EPA SmartGrowth Implementation Assistance
Deadline: March 8, 2007
The Development, Community, and Environment Division in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation is accepting applications for the SmartGrowth Implementation Assistance program. Through this program, a team of multidisciplinary experts will provide free technical assistance to communities, regions, or states that want to develop in ways that meet environmental and other local or regional goals.
Suggested projects include:
* Encouraging specific SmartGrowth techniques like transit-oriented development.
* Directing your state department of transportation investments to better support SmartGrowth.
* Using SmartGrowth to reach economic development goals.
* Ensuring that school investments help your state or community meet multiple goals.
* Retrofitting a commercial corridor.
* Coordinating your community's SmartGrowth design with an active aging program.
Communities, regions, and states around the country are interested in building stronger neighborhoods, protecting their environmental resources, enhancing public health, and planning for development, but they may lack the tools, resources, or information to achieve these goals. EPA can help you to overcome these roadblocks by providing evaluation tools and expert analysis.
EPA is soliciting applications from states or communities that want help with either policy analysis or public participatory processes. Selected communities will receive assistance in the form of a multi-day visit from a team of experts organized by EPA and other national partners to work with local leaders.
For more information and application materials, visit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
