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What is Smart Growth?

• Characterized by development patterns that
  create attractive, distinctive, walkable
  communities that give people of varying age,
  wealth, and physical ability a range of safe,
  affordable, convenient choices in where they live
  and how they get around.

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Smart Growth Principles

• Mix land uses
• Take advantage of compact building design
• Create a range of housing opportunities and
  choices
• Create walkable neighborhoods
• Foster distinctive, attractive communities with a
  strong sense of place
• Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty,
  and critical environmental areas
• Strengthen and direct development towards
  existing communities
• Provide a variety of transportation choices
• Make development decisions predictable, fair, and
  cost effective
• Encourage community and stakeholder collaboration
  in development decisions

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Impacts of Growth Patterns

• 40 of worst emissions in urban areas are from
  mobile sources.
• Transportation sector is the fastest growing
  contributor of CO2.
• Over past 20 years, vehicular miles traveled
  (VMT) has doubled.

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Costs of Missed Opportunities

• Abandoning infrastructure in the city and
  rebuilding it further out.
• Increasing commute times and longer distances to
  grocery stores, pharmacies and other daily needs.
  
• Abandon older communities while developing open
  space and prime agricultural lands at the
  suburban fringe.