Policy
Metropolitan Transportation Authority Sustainability Report
Spending Stimulus Bill
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Tying It All Together:
Transit, Jobs, and Housing
November 13, 2008
Second Annual Statewide Smart Growth Conference
Omni Hotel, New Haven, Connecticut
Keynote speaker:
Carol Coletta,
CEOs for Cities
For information on workshops and
sponsorship opportunities
Please contact
info@1000friends-ct.org
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
1000 Friends of Connecticut has created a tool to
score developments against smart growth criteria. This
scorecard will be a guide for developers and citizens on how
a planned development reflects smart growth standards and
principles. The Scorecard will help educate policymakers and
local and state public officials on what constitutes smart
growth so communities and funders can make more informed
decisions about proposed developments. Ideally, the
scorecard will result in smarter development in Connecticut
and the broader application of the principles embodied in
the scorecard.recard.
The 1000 Friends Smart Growth Development Scorecard will use
teams of volunteer experts to rate proposed developments on
a 100 point scale on as many as 33 criteria in seven
categories: maximizing existing infrastructure; compactness
and land use efficiency; mix of uses; housing options;
accessibility, mobility, and connectivity; pedestrian
safety, streetscapes, and parking; and greenness.
Legislative Smart Growth Working Group
Smart Growth Working Group
The Legislative Smart Growth Working Group’s mission is to
convene stakeholders, cull the best of recommendations for
smart growth legislation, and create a comprehensive set of
proposals that will advance in the 2009 legislative session
as a coordinated smart growth package. The Working Group is
led by Representative Brendan Sharkey, and has four
subgroups focusing on regional efficiencies, tax policy,
economic development and land use.
(click below to see the hearings)
Recorded July 1st
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July 15th
Recorded August 7th
Recorded September 4th
Recorded September 9th
2009 Legislative Wrap-up
2008 Legislative Agenda
Citizen Summit
Smart Growth and the Property Tax
April 5th - City Hall Annex, Bridgeport
Slides
Responsible Growth Task Force Report
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Take Action
Are you interested in
a fun, easy way to introduce the topic of smart growth in
your neighborhood?
Host a Smart Growth
House Party and strengthen the coalition for
smart growth policy reform! For more information, contact:
info@1000friends-ct.org.
To Help
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Orton Family Foundation enthusiastically announced its
release of the Big Box
Evaluator tool, designed not to help
communities and individuals learn about the impacts of
big box retail stores. The unbiased tool is designed not
to take a stand on big box development, but to help
citizens make informed decisions based on each
community’s specific characteristics and values.
Available free to the
public at
www.bigboxevaluator.org , the web-based interface
allows users to learn about commercial and retail
development in general, but also to input specific
information from their communities and receive
customized reports on economics, values, planning and
municipal services, and ways to improve the development
process.
For more information
contact: The Orton Family Foundation,
www.orton.org
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