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Highlights
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Newsroom
- State of Vermont Receives EPA Smart Growth Assistance
- Spokane Tribe to Receive EPA Smart Growth Assistance
- EPA Provides Technical Assistance to Upstate New York County to Promote Smart Growth Strategies
- EPA to Provide Three New York Communities with Smart Growth Assistance
- EPA to Provide Three New Jersey Communities with Smart Growth Assistance
- 2011 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement
- Federal Partners Unite to Help Rural Communities with Environmental and Economic Goals
- EPA, HUD, DOT Mark Partnership for Sustainable Communities Second Anniversary
- EPA Offers Sustainable Communities Building Blocks Technical Assistance Program
EPA helps communities grow in ways that expand economic opportunity, protect public health and the environment, and create and enhance the places that people love. Through research, tools, partnerships, case studies, grants, and technical assistance, EPA is helping America's communities turn their visions of the future into reality.
EPA has joined the Partnership for Sustainable Communities with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U. S. Department of Transportation to help improve access to affordable housing, more transportation options, and lower transportation costs while protecting the environment in communities nationwide. Read more...
Announcements
Greening America's Capitals: EPA is seeking letters of interest from state capitals that want to develop using smart growth and green building principles. Letters of interest are due June 29. Learn more about Greening America's Capitals. View the request for letters of interest (PDF) (5 pp, 604K, About PDF).
Smart Growth Speaker Series - The Suburban Office: Understanding the Past to Redesign the Future: On Tuesday, June 19, 12:30-1:30, Louise Mozingo will speak at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. Author of Pastoral Capitalism: A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes, Ms. Mozingo will discuss the history of the suburban office and ideas for redesigning workplaces. This event is free. Please register with the National Building Museum 
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Subscribe to EPA's NEW Smart Growth Listserv! Subscribers will receive occasional e-mails from the Office of Sustainable Communities about new events, publications, and more. Please note: if you are on our existing mailing list, you must sign up by June 8 to continue to receive updates.
Save the date! The New Partners for Smart Growth Conference will be held in Kansas, City, MO, Feb. 7-9, 2013. Visit http://www.newpartners.org for details.
A National Conversation on the Future of Our Communities: The Smart Growth Network has issued a call for papers on new ideas in community planning, design, and development. Join the conversation!
A San Diego Showcase for Equitable Development and Environmental Justice: "Earlier this winter, I stepped off a bus into the brilliant sunshine. As I walked into a brightly painted neighborhood, I was greeted by residents wearing traditional Samoan clothing...." Read the latest blog on smart growth from an Office of Sustainable Communities staff member.
Essential Smart Growth Fixes for Rural Planning, Zoning, and Development Codes (PDF) (52 pp, 4.8MB, About PDF): This new report from EPA offers ten essential fixes to help rural communities amend their codes, ordinances, and development requirements to promote more environmentally and economically sustainable growth.
Smart Growth Implementation Assistance: On March 1, EPA announced the recipients of Smart Growth Implementation Assistance for 2012. Visit the Newsroom for recent press releases.
Mom, Will You Drive Me to the Mall? "Are you sick of having to ask your parents to drive you everywhere? Sick of sitting in traffic on the way to school…." Read the latest blog on smart growth from an Office of Sustainable Communities staff member.
EPA has selected 56 communities in 26 states to receive technical assistance through the Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities program.
About Smart Growth
Learn about smart growth issues and environmental benefits. Find information about specific topics, resources, and examples of smart growth development, including the National Award for Smart Growth Achievement.
Publications
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Grants and Funding
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Making Smart Growth Happen
Find tools and information to help you improve your community: technical assistance, educational opportunities, tools for communities, partnerships, and the New Partners for Smart Growth Annual Conference.
New Resources
- Essential Smart Growth Fixes for Rural Planning, Zoning, and Development Codes 2012 (PDF) (52 pp, 4.8MB)
- Strategies for Sustainable Communities: A Guidebook Based on California Community Types
- Supporting Sustainable Rural Communities
- Iowa Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Report
- Greening America's Capitals: Little Rock, Arkansas
- Guide to Sustainable Transportation Performance Measures
- Greening America's Capitals: Boston's City Hall Plaza
- Greening America's Capitals: Charleston, West Virginia
- Greening America's Capitals: Jefferson City, Missouri
- Public Involvement Plan and Toolkit for Las Cruces
- Mixed-Use Trip Generation Model
- Greening America's Capitals: Hartford, Connecticut
- Location Efficiency and Housing Type – Boiling it Down to BTUs
- Market Acceptance of Smart Growth