What is Smart Growth?

Smart growth integrates the work of diverse stakeholders across sectors to advance and support healthy, resilient, opportunity-rich, and sustainable communities for everybody, everywhere.

Benefits that we can all enjoy.

A stronger economy, with jobs and plenty of opportunities.

More employment and business opportunities, an improved local tax base, and economically competitive communities with sufficient services and amenities.

Revitalized neighborhoods, and the power to choose.

The opportunity to choose from a wide range of housing options, as well as deciding which mode of transportation is best to get around town.

Healthier communities and protecting natural resources.

A clean environment, preservation of open space and critical habitat, reclaiming and repurposing polluted land, and protection of water supplies and air quality.

**There is no one-size-fits-all solution.**

The features that distinguish smart growth vary by community. No two streets, neighborhoods, or cities are identical. But the principles remain the same. For that reason, smart growth provides choices and seeks to build on proven successes. The principles that guide our work reflect the experience of localities that have successfully created smart growth communities.