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Choose A Smart Growth Principle:
Mix Land Uses
Take Advantage of Compact Building Patterns
Provide a Range of Housing Opportunities
Create Walkable Neighborhoods
Promote Attractive Communities with a Strong Sense of Place
Preserve Open Space, Forests and Farms, and Natural Areas
Strengthen and Direct Development to Existing Communities
Provide a Range of Transportation Choices
Make Development Decisions Predictable, Fair and Cost-Effective
Encourage Community and Stakeholder Collaboration in Development Decisions
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  About LandOf.org

LandOf.org is an information salon for Minnesota developers, municipalities and the public to learn about growing smarter. It is a map to the next Minnesota. It shows how our communities can adapt to living patterns that are more efficient, better for our health, better for our planet’s wellbeing, better for our country’s security and prosperity.

LandOf.org sees the future not as bitter medicine forced upon us, but an opportunity to live in greater harmony with our environment and one another. Our treasured Land of 10,000 Lakes can be better than ever if we make smart decisions.

 

 

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Made possible, in part, by a grant from the McKnight Foundation, LandOf.org is housed in the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy.


Contributors

Jim Erkel, attorney and program director of Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy

Steve Berg, writer for MinnPost, author and consultant

Jason Inskeep, communications support

Maggie Frazier, communications support

 

 

Get Involved with LandOf.org

Know of an example of great (or poor) land use? Have great Minnesota photography? Have land use policy language that would be useful to others? There are so many ways you can contribute to LandOf.org—email us with questions, comments or suggestions.

info@landof.org