What are smart growth initiatives?

Smart growth practices can lessen the environmental impacts of development with techniques that include encouraging compact development, reducing impervious surfaces, safeguarding environmentally sensitive areas, mixing land uses (e.g., homes, offices, and shops), promoting public transit, and improving pedestrian and …

What are 3 characteristics of smart growth policies?

So what is smart growth?

Mix land uses.
Take advantage of compact 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.

What are the smart growth principles?

10 Smart Growth Principles

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.

What are the four smart growth strategies that address urban sprawl?

integrated living, working, and recreational spaces; mass transit and reduced traffic; provisions for pedestrian and bike traffic; heterogeneity of residences and business; affordable housing; protection of sensitive habitats; and higher population density where people can meet people.

What is smart growth sustainability?

“Smart growth” is development that is environmentally sensitive, economically viable, community-oriented, and sustainable. Designing distinctive, attractive communities with a strong sense of place. Preserving open space, farmland, and critical environmental areas. Directing development towards existing communities.

What is smart green infrastructure?

Green infrastructure occurs at all scales. It is most often associated with green stormwater management systems, which are smart and cost-effective. Green infrastructure also serves to provide an ecological framework for social, economic, and environmental health of the surroundings.

Which of the following are smart growth tools?

Terms in this set (7)

Limits & Regulations. limit building permits.
Zoning. encourage mixed use of housing and small businesses.
Planning. ecological land-use planning.
Protection. preserve existing open space.
Taxes. tax land, not buildings.
Tax Breaks.
Revitalization & New Growth.

Is smart growth effective?

Studies have demonstrated that smart growth development approaches have clear environmental benefits, including improved air and water quality, increased wetlands preservation, more brownfield sites cleaned and reused, and increased preservation of open spaces.

Where did smart growth start?

In the 1970s, Portland, Oregon, was the first major city in the United States to establish smart-growth urban planning by limiting urban growth to an area around the inner city.

What are smart growth practices and why are they important?

How do you promote smart growth in your community?

Providing examples of outstanding smart growth communities and projects. Working with tribes, states, regions, and communities through grants and technical assistance. Through partnerships, bringing together diverse interests to encourage better growth and development.

What is the getting to smart growth series?

The Smart Growth Network’s Getting to Smart Growth series provides 200 policies that communities can consider implementing to make sure that development happens how and where they want it. Mix land uses. Take advantage of compact building design.

Where can I find information on smart growth and environmental justice?

Note: This page focuses on the intersection of smart growth, environmental justice, and equitable development. More comprehensive information on environmental justice is available on EPA’s environmental justice page.