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Harriet Tregoning, Executive Director, Smart Growth Leadership Institute
Communities across the country are facing tremendous challenges. Many of our towns and cities are growing faster than we can manage while others are looking for ways to jumpstart or restart stalled growth. Shortsighted planning often sacrifices the long-term fiscal health of our communities --starving our established downtown businesses, overlooking existing investments in our older communities, eating up our farms and open spaces and damaging our environment while driving up the cost of housing and transportation.
Many community leaders are overwhelmed by the tasks of changing the existing development patterns, overhauling outdated plans and rewriting laws and regulations.
There's much talk about "density," but is density a good thing or bad? Is it about zoning or lack of it? About how many units per acre and if so, what kind of "units" are we talking about? Confused?
Director of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute, Harriet Tregoning hopes to "demystify density" for CMC and AIA members and guests. Tregoning has worked on smart growth at the state and federal level since 1996. She was Maryland's Secretary of Planning and, later, the Secretary for Smart Growth where she chaired a fifteen-member Smart Growth Subcabinet.
A project of Smart Growth America, the Smart Growth Leadership Institute is dedicated to helping state and local elected, civic and business leaders design and implement effective land use strategies to successfully leverage the coming growth and gain greater control over the pace and pattern of development.
Communities across the country are facing tremendous challenges. Many of our towns and cities are growing faster than we can manage while others are looking for ways to jumpstart or restart stalled growth. Shortsighted planning often sacrifices the long-term fiscal health of our communities --starving our established downtown businesses, overlooking existing investments in our older communities, eating up our farms and open spaces and damaging our environment while driving up the cost of housing and transportation.
Many community leaders are overwhelmed by the tasks of changing the existing development patterns, overhauling outdated plans and rewriting laws and regulations.
There's much talk about "density," but is density a good thing or bad? Is it about zoning or lack of it? About how many units per acre and if so, what kind of "units" are we talking about? Confused?
Director of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute, Harriet Tregoning hopes to "demystify density" for CMC and AIA members and guests. Tregoning has worked on smart growth at the state and federal level since 1996. She was Maryland's Secretary of Planning and, later, the Secretary for Smart Growth where she chaired a fifteen-member Smart Growth Subcabinet.
A project of Smart Growth America, the Smart Growth Leadership Institute is dedicated to helping state and local elected, civic and business leaders design and implement effective land use strategies to successfully leverage the coming growth and gain greater control over the pace and pattern of development.
July 19, 2006