Action 1
The Administration, in partnership with leaders in all relevant sectors and
the Smart Growth Network, should launch a public action campaign on smart
growth. These partners should sponsor a five-year national campaign and
dialogue addressing land use and growth issues through community and business
action. The campaign should be launched at the National Town Meeting for a Sustainable
America, which will take place May 2-5, 1999. The campaign should ask
communities throughout America to identify natural assets and local and
regional land use and growth issues; assess the impacts of sprawl-related
problems; identify possible solutions and their benefits; identify ways to
measure progress (i.e., establish indicators of progress); and make commitments
to form or strengthen partnerships to implement solutions. The campaign would
link to three other efforts:
(1) National incentive programs for Smart Growth and
Regional Cooperation;
(2) Growing Smart, a five-year project funded by the federal government which
provides a compendium of useful tools for states, regional entities, and local
jurisdictions to consider, adopt, adapt, and use; and
(3) Land-Based Classification Standards (LBCS), a project funded by several
federal agencies and the American Planning Association. LBCS standardizes a
broad variety of land use and development data collected and stored at the
local, regional, state, and national levels, enabling jurisdictions, agencies,
and institutions to share data more easily.
Following the National Town Meeting for a Sustainable America, the
Administration should work with leaders in all sectors and prominent civic
journalists and media specialists to develop a communications strategy that can
continue to promote, explain, and popularize sustainability and livability
goals and concerns.
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