Principles of Smart Growth

• Create a range of housing opportunities and choices
  
• Create walkable neighborhoods
  
• Encourage community and stakeholder collaboration
  
• Foster distinctive, attractive places with a strong sense of place
  
• Make development decisions predictable, fair and cost effective
  
• Mix land uses
  
• Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty and critical environmental areas
  
• Provide a variety of transportation choices
  
• Strengthen and direct development toward existing communities
  
• Take advantage of compact building design