The Smart Growth Network – Smart Growth Strategies

The Smart Growth Network developed a set of 10 basic principles to guide smart growth strategies:

• 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.

The Smart Growth Network’s Getting to Smart Growth series provides 200 policies (Getting to Smart Growth Volume I and Volume II) that communities can consider implementing to make sure that development happens how and where they want it.