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Smart Growth is a concept that has been presented as a way for our city to harness the energy of an unstoppable expansion and use it to our benefit. That concept is soon to be put into practice in Northeast El Paso.
Posted with permission from
Newspaper Tree
05-02-07
As many within the coalition work to establish the link that land use and smart growth have on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, overall energy consumption, and improving energy security, one state implemented a new policy requiring consideration of the impact a new development will have on greenhouse gases (GHG's). Building on the recent Supreme Court decision that GHG's are pollution and can be regulated, Massachusetts will soon be requiring all new large-scale developments to consider the amount of GHG's a new project will create, and to address them with "green" technologies.
Posted with permission from
Smart Growth America Newletter
03-29-07
Voters Question Laid-back Land Use Regulations
Published by
The Ellsworth American
11-23-06
Whole Foods wants to build a giant store in the middle of Burbank's equestrian zone, but horse owners are wary of major changes to their neighborhood
Posted with permission from
The Los Angeles Times
04-23-06
When Don Rypkema ponders how cities such as Galveston should cope with the notion of preserving history in the face of escalating development, a herd of cattle usually comes to mind. Rypkema, an internationally renowned economic development consultant and author based in Washington, D.C., visited the island city Thursday and Friday to speak at a statewide conference. While he was here, staff members of the Galveston Historical Foundation sought Rypkema's advice, now that the city is in the midst of an unprecedented building boom.
Published by the
The Galveston Daily News
03-17-06
It used to be a place where a middle-class family could own a small house on a large parcel with a horse corral out back and a few chickens and roosters running around the yard.
Posted with permission from
The Los Angeles Times
02-05-06
A community group advocating stricter controls on local development will present a resolution this month to local officials that would do just that on Sevier County mountains and hillsides.
Posted with permission from
The Mountain Press
09-18-05
Offering fact, perspective on the issue of impact fees
The debate on impact fees has drifted sufficiently off the rails to require a serious injection of fact and perspective.
First publubished in
The Naples Daily News
06-24-05
Gov. M. Jodi Rell and some legislative leaders promised Friday to review the state's eminent domain laws after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that New London can take homes for a private development project.
First posted by the
Associated Press
06-23-05
Cities may bulldoze people's homes to make way for shopping malls or other private development, a divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday, giving local governments broad power to seize private property to generate tax revenue.
First Posted by
The Washington Post
06-12-05
This term was coined last summer by a left-wing think
tank, the New Economics Foundation, when it launched a survey to find the British
towns whose shopping centers have the most national chains and US
branded outlets such as Gap and Starbucks.
First Posted by
NewEconomics.org
05-25-05
It's a problem even an 11-year-old can see.
"People are building way too much in this world, and they need to stop,"
said the young caller in the Gazette's Sound Off on May 18. "They are building on all the animals' territories and killing them by doing so. .
There is no country anymore."
Published in
GazetteXtra, the Janesville Gazette
4-18-05
The first in a series of Smart Growth on the Ground meetings is scheduled to take place at the Sea to Sky Hotel.
First Posted by
The Whistler Question
04-15-05
Manage growth, work with surrounding communities and maintain an atmosphere that makes Evansville an attractive place to live.
Those are among the priorities in a draft version of the city's Smart Growth plan.
A listening session on the plan was held Thursday. The plan was written in accordance with the state's 1999 Comprehensive Planning Law, which requires Wisconsin communities to create development plans by 2010.
Published in
GazetteXtra, the Janesville Gazette
02-28-05
The town of New London, Conn.. has invoked it's power of eminent domain to try to remove a homeowner from her home, which is part of a 90 acre plot along the Thames River, for a mixed-use development. The Fifth Amendment states that private property shall not "be
taken for "public use" without just compensation". The owners involved are not interested in selling their property. The Court decision will have a major impact either way.
Posted in
US News and World Report
Florida seeks better way to handle growth
Published in
The Orlando Sentinel
02-09-05
Published in
The East Carolinian
EventsReclaiming Vacant Properties: Strategies for Rebuilding America’s Neighborhoods,
the first national conference devoted to the transformation of vacant properties into community assets, will be held
September 24-25, 2007
in Pittsburgh, Pa. This conference will provide advocates, community development practitioners, financial institutions, and policymakers with the tools they need to prevent, acquire, and reuse vacant properties in ways that rebuild neighborhoods and revitalize communities.
For more information, visit the conference's home on the web.
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