GIS Greenprint Tools for Quality Growth 

The GIS GreenPrint Tools for Quality Growth web-based publication and project is a significant part of the Quality Growth Toolbox Pilot Project and was also identified as a needed key regional project in the Proceedings of the CRT Lincoln Institute for Land Policy Clinic for Regional Collaboration in 2006. 

Included as a key regional strategy in the Conserving Our Region's Land, Water, Natural and Cultural Resources Chapter of the CRT Quality Growth Toolbox, this resource fulfills the need for a regional GIS based decision making tool that can be used by local and state government planners to insure access to and knowledge of critical lands for conservation.  The information in this report is intended to provide a better basis for decision making as projected impacts and costs of land use and transportation decisions are being made and land resource conservation priorities are included in local and regional plans.   Consolidated GIS information can also assist other lead agencies identify and establish land, water, natural and cultural resource priorities and use existing resources for strategic land conservation within the scope of their activities and missions.