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National Sprawl Organizations
(The following list is supplied by Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse).
Sprawl
Watch Clearinghouse
The Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse mission is to make the tools, techniques, and
strategies developed to manage growth, accessible to citizens, grassroots
organizations, environmentalists, public officials, planners, architects,
the media and business leaders. At the Clearinghouse we identify, collect,
compile, and disseminate information on the best land use practices, for those
listed above.
American
Farmland Trust
Working nationwide to protect farmland from suburban sprawl -- by working
with individual farmers and communities, and by promoting better public
policies at the local, state and federal level, and by educating the public.
American
Planning Association
APA is a non-profit, public interest organization representing 30,000 practicing
planners, elected and appointed officials, and citizens involved in urban
and rural planning issues. APA's members believe that sound planning
is essential to meeting our nation's economic, environmental and community
development needs. Sixty-five percent of the members work in state and local
government agencies, helping citizens define the kind of community they
want to live in and developing policies, plans, and land use regulations
responding to those desires. APA is working with the other organizations
to disseminate "best practice" techniques for encouraging citizen participation,
reforming state and local planning frameworks, and promoting sustainable
development patterns.
Brookings
Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
The Center has special expertise on regional governance issues and seeks
to shape a new generation of urban policies that will help build strong
cities and metropolitan regions. In collaboration with leading scholars
and practitioners nationwide, the Brookings Center is launching a series
of original research and policy projects to help inform national debates
and
provide practical policy options for key decisionmakers.
Community
Rights Counsel
Community Rights Counsel (CRC) is a non-profit, public interest law firm
established in 1997 to assist local communities in protecting the public
interest through appropriate land use controls. CRC provides strategic
assistance to local government attorneys in defending smart growth controls,
environmental safeguards, and other community protections. CRC also conducts
litigation workshops, helps local governments secure amicus support, and,
in critical cases, provides free representation to state and local governments.
The
Conservation Fund
Through a range of activities, The Conservation Fund is involved in sprawl-reduction
and community revitalization and has protected 1,400,000 acres of land,
sponsored regional conferences on the sustainable use of land, promoted
efforts to revitalize the Land and Water
Conservation Act and has provided more than 250 grants and loans for greenway
and trail projects that enhances the livability of communities.
Environmental
and Energy Study Institute (EESI)
EESI has been involved in smart growth issues since 1995, focusing on the
federal role in creating and perpetuating the sprawl problem. EESI
conducts cngressional briefings and other activities to inform Members of
Congress and other federal policymakers about the adverse environmental,
economic and social consequences of sprawl and federal policy options to
encourage smart growth at the state and local level. EESI has emphasized
the relationshiop between federal transportation and water policies and
smart growth.
Environmental
Law Institute (ELI)
ELI operates an on-going collaborative program devoted to promoting the
sustainable use of urban, suburban, and rural land at the state and local
levels. The objective of ELI’s Sustainable Use of Land Program is to encourage
land use and development patterns that help preserve natural resources,
support community, and ensure lasting economic vitality. The Institute works
in collaboration with state and local partners to formulate and implement
options for overcoming barriers to sustainable land use found in local,
state, and federal law. ELI develops creative alternatives to promote vibrant
communities with sound economic, environmental, transportation, and
public infrastructure policies.
National
Council for Urban Economic Development
CUED's mission is to develop and revitalize communities. CUED promotes
strategies and disseminates information to its largely public-sector
membership to aid in urban revitalization efforts.
National
Neighborhood Coalition
The NNC is an umbrella organization of national nonprofits, networks of
community, neighborhood and faith-based organizations and other advocates
who are committed to promoting socially and economically healthy, vibrant
neighborhoods.
National
Main Street Center of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
The Main Street Center helps communities to rebuild the economic strength
of their traditional commercial districts. The Center helps communities
build strong partnerships, develop an in-depth understanding of the regional
economic opportunities, and capitalize on the unique
environment their historic commercial buildings provide.
