Smart Growth America Offers Free Guidebook to Inform Citizens

Smart Growth America is a coalition of national, state and local organizations working to improve the ways we plan and build the towns, cities and metro areas we call home. The coalition includes many of the best-known national organizations advocating on behalf of historic preservation, the environment, farmland and open space preservation, neighborhood revitalization and more. 

Smart Growth America believes in healthy cities, towns and suburbs; homes that are both affordable and close to jobs and activities; fewer hours in traffic and more opportunities to enjoy recreation and natural areas; air and water of the highest quality; and a landscape our children can be proud to inherit. Many of these reasons people choose to live in Oak Terrace Preserve.

To that end, Smart Growth America works with citizens across the country to preserve our built and natural heritage, promote fairness for people of all backgrounds, fight for high-quality neighborhoods, expand choices in housing and transportation and improve poorly conceived development projects.

If you’d like to learn how you can do more or get involved, they offer a free guidebook called “Choosing Our Community’s Future”. The guidebook is designed for citizens interested in becoming more informed and involved in planning their communities. The Guide outlines planning terms, approaches, and procedures, and highlights ways citizens can get the most out of development plans and proposals without eliminating smart growth goals.

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