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Smart growth is well-planned development that protects open space, revitalizes communities, keeps housing affordable and provides more transportation choices.
What is Smart Growth?
Sprawl is irresponsible development that takes our tax dollars away from our communities and destroys farmland and open space
What is Urban Sprawl?
Roads taken in the last 100 years
Photos: (Top) Fort Lauderdale Historical Society, Inc. (Bottom) Anthony Abbate
By policy and then by design the environment was built around the automobile instead of people
The old way:
•Unsustainable
•Designed in the 40s
•How do you get across to shop?
Photo: Anthony Abbate
Sunrise Blvd and Federal Hwy
Smart Growth Provides Safe Places to Walk, Bicycle and Tricycle
Why Do People Prefer Smart
Growth?
Smart Growth Provides More Transportation Choices
Why Do People Prefer Smart
Growth?
A reduction in vehicle emissions is a reduction in our carbon footprint.
Fewer miles traveled = less CO2
Sustainability and the man-made environment.
Quality of Life- Better Access, Less Traffic
- Mixing Land Uses
- Clustering Development
- Multiple Transportation Choices
Quality of LifeImproving the quality of our neighborhoods so they are:
- Safe- Convenient- Attractive- Affordable
Walkable Streets SFRPC
Sidewalks are a part of the transportation infrastructure.
There is federal and state funding for it