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2008 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement Booklet

2008 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement
Download the 2008 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement Booklet (PDF). EPA Region 8 Headquarters Building, Denver, CO: Photo courtesy of Robert Canfield.

Through the National Award for Smart Growth Achievement, EPA recognizes and support communities that use innovative policies and strategies to strengthen their economies, provide housing and transportation choices, develop in ways that bring benefits to a wide range of residents, and protect the environment.

The 2008 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement Booklet includes:

  • A message from the EPA Administrator
  • How smart growth protects the environment
  • About the award
  • Descriptions and photographs of each award winner
  • Continuing achievements of past award winners

The winners are:

Farmers market with people shopping
Some street sections can be closed occasionally to auto traffic to allow popular pedestrian-oriented activities such as this farmers market. Photo courtesy of Lee Sobel.

Overall Excellence in Smart Growth

Downtown Silver Spring Redevelopment Project
Silver Spring Regional Center, Silver Spring, Maryland

A strong community vision, public investments, partnerships with the private sector, a great location, and transportation choices worked together to create this model for inner-ring suburban renaissance.


Policies and Regulations

park with a fountain
As a result of an LCI-funded study, the city of Duluth revitalized its downtown by adding homes and commercial space and creating a new town green. Photo courtesy of award winner.

Livable Centers Initiative
Atlanta Regional Commission, Metropolitan Atlanta Region, Georgia

Created to help the Atlanta region meet air-quality goals, the Livable Centers Initiative uses federal transportation funds to help communities plan transportation improvements in concert with revitalization of existing centers and corridors.

For an update on this project, see the “How Smart Growth Protects the Environment” section of the 2009 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement booklet.


Built Projects

Attractive new building at a street corner
The once-contaminated auto-body shop now provides a commercial and residential anchor for the neighborhood. Photo courtesy of award winner.

Egleston Crossing
Urban Edge Housing Corporation, Roxbury, Massachusetts

Egleston Crossing helped renew a neglected corridor in Boston's Roxbury and Jamaica Plain neighborhoods with two new buildings that used green building techniques and provided new amenities and much-needed affordable housing.


Equitable Development

Attractive multistory building reflected in water
Built along a former industrial channel, the Mission Creek Senior Community combines affordable housing options for seniors with the benefits of urban living. Photo courtesy of award winner.

Mission Creek Senior Community
Mercy Housing California and San Francisco Housing Authority, San Francisco, California

Mission Creek Senior Community transformed a brownfield into an attractive, mixed-use, low-income senior community. It is a classic example of successful collaboration between nonprofit organizations, local government agencies, for-profit entities, and citizens.

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Last updated on July 8, 2021
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