Archive-Smart Growth Information

• Residential Construction Trends in America's Metropolitan Regions (US EPA) - March 2010
• HUD Office on Sustainable Housing and communities
• Smart Growth Policies - An Evaluation of Programs and Outcomes (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)
  (PDF file) - June, 2009 
• Fact Sheet:  Proposed Land Use Partnership Act
  (PDF file) - February 17, 2009
• Citizen Action Update (Mass. Smart Growth Alliance)
  (PDF file) - May 23, 2008
• “Smart Growth Toolkit”
  MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
  March 2008
• The Greenness of Cities
  Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
  (PDF file) - March 10, 2008
• Shades of Green: The Patchwork of Wetlands Regulations in Massachusetts
  Pioneer Institute of Public Policy Research
  (PDF file) - February 2008
• Smart Growth Toolkit
  Smart Growth Leadership Institute
  January 2008
• Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change
  Smart Growth America
  November 2007
• Planning for the Future of Massachusetts: Six Key Recommendations to our Next Governor to Achieve Sustainable Growth in the Commonwealth (PDF file)
  APA - MA Chapter; MA Association of Consulting Planners; MA Association of Planning Directors; and MA Association of Regional Planning Agencies
  October 2006
• The Impacts of Commuter Rail in Greater Boston (PDF file)
  Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston
  September 2006
• Candidate Briefing Book on Smart Growth (PDF file)
  MA Smart Growth Alliance
  September 22, 2006
• Implementing Growth Management: The Community Preservation Act (PDF file)
  Elisabeth M. Hamin, Margaret Ounsworth Steere and Wendy Sweetser
  Journal of Planning Education and Research
  September 1, 2006
• Building the Line to Equity: Six Steps for Achieving Equitable Transit Oriented Development in Massachusetts (PDF file)
  Action for Regional Equity
  August 2006
• Conservation Based Affordable Housing: Improving the Nature of Affordable Housing
  Kendra J. Briechle, The Conservation Fund
  July 2006
• Smart and Affordable: How Communities Have Achieved Affordable Housing in 'Smart' Locations (PDF file)
  by Philip Herr for the Massachusetts Housing Partnership
  June 2006
• On the Right Track: Meeting Greater Boston's Transit and Land Use Challenges (PDF file)
  Urban Land Institute Boston District Council
  May 2006
• House Rules: Can the state's new smart growth plans give would-be homebuyers a fighting chance? (PDF file)
  by Michael Jonas, Commonwealth Magazine
  January 6, 2006
• Growth Gamble: New England: New Century, New Game
  by Neal Peirce and Curtis Johnson
  January 2006
• Shared Destinies: A Smart Growth Agenda for Massachusetts (MA Smart
  rowth Alliance) (PDF file)
  December 13, 2005
• Affordable Housing and Open Space Presentation (PDF file)
  December 6, 2005
• Open Space, Housing Construction and Home Prices: What's the Payoff from Smart Growth? (PDF file)
  Massachusetts Housing Partnership
  September 2005
• The Costs and Benefits of Green Affordable Housing - Executive Summary (PDF file) - September 27, 2005
• New Transit Oriented Development Program, NOFA and Guidelines
  September 22, 2005
• New Smart Growth Criteria for Housing Programs (PDF file)
  September 13, 2005

   

  Affordable Housing & Smart Growth: A Case Study Series

• Case Study #1: Wakefield Adopts Smart Growth Zoning(PDF file)
• Case Study #2: Creating a New Mixed-Income, Sustainable Community: Pond View Village, Gloucester (PDF file)
• Case Study #3: Bedford Builds Consensus Around Redevelopment of Deteriorated Downtown Site (PDF file)
• Case Study #4: Envisioning the Transformation of an Old Mill Building and Its Neighborhood in Taunton's Weir Village (PDF file)
• Powerpoint presentations on Density
  National MultiHousing Council
  June 23, 2005
• The Practice of Low Impact Development (PDF file)
  The Department of Housing and Urban Development
  June 2005
• A Greener Plan for Affordable Housing: How States are Using the Housing Credit to Advance Sustainability (PDF file)
  The Enterprise Foundation
  May 2005
• From Abandonment to Opportunity: Redeveloping the Commonwealth's Brownfields (PDF file)
  Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance
  May 2, 2005
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• Final Regulations for Chapter 40R Smart Growth Zoning (PDF file)
  March 22, 2005
• Fixing it First: Targeting Infrastructure Investments to Improve State Economies and Invigorate Existing Communities (PDF file)
  NGA Center for Best Practices
  March 2005
• Job Sprawl and the Spatial Mismatch Between Blacks and Jobs (PDF file)
  The Brookings Institution
  February 2005
• Regional Equity and Smart Growth: Opportunities for Advancing Social and Economic Justice in America (PDF file)
  Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities February 2005
• Final Smart Growth Zoning Legislation (PDF file) May 27, 2004
• Summary of New Smart Growth Zoning Legislation (Ch. 40R)
  (PDF file) - August 3, 2004
• Ten Principles for Successful Development Around Transit
  Urban Land Institute (PDF file)
  August 2003
• Promise and Challenge: Achieving Regional Equity in Greater Boston (PDF file)
  PolicyLink, May 2003
• Smart Communities: Curbing Sprawl at its Core (PDF file)
  by Tony Proscio
  Published by LISC
  November 2002
• Affordable Housing and Smart Growth: Making the Connection
  (PDF file)
  National Neighborhood Coalition
  2001