Idaho Smart Growth

2009 Idaho Smart Growth Accomplishments

• Thanks to Oliver Russell, Idaho Smart Growth launched a new website and a new logo than enable us to more effectively provide information
• We launched a members-only breakfast series with national experts Anne Canby, Jacky Grimshaw, and Dan Kemmis which brought in new members
• Idaho Smart Growth updated our scorecards and launched our “Smart Growth Best Practices in Idaho” toolkit.
• Received a Gold Transportation Champion May in Motion Award
• Idaho Smart Growth formed the Idaho Transportation Choices Coalition, which includes more than 60 groups and individuals, who meets monthly to further their goal to “work together to educate our members and the public on transportation alternatives and to build a base of support for funding effective and efficient public transportation systems in Idaho”
• Collaborated with the Urban Land Institute on a series of workshops and a report on creating quality infill which will make it easier to develop quality infill projects that fit in with existing neighborhoods.
• Provided assistance to 17 communities around Idaho, including presentations and trainings to community groups, policy input on local and regional planning, building coalitions, and community outreach.
• Collaborated with the University of Idaho, Boise State University, the Urban Land Institute, the Idaho chapter of the American Planning Association, the Idaho Association of Counties and others to conduct a statewide land use analysis.  Held more than 20 focus groups around the state, received more than 200 written survey responses, and analyzed the comprehensive plans of every county and many cities.  From this analysis, we will be able to effectively and efficiently direct our work to help communities in Idaho on their most important land use issues.
• Partnered with Resource Media to train more than 30 planners, decision makers, neighborhood groups, and citizens in north Idaho in order to help them communicate more effectively about sustainable growth and development.
• Partnering with Idaho Conservation League and the Land Trust of the Treasure Valley, Idaho Smart Growth conducted an online survey as well as a series of public workshops on open space in Meridian, Garden City, Eagle, Boise, and Kuna and released a report on the findings. 
• Collaborated with Working Lands Coalition on outreach and education to build a base for conserving working lands in Idaho.
• See our current projects for 2010