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S DRAFT REAi_1TY CHECK ACTION PLAN Reality Check provides a platform to promote quality growth in the region. Organizations can build on the consensus from the Reality Check exercise and summit, guiding principles and barriers and solutions. About 300 people gathered on February 24 to create visions of how the Triangle could accommodate the 1.2 million people and 700,000 jobs expected to be added to the region over the next generation. A follow-up summit on February 27 reported on the results of the exercise and surveyed the summit participants about their top principles for guiding future growth. A summary• report on the Reality Check exercise and summit is available from Triangle Tomorrow. Although each of the 28 tables mapped a unique vision, by placing Legos to indicate preferred locations far future housing and jobs, three general scenarios emerged. / CLUSTERED: A scenario that placed growth density along new and existing transit corridors, creating jobs and housing balance with more roads, encouraged a diversity of housing choices, reinvestment in urban centers and water protection (mid-range Lego stacks spaced along tmsit corridors), / COMPACT: A scenario that concentrated growth in areas with existing development within city centers and small nodes scattered throughout the region with more and improved transit, encouraged mixed use, with equitable amounts of development, and water protection as a priority. (taller Lego stoacks in fewer select locations), / DISPERSED: A growth scenario that placed mare new development on currently undeveloped areas adding more roads, encouraged mixed use, comprehensive transportation, preservation of open space, transportation and land use sink (shorter Lego stacks dispersed across the region). The attendees of the Results Summit were asked to vote on the one scenario they thought was the best example of quality growth for this region. The Clusters scenario received the mast votes, followed by Compact, then Dispersed. Taken together, these scenarios, and the individual table results they represent, present a "big picture" to help people understand various options available for quaiity growth. But despite differences in scale, scope and location, the three scenarios all have common elements that can help guide an action plan: • the need for improved transit; • more well-designed compact and walkable mixed-use development; • sustaining important green spaces and natural resources; and • jobs/housing balance.