Ohio Chapter

Other Sprawl Links

Smart Growth Network Network includes planners, govt. officials, lenders, community developers, architects, environmentalists and activists. Encourages development that protects the environment and pays for itself without raising property taxes.

American Farmland Trust The Trust works to stop the loss of productive farmland and to promote farming practices that lead to a healthy environment. AFT has conducted cost of community services studies around the country.

Rocky Mountain Institute
Rocky Mountain Institute focuses on economic renewal. RMI's tool kit of sustainable development techniques has practical solutions for declining and booming communities.

Institute for Local Self Reliance
Institute provides technical assistance and information on environmentally sound economic development strategies.

Conservation Based Development
This web site, published for the Ford Foundation, focuses on sustainability issues. It includes a tool box, news and views, real stories, connections to dozens of other websites on sustainable development, and a reference desk.

National Trust for Historic Preservation
Focus on preserving downtown areas and historic buildings. Has published some very good reports on combating "big box" retailers.

American Planning Association
The professional society for planners in the U.S. The APA's Growing Smart initiative includes a Legislative Guidebook with model legislation, a national planning statute clearingouse and a database of state legislative materials.

Environmental Policy Project
an excellent website devoted to the takings issue includes an introduction to takings and sections on the courts, Congress, state legislatures, EPP papers and research, and related internet resources.

Other Links on Suburban Sprawl

Montana's BikePlan Source provides excellent info about ISTEA, reauthorization proposals and what to do about them.

A joint project of the Surface Transportation Policy Project and the Environmental Protection Agency

The Ohio Department of Transportation

Bike Federation of America

Texas Transportation Institute's Congestion Index

Planning Reports Center

Ohio First Suburbs Consortium

Transit Oriented Development - King County DOT, Washington,

NCSLnet State Incentive-Based Growth Management Laws

Do a Yahoo Search on Suburban Sprawl

$mart Development Investments: Building Codes and Zoning

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