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The following case studies illustrate aspects of Smart Growth that are taking place throughout Essex County, from adaptive reuse to farmland preservation, our own everyday choices can have a great effect on the pattern of our landscapes.
Amesbury
Ipswich
Lawrence
Sewering and Smart Growth
Sprawl and Agriculture
Smart Growth fosters sustainable communities by preserving and enhancing a community's character through managed development. Ecological health, neighborhood livability, transportation choices and thriving downtowns are the result of Smart Growth planning. While growth and sprawl can be synonymous, sprawl connotes unplanned, residential and commercial development that does not take advantage of pre-existing transportation or physical infrastructures that are critical aspects of Smart Growth
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