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Smart Bylaws Guide – Checklists and Scorecards
A
variety of tools exist to help municipalities, citizens and
developers to evaluate the effects of new developments and of
existing planning practices. Checklists,
scorecards and matrixes designed by local governments or non-profit
organizations set out comprehensive criteria through which
developments can be screened.
These
resources can be used in a variety of ways.
Municipal staff, planning commissions, and elected officials
can tailor the tools to local circumstances and use them as a
consistent evaluation mechanism.
Citizens can use the scorecards to determine how well a
development fits into a neighbourhood, and to compare it to other
developments. Developers
can use these tools to demonstrate the performance of their project
when compared with municipal goals.
City of Austin staff use their Smart Growth Matrix to
determine whether to provide municipal assistance to new
developments. The results from checklists and scorecards are also a useful
baseline for discussion among municipal staff, citizens and the
development community.
Finally,
the checklists and scorecards that are designed to evaluate
municipal plans and bylaws can point out whether or not a
municipality has the right smart growth strategies in place to
create more liveable communities.
1. Evaluation of Development Proposals
2. Evaluation of Local Government Processes and Regulations
3. Transit and Transportation Scorecards
4. Checklists for Local Government Implementation of Sustainable
Infrastructure
5. Local Government Sustainability Performance Monitoring Programs
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