CLINTON-GORE LIVABILITY AGENDA:
BUILDING LIVABLE COMMUNITIES
FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Links to Livability Agenda Documents

On January 11, Vice President Al Gore launched a comprehensive Livability Agenda to help the nation seek a high quality of life and sustainable economic growth. The agenda focuses on strengthening the federal role in support of state and local efforts to build livable communities for the 21st century.

As the administration continues to work with and learn from states, municipalities and other stakeholders, it will develop new tools and strategies to help them preserve open space, curb suburban sprawl, ease traffic congestion and pursue other "smart growth" initiatives.

The vice president's proposals will be included in President Clinton's budget for fiscal 2000. They will also constitute a major theme of the vice president's campaign for his party's presidential nomination

The January 11 issue of The Washington Post carries some positive comments on the vice president's agenda.

The mayor of Boise, Idaho, Republican Brent Cole, said that vice president "has got it right." The director of the Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policies at the Brookings Institution, Bruce Katz, called federal support for restoring balance between cities and suburbs "absolutely essential." The executive director of the Sierra Club, Carl Pope, hailed the proposals as a good first step, stressing that "low-density, habitat-gobbling, traffic creating growth doesn't pay for itself" and occurs only "because both the federal government and the states subsidize it."

Links to Livability Agenda Documents

• Clinton-Gore Livability Agenda: Building Livable Communities for the 21st Century: Introduction
• Clinton-Gore Livability Agenda: Building Livable Communities for the 21st Century--Press Release
• Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Vice President Al Gore, Monday, January 11, 1999