Want to know more about smart growth and planning issues?  The resources listed below will provide an overview of planning issues.  Some files are large and may take a few minutes to download.

What is Form-Based Zoning?

Form-Based Zoning explains the principle differences between Form-Based and Traditional Zoning. 

Like to see some examples of Form-Based Code projects? Click Here. 

 What are the challenges associated with growth?

Growing Pains describes the challenges that rapid growth can present to local and state governments and ways that those challenges may be addressed.

Measuring Sprawl and Its Impact is a report by Smart Growth America that provides a method of measuring and defining sprawl in cities across the U.S. and attempts to quantify the impacts of sprawl.

What is Smart Growth?

Smart Growth: Myth and Fact discusses some common misconceptions about smart growth principles and provides a good overview of smart growth issues.

Smart Choices provides an overview of smart growth issues and provides illustrations from across the country.

Smart Growth; Building Better Places to Live, Work, and Play describes the housing issues faced by growing communities.

Getting to Smart Growth describes the 10 main principles of Smart Growth and describes how communities can integrate these principles into their development.

Other resources:

Protecting Water Resources with Higher Density Development is a report by the EPA that describes ways communities may grow without endangering their water resources.

Planning Communities for the 21st Century is a report from the American Planning Association that describes the legal framework for planning across the country and efforts to modernize state planning statutes.