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Compass Blueprint Awards Criteria
SCAG will recognize projects, plans and programs that promote the Compass Blueprint principles:
Improve mobility for All Residents;
- Encourage transportation investments and land use decisions that are mutually supportive
- Locate new housing near existing jobs and new jobs near existing housing
- Encourage transit-oriented development
- Promote a variety of travel choices
Foster livability in all communities;
- Promote in-fill development and redevelopment to revitalize existing comunities
- Promote developments that provide a mix of uses
- Promote "people-scaled" walkable communities
- Support the preservation of stable neighborhoods
Enable prosperity for all people;
- Provide a variety of housing types in each community to meet the housing needs of all income levels
- Support education opportunities that promote balanced growth.
- Ensure environmental justice regardless or race, ethnicity, or income class
- Support local and state fiscal policies that encourage balanced growth
Promote sustainability for future generations;
- Preserve rural, agricultural, recreational, and environmentally sensitive areas
- Focus Development in urban center and existing cities
- Develop strategies to accommodate growth that uses resources efficiently and minimizes pollution and waste
- Utilize "green" development techniques
