Principles of Smart Growth (See Expanded Principles)

1. Create Range of Housing Opportunities and Choices
2. Create Walkable Neighborhoods
3. Encourage Community and Stakeholder Collaboration
4. Foster Distinctive, Attractive Communities with a Strong Sense of Place
5. Make Development Decisions Predictable, Fair and Cost Effective
6. Mix Land Uses
7. Preserve Open Space, Farmland, Natural Beauty and Critical Environmental Areas
8. Provide a Variety of Transportation Choices
9. Strengthen and Direct Development Towards Existing Communities
10. 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

 

--CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER--

Demand Side Energy Management Program January 6th, 2010

There will be a program on Demand Side Energy Management at 7:15 pm on Wednesday, January 6 in the Commission Chambers of the Boone County Government Center - just east of the Boone County Courthouse.  Tina Worley will describe Columbia’s management program and Dick Parker will describe Austin, TX’s management program.  The Program is sponsored by the Boone County Smart Growth Coalition. 

Ben Londeree
Chair, BCSGC