Resources & Links

Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition

California Policy Forum seeks to create opportunities for California citizens and leaders to meet, discuss, and find common ground on sensible long-term reforms to the state's land use, fiscal, and governmental policies.

California Center for Regional Leadership is a statewide organization established to support, facilitate, and promote innovative regional solutions to help achieve a more sustainable California.

California Futures Network is an effort to encourage "smart growth" legislation at the State level.

California Local Government Commission is a non-profit political organization giving voice to New Urbanism concerns and resource-efficient land use.

California Office of Planning and Research serves the following core functions: research staff to the Governor; comprehensive statewide planning; interagency coordination; local agency planning assistance; and management of state environmental review processes.

Congress for the New Urbanism views disinvestment in central cities, the spread of placeless sprawl, separation by race and income, environmental deterioration, loss of agricultural and forest lands, and the erosion of society's built heritage as one interrelated community-building challenge.

Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition

Metro Investment Report is the insider's guide to public investment and the best infrastructure and public investment-focused publication in Southern California.

Metropolitan Forum Project has as its central mission to increase citizen involvement in government processes.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority

New Schools / Better Neighborhoods is a civic advocacy organization formed to promote a 21st Century vision for California's urban school districts

Odyssey 20/20's primary goal is to promote public transportation systems that allow all Californians to easily travel in and around their communities.

Smart Growth America is a nationwide coalition promoting a better way to grow.

Southern California Association of Governments

The Planning Report is the insider's guide to managed growth and the best growth and development-focused publication in Southern California.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Regional Efforts

The following are links to interesting efforts at regional coalition building around growth issues currently occurring in California and elsewhere.

Envision Utah is a comprehensive program which has successfully built a base of community support for growth management issues.

Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development is hoping to assemble broad stakeholder support for a "Draft Compact for a Sustainable Bay Area."

Changing the Face of Orange County is a planning and design competition to explore ways for Orange County to absorb an additional 1 million residents during the next twenty years.

Denver Comprehensive Plan Denver has embraced growth management and undertaken extensive efforts at community education, as evidenced in this plan.

Housing the Next 10 Million is a visioning effort spearheaded by the Great Valley Center to get people thinking about how to accommodate forecasted explosive growth in the Central Valley.

Livable Places is a new organization dedicated to neighborhood revitalization, affordable housing and transit-oriented development in Los Angeles County.

Portland Metro 2020 Project is an overview of and update on Portland's much-referenced urban growth boundary and growth management program.

South Coast Simulation Model Project is a growth forecasting and modeling project currently underway in the Santa Barbara area.