Treasure Valley Futures
This innovative federally funded project studied the links between transportation and land use. Idaho Smart Growth played a pivotal leadership role increasing the projects vision, diverse reach, and public awareness with our involvement, and building strong relationships with area communities, policymakers, and leaders. We were a major player in the portion of the project that documented, projected, and visually represented current growth and transportation trends in the region.
The Barriers Forum
A forum on barriers to smart growth, From Neighborhood to Region: Overcoming Barriers to Building Better Communities, was spearheaded by Idaho Smart Growth as part of TVF. One hundred community leaders representing 12 interest areas identified barriers that make it difficult to build smart growth communities. Idaho Smart Growth worked with regional partners to implement ten action steps recommended to remedy the barriers identified.
The Toolkit
The final product of the TVF, which Idaho Smart Growth compiled, edited, and designed, is the Toolkit of Alternative Choices. The toolkit defines sustainable and livable community patterns and identifies specific tools that communities can use to transform the physical pattern of growth to minimize its negative impacts. It includes strategies to address the barriers to smart growth and uses case studies to illustrate the tools. Because of our leadership role in the TVF project, we are now being regularly asked to help leaders and community groups to implement the toolkit and other policy recommendations of the project. (For more information on TVF, see www.tvfutures.org.)
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