The entire community relies on growth to fuel the economy. The goal is not to limit growth, but to guide it to areas where infrastructure allows growth to be sustained over the long term. Smart growth is about choices . Many of us enjoy living in suburbs and that's fine. But in too many of our cities, there's a lack of adequate housing, shopping and schools, without much choice.
Smart growth means incentives over controls.
Because America is a free market society, to influence growth patterns, we prefer tax incentives and targeted subsidies to restrictions. Smart growth is about protecting our environment,farmlands, wetlands and open spaces. It also means finding economically sound ways to reuse brownfields. It means design innovations that make development easier on the environment. Smart growth is about using resources wisely.