Best Development Practices and Why Smart Growth, the smart growth resource guide, tool catalog, partner sheet, and a set of four infill financing fact sheets. Additional primers and other materials will follow throughout the year. Members also receive notification of regional conferences and workshops and the most current information on making the most of the local land use and development decision-making process. As an SGN member, you will join with a diverse coalition of private sector, public sector, and non-profit partners seeking to encourage better development decisions. Through your membership in SGN you can share strategies with a variety of other smart growth advocates, gain access to the latest trends in smart construction and deconstruction, learn about innovative financing for infill and brownfields redevelopment, access tools to evaluate competing development options, and pilot money-saving investments that reap economic and environmental benefits.
Additional primers are forthcoming.
Regional conferences and workshops on smart growth topics. 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. Principles Mix land uses. Take advantage of compact building design.