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Goal: Smart Communities: Suggested Revision

This document discusses the goal of creating smart communities that are well-designed, energy-efficient, and connected to jobs, transit and services through varied housing types and densities. It suggests communities should enhance affordable transportation options to reduce car dependence and improve sustainability, air quality and reduce traffic. Key factors in changing communities are discussed, as well as partners that can help and strategies that may make a measurable difference like eliminating car trips through education, codes, and financing smart growth.

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Goal: Smart Communities: Suggested Revision

This document discusses the goal of creating smart communities that are well-designed, energy-efficient, and connected to jobs, transit and services through varied housing types and densities. It suggests communities should enhance affordable transportation options to reduce car dependence and improve sustainability, air quality and reduce traffic. Key factors in changing communities are discussed, as well as partners that can help and strategies that may make a measurable difference like eliminating car trips through education, codes, and financing smart growth.

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Goal: Smart Communities

Well-designed, energy-efficient housing of


varied types and densities linked to jobs,
transit, and services. Affordable and
convenient transportation options should
be enhanced to reduce our car-
dependence, conserve resources,
improve air quality, and reduce traffic
Suggested revision: congestion.
“Smart communities are affordable, healthy, energy-
efficient communities with a sense of place.”
Content Experts: Hon. Parris Glendening, Andrea Sarzynski, Hal Wolman

M-NCPPC Healthy and Sustainable Communities Workshop


June 25 & 26, 2008
Indicators

Development Near Transit Jobs-Housing Ratio


% of Housing within
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Featured Proposed Alternate Indicators
• % of new building permits that are LEED certified
• % of daily trips (people avg. 7 trips per day) are able to be done by
walking or by transit
• % of access to public transit to where they want to go (relevance)
• Affordability
•• Mixed-Use Index
• Income diversity
• % of people within 20 minute walking / transit distance of their
normal everyday activities (groceries, libraries, open spaces,
schools, cultural events, etc.)
• Per capita/household energy use
• “Happiness index”

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The Factors
• Constantly changing county
• Traditional financing methods
• Access to public wealth is a measure of a community members
success
• 70% of people live in cul-de-sac communities
• Subsidies for highways & development
• Political pressure & economics changed the original intent of the
community (satellite cities, not bedroom communities)
• Mansion-ization of communities
• Private sector perspective understood
• Externality costs – don’t just charge average costs
• Current state of public transit
Key Partners with a Role to Play

• Did not get to this portion

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What Will Work to Make a
Measurable Difference
o Eliminate 2 of the 7 trips taken per day by car
•o Prices change behavior (ex: triple the gasoline tax to decrease amount of car trips)
•o People should pay the full cost of their choices
•o Public education on Smart Communities
•o Radical Code revision
•o Increase collaboration among government entities
•o Increase people’s choices in communities (cul-de-sac vs. urban/walkable)
•o Build to highest, most energy efficient code
•o Creative Financing (subsidize smart growth)
•o Rebuilding “the Commons” – public space/resources
•o Re-zone communities to higher densities to put in “missing pieces”
•o Re-develop neighborhood shopping centers to include “missing pieces”
•o Use $ earmarked for the ICC to public transportation
•o Financing additional modes of travel – bike paths, public transit, walk-ability
•o Look at the greenhouse gas impact of proposed roads
•o Improve accessibility – do an accessibility audit of each community & respond to
each communities needs

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