“Smart Growth favors mixed-use, mixed-income development that is attractive and strategically designed to enhance the greater area. Smart Growth reduces traffic by making transit, walking, and biking realistic and pleasant options, thereby contributing to community health, safety, and vitality. It embraces clean energy and sustainability by design. It focuses on infill, redevelopment, and open space preservation in order to create more livable places conducive to a variety of transit options.”

Vision Long Island
2012 Smart Growth Awards Presentation
http://goo.gl/fDVuG

“For every dollar that Vermont invests in bicycling and walking, the return is $2.87, and that’s a conservative estimate.”

Nancy Shulz
Vermont Bicycle and Pedestrian Coalition

http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/95581/vt-towns-plan-for-more-bicycle-walking-paths/

“Capital and jobs follow people, and talent is mobile. And what that talent is looking for is quality of place – dynamic, diverse neighborhoods, whether in cities or suburbs.”
Shaun Donovan
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
http://tinyurl.com/DonovanSpeechAIA