VISION: A Smart Growth Organization
Mission
VISION joins with others to promote more liveable, economically sustainable, and environmentally responsible growth on Long Island through Smart Growth. Smart Growth focuses on infill, re-development, and open space preservation. It supports mixed-use, mixed-income communities that are convenient, attractive, pedestrian-friendly, and that make affordable housing and public transportation desirable and realistic. A key objective is to strengthen communities from the start by actively involving local stakeholders in planning.
Goals
- Comprehensive planning involving all stakeholders to yield consensus-based visions addressing long- and short-term needs of communities and the region as a whole
- Land use decisions that incorporate economic development considerations including the need for workforce housing, environmental concerns, and a broad array of quality-of-life issues
- Compact development that is pedestrian-friendly, reduces automobile dependency, and is focused around existing or newly designed transportation centers
- Zoning codes, land-use regulations, and street design standards that enable and provide adequate incentives to facilitate Smart Growth development
Implementing Smart Growth on Long Island
- Smart Growth Education and Training: Delivering nearly 1200 presentations to government, business, and community groups
- Smart Growth Advocacy and Policy Development: Advocacy helping shape more than 20 code, policy, and regulatory changes. These efforts culminate in broadly supported “Blueprints for Smart Growth,” informing planning regionwide
- Community Visioning and Charrette Planning: Work in 15 communities on visionings, charrettes & the advancement of community projects
- Design and Technical Assistance: Implementing downtown, commercial corridor, and infill development plans. Key projects include affordable housing, addressing gentrification, clean energy, and green building
- Convening Regional Leadership and Smart Growth: Hosting the Smart Growth Summit, Smart Growth Awards, and special worksessions
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Vision's Principles
Vision's Board of Directors
Vision's Strategy
