Implementation Program Assistance


 Four New Communities Selected
for Implementation Assistance

The Smart Growth Leadership Institute, the University of Southern California, and the University of Colorado, funded by a grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, have selected four new communities ? two in the South and two in the West -- to participate in the second round of its Implementation Assistance Program. They join nine other communities stretching from Florida to Alaska selected last year to work with the SGLI team in implementing smart growth policies.

The four new communities are:

Chattahoochee Hill Country,
Fulton County, Georgia
Coconino County, Arizona
Davis, California
Greenville, South Carolina

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NEWS: Draft of Greenville Report is now available for download here (pdf 1.3mb).

Selected from a pool of more than 100 applicants, the four communities will work with the SGLI team on such issues as revitalizing their older neighborhoods, protecting valuable farm and ranch land, providing transportation and housing choices, and enhancing the quality of the environment. The Smart Growth Leadership Institute anticipates selecting more communities to work with in the fall, with emphasis on brownfields redevelopment.

Over the next nine months, our team of experts will be providing assistance to the four new communities in two specific areas:

  • A ?project scorecard? that will assess the smart growth attributes of a given project as a way of improving projects, making development expectations more explicit and allocating any local smart growth incentives; and
  • A ?strategic growth assessment? that will broadly examine all the opportunities for and obstacles to change and give communities strategic options for how to achieve short and long-term results from their smart growth efforts.

The nine communities selected last year were:

Anchorage, Alaska
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Lawrence, Kansas
Lawrence, Massachusetts
Lithonia, DeKalb County, Georgia
Mount Joy Borough, Lancaster???????? County, Pennsylvania
Nashville/Davidson County, Tennessee
Orange County, Florida
Richmond, California

For more information on the first nine communities and to review the final reports, click here.

Experiences and lessons learned from the selected communities will help to shape a national Smart Growth Implementation Kit that will provide guidance to other communities around the nation as they work to implement smart growth.

For more information on the implementation assistance program, please contact Jessica Cogan Millman.

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Implementation Program Assistance - Background

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? 2003 Smart Growth Leadership Institute, a program of Smart Growth America.
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