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A Wisconsin legislator is trying once again to repeal the state's Smart Growth law.(Briefly Noted)
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Land Use Law Report
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April 26, 2006
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A WISCONSIN LEGISLATOR is trying once again to repeal the state's Smart Growth law. Rep. Mary Williams (R-Medford), chair of the Assembly Committee on Rural Development, said last week that while people in the southern part of the state generally support the law, that sentiment is not shared in the rural north. The law, enacted in 1999, encourages inter-government cooperation and public participation in the development of land-use plans. It also specifies the elements that should be in comprehensive plans and requires that local land-use decisions be consistent with adopted plans, ...
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Smart growth tools for transportation
Institute of Transportation Engineers. ITE Journal;
November 1, 2000 ;
Bochner, Brian S;
787 words
...Smart growth has become popular in recent years as a way to improve...resources, Many communities have embarked on efforts to pursue smart growth. However, implementation of smart growth has been harder to achieve. This feature provides descriptions...
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Smart growth & community banking
Community Banker;
April 1, 2001 ;
Wilson, Caroline;
787 words
......neighborhoods mean for community banks? Smart growth, as a concept, has been around...backing of a national organization. Smart growth has roots in both environmental and economic activism. Simply put, smart growth is an initiative that seeks to...
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A case of the smarties: the director of the Pennsylvania program to...
The Public Manager;
September 22, 2003 ;
Cigler, Beverly A.;
787 words
......smart money, and smart citizens, and culminates in smart growth. Smart growth is a very broad set of public policies and programs...family-friendly communities, healthy cities, etc., all smart growth tools and policies are comprehensive in scope...
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Core of Smart Growth: Creating Livable, Cohesive Communities Through...
PR Newswire;
September 12, 2000 ;
707 words
......Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- At its core, smart growth is about bringing together public officials...Atlanta, was the keynote speaker during a smart growth forum sponsored here today by ULI's...Growth, featured several panels examining smart growth solutions that contribute to the ...
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10 years later, officials assess Smart Growth's impact
Capital (Annapolis);
October 11, 2007 ;
E.B. FURGURSON III pfurgurson@capitalgazette.com;
763 words
...Ten years ago Maryland passed its Smart Growth legislation meant to curb encroaching...week took a 10th-anniversary look at Smart Growth to consider why - and what's next. In...farther into rural areas. But in general, Smart Growth has not lived up to its promise. There...
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Smart Growth: 10 years later
Capital (Annapolis);
October 6, 2007 ;
E.B. FURGURSON III Staff Writer;
787 words
...Ten years ago Maryland passed its Smart Growth legislation meant to curb encroaching...week took a 10-year anniversary look at Smart Growth to consider why? And what's next? In...farther into rural areas.But, in general, Smart Growth has not lived up to its promise. There...
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Critics Say Maryland's Smart Growth Efforts Imperiled by Governor's...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;
June 23, 2003 ;
787 words
......officers of the Governor's Office of Smart Growth this month, it signaled to many the...the citizens of the state of Maryland. Smart Growth -- a blueprint for controlled development...states to follow the model. Miller called Smart Growth Glendening's greatest legacy and said...
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`Smart growth' movement catching on
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
September 30, 2001 ;
TOM STUCKEY;
431 words
...`Smart growth' movement catching on By TOM STUCKEY...downtown areas of small cities, the "smart growth" movement has spawned creative solutions...sprawl. Over the past few years, many smart growth policies have been pioneered in Maryland...
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Our view: Smart Growth works better in theory than in practice
Capital (Annapolis);
October 9, 2007 ;
447 words
......funny thing happened on the way to "Smart Growth" in Maryland. The decade-old policy...Glendening heads a Washington- based Smart Growth institute, and spends much of his time...road, evangelizing for the concept. Smart Growth seems to have accomplished everything...
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Smart Growth BC.(a smart growth network in British Columbia)(Brief...
Alternatives Journal;
June 22, 2000 ;
Tomalty, Ray;
366 words
...The term smart growth is gaining currency across North...sustainable cities. In the US, the smart growth movement received a big boost when...help set up and fund a nationwide Smart Growth Network -- a forum for information...
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Authors miss the point of smart growth
Chicago Sun-Times;
May 25, 2001 ;
Bill Rumbler;
599 words
......Cox and Ronald D. Utt are. They're the authors of Smart Growth, Housing Costs and Homeownership, a recent anti-smart growth missive. I say confused because they not only accuse smart growth advocates of doing things they haven't done, but...
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What's the buzz?(smart growth popular across Canada)(Editorial)
Alternatives Journal;
June 22, 2003 ;
Tomalty, Ray;
500 words
...SMART GROWTH is in the air. Smart growth plans are popping up in municipalities all over the country, smart growth organizations are being formed in several provinces and a national coalition of smart growth groups was launched this spring. But...
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Battle joined on Smart Growth; Fight stretches from towns to Capitol
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
May 22, 2005 ;
STEVEN WALTERS;
787 words
...Madison Linda J. Smith says Wisconsin's Smart Growth law is neither smart nor fair, and it...stampede the law is intended to avoid. Smart Growth gives those who make land-use recommendations...when the first version of the local Smart Growth plan put their land in do- not-develop...
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`SMART GROWTH' EXPANDS ITS THINKING ADVOCATES SEEK A POLITICAL FOOTING
The Boston Globe;
February 9, 2003 ;
Anthony Flint, GLOBE STAFF;
787 words
......for sale at a recent conference of "smart growth" advocates here were one indication...affordable housing. The leaders of the smart growth movement say it's the power of their...retirement home. But the expansion of the smart growth coalition is fundamentally a political...
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