Smart Growth Quotes

Smart growth supports the integration of mixed land uses into communities as a critical component of achieving better places to live. This selection of quotations is drawn from the Smart Growth weekly e-news summaries.

Smart Growth Quotations, Principle #02:
Take Advantage Of Compact Building Design

Smart growth provides a means for communities to incorporate more compact building design as an alternative to conventional, land consumptive development. This selection of quotations is drawn from the Smart Growth weekly e-news summaries.

Smart Growth Quotations, Principle #03:
Create a Range of Housing Opportunities and Choices

Providing quality housing for people of all income levels is an integral component in any smart growth strategy. This selection of quotations is drawn from the Smart Growth weekly e-news summaries.

Smart Growth Quotations, Principle #04:
Create Walkable Neighborhoods

Walkable communities are desirable places to live, work, learn, worship and play, and therefore a key component of smart growth. This selection of quotations is drawn from the Smart Growth weekly e-news summaries.

Smart Growth Quotations, Principle #05:
Foster Distinctive, Attractive Communities With A Strong Sense Of Place

Smart growth encourages communities to craft a vision and set standards for development and construction which respond to community values of architectural beauty and distinctiveness, as well as expanded choices in housing and transportation. This selection of quotations is drawn from the Smart Growth weekly e-news summaries.

Smart Growth Quotations, Principle #06:
Preserve Open Space, Farmland, Natural Beauty And Critical Environmental Areas

Open space preservation supports smart growth goals by bolstering local economies, preserving critical environmental areas, improving our communities quality of life, and guiding new growth into existing communities. This selection of quotations is drawn from the Smart Growth weekly e-news summaries.

Smart Growth Quotations, Principle #07:
Strengthen And Direct Development Towards Existing Communities

Smart growth directs development towards existing communities already served by infrastructure, seeking to utilize the resources that existing neighborhoods offer, and conserve open space and irreplaceable natural resources on the urban fringe. This selection of quotations is drawn from the Smart Growth weekly e-news summaries.

Smart Growth Quotations, Principle #08:
Provide A Variety Of Transportation Choices

Providing people with more choices in housing, shopping, communities, and transportation is a key aim of smart growth. This selection of quotations is drawn from the Smart Growth weekly e-news summaries.

Smart Growth Quotations, Principle #09:
Make Development Decisions Predictable, Fair And Cost Effective

For a community to be successful in implementing smart growth, it must be embraced by the private sector. This selection of quotations is drawn from the Smart Growth weekly e-news summaries.

Smart Growth Quotations, Principle #10:
Encourage Community and Stakeholder Collaboration

Growth can create great places to live, work and play -- if it responds to a community's own sense of how and where it wants to grow. This selection of quotations is drawn from the Smart Growth weekly e-news summaries.

Smart Growth Quotations:
Smart Growth Overview

Smart growth recognizes connections between development and quality of life. It leverages new growth to improve the community.

The features that distinguish smart growth in a community vary from place to place. In general, smart growth invests time, attention, and resources in restoring community and vitality to center cities and older suburbs. New smart growth is more town-centered, is transit and pedestrian oriented, and has a greater mix of housing, commercial and retail uses. It also preserves open space and many other environmental amenities.

This selection of quotations is drawn from the Smart Growth weekly e-news summaries.