Cities and towns--Growth

This collection consists of the records of the Citizen's City Planning and Housing Council, an organization founded in 1940 to advocate for the development of new and affordable housing in the city of Rochester. The materials date between 1938 and 1945. They consist of administrative documents, bylaws, publications minutes of the Board of Directors and a scrapbook that predates the organization's formal creation.

This collection consists of records on the City Manager's Committee on Housing, a city government sponsored group dedicated to determining whether or not Rochester needed a civic housing authority. The materials are dated between the years of 1938 through 1939. The materials included are meeting minutes and reports.

This collection consists of the papers of Rochester, New York based environmental activist, Hugh Mitchell. The materials date between 1926 and 2016, with a bulk of the materials dated between 1970 and 2014. The materials consist of newspaper articles, handwritten notes, correspondence, maps, flyers, meeting minutes, slides, a film reel, reports, and proposals.