Enhancing Our Communities

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Enhancing Our Communities Smart Growth Enhancing Our Communities

What is Smart Growth? Smart growth is well-planned development that protects open space, revitalizes communities, keeps housing affordable and provides more transportation choices.

What is Urban Sprawl? Sprawl is irresponsible development that takes our tax dollars away from our communities and destroys farmland and open space

Roads taken in the last 100 years By policy and then by design the environment was built around the automobile instead of people Photos: (Top) Fort Lauderdale Historical Society, Inc. (Bottom) Anthony Abbate 4

How do you get across to shop? Sunrise Blvd and Federal Hwy The old way: Unsustainable Designed in the 40s How do you get across to shop? Photo: Anthony Abbate 5

Sprawl vs. Smart Growth 6

Why Do People Prefer Smart Growth? Smart Growth Provides Safe Places to Walk, Bicycle and Tricycle 7

Why Do People Prefer Smart Growth? Smart Growth Provides More Transportation Choices Why Do People Prefer Smart Growth? 8

Why Do People Prefer Smart Growth? Smart Growth Protects the Health of People and the Environment Why Do People Prefer Smart Growth? 9

Sustainability and the man-made environment. A reduction in vehicle emissions is a reduction in our carbon footprint. Fewer miles traveled = less CO2 Sustainability and the man-made environment. 10

Quality of Life - Better Access, Less Traffic - Mixing Land Uses - Clustering Development - Multiple Transportation Choices 11

Quality of Life Improving the quality of our neighborhoods so they are: - Safe - Convenient - Attractive - Affordable 12

Walkable Streets SFRPC Sidewalks are a part of the transportation infrastructure. There is federal and state funding for it 13

Transit Shelter 14

Smart Growth enhances our communities Smart Growth Achieves the Right Balance Smart Growth enhances our communities 15

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