A Power Point presentation on Smart Growth, by Alex Graziani, from the Smart Growth Partnership of Westmoreland County. This Power Point was presented at the SWPA Housing Alliance's Smart Growth and Housing Round Table (April, 2008).

1. ` Helping to build healthy, safe and livable communities.

4. W estmoreland C ounty Selected Land Use Statistics Land Preserved and Ag Security Area – 210,748 Acres (32%) Land Developed – 77,066 Acres (12%) Pre 1967 Developed Land – 52,104 Acres Post 1967 Developed Land – 24,962 Acres Vacant, or unprotected farms or forests, and very low density residential -368,186 Acres Acres per year developed since 1967 - 693.39Acres a. Slightly more than 1/10 of 1% of the county is being developed per year b. Land development growth rate of 1.2% per year Total Acres 656,000 Legend Post 1967 Developed Land Pre 1967 Developed Land Preserved Land

8. MIXED LAND USES

10. COMPACT BUILDING DESIGN Conventional Development Smart Growth Development

13. HOUSING CHOICES

17. COMMUNITIES OF DISTINCTION

23. TRANSPORTATION CHOICES

25. COST EFFECTIVE Roads Utilities Schools 25% less 15% less 5% less Source: Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Alternative Land Use Patterns , by Robert Burchell, Rutgers University

27. PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT “ I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves. And if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.” Thomas Jefferson - 18 September 1820

29. SMART GROWTH Conventional Development Smart Growth Development

30. Yield Perspective Smart Growth Perspective

31. CONCEPTUAL DEMONSTRATION PLAN Phase 1 (0-5 years) Phase 2 (5-10 years) Phase 3 (10-30 years)

33. THANK YOU !