Take a look at what is happening
- SmartGrowth Principles: Building comprehensive plans around principles of Smart Growth, and incorporating further green elements.
- Retrofitting: Retrofitting suburban neighborhoods and arterial corridors.
- Parking standards: Eliminating minimum parking standards and adopting maximum standards.
- Triple Bottom Line: Using a bid process that includes social, environmental, and economic criteria in determining who can buy city-owned land slated for development. This strategy helps ensure that developers will create green neighborhoods and use green building standards. Requiring bidders to achieve LEED certification is one way to incorporate these criteria.
- Zoning: Developing zoning districts with minimum densities, which helps ensure compact development.
- Community engagement: Engaging the public in communitywide processes to develop support for strong Smart Growth policies and plans.
- Integrated design: Requiring new projects to use an integrated design process, such as a charrette-based process.
