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Comprehensive Plan 91 Time frame Responsibility Funding Sources In-Kind Support Medium-Term • Lead: CSC Task Force • NYSERDA Clean • UBRI and local (3-5 years) for • Support: Energy Communities environmental major actions; Grants groups (Buffalo Ongoing for • Town Board • CSC implementation Niagara additional points • Building/Code grants Waterkeeper) to Enforcement • NYSDEC CSC Grants provide research/ • University at Buffalo (for advanced actions) data analysis Research Institute • Philanthropic climate- for climate (UBRI) related grants assessments. Short-Term • Lead: Building/Code • Town budget & In- • Erie County Soil & (1–2 years) Enforcement house resources Water Conservation • Support: • NYS Smart Growth staff to provide Program engineering • Planning Board • Erie County Municipal guidance. • Town Engineer Planning Grant • Local volunteers • Buffalo Niagara • NYS Environmental can assist with rain Waterkeeper Facilities Corporation garden plantings (EFC) Green or bioswale Innovation Grants maintenance. • CSC implementation grants • FEMA Hazard Mitigation grants Short-Term • Lead: Town Board • NYSDAM Farmland • Agricultural (1–2 years) for site • Support: Protection Planning Advisory identification Grants Committees and • Building/Code • Erie County Municipal local environmental Enforcement Planning Grant groups providing • Planning Board • NYS DOS Smart volunteer research • CSC Task Force Growth Program on best practices • WNY Land • Town budget & In- for renewable- Conservancy house resources energy siting. • Erie County DEP • NYSERDA Clean Energy Siting Program Short-Term • Lead: CSC Task Force • NYSERDA NY-Sun • Cornell (1–2 years) to • Support: Community Solar Cooperative incorporate Incentives; Clean Extension for zoning changes; • Town Board Energy Siting Program agrivoltaics best Medium-Term • Planning Board ; CEC grants practices. (3–5 years) to see • Building/Code • CSC implementation • Local farmers and projects built Enforcement grants solar developers • USDA REAP (Rural for pilot projects. Energy for America Program) • Erie County Municipal Planning Grant • NYS DOS Smart Growth Program