Idaho Smart Growth

Guiding Principles

Generally, smart growth is defined around a list of ten principles. These include:

• Provide a variety of transportation choices.
• Mix land uses.
• Create a range of housing opportunities and choices.
• Create walkable neighborhoods.
• Encourage community and stakeholder collaboration.
• Foster distinctive, attractive communities with a strong sense of place.
• Make development decisions predictable, fair and cost effective.
• Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty and critical environmental areas.
• Strengthen and direct development towards existing communities.
• Adopt compact building patterns and efficient infrastructure design.
• Learn more about these principles in our best practices matrix