present and future generations.
   
• The Town of Clinton Massachusetts, news, community resources, chat room and more.
   
• At-a-Glance Reports, detailed up-to-date facts about population, density, taxes, schools, and more for each community in Massachusetts.
   
• MassStats, graphical Web site with statistical and demographic maps depicting population density, open space, tax revenue, and much more for each city and town in Massachusetts
   
• Richard Harding, photo Web site with pictures of the Moosical Extravanganza and other Clinton pictures.

Other Resources

• How Smart is Smart Growth? The Economic Costs of Rural Development, A key finding of this report: “Over 70 COCS [Costs of Community Services] studies have been completed by a variety of researchers around the country for cities and rural communities.... In not a single instance did residential development generate sufficient revenue to cover its associated expenditures, not in a single location.”
   
• Costs of Community Services, a fact sheet from the University of Illinois shows that many academic studies confirm that the cost of community services nearly always exceeds the added tax revenue from residential development.
   
• Does Open Space Pay, a study published by the University of New Hampshire shows added cost of communinity services exceed tax revenue from residential development.
   
• Population Growth, Density and the Costs of Providing Public Services, summarises a study originally published in Urban Studies that evaluates the relationship between population density and cost of public services in 59% of all counties in the United States.
   
• Costs of Community Services, a University of Ohio fact sheet shows every dollar collected in residential taxes adds between $1.15 and $1.50 in services by the local government and school district.”
   
• Cost of Community Services, a study in Calhoun County, Michigan, “demonstrate that while residential development contributes the largest amount of revenue, its net fiscal impact is actually negative.”
   
• Cost of Community Services Studies, a publication of the American Farmland Trust shows residential land use costs communities $1.16 for each $1.00 raised in taxes.
   
• Community Choices - Thinking Through Land Conservation, Development, and Property Taxes in Massachusetts, looks at the relationship between land conservation and property taxes both over the short-term and long-term.
   
• The Economic Benefits of Parks and Open Space, How Land Conservation Helps Communities Grow Smart and Protect the Bottom Line -- documents the economic benefits of land conservation.  Communities around the country have conserved open space and at the same time they have attracted new investment, boosted tourism, protected agricultural land, prevented flooding, and safeguarded the environment.
   
• Conventional Development vs. Managed Growth, A study published in the American Journal of Public Health evaluates conventional (unplanned) development, managed growth, and the cost of public services in the United States.

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