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Supplemental Material/Lecture Notes:

Definitions of Growth Management

"a conscious government program intended to influence the rate, amount, type, location, and/or quality of future development within a local jurisdiction."

From Constitutional Issues of Growth Management, Godschalk, et al.

"means the utilization by government of a variety of traditional and evolving techniques, tools, plans, and activities to purposefully guide local patterns of land use, including the location, rate, and nature of development."

From Management and Control of Growth, Urban Land Institute

"Growth management is active and dynamic…; it seeks to maintain an ongoing equilibrium between development and conservation, between various forms of development and concurrent provisions of infrastructure, between the demands for public services generated by growth and the supply of revenues to finance those demands, between progress and equity."

From Growth Management, Good for the Town, Bad for the Nation?, Journal of the APA.

Growth Management is…

• A public, governmental activity designed to guide and direct the private development process
• A dynamic process that is more than formulation of a plan and a follow-up action program
• A program that anticipates and accommodates development needs
• A forum and process for determining the appropriate balance between competing development goals
• A process that relates local objectives to local and regional concerns

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