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~~ <br />SMART GROWTH ACTIVITIES <br />PREAMBLE <br />Orange County and its school districts are recognizing the benefits of using smart growth principles to <br />build and renovate schools to meet the needs of the community. Smart growth can positively affect <br />students, parents, teachers and administrators now and in the future.. Schools are among our most <br />important institutions, and can reflect and support important community values. <br />Smart Growth schools can: <br />• Inspire our,youth to embrace a way of life that preserves resources and creates and maintains <br />a sustainable legacy <br />• Develop greater community involvement <br />• Improve environmental quality <br />• Improve student health <br />• Improve academic achievement <br />• Save money <br />• Improve safety <br />Since Warld War ll private sector development has followed the inefficient and costly pattern of 'sprawl' <br />growth. This pattern, to a large degree, has become ingrained in the behavior of most people as they <br />conduct their daily activities and has driven school district facility planning. This unconscious system of <br />greater and greater reliance on automobiles has directly /ed to air pollution and health problems and <br />indirectly led to higher taxes, and to loss of time and reduced quality of life. <br />Alternative transportation methods to reduce traffic are fhe primary off-site community-wide initiatives. <br />TRANSPORTATION <br />A, MASS TRANSPORTATION <br />B. STUDENT DRIVING AND HEALTH <br />C, ROAD AND PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION AND IMPROVEMENTS <br />D. TECHNOLOGY/INNOVATION <br />ll. ENVIRONMENT AND AIR QUALITY <br />A, STORMWATER/WATERQUALlTY <br />B. ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATION <br />C.. SITE PLANNING ATTRIBUTES <br />IIL. COMMUNITYAWARENESS <br />IV, MLXED USE <br />NOTE.- Smart Growth Activities are categorized in the following headings and meanings. <br />~ RECOMMENDATIONS <br />School system to provide products of this type to be paid from capital funding ordinance process. In some <br />cases, school system coordination with local government and/or NCDOT to meet, in most cases, offsite <br />improvements. <br />z SUGGESTIONS <br />These activities are suggestions and are not requirements that ma,y act to add peripheral support of base smart <br />growth capital improvements. <br />GIWINDOWSITemporary Internet FileslCon(enf IE5195670LAFlSMART GROWTH ACTIVITIES-3 doc <br />