I can agree with these principles. What's missing, though, is the accommodation for population growth and prosperity for all citizens. Without these added, the principles are a recipe for population and growth control, that unspoken hidden agenda of many groups that sponsor the Smart Growth Collaborative.
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• Maintains the historic development pattern of compact village and urban centers separated by rural countryside.
• Develops compact mixed-use centers at a scale appropriate for the community and the region.
• Enables choice in modes of transportation.
• Protects the state's important environmental, natural and historic features, including natural areas, water quality, scenic resources, historic sites and districts.
• Serves to strengthen agricultural and forest industries and minimizes conflicts of development with these industries.
• Balances growth with the availability of economic and efficient public utilities and services.
• Supports a diversity of viable businesses in downtowns and villages, including locally-owned businesses.
• Provides for housing that meets the needs of a diversity of social and income groups in each community.
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