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
