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Sprawl Guide: Solutions (Urban Growth Boundaries)
Growth and Development Urban Growth Boundaries Urban Growth Boundaries designate growth areas for development and create economic incentives for development to take place within those areas. The State of Oregon has the most widely implemented system of urban growth boundaries ...
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A MODEST GROWTH PROPOSAL
Establish urban growth boundaries. The establishment of an urban growth boundary and a surrounding greenbelt will reduce pollution while providing ... Portland, Oregon, has urban growth boundaries, but they have enormous pressures to accommodate new growth within the city boundary. There is a limited amount of infill growth potential within existing ...
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A 21st Century Colorado
Oregon's twenty year old state ordinance. Amendment 2000 is another initiative that promoted "smart growth" around Colorado. The issues of growth ...
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NWS06: City ponders future of its wetlands
A decision to make some of the Eugene wetlands off-limits to development could require expapding the urban growth ...
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Green Tax Shift Gaining Popularity
Urban construction creates urban jobs. As things stand now, as urban buildings decay, owners often don't make repairs because their property ... areas will need to be vigorously protected by zoning and by the establishment of strict urban growth boundaries, such as have been enacted in cities like Portland, Oregon. But of course such areas ...
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Livable Cities for the 21st Century: New Urbanism II
We are not anti-growth, but are in favor of intelligent & common sense growth. Additionally, it is obvious that most existing cities can ... creation/preservation of neighborhood pocket parks and community gardens. We favor the establishment of urban growth boundaries & green belts to stop monotonous, segregated sprawl. We promote the creation of high speed ...
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EcoIQ Magazine Winter 2000 Features
Last November, there were 240 local ballot initiatives across the country dealing with urban growth boundaries, open space acquisition, and transportation issues. Over 70 percent passed. The reason you are ... maybe don’t want to hear about the prescriptions of the Portland metropolitan area -- the urban growth boundaries that we’ve had in place over the last 20 years -- work that we ...
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NAON Chapter 19 - Sustainable Urban Transport
Cheonggyecheon river. Urban Growth Boundaries Benefit Portland Urban growth boundaries and focusing investment into existing communities are critical steps in ... & Facts About Oregon's Urban Growth Boundaries, available at www.friends.org/resources/myths.html. 35 Herlands, J. (1999) The Connection Between Growth Management and Local Economic Development ...
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NPG Forum: The Growth Management Delusion by Dr. Gabor Zovanyi
In the state of Washington, for example, local urban growth boundaries are required to be adjusted every 10 years to accommodate the next 20 years of state-projected growth. All statewide growth management laws therefore reinforce ...
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Sprawl Guide: Resources (Concentrating Growth)
Author Info Select from the dropdown menu Concentrating Growth and Development Infill Development Brownfield Revitalization Urban Growth Boundaries State "Smart Growth" Policies Increasing Density, While Providing Green ... Reducing "School Sprawl" Older towns and cities can be revitalized by managing growth, cleaning up environmentally contaminated land, reinvesting in existing neighborhoods, and ...
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