[CPEO-BIF] Smart Growth Publication

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Sent by Tim Torma:

     "Getting to Smart Growth":  New Publication Shows 100 Ways to Make 
It Happen

     "Getting to Smart Growth:  100 Policies for Implementation" is a
new publication in the ongoing smart growth series from the Smart Growth 
Network and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA). 
The policy guide was officially released at the Partners for Smart 
Growth conference by EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman on January 
24, 2002.  Whitman said the publication "is especially valuable because 
it will help communities turn smart growth ideas into action."

     This 100-page resource serves as a "roadmap" for states and
communities that have recognized the need for smart growth, but are
unclear on how to achieve it.  The document provides ten policy options 
to achieve each of the ten Smart Growth Principles endorsed by the Smart 
Growth Network.  For example, to achieve the smart growth objective of 
mixed land uses, communities are offered policy options ranging from 
efforts to encourage employees to live near their work, to the adoption 
of parallel building codes to foster more innovative design, to the 
conversion of declining commercial centers into mixed-use developments.

     Each policy is supported with "Practice Tips" which offer
additional resources or brief case studies of communities that have
applied the approach to achieve smart growth.  A matrix demonstrates how 
each policy can achieve multiple smart growth objectives.

     The publication is available free of charge online at
www.smartgrowth.org or www.epa.gov/smartgrowth.  A free hard copy may be 
obtained by contacting Juanita Smith at 202-260-6226 or via e-mail at 
smith.juanita@epa.gov, or by faxing your request to 202-260-0174.



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Tim Torma
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation (1808)
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20460

email - torma.tim@epa.gov
ph - 202-260-5180
fax - 202-260-0174
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Development, Community & Environment Division:
http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth
A partner in the Smart Growth Network: http://www.smartgrowth.org