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<br />INTRODUCTION ~ <br />BUILDING MODELS <br />FOR COMMUNITIES THAT WORK <br /> <br />The Livable Communities Demonstration Account is designed to fund models for \I Smart <br />Growth" in all parts of the region. The funding is an incentive to demonstrate new forms of <br />development in the region that make better use of land and services already in place and <br />forge a stronger relationship between land use and transportation. <br /> <br />Program objectives include: <br /> <br />· Interrelate development or redevelopment with transit, <br /> <br />· Intensify land use through appropriate densities and mixing of uses, including <br />housing, to support transit use, walking, biking and community interaction. <br /> <br />· Connect housing and areas of employment growth, and <br /> <br />· Provide an integrated mix of housing types and price or rent ranges within a <br />development. <br /> <br />Demonstration models will help implement goals of the Council's Regional B/ueprintand <br />Regional Growth Strategy to increase densities, job creation and economic'development in <br />the Urban Area, especially along transit routes; use regional transportation investments to <br />increase transit use and mixed-use development; improve links among jobs, transportation <br />and housing; and enhance existing neighborhoods and activity centers. <br /> <br />Different types of models are appropriate in different parts of the region. In the <br />region's core and other older areas, smart growth means redevelopment, rehabilitation or <br />infill that preserves or intensifies urban fabric to support transit use that provides <br />convenient access to jobs and services. In developing areas currently without transit <br />service, it means more compact residential and mixed-use development or infill, at <br />appropriate densities for these locations, that can support future transit use and in the <br />meantime enable more trips by walking or biking. <br /> <br />Whether served by transit or not, compact and mixed-use development forms can create <br />or enhance town centers and other gathering places and destinations for community <br />residents. <br /> <br />\..\LlBRARY\CO~IMU"DV\LCA2001\lcda criteria packel.doc <br />