Quality Growth Guiding Principles
As we completed the collaborative work to create tools and resources specific to our region’s needs for the Quality Growth Toolbox, we also jointly developed principles to guide our region’s future development. If followed, these principles will guide planning and development decisions and actions that will ensure that we grow in a quality way and ensure our long-term competitiveness.
- Guide our communities' growth and comprehensive, community plans
- Update zoning, subdivision and building codes to implement community plans
- Use design to protect and enhance our region's diversity of community character
- Redevelop and strengthen our region's cities, towns and rural communities to ensure a range of unique lifestyle choices
- Create a variety of housing choices for our region's diverse workforce
- Conserve our region's land, water and natural resources for our future economic, health and cultural well-being
- Link land use and transportation planning to promote an integrated framework to guide growth and development
- Guide public and private investment to efficiently use pre-existing infrastructure and developed land
- Think and act regionally to ensure our future livability and economic vitality