Reference Library

Sprawl/Smart Growth

• Achieving Smart Growth in New Hampshire
  An online report documenting how New Hampshire is changing and highlighting some positive examples of development and conservation throughout the state.
• "Managing Growth in New Hampshire: Changes and Challenges",
  Growth Management Committee Report to Governor Shaheen, December 2000
• "Report to Governor Shaheen on Sprawl, December 2001",
  New Hampshire Council on Resources and Development 2001 Annual Report on Growth Management
• "Report to Governor Shaheen on Sprawl, December 1999",
  New Hampshire Council on Resources and Development 1999 Annual Report on Growth Management
• "A Handbook on Sprawl and Smart Growth Choices for Southern New Hampshire Communities", SNHPC, August 2002
• "Eben Fodor’s 12 Myths about Urban Growth", by Donella H. Meadows
• The Smart Growth Network (SGN)
  A partnership of government, business and civic organizations that support smart growth. Since its creation in late 1996, the Network has become a storehouse of knowledge about smart growth principles, facilitating the sharing of best practices and acting as a catalyst for implementation of ideas.
• "Getting to Smart Growth II", (1.69MB file) by ICMA and the Smart Growth Network (November 2003. 122 pages.)
  Getting to Smart Growth II: 100 More Policies for Implementation is the newest primer in the ongoing series from the Smart Growth Network and ICMA, and follows on the heels of the extremely popular first volume of Getting to Smart Growth. The publication serves as a road map for states and communities that have recognized the need for smart growth but are unclear on how to achieve it.
  Like the first volume, Getting to Smart Growth II provides 10 policy options to achieve each of the 10 Smart Growth Principles. These policies are supported with ‘‘Practice Tips’’ which offer additional resources or brief case studies of communities that have applied the approach to achieve smart growth. Features of the new volume include
  • An entirely new list of 100 policies for implementation
  • More case studies and examples in each chapter
  • An appendix listing funding resources for smart growth projects.
• Many more publications and resources are available from the Smart Growth Resource Library
• New England Resources
  • GrowSmartMaine
  • Vermont Forum on Sprawl
  • New England Environmental Fianance Center
  • New Hampshire Growth and Development Roundtable
• "‘Smart growth’ effort under way in Laconia," by John Koziol, "The Citizen of Laconia", December 12, 2006
• Innovative Permitting Initiative within the Department of Environmental Services
  The New Hampshire Department of Environment Services (DES) is embarking on an exciting new agency initiative to improve our technical assistance and permitting programs to achieve superior environmental results, streamline our permitting procedures, and improve coordination with other agencies and municipalities.
• Barriers to Better Development , by Edward T. McMahon, Planning Commissioners Journal
  Despite a growing number of innovative development projects around the country, there are still a number of persistent barriers to better development.

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