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Empowering Citizens In Community Planning

Posted by: Brenda Meyer
Thanks to: Brenda Meyer
24 June 2005 - 2:00pm

A new guide, 'Choosing Our Community's Future' offers advice to citizens on how to plan better and 'tame' big box retailers.

"The guidebook also is intended as a helpful companion to participants in design charettes, community planning processes, symposia and seminars on planning issues, education programs for newly-elected officials and civic leaders, or for anyone who wants to get a leg up on development.

Written in everyday language by a veteran journalist and citizen advocate in conjunction with experts in various arenas, the book is easy on the eye, with an appealing format, abundant photographs and illustrative examples."

Full Story: A Citizen?s Guide to Getting the Most Out of New Development
Source: Smart Growth America, October 26, 2005
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It's a supple system; standards can be adjusted to the local rural-to-urban transect by observing and measuring local types, thus identifying the community’s best DNA to code for the future.
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