Principles of Smart Growth (See Expanded Principles)
- Create Range of Housing Opportunities and Choices
- Create Walkable Neighborhoods
- Encourage Community and Stakeholder Collaboration
- Foster Distinctive, Attractive Communities with a Strong Sense of Place
- Make Development Decisions Predictable, Fair and Cost Effective
- Mix Land Uses
- Preserve Open Space, Farmland, Natural Beauty and Critical Environmental Areas
- Provide a Variety of Transportation Choices
- Strengthen and Direct Development Towards Existing Communities
- Take Advantage of Compact and Green Building Design
Boone County Smart Growth meets at 7:15 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month at the Roger B. Wilson County Government Center, Council Chambers (Northwest entrance) on Courthouse Square.
See you there and bring a friend who is concerned about how Columbia and Boone County is growing and what will be preserved in the process.
Contact us at: BCSGC@yahoo.com or
Ben Londeree, BCSGC Chair: londereeb@missouri.edu
(573)445-2550
THIS TUESDAY NIGHT, MAY 18TH AT 7:00 p.m.
We cordially invite you to hear Barbara Buffaloe discuss her new role and responsibilities as Sustainability Manager at a public meeting on Tuesday, May 18, 7:00 p.m. at the Boone County Government Building. Please join us for refreshments and conversation at 6:30 p.m. This event is hosted by the League of Women Voters of Columbia-Boone County, Smart Growth and the Osage Group, Sierra Club.
