Smart Growth Links

EPA, Philanthopists Fund Smart Growth! Strengthing philanthropic funders' abilites to support and connect organizatons working to promote Smart Growth and create livable communities. http://www.fundersnetwork.org EPA has developed this guide of funding resources to assist local and state governments, communities, and non-governmental organizations who are addressing the varied aspects of smart growth. http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/topics/funding.htm EPA: Getting to Smart Growth II: 100 More Policies for Implementation http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/getting_to_sg2.htm Click on Volume II and scroll to page 106 for a list of funding sources. http://www.smartgrowth.org/pdf/funding_resources.pdf Here is an EPA website with a list of links that you might find useful: The Smart Growth Network (SGN) is a partnership of government, business and civic organizations that support smart growth. Since its creation in late 1996, the Network has become a storehouse of knowledge about smart growth principles, facilitating the sharing of best practices and acting as a catalyst for implementation of ideas. http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/sg_network.htm

The SmartCode: A Weapon to Fight the Sprawl War:
http://www.tndtownpaper.com/Volume5/smartcode.htm

This site contains a pdf example of a real live SmartCode:
http://www.tndtownpaper.com/images/SmartCode6.5.pdf

Smart Growth Network
The mission of the Smart Growth Network is to encourage development that better serves the economic, environmental and social needs of communities. The Network provides a forum for information-sharing, education, tool development and application, and collaboration on smart growth issues.
http://www.smartgrowth.org

The Local Government Commission:
http://www.lgc.org/

A Citizen's Guide to Planning
http://ceres.ca.gov/planning/planning_guide/plan_index.html
This is a citizen's guide to land use planning as it is practiced in California. Its purpose is to explain, in general terms, how local communities regulate land use and to define some commonly used planning terms. The booklet covers the following topics:

• State Law and Local Planning
• The General Plan
• Zoning
• Subdivisions
• Other Ordinances and Regulations
• Annexation and Incorporation
• The California Environmental Quality Act

Smart Growth America:
http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/  

Sprawl City:
http://www.sprawlcity.org/

The Trust for Public Land:
http://www.tpl.org
Land conservation is central to TPL's mission. Founded in 1972, the Trust for Public Land is the only national nonprofit working exclusively to protect land for human enjoyment and well-being. TPL helps conserve land for recreation and spiritual nourishment and to improve the health and quality of life of American communities.

The Smart Growth Reader
The Smart Growth Reader is APA's new online, members-only compilation of 60 articles exploring all facets of smart growth. The items on law, environment, tools, definitions, and communities are culled from the past two years of Planning magazine, PAS Memo, Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, and Zoning News. Members and non-members alike may view the table of contents.
http://www.planning.org/sgreader/index.htm

The National Neighborhood Coalition Smart Growth Page
NNC's Neighborhoods, Regions and Smart Growth Project promotes community-based organizations as essential advocates for and planners and practitioners of equitable, neighborhood-focused smart growth. The project will bring attention to innovative, community-level efforts that bring the benefits of smart growth to low-income neighborhoods and communities of color. The  project also lays the groundwork for the neighborhood voice to be heard in regional smart growth planning.

This project offers a number of tools and resources for community leaders, policy makers, development decision-makers, and anyone interested in growth that is smart and fair.
http://www.neighborhoodcoalition.org/smartgrowth/default.asp

Sierra Club's Challenge to Sprawl Campaign
"Poorly planned development is threatening our environment, our health, and our quality of life. In communities across America 'sprawl' - scattered development that increases traffic, saps local resources and destroys open space - is taking a serious toll. But runaway growth is not inevitable. Hundreds of urban, suburban and rural neighborhoods are choosing to manage sprawl with smart growth solutions.
http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/

National Association of Home Builders Smart Growth Page
The Home Builders viewpoint.  "Smart Growth means meeting the underlying demand for housing created by an ever-increasing population and prosperous economy by building a political consensus and employing market-sensitive and innovative land-use planning concepts. It means understanding that suburban job growth and the strong desire to live in single-family homes will continue to encourage growth in suburbia."
http://www.nahb.com/smartgrowth/default.htm

Guidelines for Retail Store Siting (PDF file). The Guidelines are intended to provide guidance on store siting decisions, whether a store is buying or leasing the space in question.
http://www.domini.com/common/pdf/Store_Siting_Guidelines.pdf

The New Rules Project
Why New Rules? Because the old ones don't work any longer. They undermine local economies, subvert democracy, weaken our sense of community, and ignore the costs of our decisions on the next generation. The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) proposes a set of new rules that builds community by supporting humanly scaled politics and economics.
http://www.newrules.org/misc/resources.htm

The Mendocino County Planning Department
This is the site for accessing the latest information about our county-wide planning agency. You can find the complete General Plan and the format of the processes which the Planning Department follows for taking public input as well as copies of documents and report."
http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/planning/gpupdate

New Urbanism builder John Anderson spoke at Ukiah's Smart Growth Forum.
Here's his company's website:
http://newurbanbuilders.com/