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Choosing a Better Future by Eileen McLellan

This resource offers strategies for creating sustainable communities, emphasizing the importance of well-planned development. It highlights the benefits of preserving farmland, natural beauty, and critical environmental areas while fostering strong economies and complete neighborhoods. The guide encourages community input in development decisions, promoting fairness, cost-effectiveness, and predictability. It discusses tools such as environmental assessments, community engagement, and conservation design to achieve community goals. The resource covers urban containment, infrastructure planning, and revitalization efforts, stressing the role of citizens, elected officials, and businesses in shaping a sustainable future.

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Choosing a Better Future by Eileen McLellan

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  1. Choosing a Better FuturebyEileen McLellan EcoStrategies Creating sustainable communities

  2. The growth we get… The costs of poorly-planned development

  3. The growth we want…

  4. Creating a better future Preserve farmland, natural beauty, parks and critical environmental areas Create strong, healthy communities complete neighborhoods, green spaces, strong economies Encourage community input into development decisions Make development decisions fair, cost-effective and predictable

  5. Community voices, community choices: the planning cycle The breakdown of the planning cycle

  6. Plans, policies, programs and projects consistent with community goals Tools for a better future • Environmental and community assessments; • Community indicators and benchmarks; • Audits and scorecards; and • Recommendations for change. • Community empowerment and engagement; • Facilitating community dialog; • Goal-setting; • Capacity-building. • Providing support for community greening, waterfront revitalization, and ecological restoration projects; • Conservation design for development/redevelopment sites; • Creating tools and standards for development review. • Planning for: farmland protection; green infrastructure; watershed restoration; habitat conservation; hazard resilience; and parks and greenways. • Reviewing and designing: • Environmental protection, LID and hazard mitigation ordinances; • TDR, land preservation and resource stewardship programs; • Sustainable agriculture initiatives; • TMDL implementation strategies.

  7. Tools for a better future Resource land conservation Special area protection Urban containment Infrastructure: planning, adequacy, timing, financing Neigborhood revitalization Community design standards Performance standards

  8. Assessment The political cycle • Audits • Scorecards • Community indicators

  9. Everyone has a role to play Citizens Elected officials Busi- nesses

  10. For more information: • www.ecostrategies.net • ecostrategies@dmv.com • 443.480.2331

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