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3. Looking at the broader cost-benefit picture and developing creative financial arrangements can be key ingredients in successful efforts. Counties can save money and acquire better sites by establishing an early acquisition fund to buy sites in advance of need. Counties can promote smart growth siting and designs by offering school boards incentive funds if school smart growth principles are followed. Comparative costs for larger vs. smaller schools should look at the cost per graduate, not per student, as smaller schools tend to have better graduation rates.. Resources There is a growing literature on smart growth and schools. Selected documents include: • Snzart Gtowth Schools: A Fact Sheet, National Trust for I-Iistoric Preservation. http://www.nationaltrust.ora/issues/schools/schools_smartarowth facts.pdf • Education and Stuart Growth Reversing School Sprawl for Better Schools and Communities. Funders' Network For Smart Growth.. http://www.fundersnetwork.or~/ust_doc/education paper.pdf • Good Schools -Good Neighborhoods: The Impacts of State and Local School Board Policies on the Design and Location of Schools in North Carolina. UNC Center for Urban and Regional Studies. http://curs.une.edu/ • Ni.rtoric Neig/zborhood Schools in the Age oJSprarvl: Why Jo/uuz,y Can't Wallr to School, National Trust for Historic Preservation, http://www.nationaltrmst.orQ/issues/schoolsRpt.pdf • Se/tools as Centers of Connnaniry A Citizen's Guide for Planning and Design. U,S. Department of L-ducation. http://www.cefpi.or~/pdf/schools.pdf • Travel and Environnzentnl Lnpacts of School Siting. U,S. Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.epa.QOV/livability/school travel.hun These and other documents are available from the T7COG staff. For more information on high performance guidelines or green building and schools, see the TJCOG web site: hum//www.tico~.dst.nc.us/lrnRttnf.hdn An excellent resource for documents and web sites on smart growth schools is the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities at: http://www.edfacilities.orR/rl/smarC~rowth.cfm Smart Growth is a pattern of development in the region that sustains community and economic development; strong neighborhoods with diverse housing, cotmnercial, and transportation options; and healthy communities with a clean environment Smart Growth: • provides choicer in housing and transportation, • makes efficient ztse of public investments such as schools and transportation systems, • safeguards community and environmental values. In the Research Triangle Region, smart growth is exemp]ified by eight regional development, conservation and mobility principles adopted by the Triangle J Council of Governments, the Greater Triangle Regional Council and the Triangle Smart Growth Coalition, available at: ftp://ftp,tjeog.org/pub/webftp/regprin.pdf Triangle J Council of Governments Smart Growth Committee E.Ilen Recklrow, Durham County, Committee Chair Staff`..7ohn Hodges-Copple, Ben Hitchings http: //www.. tjcog. d st, nc, us/ January 2004