Citizens' Housing and Planning Association: Smart Growth

Smart Growth

Residential Construction Trends in America's Metropolitan Regions (US EPA) - March 2010
HUD Office on Sustainable Housing and communities
Smart Growth Policies - An Evaluation of Programs and Outcomes (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)
(PDF file) - June, 2009
Fact Sheet: Proposed Land Use Partnership Act
(PDF file) - February 17, 2009
Citizen Action Update (Mass. Smart Growth Alliance)
(PDF file) - May 23, 2008
“Smart Growth Toolkit”
MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
March 2008
The Greenness of Cities
Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
(PDF file) - March 10, 2008
Shades of Green: The Patchwork of Wetlands Regulations in Massachusetts
Pioneer Institute of Public Policy Research
(PDF file) - February 2008
Smart Growth Toolkit
Smart Growth Leadership Institute
January 2008
Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change
Smart Growth America
November 2007
Planning for the Future of Massachusetts: Six Key Recommendations to our Next Governor to Achieve Sustainable Growth in the Commonwealth (PDF file)
APA - MA Chapter; MA Association of Consulting Planners; MA Association of Planning Directors; and MA Association of Regional Planning Agencies
October 2006
The Impacts of Commuter Rail in Greater Boston (PDF file)
Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston
September 2006
Candidate Briefing Book on Smart Growth (PDF file)
MA Smart Growth Alliance
September 22, 2006
Implementing Growth Management: The Community Preservation Act (PDF file)
Elisabeth M. Hamin, Margaret Ounsworth Steere and Wendy Sweetser
Journal of Planning Education and Research
September 1, 2006
Building the Line to Equity: Six Steps for Achieving Equitable Transit Oriented Development in Massachusetts (PDF file)
Action for Regional Equity
August 2006
Conservation Based Affordable Housing: Improving the Nature of Affordable Housing
Kendra J. Briechle, The Conservation Fund
July 2006
Smart and Affordable: How Communities Have Achieved Affordable Housing in 'Smart' Locations (PDF file)
by Philip Herr for the Massachusetts Housing Partnership
June 2006
On the Right Track: Meeting Greater Boston's Transit and Land Use Challenges (PDF file)
Urban Land Institute Boston District Council
May 2006
House Rules: Can the state's new smart growth plans give would-be homebuyers a fighting chance? (PDF file)
by Michael Jonas, Commonwealth Magazine
January 6, 2006
Growth Gamble: New England: New Century, New Game
by Neal Peirce and Curtis Johnson
January 2006
Shared Destinies: A Smart Growth Agenda for Massachusetts (MA Smart
rowth Alliance) (PDF file)
December 13, 2005
Affordable Housing and Open Space Presentation (PDF file)
December 6, 2005
Open Space, Housing Construction and Home Prices: What's the Payoff from Smart Growth? (PDF file)
Massachusetts Housing Partnership
September 2005
The Costs and Benefits of Green Affordable Housing - Executive Summary (PDF file) - September 27, 2005
New Transit Oriented Development Program, NOFA and Guidelines
September 22, 2005
New Smart Growth Criteria for Housing Programs (PDF file)
September 13, 2005

Affordable Housing & Smart Growth: A Case Study Series
Case Study #1: Wakefield Adopts Smart Growth Zoning(PDF file)
Case Study #2: Creating a New Mixed-Income, Sustainable Community: Pond View Village, Gloucester (PDF file)
Case Study #3: Bedford Builds Consensus Around Redevelopment of Deteriorated Downtown Site (PDF file)
Case Study #4: Envisioning the Transformation of an Old Mill Building and Its Neighborhood in Taunton's Weir Village (PDF file)
Powerpoint presentations on Density
National MultiHousing Council
June 23, 2005
The Practice of Low Impact Development (PDF file)
The Department of Housing and Urban Development
June 2005
A Greener Plan for Affordable Housing: How States are Using the Housing Credit to Advance Sustainability (PDF file)
The Enterprise Foundation
May 2005
From Abandonment to Opportunity: Redeveloping the Commonwealth's Brownfields (PDF file)
Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance
May 2, 2005
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Final Regulations for Chapter 40R Smart Growth Zoning (PDF file)
March 22, 2005
Fixing it First: Targeting Infrastructure Investments to Improve State Economies and Invigorate Existing Communities (PDF file)
NGA Center for Best Practices
March 2005
Job Sprawl and the Spatial Mismatch Between Blacks and Jobs (PDF file)
The Brookings Institution
February 2005
Regional Equity and Smart Growth: Opportunities for Advancing Social and Economic Justice in America (PDF file)
Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities February 2005
Final Smart Growth Zoning Legislation (PDF file) May 27, 2004
Summary of New Smart Growth Zoning Legislation (Ch. 40R)
(PDF file) - August 3, 2004
Ten Principles for Successful Development Around Transit
Urban Land Institute (PDF file)
August 2003
Promise and Challenge: Achieving Regional Equity in Greater Boston (PDF file)
PolicyLink, May 2003
Smart Communities: Curbing Sprawl at its Core (PDF file)
by Tony Proscio
Published by LISC
November 2002
Affordable Housing and Smart Growth: Making the Connection
(PDF file)
National Neighborhood Coalition
2001