Save Energy in Your Neighborhood
Support Smart Growth
Baldwin Park, FL. (Courtesy of EPA Smart Growth)
Smart growth is sustainable community and economic development.
Much of the growth and development we have experienced across New York creates higher costs to governments and taxpayers, significant damage to our environment, and stark inequities—not to mention visual pollution and loss of historic resources.
For decades, despite flat or even negative population growth, development in Upstate NY regions has spread outward from the cities and villages; outer suburban and rural areas have been the receiving zones for most of the new development. With this “SWOG” (Sprawl Without Growth) pattern, communities bear the costs of new infrastructure while the existing infrastructure suffers—making for higher tax burdens on government and higher taxes for the same or even fewer number of taxpayers.
NeighborWorks Rochester is a member of the Empire State Future Coalition. The Coalition is composed of local, regional, state, and national organizations and companies dedicated to smart growth and sustainable development.
Much of the growth and development we have experienced across New York creates higher costs to governments and taxpayers, significant damage to our environment, and stark inequities—not to mention visual pollution and loss of historic resources.
For decades, despite flat or even negative population growth, development in Upstate NY regions has spread outward from the cities and villages; outer suburban and rural areas have been the receiving zones for most of the new development. With this “SWOG” (Sprawl Without Growth) pattern, communities bear the costs of new infrastructure while the existing infrastructure suffers—making for higher tax burdens on government and higher taxes for the same or even fewer number of taxpayers.
NeighborWorks Rochester is a member of the Empire State Future Coalition. The Coalition is composed of local, regional, state, and national organizations and companies dedicated to smart growth and sustainable development.
Complete Streets
Did you miss Evan Lowenstein's presentation on February 29th, 2012 on Complete Streets?
Want to see the difference between 40 people in cars versus no car?
Courtesy of the Tampa Tribune, 1999
40 people in cars
40 people out of their cars
40 people in bus configuration
40 people walking and biking
