About Our Work
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 want to support your leaders by providing them with smart growth implementation strategy workshops and strategic communication workshops.
We work to equip your community with the tools you need to plan your future by providing your community with strategic growth assessments and economic impact studies.
We promote resilient communities by involving business and community leaders in the business of smart growth.
We help shape local and state initiatives through our work with communities, cities, towns, counties, and state governments.
We can help you and your community leaders to create vibrant communities by helping your community to craft policies that:
- creates more vibrant downtowns and neighborhoods by mixing land uses;
- promotes financial health and leverages your community's investments by taking advantage of existing community assets;
- provides a range of housing opportunities so that market growth does not exclude the very people who work for the betterment of your towns and cities (like policemen, teachers, government workers), nor your young families, nor your elderly citizens;
- creates safe, healthy environments for your children and families by fostering "walkable" close-knit neighborhoods;
- encourages local pride by promoting distinctive, attractive communities with a strong sense of history and place;
- builds a forward looking community that safeguards its own future by strengthening growth in existing development and by preserving open space, farmland, natural beauty and critical environmental areas;
- promotes energy security and reduces pollution by providing a variety of transportation choices -freeing people from car-dominated development and allowing them to choose to walk, bike, or take public transport instead of driving to any destination;
- fosters developer friendly processes that make development decisions predictable, fair and cost-effective; and,
- builds citizenship by encouraging active community participation in development decisions.