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3 Defining Smart Growth Smart growth is a more current manifestation of the 1970s' growth-management movement and has been promoted for various reasons. Smart-growth design generally includes compact development (moderate to modestly high density)
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4 Smart Growth and Urban Goods Movement distances between trip origins and destinations are short enough to support non-motorized transportation options such as walking or bicycling. Transit is also more effective at serving dense, mixed-use nodes or corridors.
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Defining Smart Growth 5 To achieve these goals, local jurisdictions (e.g., cities and counties) are required to develop a comprehensive plan that describes how anticipated population and employment growth and associated infrastructure needs will be met.
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6 Smart Growth and Urban Goods Movement scale of this disease (Ewing et al. 2002; McLellan and Borak 2005)
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Defining Smart Growth 7 study, it still suggests that people living in areas with a better jobs-housing balance have shorter commute trips -- a consequence of incorporating many of the smart-growth principles. 2.1.2 Consequences of Reduced Trip Length The most marked positive consequence of a reduction in trip length relates to the improvement in air quality.
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8 Smart Growth and Urban Goods Movement fewer vehicle trips than their suburban counterparts. Further, residing within the CBD lowered the likelihood of auto ownership, with non-auto owners residing in the CBD traveling within a 7-square-kilometer radius, compared with a 25-kilometer radius for one-car households and a 100-kilometer radius for suburban households owning four vehicles.
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Defining Smart Growth 9 decision-making process. In other words, all else being equal, a smart-growth environment with many activities within walking distance of a residence would be preferable to a residence that offers poorer access and walkability.
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10 Smart Growth and Urban Goods Movement Gottlieb (1995) conducted a study of firm location choices in New Jersey and found that firms consider the availability of amenities in categories such as business, traffic, crime, pollution, recreation, and public education and services in likely areas where their employees would locate.
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Defining Smart Growth 11 and development are occurring, rather than where it would be easier for development to occur in the future. Given that some of the previous smart-growth features do not directly affect goods movement, separating out the components of smart growth that do, and do not, relate to goods movement is useful.
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