Submit Your Smart Growth Development Project
If you have a proposed smart growth development or project now in the planning stages, the Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance invites you to submit an application for preliminary or final recognition. Please forward this information to any interested parties.

To be eligible, the project must be located in Eastern or Central Pennsylvania (including Dauphin County), Southern New Jersey (including Mercer County and south) or Delaware, and must not have received all of its required approvals. The deadline for this round is December 1, 2007.

The Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance is a collaborative initiative of more than 200 government, private sector and non-profit organizations in the tri-state region. We support and promote good smart growth projects at the earliest stages by helping them get approved at the local level. Each quarter, applications are reviewed by an independent jury of architects, planners, developers, builders, bankers, engineers, and other related disciplines. Projects recognized to be in compliance with the DVSGA's published smart growth criteria receive a letter of endorsement and an offer of testimony before local approval authorities. All applications are confidential; if you seek recognition and are not recognized, it will not be disclosed.

The DVSGA recognizes projects that will foster regional growth and redevelopment in a manner that achieves important economic, environmental and quality of life objectives. By highlighting the potential of smart growth projects to add value to the region, the DVSGA hopes to encourage developers, business organizations, citizen groups and elected officials to strive for smart growth solutions.

To date, the DVSGA has granted preliminary and/or full recognition to 17 proposed projects. We hope you will consider submitting a project for preliminary or final recognition. You can download an application, as well as the criteria and the list of more than 200 supporting organizations and companies, from www.delawarevalleysmartgrowth.org. If you have any questions, please call. We look forward to recognizing your project!

We also invite you to register for and attend the DVSGA’s 4th Annual Educational Symposium, this year on the subject of “How to Capitalize on Our Region’s Airports.” A key tenet of smart growth is to maximize the public sector investment in infrastructure facilities such as airports, and to make decisions consistent with smart growth policies to plan for and attract appropriate and sustainable land uses. We have a great lineup of speakers – please see the attached PDFs and we hope to see you there!

Susan Baltake
Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance
phone 856-616-8311
fax 856-354-9048

Learn more, download information, criteria and application at www.delawarevalleysmartgrowth.org