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Ahwahnee Principles

What Makes Smart Growth “Smart”

What is Smart Growth and Why do We Need It? A primer (or refresher for some) on the history and current status of planning

May 19, 2018 By Jim Chappell

Russian Hill
Russian Hill, San Francisco. Photo by Tony Webster. Flickr Creative Commons 2.0 Generic.

We hear a lot about “smart growth” in the press, in blogs, and at planning commissions these days. There are folks who support smart growth projects, and folks who don’t. But of course, no one ever couches their opposition to a smart growth project in terms of favoring “dumb growth,” although that’s what they may really be saying, if they thought about it. [Read more]

Filed Under: Feature Posts, Planning, Professional Development, San Francisco Bay Area Tagged With: active transit, Ahwahnee Principles, Complete Streets, density, new urbanism, pedestrian oriented, Planning, smart growth, walkable

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