Assisting Communities
The Smart Growth Leadership Institute provides technical and strategic assistance to communities working to achieve smart growth.
We can help your community implement smart growth by providing you with the technical expertise you need to develop smart growth policies, codes and design guidelines.
We have worked with dozens of communities around the country, providing most with direct technical assistance, and others with information and support such as:
- Making presentations and participating in workshops outlining the principles and benefits of smart growth
- Formulating specific smart growth proposals tailored to meet the needs of each community
- Reviewing and evaluating existing or proposed plans, codes, zoning, and regulations
- Training community leaders to build effective coalitions
- Helping communities manage the process of change by identifying the most urgent issues and developing the strategies to confront these issues
The communities we worked with covered a wide variety of circumstances, in different stages of smart growth implementation -from large metropolitan areas, to newly incorporated cities in already developed areas, to small communities facing new growth.
- Find out more about the communities we work with.
- See a list of speakers you can invite to your community.