Posted on 03/26/2023 2:16:17 PM PDT by Twotone
Smart Growth is a set of principles that guides development into more compact, interconnected, mixed use patterns. This pattern produces more vibrant communities, healthier land and has proven to be more sustainable. Smart growth development has been shown to reduce the number of miles that people travel by vehicle every day and it has also proven to use less energy overall than more sprawling communities.
Compact development does not mean exclusively high-rise or even uniform high density. It does mean higher average densities from a mix of housing types. Compact development features a mix of land uses, strong population and employment centers, interconnected streets, and design of both structures and public realm at a human scale.
As a tool for neighborhoods, planners, decision makers, and developers, Idaho Smart Growth has developed a matrix of smart growth best practices. These practices concentrate on land use policies and regulations that can lead to sustainable smart growth communities while supporting good development, good developers and great neighborhoods. It features real examples of those practices as they are being used and especially includes Idaho examples.
(Excerpt) Read more at idahosmartgrowth.org ...
Go back to California.
Anything that is labelled smart, intelligent, or sustainable should be rejected as quickly and harshly as possible. They are terms designed to trick you into freely giving away your liberty.
AMEN
You build the perfect location-—
YOU CANNOT CONTROL the population that moves there.
A few years back, a guy bought (IIRC) 350 acres west of Las Vegas. IT was considered a CLOSED CLUB setting. EVERYONE there had to be rmed & willing to defend the area.
The lots sold out in one weekend.
If only the right people are the central planners, it will work, this time, we promise!
Word salad. Either STFU or suck on the exhaust pipe of a running vehicle to save Mother Gaia.
Agenda 21. Many of the towns I live near by have it in their city statements regarding development. The once quaint city with a one-story western supply store next to the two-story feed store is now full of 5-story buildings with boutique shops on the bottom and million+ dollar condos on top.
The feed store is gone, but the western store building is still there. Now a pot shop.
“Smart growth” will be “diverse” of course—which means it will be high crime within a decade....
Smart Growth, Dumb People.
Anything with a “smart” label is a leftist game of sorts that should never be considered. This little smart idea sounds related to that 15 minute thing where we are all crowded together so we an walk anyplace such as work or shopping in 15 minutes and just love it. The article is so wordy, filled with meaningless filler words, likely designed to impress useful idiots. The Chinese are crammed together, it made it so easy to lock them down come scamdemic time.
Eff’em. I like freedom too much.
CORRECT.
Yep. And by calling some scheme “smart” or “intelligent”, it implies that disagreement is therefore stupid.
Whenever I hear about “smart” anything, my automatic response is, “Yeah? What’s so smart about it? Why is it smart?”
Fight this, fight it hard. Washington State forced it on us 20 years ago after an initiative started by a former state rep was voted down by the citizens. Can’t have citizens deciding how they want to live.
First thing that happened was a Critical Areas Ordinance where the government restricts your property for any arbitrary and capricious reasons they come up with. Then comes rural development regulations.
Say you bought 2.5 acres of raw land 20 years ago for a retirement home. You spend 15 years developing and paying for the land until the day comes you’re finally ready to break ground on your home only to find out that in the Growth Management Regs you cannot build on lots under 5 acres. Happened here.
Now, 20+ years later all the communistic land use regs that was going to make everything better did just the opposite so what do the managed growth activists do in Washington this legislative session? Ended single family home zoning in every county in the state because of the growth management artificially inflated everything related to housing.
Study Washington’s Growth Management folly, it should scare the Hell out of a free person living in Idaho. Washington State’s Growth Management Act was a nightmare act foisted onto the citizens of this state by Maria Cantwell, heard of her, when she was a loser state representative from District 1. Now, she’s our loser Jr. US Senator.
Fight this, fight it hard.
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