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INTRODUCTION BUILDING MODELS FOR COMPACT, LIFECYCLE COMMUNITIES The Livable Communities Demonstration Account is designed to fund models for "smart growth" in all parts of the region. The funding is an incentive to demonstrate new forms of development in the region that make better use of land and services already in place and forge a stronger relationship between land use and transportation. Program objectives include: . Interrelate development or redevelopment with transit, . Intensify land use through appropriate densities and mixing of uses, including housing, to support transit use, walking, biking a'nd community i,nteraction. . Connect housing and areas of employment growth, and . Provide an integrated mix of housing types and price or rent ranges within a development. Demonstration models will help implement goals of the Councirs Regional Blueprint and Regional Growth Strategy to increase densities, job creation and economic development in the Urban Area, especially along transit routes; use regional transportation investments to increase transit use and mixed-use development; improve links among jobs, transportation and housing; and enhance existing neighborhoods and activity centers. Different types of models are appropriate in different parts of the region. In the region's core and other older areas, smart growth means redevelopment, rehabilitation or infill that preserves or intensifies urban fabric to support transit use that provides convenient access to jobs and services. In developing areas currently without transit service, it means more compact residential and mixed-use development or infill, at appropriate densities for these locations, that can support future transit use and in the meantime enable more trips by walking or biking. Whether served by transit or not, compact and mixed-use development forms can create or enhance town centers and other gathering places and destinations for community residents.