Livable Communities Toolkit
Livable Communities Toolkit: A Best Practices Manual For Metropolitan Regions.  This toolkit presents practical approaches to regional and local development.  The toolkit has two sections: A Region In Balance and Tools For Towns.  A Region In Balance describes actions taken by other regions around the country to encourage better growth and provides some steps we might take toward a broader statewide approach to building balanced, livable communities.

Tools For Towns covers eight development topics from agriculture preservation to rethinking zoning.  For each topic, we provide a quick and easy-to-read Fact Sheet to introduce the tool and a Technical Analysis that provides more detail on the "how-to's" of that tool.  The Technical Analyses provide information on what the tool can do, some of challenges, how it's been used in other places, and a model or sample zoning ordinance for easier implementation.

Livable Communities Toolkit Files

Acknowledgement Regional Section Cover Page Table of Contents Chapter One: A Region in the Balance Tools for Towns Cover Page Table of Contents Agricultural Land Preservation: Fact Sheet Agricultural Land Preservation: Technical Resources Transfer of Development Rights: Fact Sheets Transfer of Development Rights: Technical Resources Village Development: Fact Sheet Village Development: Diagram Village Development: Technical Resources Transit Oriented Development: Fact Sheet Transit Oriented Development: Diagram Transit Oriented Development: Technical Resources Traditional Neighborhood Design: Fact Sheet Traditional Neighborhood Design: Technical Resources Main Street Revitalization: Fact Sheet Main Street Revitalization: Technical Resources Shared Parking: Fact Sheet Shared Parking: Technical Resources, Part 1 Shared Parking: Technical Resources, Part 2 Streamlined Zoning: Fact Sheet PDF Documents All documents are PDF Format unless noted: To read PDF files, you will need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. Download the free reader now. Other Documents Click on the document's name. You will next be prompted to save the document.