What is smart growth? What are the five tools citiescan to promote growth?

Question

What is smart growth? What are the five tools citiescan to promote growth?

Answer 1

Smart Growth Includes:

1.)Limits and Regulations

-Limit Building Permits

-Create urban growth boundaries

-Green Belts around cities

-Public Review of new development

2.)Zoning

-Encourage mixed use

-concentrate development along mass transportation routes

-Promote high-density cluster housing developments

3.)Planning

-Ecological Land use planning

-environmental impact analysis

-integrated regional planning

-state and national planning

4.)Protection

-Preserve existing open space

-Buy new open space

-Buy development rights that prohibit certain types of development on land parcels

5.) Taxes

-Tax Land, not buildings

-Tax land on value of actual use (such as forest and agriculture) instead of highest value as developed land

6.) Tax Breaks

-For owners agreeing to legally not allow certain types of development (conservation easements)

-For cleaning up and developing abandoned urban sites (brownfields)

7.) Revitalization and New Growth

-Revitalize existing towns and cities

-Build well-planned new towns