Smart Growth

Consciously-planned community growth that creates a higher quality of life for all stakeholders. Smart growth requires a collaboration of perspectives, disciplines, and stakeholders. These principles can also be applied to organizations in the pursuit of growth that creates a better organization for all involved. Smart growth principles include:

• Directing development toward existing communities (vs. new developments)
• Preserving open space, farmland, natural beauty, critical environmental areas and historic and pre-historic resources
• Mixing uses for land and buildings
• Pursuing compact building design
• Offering a range of housing opportunities
• Creating walkable neighborhoods
• Creating a diversity of appealing neighborhoods with a strong sense of place
• Providing for a variety of transportation choices
• Considering short-term and long-term public health concerns
• Encouraging community and stakeholder collaboration

http://www.smartgrowth.org

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