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Environmental Issues--Land Use Planning/Smart Growth

• Current Bills
• Studies, Reports, Publications, etc.
• Related Links

• Senate Bill 1251: Massachusetts Liveable Communitites Act  (2003 version)
  The Livable Communities Act, sponsored by Senator Marc Pacheco and Representative Thomas O'Brien.
• Massachusetts Liveable Communitites Act--Fact Sheet
• Sustainable Development Act
• Cellucci's "Surplus Property"

• What Price Home Rule?, Jim Gomes, Boston Globe Op-Ed, June 8, 2002

• Does Sprawl Reduce the Black/White Housing Consumption Gap? --a report from Tufts Professor Matthew Kahn.

• The Environmental Impact of Suburbanization --by Professor Matthew Kahn

• Barriers to Housing Zoning Subcommittee Report -- Minority Report comments included within --(August 2001)

• Testimony on H5286, Disposition of Surplus Property

• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
  The Institute is dedicated to improving the quality of debate and disseminating knowledge of critical issues in land use and tax policy through professional development courses, research and publications.

• EPA-New England Library
  Smart Growth Suggested Resources

• Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse
  The Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse is a resource center which provides information, advice, and referrals on issues related to sprawl and smart growth.

• The Smart Growth Network
  The Smart Growth Network helps create national, regional, and local coalitions to encourage metropolitan development that is environmentally smart, fiscally smart, economically and socially smart.
  • Smart Growth Network Resources
    Growth management-related readings and links.

• The Sierra Club's Sprawl Page
  The Sierra Club posts articles and fact sheets on sprawl issues throughout the country, a Challenge to Sprawl Toolkit, and an overview of their Sprawl Campaign efforts.

• Also see the Land Banks/Community Preservation Act page.