| What is Smart Growth? (982 words) |
 | Planning for smart growth encompasses six broad areas: comprehensive growth planning, mixed land use zoning, design and planning for increased residential density, design for street connectivity, innovation in water infrastructure provision, and enhancement of public service facilities, including recreational areas. |
| Comprehensive planning is deemed to be "smart" in light of its utilization of existing infrastructure and its potential contributions to reducing automobile use and energy consumption; its inclusiveness and inherently regional logic and character; and integrating housing, economic development, and transportation elements. |
| Smart growth housing policies tend to promote alternatives to the postwar standards of the stand-alone single family home in income-segregated areas. |
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