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Principles of Smart Growth
• Create a range of housing opportunities and choices.
• Create walkable neighborhoods.
• Encourage community and stakeholder collaboration.
• Foster distinctive, attractive communities with a strong sense of place.
• Make development decisions predictable, fair, and cost effective.
• Mix land uses.
• Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty, and critical environmental areas.
• Provide a variety of transportation choices.
• Strengthen and direct development towards existing communities.
• Take advantage of compact building design.
Source: Smart Growth Network
Relationship of LID to other programs
LID is compatible with the principles of smart growth and the requirements of the
U.S. Green Building Council's LEED program because LID offers prevention and
mitigation benefits that make land development much more sustainable.
LID and Smart Growth
LID is often seen as a site specific stormwater management practice, while smart
growth is often a broader vision held at a community, county, or regional level.
However, as noted in Chapter 4, an important first step in LID is incorporating
LID at the community level.
There are direct connections between LID and smart growth. For example,
principles relating to compact building design and preserving natural features
directly relate to nonstructural LID BMPs listed in Chapter 6. Upon further evalua-
tion, LID is also consistent with the larger concepts of stakeholder collaboration;
fostering communities with a strong sense of place; and implementing fair,
predictable, and cost effective development decisions.
LID and LEED
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification encour-
ages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and
development practices by creating and implementing widely understood and
accepted tools and performance criteria. LEED has developed rating systems for
a myriad of development scenarios, including new construction, existing build-
ings, commercial interiors, core and shell, schools, retail, healthcare, homes, and
neighborhood development.
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