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San Diego Creek Watershed Natural Treatment System
The Irvine Ranch Water District (IRWD) has made a commitment to improving the ailing water quality of the San Diego Creek. |
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GIS Mapping Links Open Space and Water Resource Protection
Boston area localities are using Geographic Information System maps to help them identify and preserve open space lands where streams and productive aquifers are threatened by sprawling growth. |
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Community Based Transit Improvements: Simple Strategies and Measureable Results
The California Air Resources Board and Odyssey are identifying and testing low cost, easy-to-implement strategies for increasing transit ridership, and developing tools for measuring the impact of increased transit ridership on air quality. |
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Bank Of America
Bank of America, the largest arranger and provider of commercial real estate finance in the country, continues to provide corporate leadership on smart growth issues facing local communities. With approximately 100,000 associates across the country, Bank of America understands the range and complexity of issues that affect our nation's cities, towns, and rural areas. |
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SWIM Initiative to Protect Creeks and Mountain Island Lake
Mecklenburg County and the City of Charlotte, North Carolina have partnered with other local governments in the region to acquire over 4,400 acres in the Mountain Island Lake watershed, permanently protecting Mountain Island Lake's shoreline from the impacts of development in one of the fastest growing communities in America. |
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ShoreBank Corporation
Once known throughout Chicago for fine boutiques, the South Shore neighborhood fell victim to steady disinvestment during the 1960s. A symptom of the area’s economic decline was the South Shore Bank, which was floundering in the face of tremendous economic and demographic changes. |
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Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group
In Silicon Valley, business leaders recognize that quality of life matters when you are striving to attract and retain a talented workforce, as well as generate a vibrant economy. The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group (SVMG), first profiled for its efforts in the 1999 Profiles of Business Leadership on Smart Growth, has continued to campaign vigorously on behalf of quality of life issues including regional growth challenges. |
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Johnson Development Corporation
Known worldwide for his tremendous ability on the basketball court, Earvin “Magic” Johnson is now scoring profits and delivering assists to underserved communities by investing in new business ventures in America’s inner cities. |
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New Jersey Regulators and New Jersey Natural Gas
By the 1930s, Asbury Park was one of New Jersey’s premier resort destinations, drawing visitors to the beach, the boardwalk, and its many entertainment venues. Like many resort towns, however, Asbury Park fell into decline after World War II. By the 1970s, race riots and economic decline sent the town into a downward spiral of disinvestment.
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Bay Area Council
The San Francisco Bay Area has been one of the nation’s fastest growing regions since the end of World War II. Poor land use planning fuels sprawling development patterns that force workers to live farther from work centers, creates longer commutes, compounds traffic congestion, increases air pollution, inappropriately develops some of California’s best farmlands, and adversely impacts critical environmental habitats. |