National
Trust for Historic Preservation
The National Trust provides information, technical assistance and advice
to organizations and individuals working to preserve their communities and
avoid urban sprawl. Concerned with the community disinvestment NTHP
has conducted a wide variety of activities that include promotion of federal
transportation and tax policies that encourage community revitilization
and the rehabilitation of historic houses.
National
Wildlife Federation
The National Wildlife Federations smart growth policy framework protects
and restores wildlife threatened by sprawl. Their Smart Growth and Wildlife
campaign advocates for land use policy reforms at the federal, state and
local levels for the benefit of imperiled wildlife. Working in
coalition with other smart growth advocates, NWF will work to improve environmental
laws, to increase conservation funding, to develop mechanisms for targeting
conservation funds toward protection of the most imperilled habitats, and
to re-route government subsidies away from
developments that would destroy imperilled habitats to more thoughtful developments.
Natural
Resources Defense Council
Through a range of projects, NRDC is extensively involved in fighting the
negative impacts of urban/suburban sprawl in cities and towns across the
country. NRDCís multidisciplinary approach to sprawl can be
summarized in three primary categories - influencing metropolitan growth
patterns, reducing damages to the natural environment, and strengthening
our cities.
The
Northeast-Midwest Institute
Formed in the mid-1970's to address regional approaches to restoring environmental
and economic vitality to the 18-state region, the Institute has become a
leader in linking sustainability with economic development through its brownfield,
smart growth, and energy efficiency programs. The Institute's Urban
Environment Program explores the impacts of federal programs and policies
at the local level, and educates key constituencies in its states and through
the Northeast-Midwest Congressional and Senate Coalitions. Program
staff have published a number of reports, case studies, and legislative
summaries and matrices on the subjects of brownfields and smart growth.
Scenic
America
Scenic America is a national nonprofit membership organization dedicated
to preserving and enhancing the scenic character of America's communities
and countryside. Scenic America's Smart Growth/Scenic Stewardship initiative
helps state and local activists protect the natural beauty and distinctive
character of their communities with technical assistance on
billboard and on-premise sign control; place-sensitive highway design; design
review; scenic byways programs; and cellular tower siting, tree preservation
ordinances; scenic resource identification, including using GIS mapping;
and ridgeline protection. Scenic America produces a full range of
publications on preserving scenic beauty, open space, and quality of life
that contribute to our environment and economy.
Smart
Growth America
Smart Growth America is a new coalition promoting a better way to grow;
one that protects open space, revitlaizes neighborhoods, keeps housing affordable,
and makes communities more livable. Smart Growth America is a coaltion
of many local, statewide and national organizations already involved in
smart growth.
Sierra
Club
The objective of the Sierra Club's national Challenge to Sprawl Campaign
is to provide materials, winning campaign strategies, training and funding
to better equip Sierra Club volunteers and staff to change sprawling suburban
development patterns faced by their communities. Challenge to Sprawl activists
are making use of high-profile approaches which are easy to reproduce in
areas across the country: These include grading public officials on sprawl-related
votes and crafting local "Sprawl Costs Us All" reports which document the
economic costs of sprawl.
Smart
Growth Network
The Smart Growth Network encourages development that is environmentally,
fiscally, and economically smart and helps create national, regional and
local coalitions to support smart growth. The Smart Growth Network's
partners work with the US Environmental Protection Agency's Urban and Economic
Development Division on outreach programs, technical assistance, research,
publications, and other collaborative projects.
Surface
Transportation Policy Project
STPP promotes open, accessible, planning processes regarding transportation
policies, and transportation investments that achieve environmental,
economic, and social equity principles. STPP played a major role,
and is very knowledgeable about, the federal intermodel Surface Transportation
Efficiency Act and TEA 21 on federal highway policy.
Trust
for Public Land
The Trust for Public Land practices a unique blend of market-based entrepreneurial
conservation. TPL works in collaboration with communities and organizations
around the country to bring private land into public ownership and to help
create parks, greenways, riverways and to protect those traditional landscapes
that define the character of where we live. TPL helps communities
acquire endangered open space, create urban parks and promote bond issues
to purchase open spaces.
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