Neighborhood Enhancement and Revitalization. Designs, promotions,
projects, procedures, etc. which preserve, enhance and revitalize existing
neighborhoods.
Collaborative Planning. Two or more entities with land use planning
powers, joining together with others (municipalities, agencies, organizations,
companies, individuals, associations, etc.) to producing effective policy
change.
Designs for Community Stability. Any design, organizational, legal,
project, etc. which accomplishes "livable community design"
standards as adopted by the GVMC and Blueprint Committee.
2. TRANSPORTATION
Enhancing Transit Options. Projects, promotions, procedures, structures,
etc. which creates effective transportation alternatives to the personal
automobile and expands services to stem disconnected working families
from new suburban jobs.
Traffic Reduction/Calming. Projects, structures, landscaping, striping,
guidelines, code changes, etc. which make streets a part of the public
open space of a neighborhood or community and compels a reduction in
auto speed by street/lane/streetscape design.
Supporting Compact Urban Form. Plans, designs, routes, policies which
support compact urban form and reflect the true metro-wide costs of
sending higher volume traffic routes into undeveloped, unplanned areas.
3. UTILITIES/INFRASTRUCTURE
Unifying Systems. Project, policies, agreements, rate structures,
etc. which create inter-jurisdictional or shared systems of building
and maintaining urban infrastructure.
Supporting Compact Urban Form. Plans, designs, programs, decisions,
policies, etc. which support compact urban form and reflect the true
metro-wide costs of providing urban sewer and water services into undeveloped,
unplanned areas.
4. ENVIRONMENT
Sustainability. Plans, designs, programs, decisions, policies, etc.
which effectively analyzes and influences the long-term capability of
the natural environment or an ecological system to support an anticipated,
large-scale, human structural change within that environment or system.
Greenways Network. Plans, designs, routes, policies, acquisitions,
etc. which support a system of interconnected natural or landscaped
greenways or corridors which provide opportunities for recreation, personal
transportation, utility use, or scenic landscape exposures.
Conservation/Preservation. Plans, designs, programs, decisions, acquisitions,
policies, etc. which effectively, legally and permanently isolate important
open and working lands from urban encroachment.
Inter-jurisdictional Agreements. Plans, designs, programs, decisions,
policies, etc. which provide for joint conduct of municipal affairs.
Cost Sharing. Plans, designs, programs, decisions, policies, etc.
which provide for shared costs in the providing of services or infrastructure.
Community Assistance. Plans, designs, programs, decisions, policies,
etc. which bring the advantages of shared resources to provide higher
levels of public service, resource use or structural improvement in
areas where there is the greatest need.
Affordable Housing. Plans, designs, projects, programs, decisions,
policies, etc. which promote or create greater levels of quality housing
choices at costs affordable to the low and moderate income families.
Information Exchange. Projects, initiatives, programs, networks, agreements,
etc. which enhance the exchange of important information about our community's
and natural environment, particularly between governmental jurisdictions
and with the community at large.
6. LEADERSHIP
Community Capacity Building. Programs, decisions, policies, etc. which
increase the organizational and/or leadership potential for making meaningful
change within a community or neighborhood.
Issue Development. Programs, decisions, policies, etc. which further
the understanding of, and the ability to solve, key issues facing neighborhoods,
communities, government, or the public at large.
Innovative Governing Approaches. Programs, initiatives, decisions,
policies, etc. which apply new techniques and concepts in governing
to promote effective public engagement in determining the nature, shape,
function and longevity of their communities.
7. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION
AND EDUCATION
Innovative Involvement Strategies. Programs, initiatives, decisions,
policies, strategies, etc. which use new and effective methods of public
engagement in determining the nature, shape, function and longevity
of their communities.
Community Activism and Achievement. An individual, group, community
or municipality who has dedicated substantial time, effort, human or
financial resources in changing the use of normal procedures and practices
to provide real improvement in community livability, greenways and open
spaces, transit options, regionalism, and other similar issues.
Public Awareness. Programs, methods, initiatives, decisions, policies,
strategies, etc., which elevate public awareness of the problems associated
with uncoordinated metropolitan growth, prepares the public to choose
the most appropriate solutions, and to become ongoing involved parties
in a process which ensures that their communities are built and maintained
in their best, long-term interests.
