Finding Common Ground: Integrating Conservation, Affordable Housing, and Community Access at the Bells Pond Site

  • Greenport and Livingston, NY
  • Client: Columbia Land Conservancy
  • Students: Za Drumm, Anna Goff
  • Term: Spring 2026

Three non-profit organizations are collaborating on a 143-acre parcel in New York State with the goals of land conservation, affordable housing, and community use of the space. This project includes the design of a landscape that will be managed for public access and education alongside two areas of land that will be developed to provide much-needed housing in the region.


Meet the Client Stakeholders:

Columbia Land Conservancy

Columbia-Greene Habitat for Humanity

Trillum Community Land Trust