Advantages of Smart Growth and Development

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Municipalities

• Reduces municipal infrastructures and utility maintenance costs
• Balances growth needs with environmental protection
• Protects regional flora and fauna
• Increases collaborative public and private partnerships

Developers

• Reduces clearing and grading costs
• Potentially reduces infrastructure costs (streets, curbs, gutters, sidewalks)
• Reduces storm water management costs
• Potentially reduces impact fees and increases lot yields
• Increases lot and community marketability
• Preserves existing vegetation
• (Tree preservation) Provides free instant landscaping

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Environment

• Preserves the integrity of ecological and biological systems
• Protects site and regional water quality by reducing sediment, nutrient and toxic loads to water bodies
• Reduces impacts to local terrestrial and aquatic plants and animals
• Preserves trees and natural vegetation

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