FIGHTING OVERDEVELOPMENT, PROMOTING SMART GROWTH

For too long, our neighborhoods have suffered from uncontrolled growth that happens with little or no community input. We need to fix the broken urban planning process and insist on genuine smart growth that complements our neighborhoods.

Specifically, we need to

• Promote smart growth policies that encourage mixed use, providing local jobs, affordable housing and accessible transportation for workers
• Insist that any new development must go hand-in-hand with infrastructure improvements. Our infrastructure must be able to handle any new developments
• Insist development fees to improve traffic and the environment be spent expeditiously and in the impacted neighborhoods.
• End the “insider culture” in the planning process that allows consultants, lawyers and planning “specialists” to manipulate the process and win variances and zone changes.

Links

• ZIMAS - Zone Information & Map Access System
  Use Zimas to search by address, street intersection, or case number for interactive access to map based planning and zoning information.
• PCTS - Planning Case Tracking System
  Use PCTS to search by case number to get information on a planning case.

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