Smart growth means smart management of resources in both growing and declining communities.
Smart growth, like sustainable development, is fiscally prudent and environmentally, economically and socially sound while enhancing the choices people have for housing, jobs, recreation and transportation. The long-term needs of people, business and the environment ultimately define what is smart growth and sustainable and what is not. The administration of Governor Jesse Ventura has placed great emphasis on smart growth. Its framework for action on smart growth, a work in progress, is laid out in Growing Smart in Minnesota. Others pollution, waste and poverty must not.