1. Enhancing Our Communities
Smart Growth
Enhancing Our Communities

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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Sprawl vs. Smart Growth 6

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

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

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

10. 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

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

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

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

14. Transit Shelter 14

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

16. Project Caine

17. FIU Solar House

18. Bob Caine’s House – 10 Kw